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BREAKING: Suck It Tuberville, Colorado Keeps Space Command
UPDATE #2: Never forget how Colorado GOP chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams bet against Colorado and lost, dragging the state party’s brand down with him: This will be an interesting follow-up. —– UPDATE: Nicely done, Rep. Brittany Pettersen: Sweet home Colorado 🚀 https://t.co/4KEhIFfALF — Brittany Pettersen (@pettersen4co) July 31, 2023 —– Colorado Public Radio’s […]
Buck’s Stopped Clock Messing Up The Program
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake took stock late last week of a recent shift in Colorado’s arch-conservative Rep. Ken Buck’s rhetoric concerning the mounting legal tribulations of former President Donald Trump–less in the way of Buck’s former unquestioning, often contorted defense of Trump, transitioning to something like an acknowledgment that Trump is indeed in hot […]
Heidi Ganahl Is Starting Up A “Moms For Liberty” Posse
We took note earlier this week of defeated 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl’s latest venture, peddling “woke free” household products from a MAGA-themed multilevel marketing organization (MLM) known as “Patriot Switch.” Patriot Switch features the usual Amway-style network marketing hype about someday replacing the traditional retail economy with reliance on “home businesses” hard-selling overpriced […]
“Bidenomics” Keeps On Defying GOP Doom, Gloom
ABC News joined every business outlet in the land, even most of the Fox News family of partisan political news spin doctors, in reporting today on unassailably strong economic numbers for the first half of 2023: U.S. economic growth accelerated over three months ending in June, blowing past economist expectations and tamping down concerns about […]
Buck Takes Giant Dump On Boebert’s Impeachment Fantasy
Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck appeared on CNN yesterday to level some of the harshest criticism we seen from Buck yet against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, slamming McCarthy’s appeasement of the far right of the House caucus by encouraging impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden: Republican Rep. Ken Buck, a member of the conservative House Freedom […]
Club For Growth Mobilizes For GOP’s Worst Of The Worst
Politico’s Ally Mutick reported Monday and we wanted to be sure it received a local mention: The Club for Growth is preparing to spend millions of dollars to help reelect the 20 House Republicans who opposed Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid… The Club’s primary goal will be to defend the five freshmen members of the group […]
Colorado “We Build The Wall” Fraudster Gets Five Years
As the New York Times’ Colin Moynihan reports, Castle Rock entrepreneur and Republican activist Timothy Shea was sentenced in a New York federal court yesterday to just over five years in prison for his role in the “We Build The Wall” scam, launched in 2018 with a who’s-who of anti-immigrant hardliners singing the praises of […]
Boebert Turns Rare “Apology” Into Another PR Debacle
Last week, Colorado’s nexus of narrow-minded nuttery Rep. Lauren Boebert earned another round of negative press after she brusquely tossed in the trash a pin memorializing one of the victims of the Ulvalde, Texas school shooting given to her by a gun safety activist. Support for gun rights isn’t supposed to automatically translate to hostility […]
When Company Loves Misery
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”60%”]“Can you imagine how mad we’d be at Shad [Murib, the Chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party] if he were attacking sitting Democrats? I would be furious with Shad. I’d be like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’” — Gov. Jared Polis on State Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams (via the […]
Ken Buck Twists Self Into Pretzel For Trump Once Again
CNN reports on the drama within the U.S. House Republican majority over a push to “expunge” former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from the congressional record, a demand made by Trump personally but running into a wall of opposition that includes a number of not-so-MAGA Republicans: Multiple sources tell CNN that calling a House vote […]
Governor Jared Polis Gets More Smarter…Again!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, our 8th favorite member of congress from Colorado took a safe Republican district and made it a tossup, all by herself! Speaking of congressional races, friend of the show Dr. Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo has gotten herself an opponent in Colorado’s newest congressional race, and let’s just say…they’re […]
Heidi Ganahl Is Back To Recruit You Into Her “Patriot” MLM
