(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%
A lesson to others, Colorado Springs’ self-inflicted fiscal follies on CNN: If you come to a neighborhood park in Colorado Springs, plan on bringing your own trash bags. To save money, the city has removed the trash cans. Need to catch a bus? Don’t try on evenings or weekends. The city has cut that service, […]
The Colorado Independent reports, following up on points made by ex-Rocky Mountain News columnist Jason Salzman earlier in the week: Senate candidate Jane Norton is being hammered in campaign ads for her support of Referendum C in 2005, which allowed the state to spend roughly $3.7 billion in tax revenues slated to be refunded to […]
As the Denver Post reports: A state senator said Thursday he wants to ask voters to impose a special tax on medical marijuana. Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, said he intends to amend a bill that creates regulations for medical-marijuana dispensaries to include a provision that places an excise tax on medical marijuana, similar to the […]
Call me old school, but I was always taught to be a man. My father taught me that if I had a problem or more specifically, if I had a problem with someone to confront him or her face to face. Ken Buck must have missed the lesson in manhood. Surprise, surprise, Buck’s latest ad […]
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is busily picking apart the recent interview of Senate candidate Jane Norton on the Fox News Channel–and we think they’ve got an interesting angle here, though not the one you see at first glance: Colorado families struggling with unemployment and economic challenges got their answer yesterday on if Senate […]
Mark it down. Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010: The date that the Andrew Romanoff for Senate campaign officially “jumped the shark.” Romanoff’s campaign just sent out an email today from none other than former U.S. Senate hopeful Mike Miles. The full text of the email is after the jump, but here’s a smidgen: So let’s help […]
The Boulder Daily Camera isn’t a news outlet you’d expect to have a particularly conservative editorial board, and through writer Erika Stutzman they generally deliver an editorial view consistent with the liberal Boulder residents they serve. Now Boulder is a pretty unique place, of course, and while self-described as ‘progressive’ Boulder has some of the […]
To this point we’ve been generally dismissive of radio host Jimmy Lakey’s hints at running for Congress in CD-7. Radio personalities, like Dan Caplis, often talk about becoming candidates but never actually make the jump. But it appears as though Lakey is really running, as evidenced by a recent endorsement from former Rep. Tom Tancredo. […]
As The Ft. Collins Coloradaoan reports: After years of claiming Colorado’s new oil and gas regulations will chase the energy industry and its jobs from the state, oil and gas operators and an industry group are now saying the rules will have little impact on future energy development here… …The new rules, which took effect […]
A great report from the Colorado Independent yesterday we didn’t want to escape mention: To hear Republicans in Congress tell it, the Grand Old Party is pretty much united against the deficit-spending approach to economic recovery. Don’t tell that to local GOP officials. Faced with the most severe budget crises in decades, state and local […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) After years of claiming Colorado’s new oil and gas regulations will chase the energy industry and its jobs from the state, oil and gas operators and an industry group are now saying the rules will have little impact on future energy development here. link Scott McInnis was my congressman […]
Why that would be gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis of course, “the nation’s biggest ‘Tea Party’ candidate™!” That according to the semper fidelis American Spectator: Democrat Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has formally announced that he’ll jump into Ritter’s boots. But to attain the governor’s office Hickenlooper will have to beat the Republican who would have been […]
You’ll enjoy this article in today’s Durango Herald: Democrats are ripping Republican state Rep. Scott Tipton for missing a tricky vote last week on the agriculture budget. The Cortez legislator called the charge “the ultimate cheap shot” because he was excused in advance for the vote. The spat offers a glimpse into how politically savvy […]
Yesterday Bob Moore of the Ft. Collins Coloradoan posted a diary here on Colorado Pols about his Coloradoan story debunking wild attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that came from CD-4 Republican candidate Diggs Brown. Moore’s story does not say who exactly provided the audiotape of Brown’s Pelosi-bashing, but in the comments section on the […]
We wrote last September that we were sick and tired of getting payday lending spam on our comments threads, so we were openly declaring war on the industry in Colorado. Now that a bill is being introduced to limit the crippling interest rates that payday lenders charge, it’s time for us to step up our […]
(Good questions. What are the implications if the “divorce” is granted? – promoted by Middle of the Road) POLS UPDATE: No stinking deal, says Senate President Brandon Shaffer to The Spot: “The Pinnacol transaction is not something we’re seriously looking at this year,” Shaffer, D-Longmont, told reporters. “I think it’s a bad deal on a […]
(We stand by what we said before, but this viewpoint is worth considering – promoted by Colorado Pols) Lynn Bartels reported last night for “The Spot” blog: http://blogs.denverpost.com/th… A who’s who of Latino leaders today endorsed Michael Bennet for U.S. senator. They praised the Denver Democrat for the job he has done since being appointed […]
Originally posted at the Daily Caller a couple of days ago, but after all the time we spent in the last couple of weeks on ex-Andrew Romanoff campaign strategist Pat Caddell’s consorting with the right wing’s most vilified talking heads, and attacks on the Democratic Party in general at every opportunity, we thought his take […]
Announcement emails circulated this afternoon from local advocacy groups: Rep. Mark Ferrandino and Sen. Chris Romer will indeed introduce legislation to regulate the excessive interest rates charged by the “payday loan” industry, reportedly capping them at 36% instead of the present 500% or more they are allowed as the result of a decade-old loophole in […]
Interesting news from former Rocky Mountain News reporter Kevin Flynn’s Inside Lane blog: But McInnis’ missed opportunity came when, after criticizing fee increases and the growing technology that would enable mileage-based road fees to replace the gas tax, he was asked what his ideas were for fixing the funding crisis. He said he had no […]
The regular nationwide “Governor’s Line” from Washington Post blog “The Fix” is out today, and the big news is no news: Colorado is no longer listed as one of the 15 states where the Governor’s mansion is most likely to switch parties. Why the change? Well, as we have written before, there are a couple […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Gov. Bill Ritter presented his budget-balancing plan Thursday that addresses yet another $1 billion to cover an expected revenue shortfall. The governor said balancing next year’s budget was particularly hard because it comes on top of more than $2 billion the state has addressed over the past two budgets. […]
I want to believe we Democrats do a better job running the government. I want to believe the government, while imperfect like the rest of us, does a good job delivering services. But then I get this. I sent an email in to DoR asking for guidance on how we need to apply the sales […]
Recent Colorado polling on a public option tells us what we all know. Well, most of us know. Colorado wants a public option. http://www.dailykos.com/statep… Bennet s going to take heat for the letter he wrote saying we should put the public option back in and pass it by reconciliation. Bennet will advocate for this because […]
In a press release this morning, several local policy groups defended the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, known in the vernacular as “teh stimulus”) on the one-year anniversary of its signing here in Denver. Full release after the jump with links to two new reports on stimulus funding in Colorado–says Kathy White of the […]
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