(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%
MONDAY UPDATE: As the Colorado Springs Gazette's Megan Schrader reports, organizers of the recall election against Sen. Angela Giron will turn in roughly 13,500 signatures today–a much smaller margin than in Sen. John Morse's race, and less likely to survive validity checks by the Secretary of State's office. To put the ouster attempt on the ballot […]
AP's Ivan Moreno reports from the scene late Friday: Republican Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler testified Friday to defend himself against an ethics complaint alleging misuse of state funds for political events, insisting he used his discretionary office funds appropriately. At issue is Gessler’s travel last summer to a Republican conference on elections law […]
(A worthy read once past the title – promoted by Colorado Pols) I promised myself yesterday when I first received a call from a Republican friend who called to say, "OK, this was 'the straw" – the one that broke the camels back – that I wasn't going to divert any of my weekend time […]
A new statement today from Democratic Sens. Mark Udall and Ron Wyden, in response to claims by senior officials that the broad collection of telephone records by the National Security Agency made public in the past week after exposure in a British newspaper has "thwarted attacks against the United States." In our capacity as members of the Senate Select […]
Garrett Epps has an interesting column in The Atlantic about Colorado's TABOR battles and the legal effort to overturn it, specifically Kerr v. Hickenlooper. The issue is laid bare in the headline: "Does a State Have the Right to Self-Destruct?" As public policy, TABOR is bad enough. The legislature, though, could always ask the people […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols updates in the aftermath of Rep. Mike Coffman's (R-Endangered) vote against a presidential executive order halting the deportation of "child arrival" undocumented immigrants, a.k.a. "DREAMers." Congressman Mike Coffman, perhaps the most vulnerable incumbent in Washington heading into next year’s election cycle, has been making serious overtures to Latino voters. But on […]
Via Conservation Colorado: To thank the Governor and the legislative champions who made this law a reality, Conservation Colorado is launching a radio and online ad campaign across the state. Listen above to one of our regional radio ads, this one thanking Senate President and SB 252 sponsor John Morse in Colorado Springs. Online […]
UPDATE: FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports, it's officially a movement! Commissioners from Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma and Kit Carson counties all expressed interest in the idea. Many met earlier this week at a Colorado Counties Inc. conference to discuss the feasibility of forming a new state. Conway and Weld County commissioners Doug Rademacher and […]
UPDATE: Today's statement from Sen. Mark Udall: "The government's collection of millions of Americans' phone records is the type of surveillance I have long said would shock the public if they knew about it. We must strike the right balance between keeping Americans safe and protecting constitutional rights. As the leaders of the Senate Intelligence […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports an unusual fact of this year's legislative session just now becoming clear, following Gov. John Hickenlooper's signing today of dozens of remaining bills: “Our goal was no vetoes,” Hickenlooper said. “There are a number of these bills where there were things we weren’t crazy about, but it didn’t come up […]
UPDATE #2: From Conservation Colorado's Pete Maysmith: “We applaud Governor Hickenlooper for signing significant legislation into law which will expand clean renewable energy to more of Colorado,” said Pete Maysmith, Executive Director, Conservation Colorado. “The Governor’s signature today reaffirms that clean wind and solar energy are a critical part of the foundation of Colorado’s energy […]
CNN reports, the Todd Akin classy is back in the form of U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia: Representatives from both political parties on Tuesday slammed U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss after he said that hormones may be partly responsible for sexual assaults in the military. His controversial comments came during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on […]
As the Denver Post's Kurtis Lee reports today, newly filed spending disclosures reveal over $55,000 from a "Colorado Springs-based" (as characterized in most media reports) 501(c)(4) organization called I Am Created Equal to fund a paid petition drive to place a recall of Senate President John Morse on the ballot sometime later this year: The […]
The least surprising news of the week (okay, it's only Monday) comes from KHOW, where controversial hard-right radio host Peter Boyles has been fired, according to 9News. Boyles was recently said to be involved in a "heated physical altercation" with producer Greg Hollenback. Multiple sources reported that red marks were seen on Hollenback's neck following […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports, as expected, the paid recall petition drive against Colorado Senate President John Morse in retaliation for gun safety bills passed this year in the Colorado General Assembly appears successful: The group working to recall Colorado Senate President John Morse over the passage of Democratic gun control legislation earlier this year […]
On May 17th, a press conference was held at the offices of the right-wing Independence Institute, featuring attorney Dave Kopel and most of the state's elected county sheriffs announcing their lawsuit against two gun safety bills passed this year's legislative session. Present at the press conference was, as we reported that afternoon, a 2010 GOP state […]
A press release from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) late last week brought a smile to Democratic veterans of the 2012 Colorado state legislative election cycle: Showing that he’ll say or do almost anything to win an election, Congressman Mike Coffman is scheduled to host a fundraiser today with R. Brian Watson, who just […]
NBC News reports on a new nationwide poll on immigration reform, an issue considered this year's biggest legislative priority–and possibility for actual success–in Washington: A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows that seven in ten registered voters think that Republicans and Democrats in Congress will not be able to work together to pass an immigration […]
Here's an ad spotted by several users atop our homepage in recent days: It's another opportunity for us to point out that these are Google ads, selected automatically (though contextually) by Google for display on our site–we have no control over the content of these ads, except we think we could get one removed laboriously […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) I blogged Friday about complaints from an African-American radio host, who's also a leader of the Black Tea Party, that Colorado Republican Chair Ryan Call isn't properly supporting grassroots organizing efforts to diversify the state GOP. The Colorado GOP responded Saturday to that criticism, which was aired by Derrick Wilburn, founder […]
A release just received from leading local political consultancy firm OnSight Public Affairs shakes up the editorial board of the Denver Post, the state's newspaper of record: OnSight Public Affairs is pleased to announce that Curtis Hubbard has agreed to join the firm as a partner. Hubbard, who currently works as the editorial page editor […]
It is always amusing, and somewhat irritating, when national pundits decide to take a gander at political races in Colorado with very little understanding of what is actually possible plausible in our state. The dead giveaway that a national outlet is clueless about Colorado is when they start mentioning candidates for higher office based solely […]
UPDATE: Per the Colorado Statesman's Peter Marcus, Boulder DA Stan Garnett leans against running: “I would like to run for state office again at some point; this is not a good time for me personally,” he said. “And I also don’t want the people of Boulder County to think that I’m always turning around and […]
It's almost too good to be true (although Lynn Bartels reported it first, in 2011, it's worth resurfacing now): Embattled former presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann, the Minnesota Congressional Representative taking heat from an ethics investigation, whistle-blowing former staff, and more, got one of her closest staff members from none other than Marilyn Musgrave. The latter […]
Reprinted with permission from the Checks & Balances Project: My friends at the Checks and Balances Project wandered away without their codes and keys…they asked me to share this with the readers of ColoradoPols.com It should come as no surprise that in the 2013 legislative session alone, the oil and gas industry spent $1.06 […]
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