(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%
We’d like to thank our two front page guest editors for the first half of 2009, redstateblues and Laughing Boy for their work and insightful commentary. Hats off to both of them. We will be holding an election for two new front-page editors next week. The new editors will start around July 1st, and barring […]
From today’s Denver Post: Memo from David Kenney to staff: Quit visiting blogs and posting anonymous comments that praise or defend Gov. Bill Ritter. Or, in online parlance, enough with the sock puppets. The Kenney Group is handling Ritter’s re-election bid, and Kenney learned Sunday that a blogger had traced four similar anonymous postings praising […]
A variation on our recurring “At Least He’s Not Your Legislator” series, from the AP: In this friendly little ranching town, “hello” is wearing out its welcome. And Leonso Canales Jr. is happy as heck. At his urging, the Kleberg County commissioners on Monday unanimously designated “heaven-o” as the county’s official greeting. The reason: “hello” […]
As the Denver Post reports: Some of the state’s movers and shakers have unsuccessfully tried to get Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to challenge Gov. Bill Ritter in a primary next year. Hickenlooper confirmed Tuesday that he’s been offered campaign donations and a peek at flattering polls. He said he’s told everyone “no,” and not just […]
UPDATE: Penry says we have it wrong (although other Polsters have heard the same thing — see comments). “When we settle on a time, date and a decision itself, I can assure you that the liberal bloggers over at Colorado Pols will not be the first to know,” he told the Grand Junction Sentinel. That […]
(Not exactly the cream of the crop here for the GOP. – promoted by Colorado Pols) This just in from the Colorado Springs Gazette. State conservatives mobilize anti-Sotomayor effort A conservative coalition has formed in Colorado to oppose President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, arguing that the New York […]
As the Colorado Springs Gazette reports: One of the state’s leading environmental groups has issued its annual rating of state legislators, and for the first time in eight years, three of the legislators got zeroes. Two of the three are from Colorado Springs. Republican Sens. Dave Schultheis and Bill Cadman, along with Sen. Scott Renfroe, […]
Not a misprint, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Mineral owners Saturday assailed a Democratic lawmaker over the state’s new oil and gas rules, while Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis said new natural gas discoveries across the country are playing the primary role in Colorado’s drilling slowdown. “The new regulations basically took away my minerals […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) I was invited down to the capitol for Governor Ritter’s end of bill signing time (or some title like that) press conference today. I’ve never been to one of these before so it was interesting to participate. It seems almost like a set piece of theater where everyone knows […]
As expected yesterday, Gov. Bill Ritter vetoed SB 180, which would have given collective bargaining rights to firefighters. We’ve already written about what a mistake this veto was politically, and Ritter’s second veto of a bill backed by labor unions and Democrats in the legislature continues to draw the ire of a wide range of […]
Oh boy, as the Colorado Independent reports: U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman minced no words in a bizarre, Cheney-esque attack on Gov. Bill Ritter as a “terrorist sympathizer” for signing a new state law that stymies future expansion of the Army’s contentious Piñon Canyon training site proposal. The accusation of Ritter’s treason can be found in […]
One of the biggest obstacles in front of gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ future political viability is his attack last October, just days before the election, on ‘insiders’ who engineered his removal from the 2008 Senate race–in favor of eventual loser Bob Schaffer. Even if he was right, as we believe he was at least partly, […]
Proving that Scott McInnis wasn’t the only politician reading from the Wiley E. Coyote playbook for campaign announcements, Democrats in House District 4 were treated to a series of bizarre fundraising emails from Jennifer Coken, former Denver County Chair and North Denver newbie, who’s running for state house.
Email text is below the fold:
Governor Bill Ritter today signed SB 228, which rescinds the budget-crippling Arveschoug-Bird amendment. According to a press release from the Governor’s office: Senate Bill 228, sponsored by Republican Rep. Don Marostica and Democrats Sen. John Morse and Rep. Lois Court, establishes consistent and reliable funding for transportation projects, while also removing an arbitrary allocation formula […]
We weren’t the only ones who commented that calling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist probably wasn’t a good strategic move for conservative critics, so there’s no need to say “We told you so.” Actually, it was so blatantly obvious that this was a stupid line of attack that “we told you so” would […]
For the uninitiated, Wikipedia defines: Sockpuppet (Internet) A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community. In its earliest usage, a sockpuppet was a false identity through which a member of an Internet community speaks with or about himself or herself, pretending to be a different person, like a […]
Responding to the former executive director of his PAC’s upcoming sentencing for karate-chopping a random black woman while calling her a “n—–,” former Congressman Tom Tancredo finds himself…in a bit of a jam. As the Denver Post reports: The executive director of Team America, the PAC founded by Tom Tancredo, pleaded guilty last year to […]
From time to time (usually on slow news days), we like to take a look at the stats tracker for Colorado Pols to see what people are searching for that leads them to our humble blog here on the internet tubes. Below are the top search terms for the month of May that directed people […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) How embarrassing that this story is Colorado-relevant, but…. Last week, jaws dropped around the country as Tom Tancredo led the charge against Sonia Sotomayor — ludicrously accusing the Supreme Court nominee of being a racist, and making blatantly slanderous claims about the National Council of La Raza. Let’s square […]
In the weeks since the legislative session ended, controversy has been building over the selection by Colorado State University of GOP businessman Joe Blake for the position of “chancellor”–a position created anew for the CSU system, based in Denver and in theory responsible for “big ticket” fundraising for the school and legislative lobbying. The selection […]
From the Colorado Independent: The National Council of La Raza doesn’t think much of former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo’s attack on the 40-year-old civil rights organization as “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.” The Littleton Republican made the claim Thursday afternoon in an interview on CNN, arguing his claim that Supreme Court […]
Just weeks after vetoing another labor union bill and angering Democratic lawmakers who had supported it, Gov. Bill Ritter is widely expected to veto yet another labor union measure involving firefighters. Ritter has until June 5 to make a decision on SB 180, before it becomes law automatically without his signature. But most of the […]
UPDATE: Tom Tancredo handily winning the race to the proverbial bottom, courtesy TPM: From the New York Times: President Obama’s selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the Supreme Court has put the Republican Party in a bind, forcing it to weigh the cost of aggressively opposing the first Hispanic named to the […]
Absolutely hilarious, from the Colorado Independent yesterday: In a bubbly, Panglossian story about the Colorado GOP’s imminent resurgence, the all-but-official organ of the Republican Party airbrushes Allard from the political landscape when it describes how very on-the-ropes state Republicans were last fall… Given that Colorado didn’t already have “two Democratic senators” before the Obama win […]
On MSNBC yesterday, where a regrettably large number of people witnessed former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s typically bizarre histrionics over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Partial transcript: Tancredo: Unfortunately for her and fortunately for us there are plenty of things that we’ve even talked about her already. I’m telling you, […]
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