(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%
UPDATE #2: Colorado’s far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert stans up for Tucker: “Wherever Tucker Carlson goes, America will follow!” Even Newsmax? Our prediction: even less fact-checking where Tucker lands. —– UPDATE: Washington Post suggests Tucker Carlson was let go for biting the hand that feeds: Many of Carlson’s private messages were released in motions filed by […]
With springtime breaking out across the Rockies, it’s time to head outside after an unusually long and cold winter, breathe in the fresh mountain air, look up at the beautiful blue sky…and then, if you’re former Colorado House candidate and newly-elected chair of the Rio Grande County Republican Party Carol Riggenbach, scurry back inside in […]
Colorado’s far-right two-term Republican terror Rep. Lauren Boebert thought she was coming in hot–more literally in this case than usual–but Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had the perfect riposte: Your budget plan cuts railroad safety inspections. https://t.co/eNVcjb8vRu — Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) April 20, 2023 Followed by a dose of truth about Republican fiscal priorities: We […]
Yesterday evening, far-right freshman GOP Rep. Scott “There Is No” Bottoms was back home at the Church of Briargate in Colorado Springs where he serves as senior pastor, giving the faithful an update on his side gig in the legislature (definitely no tax issues here) where Bottoms has become one of the most outrageous rhetorical envelope-pushers […]
As the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent reports, last Saturday saw the town’s first-ever drag queen storytime event go off without a hitch, an event unintentionally inspired by Colorado’s premiere culture-warrior headliner Rep. Lauren Boebert: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Silt, shared tweets last year telling drag queens to stay out of her district with storytimes, and recently […]
As the Washington Post reports today, President Joe Biden along with the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate have declared the GOP-controlled House’s demands in exchange for the next routine hike in the nation’s debt limit a nonstarter: President Biden on Wednesday rejected a Republican plan to slash government spending and raise the debt limit, […]
Get outside and enjoy the weather before it cools off over the next couple of days. 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 […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: One of the prime movers of the Dominion conspiracy theory, local gun store owner and wannabe hangman Joe Oltmann, is most displeased with Fox News for settling: F@ck those shitbags at Dominion and f@ck Fox… listen to this. No question, Fox sold out the American people. F@ck them. I will never stop fighting […]
As USA TODAY’s David Jackson reports, as-yet undeclared Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is changing swamps for the day to court potential supporters in the nation’s capital: The Florida governor was scheduled to attend a “meet and greet and policy discussion” sponsored by an issue advocacy organization called “And To The Republic.” […]
Comedian Conan O’Brien turns 60 years old today. 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 us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST […]
The Republican House Majority in Congress surpassed its first 100 days in power last week. Silly sloganeering and partisan rhetoric aside, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have a whole lot to boast about after the first three months of Republican control in the lower chamber of Congress. As The Associated Press explained on Friday: As […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, House Republicans continue to filibuster without wanting anything; will they do it for the next 15 days or so? Your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii ponder the point of doing nothing when you should be doing anything. The title of this show, the Get More Smarter Podcast, is […]
UPDATE: Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) hits back at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling “plan”: “Defaulting on our debt is not an option”? What? That’s EXACTLY what you’re proposing. Defaulting. Your whole plan is to force a default if everyone else in Congress doesn’t agree to cut funding for poor people. You entire strategy is […]
It’s not even the most controversial thing GOP gaffe-o-matic Rep. Richard Holtorf has said this week, but for the deejays and stoners among the readership we decided it’s worth a mention: Uh where I come from, you know we don’t like the Devil’s Lettuce, it’s not good for our communities, but that’s not here. Okay, […]
The 2023 legislative session in Colorado’s House of Representatives is not unlike a typical first grade classroom. Most of the kids in the room are excited to be there – to learn new things and make new friends and sing new songs. Some of the kids have trouble playing nice with others, and they […]
We were forwarded this strange advertisement recruiting members for something called “Elbert County Community Response,” being organized to “withstand any challenge that may come” the county’s way–as long as they’re challenges you can address with guns: The Neighborhood Reliance Network (NRN) is about building strong self-reliant Elbert County neighborhoods. It’s about people – and their […]
Testimony will be held today in the State Senate Health and Human Services Committee regarding HB23-1003 (“School Mental Health Assessment”), which has become another flashpoint for right-wing activists forever searching for their next grievance. This legislation, which has already passed the State House, is riling up a group of “parents’ rights” advocacy groups that tend […]
As Colorado Newsline’s Jennifer Shutt reports, Colorado’s two most stridently anti-abortion congresspersons, Reps. Doug Lamborn and Lauren Boebert, joined 67 of their congressional and U.S. Senate colleagues who signed a letter supporting the controversial decision by Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that the widely-used drug mifepristone was wrongly approved by the Food and Drug Administration: A […]
Happy Birthday to David Letterman. 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 us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST UP… ► […]
The close business relationship between two of America’s most scandalous far-right members of Congress, Reps. Matt “Giggity” Gaetz of Florabama and Lauren Boebert representing Altamonte Springs Colorado’s Western Slope, continues with yesterday’s announcement that Gaetz and Boebert will co-host the upcoming La Plata County Lincoln Day Dinner in September. The Durango Herald reports: Florida congressman […]
Colorado is the only state in the country that has intentionally handcuffed itself on fiscal policy, which it did in 1992 when voters passed the so-called “Taxpayers Bill of Rights” (better known as TABOR). Two former Republican lawmakers in Colorado are now warning Arizona not to make the same mistake. Former Republican legislators Don Marostica […]
Brian Porter at the Fort Morgan Times put out a story late last week bizarre enough that no matter how it ends, it’s worth a mention in this space on grounds of sheer absurdity: [Phillips] County Commissioner Garold Roberts initiated the concern over “the red helicopter” Wednesday during a Northeastern Colorado call with U.S. Rep. […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced this morning after her conviction of obstruction in one of the cases on the periphery of the larger investigation into the theft of proprietary election data in her failed quest to prove Donald Trump should still be President. As […]
Denver7’s Colette Bordelon reports on the dueling federal court rulings Friday that have put in question the legality of the most common and least invasive method of abortion in the United States today, the drug mifepristone used in the majority of medication abortions: A federal judge in Texas ruled that a hold be put on […]
As The Associated Press reports: A shooting Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville killed at least four people and wounded at least eight others, police said. The suspected lone shooter was also dead. Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters officers who arrived on the scene “encountered active gunshots still being […]
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