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( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Remember a few months back when we were graced with the “Best Fundraising Appeal Ever”?  The guy who was using a genuinely funny web appeal to raise huge sums of cash to take on an incumbent in Kansas? http://www.coloradopols.com/sh… Just thought you all might be interested in the outcome… […]

As the Greeley Tribune reports: Greeley Mayor Ed Clark said Thursday he made a mistake last week when he showed children at University Schools a fake $3 bill depicting President-elect Barack Obama wearing a Middle Eastern headdress. A parent of one of the children complained to school officials, and Clark said he has since apologized […]

Not exactly the victory he took the job to produce, of course–or is it? As the Colorado Statesman entertainingly reports: Dick Wadhams is good at attracting publicity, but speculation that he would hold a press conference to announce his bid for re-election as chairman of the Colorado Republican Party turned out to be a bit […]

Thanks for playing, says the Post’s Susan Greene: Job opening: President of Colorado State University. Qualifications: Anti-intellectual global- warming skeptic, not particularly influential among his peers, who has spent years working against the environment and education. Something is seriously wrong with this scenario… The National Education Association has graded him with an “F.” And the […]

Stay with us for a moment here: the lion is the Colorado voter, and Jake Jabs is…well…Jake Jabs. The guy beating up the lion at the end? Jon Caldara, obviously. H/T: Squarestate.net

Checking in with our fellow citizens along the Ronald Reagan Highway, an update on how that whole Grover Norquist-inspired “small government” ideological fixation thing is working out. Not real well, as the Colorado Springs Gazette reports: El Paso County will no longer inspect daycare centers or test for diseases such as West Nile Virus because […]

UPDATE: Stay classy, says MSNBC: The Rocky Mountain News summarizes: Ousted Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave is making national headlines – and not the good kind. Under the headline “Nobody Likes a Sore Loser. Even in Washington,” Musgrave scored a withering 78 ranking – approaching “utterly shameless” – on Newsweek’s The Dignity Index, described as a […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reports: An outspoken advocate of a government-run health care system for Colorado was removed as head of the legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee Tuesday. House Speaker-designee Terrance Carroll said he is replacing Rep. Anne McGihon, a fellow Denver Democrat, because he thought the legislature needed to move in a […]

Writing in the Sterling Journal-Advocate, former state Sen. Mark Hillman lays out his reasons for the Republican Party’s decline–presaging his comeback? After being routed at the polls for two consecutive election cycles, Republicans are turning introspective, asking how the party fell out of favor so suddenly and how to correct course. That introspection includes the […]

UPDATE: Mike Hesse is quoted as out of the running by the same Denver Post–somebody over there took the “amnesia” thing a little personally. Helpful note: deserved ribbing could have been avoided simply by not taking Dick Wadhams at his word when he leans into your personal space and says, “there’s nobody else. Cory, you […]

UPDATE: Liberal activist group Progress Now, as you can imagine, has a few things to say about this (release follows). Could this be considered “failing upward?” It pays more, as 9NEWS reports: Just weeks after his senate successor was elected; Wayne Allard is showing interest in a new Colorado position. Allard’s spokesperson, Steve Wymer, says […]

The AP reports: Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign. The Connecticut independent will lose a minor panel post as punishment for criticizing Obama this fall. Lieberman’s colleagues in the Democratic caucus voted 42-13 […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reports: At least seven people, including three state lawmakers, an elections official, a TV host, a Republican county clerk and a Democratic activist, have applied for the Colorado secretary of state job. Secretary of State Mike Coffman won election in the 6th Congressional District and will replace Rep. Tom Tancredo. […]

TUESDAY UPDATE: Columnist David Sirota’s dissenting view here, and click here to read our original post on Lieberman, Ken Salazar, and the thrill of the payback. Reuters has the story: Bowing to the wishes of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, Senate Democrats seem ready to do what it takes to keep Sen. Joe Lieberman in their […]

Marilyn Musgrave’s next couple of weeks, seen through the eyes of someone who’s been there–Bob Beauprez. From the latest Mother Jones: In Capitol Hill official-speak, it’s called the “transitional suite.” In reality, the harshly lit warren of numbered cubicles in the bowels of the Rayburn House Office Building is the private purgatory of members of […]

We’re just going to post the email we received a few minutes ago verbatim. Links to related material helpfully supplied by your hosts: Dear Colorado Pols, In your dishonorable attempts to spread dissention and disunity in the Colorado Republican Party by shopping name after name for the next Chairman, you left out the one man […]

She’s made a most unflattering Newsweek list: A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low you can go. MSNBC’s “Morning” Joe Scarborough drops an F-bomb on air right in the middle of breakfast hour. Congrats! Now you’re on tape delay. Score: 6 During an […]

We talked yesterday about emerging challengers to Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams, whose handling of the 2008 election has been widely criticized both anonymously and publicly. One potential candidate we mentioned is rather nastily denying he plans to challenge Wadhams–Politicker caught up with Dan “Under The Bus” Kopelman earlier today: “Tell your contacts who […]

We cited a report from California late last month: The California Republican Party is sending $3 million to neighboring states of Nevada and Colorado to help in last minute get out the vote efforts in the critical battlegrounds. That’s $2 million to Colorado and $1 million to Nevada, we’re told. The latest polls from RealClearPolitics.com […]

An important piece of the story, and not just in Garfield County–as the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent reports: All politics are local. But for hundreds of Garfield County voters, that aphorism didn’t carry much weight when they headed to the polls last week. They were more interested in this year’s historic presidential race between Democrat Barack […]