The 2022 Republican nominee for governor of Colorado, Heidi Ganahl, has been working to re-establish her brand after losing to Gov. Jared Polis by almost 20 points last year in what’s generally considered to be one of the worst statewide campaign in the state’s history. Last spring, Ganahl re-launched the podcast she used as a thinly-pretensed […]
Boebert Leaps To Controversial Video’s Ill-Advised Defense
CBS4 Denver reports on the latest impact area for Colorado’s foremost controversy-seeking missile, Rep. Lauren Boebert–this time leaping into the debate over a new video from conservative country music star Jason Aldean shot in front of a Tennessee courthouse with, to say the least, a problematic history. Colorado’s Republican congresswoman recently joined Arkansas Gov. Sarah […]
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Today in The Colorado Sun, Sandra Fish reports on a practice that is fairly common among Members of Congress and their staff: Nine of Colorado’s 10 members of Congress have paid at least one of their official office staffers with campaign funds this year, according to a Colorado Sun analysis of Federal Elections Commission filings […]
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann Won’t Seek Re-Election
As Lauren Penington reports for The Denver Post: Denver District Attorney Beth McCann announced Thursday she will not seek re-election in 2024 to a third term. “It has been the honor and privilege of my life to head up the Denver District Attorney’s Office and the amazing team of committed dedicated employees for the past […]
Boebert’s Quantifiable Weakness: CD-3 Downgraded To “Toss Up”
Colorado’s most controversial Republican, by a long mile, Rep. Lauren Boebert unexpectedly came within a mere 546 votes of losing her seat in Congress in 2022 to upstart conservative Democratic candidate Adam Frisch. After spending her first two years in office mired in bookkeeping scandals and voting against funding she later took credit for, the […]
If Tina Peters Can Just Stall Until Trump Wins…Then What?
UPDATE: Ruh, roh! Looks like Peters’ new attorney has his work cut out for him: —– As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, indicted former Mesa County Clerk and 2022 Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters is no longer being represented in her felony criminal case by noted Denver defense attorney Harvey Steinberg–and with […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (July 19)
It’s hot out there, but it’s going to get a LOT hotter next week. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find […]
Republicans Perplexed by Boebert’s Commitment to Nonsense
Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) just can’t stop being Lauren Boebert…and it may damn well mean the end of her short political career. After narrowly winning re-election in 2022 — beating Democrat Adam Frisch by a mere 546 votes in a district that SHOULD be safe for a Republican — Boebert briefly seemed to indicate that […]
Indictment #3? Trump Says Investigators Closing in Again
As The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump said Tuesday morning that he received a letter from the Justice Department saying that he is the target of the long-running investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump wrote on social media that special counsel Jack Smith — the prosecutor leading the federal […]
The Official Changing of the Guard in Denver
For the first time in 12 years, Denver has a new Mayor today. Mike Johnston took the oath of office today to become the 46th Mayor of the City of Denver, formally ending the 12-year tenure of Michael Hancock. As Joe Rubino reports for The Denver Post: In his inaugural address, Johnston started by running […]
Bluenami 2: Electric Boogaloo (feat. Shad Murib)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado GOP Civil War enters the Endgame stage…maybe. Just when we thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse or any stupider, it does. Republican Parties in Arizona and Michigan are as broke as the one here in Colorado — what’s the connection? Friend of the show […]
Scott James Launches CO-08 Campaign Into Brick Wall
The Colorado Democratic Party today announced a new campaign effort — dubbed “The Horizon Project” — to protect incumbent Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo in CO-08 (Northern Colorado). According to a press release: The Colorado Democratic Party, in collaboration with Attorney General Phil Weiser, is launching an unprecedented new effort to train and deploy organizers in […]
Boebert Emerges as Face of Ridiculous Military Funding Bill
We wrote on Thursday about Colorado Democrats’ opposition to Congressional Republicans holding military funding hostage for a variety of pet causes. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) has been refusing to approve Department of Defense (DoD) reprogramming requests — which significantly impact many service members in Colorado — as part of an effort […]