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The Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels writes for The Spot: Remedial bill reading, anyone? The suggestion [yesterday] raised the hackles of Rep. Amy Stephens. The exchange between Stephens, a Monument Republican, and Rep. Jack Pommer, a Boulder Democrat, came as the two tangled over House Bill 1193, which would repeal the tax exemption for out-of-state retailers. […]

(Head meet pike – promoted by Colorado Pols) Today’s Politico has an article up on Pat Caddell’s brief tenure at the Romanoff campaign: In a November appearance with conservative policy advocate David Horowitz, Caddell called the SEIU “thugs” and said environmentalists were out to “deconstruct capitalism.” Hours after a video of the comments was posted […]

(Some “netroots” love that Bennet can surely use – promoted by Colorado Pols) I just got this email from www.boldprogressives.org Sen. Mike Bennet did Colorado proud today. He defied the stale DC conventional wisdom that tells Democrats to be weak — and instead called on Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass the public health insurance […]

We’ve updated The Big Line now that all Q4 finance reports are available. Click below for a brief rundown of some of the changes. GOVERNOR Like it or not, elections are often just one big popularity contest, and in Colorado, there are few (if any) politicians who are more popular than Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. […]

Can somebody explain to us how this Denver Post story even got written? Judicial-retention elections are traditionally quiet, noncontroversial affairs that barely get attention before Election Day. But a series of decisions made by the Colorado Supreme Court over the past decade has energized opponents of four justices who will be up for retention this […]

UPDATE: From the Denver Post: McInnis spoke Monday at a Denver plant of The Pepsi Bottling Group, which says it could lose jobs if customers have to pay more for soda. The Pepsi Bottling Group has been e-mailing employees about the tax proposal and encouraging them to write to state lawmakers to oppose it… His […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) MONDAY PM POLS UPDATE: In a statement from Andrew Romanoff’s campaign a few moments ago, it was announced that Pat Caddell has been fired. Today, a video was posted on ColoradoPols, in which Pat expressed views that were completely at odds with Andrew’s campaign, his career and his commitment […]

In the helpful spirit of today’s discussion about online etiquette, here’s another instructive visual. The campaign website of one Gary Kennedy, GOP state house candidate for Rep. Ellen Roberts’ HD-59 seat, looks like it was made by a chimpanzee with markers strapped to its hands. Let’s get past the obvious problems here, like the failure […]

The Denver Post has a fun article up today about attempts by various campaigns to game publicly-editable information sources about candidates–most importantly the ubiquitous Wikipedia: Like county fairs and gossip fences of days gone by, the Wikipedia biography is an emerging battleground in the modern political campaign. The online encyclopedia lets anyone and everyone edit […]

As posted here yesterday, supporters of this year’s version of a tough abortion ban ballot measure have submitted their petition signatures. The problem is that they submitted only barely enough signatures to technically qualify for the ballot–based on the usual percentage of signatures rejected by the Secretary of State in the course of verification, proponents’ […]

(Send your questions to Questions@HarberTV.com by 5:00PM Monday – promoted by Colorado Pols) Two days before Sen. Michael Bennet’s big rally with President Barack Obama, the Denver Young Democrats will hold a “Senate candidate forum” with Bennet and primary opponent Andrew Romanoff moderated by Aaron Harber. If I’m not mistaken, this would be the first […]

We keep trying to write off GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck, who raised a pitiful amount of money last quarter, and who we think would probably have a better shot running for Congress in CD-4 than a Senate race he has yet to demonstrate the aptitude to participate in. And then the Greeley Tribune reports: […]

We didn’t think that Rep. Steve King’s “touchy” anti-public masturbation bill (we’re not going to get to say that very many more times so we are shamelessly milking it, we admit) was a bad idea in the abstract–but the Grand Junction Sentinel, taking a larger view of King’s recent mentions in the news, finds his […]

The Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Addressing the 112th National Western Mining Conference one day after the leading GOP gubernatorial challenger did, Hickenlooper told the 200 miners that he, and not Scott McInnis, has the right experience to lead the state. The Democratic mayor said his experience as a geologist who was laid off in the […]

As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Masturbating in public should be more than just a petty offense, Rep. Steve King said Wednesday. That’s why the Grand Junction Republican introduced a bill into the Colorado Legislature to make the law clear when a person should be charged with public indecency. King, who said the Colorado District […]

We had to laugh at this story in The Denver Post about a poor college kid in Greeley getting busted for trying to do the old “light a bag of dog poop on fire” prank. That’s because there may be no town in America that takes its poop laws more seriously: Andrew Charles Donahue, 18, […]

Jessica Fender of the Denver Post reports from the House floor: Low-income families would be helped by a bill to give them a tax break once the state is back in the black, proponents of legislation before the House this morning said. But one representative had another solution for lifting families out of poverty. “Don’t […]

A few weeks ago, we took note of a story in the Grand Junction Sentinel on the number of drilling permits issued in the state of Colorado during 2009. As most of you know, it’s become a repetitive mantra among Republican candidates for office this year that new rules governing oil and gas drilling have […]