(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
We are finishing up our Top 10 Stories of 2014 by posting the final four all at once. As we realized while writing the first six entries, there isn’t much that we can say about the biggest stories of 2014 that hasn’t already been written in this space. With 2015 already upon us, it’s time […]
The Denver Post's Mark Matthews–didn't see this coming, did you? Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Tuesday afternoon that he supported the administration’s pledge to veto new legislation from Congress that would fast-track construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline… Hickenlooper said Obama, a fellow Democrat, was making the […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) "I don't owe people who are here illegally anything." That's Republican Rep. Ken Buck, making us proud just hours before he was sworn in today as a U.S. Representative from Colorado. One wonders if Buck would have said the same thing about my interred illegal immigrant Italian inlaws (IIIII), but it […]
(Okay, this is funny – Promoted by Colorado Pols) DENVER – Newly elected President of the Senate Phil Radman announced today that his first bill of the 2015 legislative session would repeal everything passed in 2013, and possibly provide unexpected "benefits" for his friends in Colorado. Senate Bill 15-001, also known as the Omnibus Repeal General […]
As Congress begins work (theoretically, anyway) on another legislative session today, President Obama is making it clear that he will not sign a bill that would authorize construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. As CNN reports, Senate Democrats believe they have the votes to sustain a potential veto: Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has […]
UPDATE #2: All four Colorado Republicans vote for Boehner. "Rebellion" ends with a whimper. —– UPDATE: Another key Colorado vote for John Boehner: NOW: @RepMikeCoffman votes Boehner for speaker. #COpolitics #9NEWS — Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) January 6, 2015 —– Politico: Fifteen House Republicans have now publicly proclaimed that they will try to strip John Boehner […]
Roll Call's Emma Dumain catches up with Rep.-elect Ken Buck of Colorado, the new president of the 114th Congress' freshman class–who now says he "respects" President Barack Obama, apparently on longer losing his appetite at the sight of America's first black President. We'd say that's good news. In addition, Buck has a message for all you worry-warts concerned […]
The D.C. publication Roll Call has an interesting story today probing around about Republicans looking for their next statewide candidate to potentially challenge Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in 2016, and it leads with the possibility that the GOP nominee may eventually have the last name of Coffman. But which one? Rep. Mike Coffman, or his […]
(No jokes please – Promoted by Colorado Pols) In what appears to be his first comment on his legislative activities, State Rep. Gordon "Dr. Chaps" Klingenschmitt told Rocky Mountain Community Radio's Bente Birkland last month: Dr. Chaps: I feel like I'm drinking from a fire hose. There has been so much information thrown at us, and the […]
MONDAY UPDATE: Liberals demand Bill Cadman disclose or "step aside," from a release today: "Bill Cadman's private business has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in 'soft money' from political action committees while serving as Senate Minority Leader," said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Amy Runyon-Harms. "Now that he is set to take office as Colorado Senate […]
A conservative blogger at Politichicks.com describes a Republican Party public event with Sen.-elect Cory Gardner sometime last month in Highlands Ranch that apparently didn't go so well: With about 100 people at the meet and greet, it was a standing room only event where Gardener spoke for about two minutes and then went to mingle with the […]
Colorado PERA Fiduciaries: Severely Underfunded, But See No Problem. "We Don't Need Additional Contributions," Colorado PERA General Manager Greg Smith. A few years ago, Colorado PERA officials and their hired lobbyists argued that the PERA public pension system's 69 percent funded ratio was such a crisis that the contracts of Colorado PERA pensioners just had […]
In 2013, the Democratic-controlled Colorado General Assembly took action to pass limited enhancements of gun safety laws. This was done in the wake of high profile mass shooting incidents in the prior year, including the July 2012 killing of 12 moviegoers, with 70 more injured, at the Century Theater in Aurora. Colorado is a traditional Western […]
The Colorado Springs Independent reports, it would appear that Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs has made campaigning for office in his ultra-safe Republican district a family business: Now that Doug Lamborn is ensconced in the U.S. House of Representatives for another two years, we learn the Republican from Colorado Springs has used his campaign war […]
Colorado Republicans are feeling pretty good about the 2014 election results, and with good reason. Republicans picked up a U.S. Senate seat (Cory Gardner), swept the down-ballot statewide seats (Attorney General, State Treasurer, Secretary of State), grabbed a one-seat majority in the State Senate, and came relatively close to taking control of the State House. […]
Colorado has a long history as an energy-producing state, but the recent explosion of hydraulic fracture drilling to extract oil and natural gas from previously uneconomic deposits has spread the impacts of drilling to communities that have never seen it before. Urbanization of the Front Range of Colorado has put residential communities in direct conflict with […]
Colorado Independent: Buried in the deep black news-hole that was the Friday after Christmas Day came a decision in a Colorado campaign finance case filed against bare-knuckles right-wing political group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer found that mailer campaigns put together by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the Colorado Campaign for […]
Politico reports, farewell to GOP Rep. Michael Grimm of Staten Island: New York GOP Rep. Michael Grimm — who pleaded guilty to a felony tax charge last week — will resign from Congress effective Jan. 5, he said in a statement. “After much thought and prayer, I have made the very difficult decision to step down […]
Next month Republican Cory Gardner will be sworn-in as Colorado's newest U.S. Senator. This story is not about that. In fact, let's forget about the outcome of the 2014 Election altogether (at least for the purposes of the words that follow). Regardless of what happened in November, one of the biggest political stories in Colorado […]
Commentator Bill Scher writes for Real Clear Politics today: After a lame-duck period in which we’ve seen a Cuba thaw, a China climate deal, and an undocumented immigrant reprieve, President Obama was awarded with his highest approval ratings in many months. His popularity has ticked up since November, with young voters, women and—most notably—independents accounting […]
WHY HAS AARP COLORADO OPTED AGAINST DEFENDING COLORADO PERA RETIREES? A few years ago, when the Rhode Island Legislature broke the public pension COLA (inflation protection) contracts of Rhode Island retirees, the AARP provided legal representation to fight the breach of pension contracts. As I understand it, AARP continues the legal battle in Rhode Island […]
The Denver Business Journal's Cathy Proctor has a great story published yesterday with local reaction to the decision by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration in mid-December to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas entirely. New York state does not have the kind of widespread frackable energy deposits found in Colorado, but the […]
Jefferson County, Colorado has long been considered a bellwether–for the state of Colorado, and increasingly as a place where national political trends can be seen in action contemporaneous to or before they take hold elsewhere. The result in Jefferson County has predicted the winner in Colorado statewide races for long enough that the rule of […]
So send us a present or something. It was 10 years ago on this very day, Dec. 23, that Colorado Pols took its first steps out onto the Internet tubes. We're still growing, and still getting bigger. Thank you for your continued support throughout the years!
(Surprise surprise – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Yesterday, I wrote about a couple of campaign-finance lawsuits, filed by conservative Matt Arnold's Campaign Integrity Watchdog, which could possibly expose whether top Republicans in Colorado knew about GOP-funded attacks on gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo. Arnold has filed numerous other campaign-finance complaints this year on a variety of topics. […]
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