(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
20%
10%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
40%↓
30%
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
80%↑
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
(D) Wanda James
70%↓
20%↑
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
30%↓
20%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(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%
Rep. Ryan Armagost pushed the limits of that question during yesterday’s marathon hearing on legislation to ban assault weapons, perhaps breaking the record for most pieces of “firearms flair” displayed by a lawmaker still managing to conform to the Colorado House’s dress code: We count eleven total–an AR-15 lapel pin, another AR-15 tie tack, and […]
Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Boulderish) has officially ascended to the #4 position in Democratic leadership in Congress. From a press release: Today, Congressman Joe Neguse was elected to serve as the Assistant Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives. The 39-year-old Colorado lawmaker was elected to succeed Rep. Jim Clyburn in the role, […]
In a remarkably short period of time, former state Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams has transformed from a sideshow occupying the House seat formerly held by the equally embarrassing ex-Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt, not expected to have any further political upward mobility, into a chaos agent perhaps unparalleled in the history of the […]
Today on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we have a special interview-only episode with the man who was the first guest on the original show way back in May 2016. You know him as Denver’s Mayor, Colorado’s Governor, and now a United States Senator: John Hickenlooper is back on the pod! You don’t want to miss […]
“Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who’s going to win it.” –Paul Begala
Yesterday was the annual Latino/a Advocacy Day at the Colorado State Capitol, an annual event that like so many other routine functions at the Capitol didn’t result in much controversy in the “before times”–that sometimes-mythologized halcyon period before either the global pandemic or Donald Trump where the discourse under the Dome was somewhat less consistently […]
The Colorado legislature is discussing several gun violence prevention (GVP) bills this session after passing a handful of important changes in 2023. We could point you toward polling data showing how the issue of gun violence has changed in Colorado since Colorado’s “no compromise” gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO), helped lead a […]
Back in February, we took note of a QAnon-sized hissy fit thrown by freshman Rep. Brandi Bradley of Highlands Ranch, who was so bitterly incensed at the Democratic supermajority for killing her bill imposing mandatory minimum sentences on a range of sex offenses that she appeared to condone death threats made about the legislation directed […]
As you might have noticed last week, schools and office buildings across the Denver Metro area were shut down on Thursday and Friday because of a massive snowstorm that snarled roads and highways. Many areas received more than a foot of snow, which prompted the Colorado legislature and most state and local government offices to […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This story originally appeared in The Colorado Times Recorder. According to a news release, a criminal complaint was filed today with the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s office by Colorado Congressional District 5 candidate Joshua Griffin, who is alleging that El Paso County Chair Vickie Tonkins and Colorado GOP Chair — and […]
The 118th Congress seems destined to go down in history as one of the least productive two-year periods in decades…which leads to the obvious question of what this will mean in the 2024 election cycle. Much of this dysfunction has to do with the ridiculous antics in the House of Representatives, which Republicans have turned […]
If you’re in the vicinity next Tuesday evening of Colorado Springs’ Fervent Church, which we’re told amply lives up to their name, GOP Rep. Scott “There Is No” Bottoms is headlining an event hosted by the (again, they pick these names) Spunky Patriots, featuring a man by the name of Tom Hamner–there to tell his […]
Snowed in and bored already? Fortunately we have some extra podcast content this week! Today on the Get More Smarter Podcast…Christy Powell is back! We’ve got a whole Christy-only special on the halfway point of the Colorado legislative session as a bonus episode! Our unofficial third cohost stops by to give us an update on […]
With a major snowstorm bringing public business to a halt along the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains today, we recall some moments in time when Colorado’s infamously fickle winter weather had political effects that endured long after the snow and ice had melted away. Longtime residents will recall the great Christmas Blizzard of […]
Now that (some) of the smoke has cleared from Rep. Ken Buck’s surprise announcement on Tuesday that he would be resigning from Congress effective March 22, it’s time to take another look at why this happened, what it means for Colorado Republicans, and what comes next. The Quiet Part (Not) Out Loud Nobody is saying […]
As Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, yesterday afternoon ex-President Donald Trump repaid with interest–in political capital, not dollars of course–the support of a man his campaign once fired for incompetence, Colorado Republican Party chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams, with an endorsement in the CO-05 primary for Williams returning the […]
UPDATE: Okay, bear with us because this is confusing… Governor Polis has called a special election in CO-04 to align with the June 25 Primary Election already scheduled. This makes sense, because it saves the state money by not requiring county clerks and the Colorado Secretary of State to conduct two separate elections within a […]
Republicans in the Colorado House of Representatives waste a MASSIVE amount of time talking about ridiculous ideas, making utterly disgusting speeches, and allowing folks like Rep. Ken “Skin” DeGraaf to mutter big words he recently gleaned from a thesaurus. No subject is too far out of bounds for the GOP micro-minority. Democratic House Speaker Julie […]
Freshman Rep. Scott “There Is No” Bottoms of Colorado Springs, whose day job is lead pastor at an area evangelical Christian church, has a reputation for couching most if not all of his views on the temporal world in the language of “spiritual warfare”–this in accordance with Bottoms’ apocalyptic worldview in which we are presently […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Super Tuesday came and went and left us with the same situation we had beforehand; that’s right, it’s a Biden-Trump rematch, and no, there’s nothing you can do about it. But Dark Brandon is back: President Biden absolutely overcame incredibly low expectations for his State of the […]
The overcrowded clown car of Republican candidates vying for the nomination to succeed retiring Rep. Ken Buck, a field featuring carpetbagging fellow incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert against former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg and a gaggle of also-rans, is shedding one of its more colorful entries, “MAGA King” Trent Leisy, who filed today to run instead […]
Newsweek reports from carpetbagging crusader Rep. Lauren Boebert’s latest check-in with coup plotter and hirsute layer-dresser Steve Bannon, whom we’ve always known was an idol of Boebert’s…but now it’s, well, official idolatry: Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert has said that former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon is considered a “god”. In conversation with Boebert on his […]
Friday night, 9NEWS’ Marshall Zelinger fact-checked an ad from the American Petroleum Institute that has been in heavy rotation in recent days including the local broadcast of the Academy Awards last night. It’s another ad darkly warning that Democrats in the Colorado legislature are “pushing the most extreme anti-energy bills in state history,” echoing the […]
President Biden delivered a passionate State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Thursday that was more political than most but appeared to hit all of the right notes. As The Hill newspaper reported on Sunday, even former Biden detractors were applauding his SOTU remarks: New York Times columnist Ezra Klein walked back his previous demands […]
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