(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%
Another hot issue has emerged in the legislature late in the session, this one over a Senate bill that would re-evaluate minimum sentences, public defender qualifications, and “good time” sentence reductions for certain offenders. There’s a lot in this bill (worth a read here), but the over-arching intention seems to be spending reductions–with corrections emerging […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) It was pure happenstance but the same day I had my interview with Senator Bennet I also had an ok to blog the Boulder Girls Gone Liberal (AKA Democratic Women of Boulder County) event for Senator Bennet. So I got to see him at both ends of the day. […]
As the Denver Post reports: Colorado’s Independent Ethics Commission has ruled it is OK for a state lawmaker and her husband to take an 11-day “intercultural” trip to Turkey partially paid for by a nonprofit organization. Rep. Cherylin Peniston, D-Westminster, requested the ruling on whether the trip would comply with the voter-approved Amendment 41 ethics […]
Kind of interesting, all these stories coming out about why drill rigs counts have really dropped in Colorado over the last year–now that the ugly fight over new rules to protect wildlife and private property near drilling activity is over. Just how divorced from reality did the GOP’s gloom-and-dooming get, you ask? The Grand Junction […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain reports: The death penalty may be dead in Colorado if a preliminary vote in the House to repeal it on Wednesday holds up. Five Democrats – including Rep. Ed Vigil, D-Fort Garland – joined Republicans voting against the measure, but it wasn’t enough to kill the bill that would repeal the […]
( – promoted by redstateblues) The Polsters voted, and Denver won by 5 votes. Don’t worry though, you patchouli-lovin’ hippies, by FP editor decree, I do declare that the next Pols meeting after Sunday’s will be in Boulder at Southern Sun. Can’t wait to meet you all at the Falling Rock Taphouse in Denver at […]
The arch-conservative Colorado Springs Gazette editorial board stays true to form, but has some interesting criticism for yesterday’s “Tea Party” protesters: It was good of Republicans and self-professed “conservatives” at Wednesday’s TEA parties to protest massive federal spending. It was a righteous action with a righteous message. Unfortunately, some of the rhetoric and vibe at […]
(Chuck Norris will be President! – promoted by Colorado Pols) At a tea-bag, sorry, tea-party today Texas Governor Rick Perry declared that Texas could secede “if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/… And don’t be frightened by the HuffPo link, it’s actually an AP story. Now I don’t mean to […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: Coverage of Frazier’s announcement in The Hill and the Denver Post. We applaud Frazier for actually having the stones to do formal candidate stuff like a real candidate, unlike lots of people we know, but the answer to Frazier’s question is going to be numerical–as in dollars, […]
UPDATE: Governor Bill Ritter’s statement after the jump. Excerpt: One idea to help ease the remaining $300 million budget shortfall was to tap into surpluses held by Pinnacol Assurance, the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurance company. Members of my staff and I have tried in good faith to reach an agreement with Pinnacol. “However, there […]
We hearing that there is likely to be a little counter-protest activity for today’s “Tea Party” at the state capitol. Not a lot of details yet, of course, but there is an opposition press conference scheduled for 10AM (advisory follows), and some talk of “creative” countermessaging at the event itself. You’ll recall that last time […]
We’ve been talking about this for years, coincident with the Republican Party’s massive losing streak that began in 2004 in our state, and continues to this very day as Republicans in the Colorado Assembly continue to offer up laughable, over the top, relentless objections to…well, basically everything. And keep losing. Expressed no better (that we’ve […]
I’ve got nothing against Diggs, but I can’t help it. This is just too much. To quote draftdiggs.com: Isn’t it time we elected a hero to Congress? Diggs Brown is a Major in the U.S. Army Special Forces. He’s on front lines in the Global War on Terror, even today protecting us from the terrorist […]
(Many commenters have been (rightly) confused as to why this map includes states in 2010 that are not even in play. See the update below. – promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: This map is part of a presentation created by the RGA earlier this year called The Four Year Plan. It’s possible the map below […]
The Denver Post reported today: Gov. Bill Ritter said Monday that a potential $300 million cut to Colorado colleges is off the table, though he offered no guidance on how to solve the state’s shortfall as the Senate moved forward with a plan that taps money from a workers’ compensation insurer…. Senate Minority Leader Josh […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: Liberal activist group Progress Now released a blistering statement a few minutes ago, calling on Pinnacol to “stop stonewalling Colorado.” Says Director Mike Huttner, “It is plain wrong that Pinnacol Assurance, an entity chartered by the state, refuses to act in good faith to help lawmakers solve […]
In a guest column for the Boulder Daily Camera today, Sen. Mark Udall writes in support of expanding federal hate crimes definitions to include segments of the GLBT community–timely with the first such trial under Colorado’s expanded law about to kick off: I was elected to Congress a month after Matthew [Shepard’s] murder. And for […]
Yesterday’s unprecedented move by (outgoing) Senate President Peter Groff to reject and send the budget back to the Joint Budget Committee, in hopes of finding alternatives to nasty proposed cuts…didn’t work out the way he planned, as Politics West reports: Several JBC members…said they believed they were being made scapegoats for this year’s budget. Sen. […]
Noted by the Colorado Independent: Chalk up another vote to bring the controversial Employee Free Choice Act, known as EFCA, to the full U.S. Senate for consideration. Ending plenty of speculation, a spokeswoman for Colorado Sen. Mark Udall on Wednesday morning told The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent the Boulder Democrat will cast a key vote […]
We haven’t moved along as fast as we should have with the first annual Colorado Pols Political Tournament, so after presenting the Sweet 16, we decided to skip ahead all the way to The Final Four. We’ve updated the bracket (CLICK HERE to download the updated PDF) and picked a few upsets, so click below […]
Almost three weeks ago, the Denver Post reported that former congressman Scott McInnis “privately” had announced his intentions to run for Governor. You know, privately, as in “reported by the Denver Post” from a GOP state party function. Which seems not very “private” at all, being the talk of the GOP’s biggest annual event, and […]
Senate Majority Leader Brandon Shaffer writes in the Denver Post today on behalf of the emergency proposal to transfer “excess” reserves from the state’s workman’s comp insurance entity, “backfilling” otherwise devastating cuts to higher education: This week, Colorado’s General Assembly is setting the state’s budget for next year. It is more than just a set […]
From the latest New York Times/CBS News poll: Just 31 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest in the 25 years the question has been asked [Pols emphasis] in New York Times/CBS News polls… …The number of people who said they thought the country was headed in […]
We’ve been following for several days the reaction to major cuts to higher education funding proposed by the Joint Budget Committee. As most of you know, the proposed cuts have shaken the higher education community pretty hard, and yesterday student government organizations from around the state protested at the Capitol against them. The JBC points […]
To hear the Fort Collins Coloradoan report it, kind of a rough night for Sen. Michael Bennet: Sen. Michael Bennet met with about 100 Larimer County Democrats on Monday night at New Belgium Brewing and frequently wound up giving them answers they didn’t come to hear. Facing a respectful but clearly skeptical audience of party […]
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