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Western Conservative Summit 2015 Books ‘Em All*

The right-wing Centennial Institute, a “nonpartisan thinktank” run by former GOP Colorado Senate President John Andrews out of Colorado Christian University, is already promoting their A-list of conservative luminaries coming invited to this year’s Western Conservative Summit in late June: As you can see, a number of the heaviest hitters are listed as “invited” as opposed to actually confirmed, […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (April 1)

As far as we know, all of the information that follows is accurate and not part of an elaborate April Fool’s joke. Or is it? It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).   TOP […]

McInnis County Declares Sovereignty

(Novus ordo seclorum – Promoted by Colorado Pols) From the Grand Junction People’s Sentinel, DeBeque DMZ –  The duly selected McMinisters of the lands once known as ‘Mesa County’ when under the thumb of the absentee governor on the far side the Colorado Divide have issued the following statement from the Board of Royal McMinisters: […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (March 31)

March is going “out like a lamb” in Colorado, but April is waiting to kick our ass. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).   TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► State Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” […]

Are Klingenschmitt’s campaign endorsers standing by him now?

Now that one State Representative, Justin Everett, is arguing that Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt should not lose legislative clout for comments he’s made outside of the legislature, reporters should track down Klingenschmitt’s endorsers from his campaign last year and find out what they think of their embattled friend. Their words of praise for Dr. Chaps, as […]

Hate: It’s Still Bad For Business

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock bans nonessential travel by city employees to the state of Indiana, Denver Post: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock on Tuesday joined the chorus of cities and states that have banned government-funded travel to Indiana over its new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In Denver’s case, the prohibition applies to “non-essential” travel […]

Justin Everett is Mad as Heck About Dr. Chaps — But Not Like You’d Guess

Republican Rep. Justin Everett got out of bed early enough this morning to make it to the House floor, where he used a motion of personal privilege to chastise Republican House leaders for removing Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt from a House committee yesterday. You may recall that Everett was removed by Republicans from two […]

Cadman promotes bill previously torpedoed by anti-abortion forces in GOP caucus

(Those who don’t learn from history…something, something. — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican Senate President Bill Cadman took to the radio yesterday to announce plans to introduce a bill allowing prosecutors to treat a fetus as the victim of a crime but, apparently, with specific language allowing for abortion. Cadman told KNUS 710-AM that his […]

Dr. Chaps Attacks Reporters, Praises Todd Akin in Sort-Of Apology

UPDATE: Via Lynn Bartels of the Denver Post: BREAKING: @SaveChaps, Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, to be removed from Health, Ins. & Enviro committee. #coleg #copolitics — Lynn Bartels (@lynn_bartels) March 30, 2015 Republican Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt has been getting hammered over the last several days because of comments he made in the aftermath of […]

Get More Smarter on Monday (March 30)

Your NCAA Tourney bracket is officially worthless. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).   TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► The “Long Bill” will begin to suck up all the oxygen out of the […]

Steve House’s First At-Bat: Swing and a Miss

As the Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels reports, newly elected Colorado Republican Party chairman Steve House got right to work last week, firing up the Republican faithful to oppose the rascally agenda of those villainous “Denver Democrats” in the state legislature. The problem is, House’s appeal for donations to the Colorado GOP to stop the “Denver Democrats” appears to rely on […]

Get More Smarter on Friday (March 27)

Stop telling your out of state friends and family about our perfect weather, they’re moving here too fast! It’s time again to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Former Taliban prisoner […]

Leaving local TV news for Politico, Stokols looks forward to never being told “that’s too inside baseball”

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Eli Stokols, who came to Denver as a general assignment reporter in 2005, is leaving KDVR-TV Fox 31 Tuesday as one of the state’s top political reporters. He also became a Fox 31 anchor, launched his own public-policy TV show, and wrote nonstop on multiple platforms. I had coffee with Stokols, […]

Gardner promise: Obamacare replacement will be “ready to go”

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The Hill’s Sarah Ferris reported today that Obama is mocking Republicans for claiming to have an alternative to Obamacare, when they obviously don’t. Five years after the passage of his signature healthcare law, President Obama took a jab at the Republican Party for still lacking its own plan to replace it. […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (March 25)

We’re not going streaking! It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).   TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► The state Senate has approved a school vouchers bill that would also give tax credits to home-schoolers. […]

Dems, Common Sense Score Small Victory

AP reports via the Fort Collins Coloradoan on the sort-of agreement between Democrats and Republicans in the legislature to sort-of fund the existing program for driver licenses for undocumented immigrants on Colorado roadways: A compromise to fund a Colorado program granting driver’s licenses to immigrants regardless of their legal status is heading to the governor’s desk… […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (March 24)

Sorry folks, we’ve been filling up on Vitamin D this Spring Break. It’s better late than never to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► It’s apparently a significant story on cable […]

Reefer Madness at Colorado Springs Gazette

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Springs is the conservative capital of our dear state. The Gazette, having been revitalized by tons of conservative cash, has been the public spokeswrap and parttime watchdog of the long list of conservatives who made their base here and took their, ummm, special kind of conservatism to Denver and DC. […]

Adams County GOP Chair Says Whites Are Tricking “the Black People”

(Um, yikes? – Promoted by Colorado Pols) KLZ 560-AM’s morning show’s Randy Corporon gets a BigMedia gold nugget for having a liberal guest on the show regularly, messing with the familiar reverberations in conservative echo chamber of talk radio. On Thursday’s segment of “Have a Liberal for Lunch,” the liberal, Dane Torbenson, told “righty” host […]

State Rep. Everett wants Gardner to appear on radio show where host won’t “let him slide” or “use message points”

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Jefferson County Republican State Rep. Justin Everett wants U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner to appear on a tea-party radio show that Gardner has been dodging. KLZ 560-AM’s Randy Corporon has been airing his displeasure with Gardner for rejecting his pleas to appear on his “Wake Up with Randy Corporon” morning show. “He […]

Get More Smarter on Monday (March 23)

Today is the nicest day of the work week weatherwise, so play hooky if you can! For the rest of us, it’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Ted […]

Ted Cruz First To Enter 2016 Presidential Race

AP via the Denver Post: Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has become the first major candidate for president, kicking off what’s expected to be a rush over the next few weeks of more than a dozen White House hopefuls into the 2016 campaign. “I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” […]

Impartial Montana Judge Rebuts Colorado Judiciary’s Pension Contract Breach Cover Up.

(Interestingly, the Montana Court Wrongly Believes that the Colorado PERA Statutory “Annual Benefit Increase” is Tied to the “Cost of Living,” When, in Fact, it is Identical to the Montana Pension Benefit.) This recent Montana District court decision draws a bright line under our historic and brazen Colorado pension theft, a theft that makes Bernie […]

When Ken Buck Is The Reasonable One…?

FOX News’ Chad Pergram with a surprisingly candid report on a tough week ahead for Speaker John Boehner and the fractious GOP-controlled House: Next week could very well break the U.S. House of Representatives. Or, if things go well, the House Republican majority could score two of its biggest legislative victories in quite a while, demonstrating […]

Don’t Discriminate Against the Elderly; Everyone Else is Fair Game

Freshman Senator Laura Waters Woods (R-Arvada) is up for re-election in 2016, and that means Senate District 19 will be one of the most heavily-contested legislative races of the cycle. Republicans may wish they could get rid of her (and they might try), because she has been nothing short of her own negative advertisement during […]

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