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Jon Huntsman’s Appeal to Reason

ABC News reports: In an exclusive interview on “This Week,” Huntsman said “there’s a serious problem” with comments made by Perry in New Hampshire last week calling man-made global warming “a scientific theory that has not been proven and from my perspective is more and more being put into question” while claiming scientists have “manipulated […]

Colorado Democrats Team Up To Slam Coffman on Bilingual Ballots

A press release from the Colorado Democratic Party hammers Rep. Mike Coffman’s proposal this week to eliminate a section of the 1973 Voting Rights Act providing for ballots in languages other than English–with the whole Democratic delegation and state party chairman Rick Palacio taking a swing. Remember when we called this a horrifyingly bad idea […]

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DougCo Religious School Vouchers: Totally Unrelated To Property Tax Hike!

FOX 31’s Kim Posey leads off our update on the state of play in Douglas County, whose excellent public school system (rated one of the best in the state) is now mired in controversy over a plan to fund tuition at private, mostly religious schools. Dozens of people showed up at the Douglas County School […]

Maybe Mike Coffman Doesn’t Want to Get Elected Statewide

Republican Rep. Mike Coffman is putting forth legislation to repeal a section of the 1973 Voting Rights Act that allows districts with high percentages of non-English speakers to print ballots in different languages. From Talking Points Memo: Coffman said Wednesday that his legislation would repeal Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires states […]

“Dr. Evil’s” Advocate?

From a Huffington Post report yesterday: A lawsuit filed in late May of this year by 34 past and present lawmakers seeks to overturn the amendment. The suit challenges TABOR’s constitutionality on the grounds that rigid tax and spending limits obstruct the General Assembly’s obligation to govern. After TABOR’s passing, state representative Doug Bruce, the […]

Democrats Hold On In Wisconsin Recall Round Two

McClatchy wraps up the coverage from Madison (for now): The six-month saga that was Wisconsin’s state Senate recall movement ended Tuesday with Democrats retaining two seats – and Republicans still in possession of a week-old, razor-thin 17-16 majority. On the fourth election day of the summer, two Democratic incumbents were victorious. Sen. Jim Holperin beat […]

Rick Perry’s Home County Gets Plenty of Federal Spending

Rick Perry will be here next week, and like the proverbial mosquito at a nudist colony, I don’t quite know where to start. There’s the godawful assault on choice and women’s health, the environmental destruction, the crony capitalism, the dismantling of social services to at-risk kids – I could go on. And all the while […]

Rick Perry: Let The “Buckpedal” Begin

Our friends at the Washington Post report, there’s that smell again: Religious conservatives in Texas were stunned in 2007 when Republican Rick Perry became the first governor in the country to order young girls to get a vaccine against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer. The vaccine would encourage promiscuity, according to […]

Call It “Rag Tag” While You Can

Yesterday, the Colorado Education Association formally endorsed Initiative 25 (soon to be known as Proposition 103), the ballot initiative to temporarily return to Colorado’s 1999-level sales and income tax rates of 3.0% and 5.0% respectively. From their press release: Colorado Education Association’s board of directors voted to unite with the growing, grassroots coalition that will […]

The Danger of Digging In

The debt negotiations were not kind to the approval ratings of Republicans in Congress. The debate over how to cut the debt further may reinforce the opinions the public have formed. From Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight: There has been various circumstantial evidence that the public’s dissatisfaction with the performance of Congress, particularly during the debt […]

Move Over, Mitt Romney?

As the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic reports: Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he was running for president on Saturday but Colorado Republicans have been eagerly looking forward to the news, according to Public Policy Polling. Perry tied long-running candidate Mitt Romney for the top spot among Colorado GOP voters surveyed by PPP the first week […]

Who Fragged Dan Maes, Revised History Edition

It piqued our curiosity when we heard the book was coming out in June–as the Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reports, 2010 GOP gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes has some new theories on what happened to him, and his (nominal) party’s chances in the governor’s race last year: Maes blames part of his campaign’s collapse on tea […]

Inevitable FASTER Carping Ignores Obvious

Just a quick word on this weekend’s worthwhile report from the Pueblo Chieftain’s Patrick Malone–it’s an welcome opening for usual-suspect complaints, but you could have predicted from the beginning that the bridge-repair projects funded by 2009’s FASTER vehicle registration fee increases would take some time to get moving. Bridge projects funded by vehicle registration fees, […]

“Spontaneous” Rally For Lamborn Today

FOX 21’s Alia Wilson reports: Supporters of embattled Republican Representative Doug Lamborn are coming to his defense, rallying for the congressman outside of his Colorado Springs office Friday afternoon. Lamborn has apologized to President Barack Obama after using the term “tar baby” in reference to the president on a radio show last month… Backers of […]

“Tipton’s Got To Go”

House Majority PAC is up with a fresh TV spot attacking vulnerable Colorado freshman Rep. Scott Tipton—Politico: House Majority PAC, a so-called Super PAC that can take unlimited contributions, has made a six-figure ad buy across three far-flung House districts. The group is targeting freshmen Republican Reps. Scott Tipton of Colorado, Tim Griffin of Arkansas […]

New poll reveals depth of GOP hubris

( – promoted by c rork) According to Public Policy Polling: Colorado’s freshman Senator Michael Bennet eked out a surprising less than two-point victory over Republican nominee Ken Buck last fall, but if voters headed to the polls now, they would send him back to Washington with a resounding 55-38 triumph. (JCB emphasis) Key in […]

Tancredo Disses Rick Perry. Hard.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry moved closer to his expected presidential run today, and 2010 Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo wants you to know that Perry is not, and be assured that Tancredo of all people knows how to pick ’em, a “true conservative.” Writing at Politico today: Perry is eager to separate himself from his […]

Lobato vs. Colorado Testimony Continues

Heart-wrenching stuff from the Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel: The plaintiffs, who include Montezuma-Cortez school district, want the courts to declare that Colorado is violating its own constitution by depriving students of a quality education – a verdict that could require billions of dollars more to be spent on schools… Textbooks are outdated, and [Cortez Middle […]

Obama Leads Romney in Colorado

PPP recently polled Coloradans on the presidential race and on the budget crisis. It looks as if President Obama is enjoying a healthy lead over front-runner Mitt Romney: While the president has gotten less popular, so has Romney, and by a similar amount. Six months ago, voters were split on Romney personally, 40% favorable and […]

Was This Really Necessary?

We chuckle at unflattering photos as much as the next pundit, but as Reuters reports: Ever the provocateur, Newsweek editor-in-chief Tina Brown has raised eyebrows once again with her latest magazine cover, this one featuring an unflattering shot of presidential aspirant Michele Bachmann. Is it an example of liberal bias? Is it sexist? Or, as […]

Today In Really Terrible Ideas

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: While this post was being written last night, the Denver paper announced that Michael Hancock’s office has backed off and will allow recording devices in these press briefings. A change of heart reportedly coming after furious pushback from reporters, it’s still totally inexplicable why Hancock’s people would attempt to do this at all. […]

Gardner Town Hall Highlights 2012 Problems for GOP

We’ve regularly discussed in this space the problems that Republicans face in 2012 as they try to maneuver between Tea Partiers who want strict adherence to far-right ideals and Independent voters who don’t want big cuts to programs such as Medicare. As Bob Moore of the Ft. Collins Coloradoan reports, Republican Rep. Cory Gardner was […]

Please, Scott Tipton. Please Stop Talking.

The Colorado Statesman’s Ellen Miller reports from Grand Junction on freshman Rep. Scott Tipton’s growing incoherence trying to explain his votes in the debt-ceiling debate: More than 200 people, most of them Republicans and many who identified with the Tea Party, packed the City Council chambers Friday night for an hour-long question-and-answer session with 3rd […]

With Markets In Chaos, GOP Suicidally Digs In

Talking Points Memo: In a Monday memo to the House GOP caucus, [House Majority Leader Eric Cantor] candidly acknowledged that S&P faulted the party’s unyielding stance on tax revenues for the downgrade. But he encourages members not to erase this bright line. “Over the next several months, there will be tremendous pressure on Congress to […]

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