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Rocky Mountain Gun Asshole Disrupts Press Conference
Denver7’s Meghan Lopez reports on the press conference by Colorado Senate Democrats today announcing four new pieces of legislation intended to curb gun violence. All of the legislation announced today concerns lawful access to weapons, not outright bans on any particular type of firearm: Democratic lawmakers have unveiled a series of bills that will add […]
Legal Experts: Dominion Defamation Suit Should Succeed
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”50%”]“I think that Dominion both will and should prevail.” — Laurence Tribe, former Harvard law professor[/mantra-pullquote] We wrote last week about internal communications made public as a result of a defamation lawsuit filed by Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Corporation. One of the key points in any successful […]
Sabato’s Crystal Ball Pegs Colorado’s Top 2024 Races
In the battle for the U.S. House majority in 2024, political prognosticator of record Larry Sabato says the initial landscape is a tossup–an easy call to make in a chamber where a tiny majority flipping between the sides is the general rule. Major unknown variables in the presidential race make hard predictions more than a […]
Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis faces imminent formal complaint in Colorado
(Been waiting for this shoe to drop — Republished under CC license by Colorado Pols) by Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline February 22, 2023 Colorado attorney Jenna Ellis, one of the central figures in former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, is the subject of a formal professional misconduct complaint that’s expected to […]
Democrats are Very Good AND Republicans are Very Bad
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: The tide keeps turning… 👀Joe Biden has a positive approval rating among registered voters for the first time in years, per the latest NPR/PBS/Marist Poll. 49% approve / 45% disapprove 2/13-15, 1210 RVs, mixed mode, ±3.5https://t.co/qzJgQw35fg — Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) February 22, 2023 —– In the aftermath of the 2022 election, there was […]
Doug Lamborn Just Makes Stuff Up, “Prime Directive” Edition
We nearly missed this arrow of flaming untruth from GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs on Friday afternoon, responding negatively to a new policy from the Department of Defense assisting service members stationed in anti-abortion states with obtaining care: While nobody ever accused Rep. Lamborn of being a compelling advocate for or against any […]
Biden Rides High While “Luhansk Lauren” Comforts Putin
CNN’s Kevin Liptak reports on the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s whirlwind tour of Eastern Europe over the weekend, which included as we discussed yesterday a side trip to Kyiv to visit Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky–and reaffirm the United States’ commitment to helping Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression that began almost exactly one year […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Feb. 22)
It’s cold and snowy in much of Colorado, but a massive winter storm sweeping across the United States will focus most of its wrath on the northernmost states. 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 […]
What you can do to fight for progress this week (February 21)
Last Friday, Colorado received another stark reminder of the continuing danger to our most basic rights. Three far-right bills to criminalize and impose non-medical burdens on abortion rights were killed in the Colorado House after hours of testimony. During the hearing, Republican Rep. Scott Bottoms sickeningly likened abortion to the Holocaust. [1] None of these […]
Rep. “There Is No” Bottoms Compares Abortion To The Holocaust
Denver7’s Meghan Lopez reports on the death of three Republican anti-abortion rights bills in a marathon hearing on Friday, featuring the usual crowds of religious right witnesses who generally speaking aren’t there to talk about any particular bill but to testify to an Audience of One how much they disapprove of abortion rights. The crowd […]
Podcast: Why Biden and Trump are Still Linked (feat. Eli Stokols)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, POLITICO White House Correspondent Eli Stokols returns to the show to talk with hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii about the differences between covering the Trump and Biden administrations; how the White House is dealing with a Republican majority in the House of Representatives; and whether or […]
Former Sen. Kevin Lundberg Bigfoots Colorado GOP Chair Race
UPDATE #2: Tina Peters has defeated-but-never-admitting-it Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in her corner, anyway: Lost causes unite we guess. —– UPDATE: Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports on the entry of two more relatively familiar names in the race to be the next Colorado Republican Party chairperson: Throwing their hats […]
Former President Jimmy Carter Enters Hospice Care
Sad news this Presidents Day weekend:
Presidents Day Weekend 2023 Open Thread
Dominion Lawsuit: Fox Knews it Peddled Crap
Following endless and largely fact-free claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election, Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 BILLION defamation lawsuit against Fox News and parent company Fox Corporation. As the case winds its way through the American legal system, it has regularly revealed information demonstrating the fallacy of election fraud […]
Steve Laffey’s Quixotic Quest To Fail Upward In Politics
Longtime readers will remember the strange story of Rhode Island import to Fort Collins Steve Laffey, who sought the Republican nomination unsuccessfully for both governor and the CD-4 congressional seat in the 2014 elections. Laffey never got traction in either of those races despite the endorsement of Herman Cain in the 2014 CD-4 primary, and […]
Senate GOP: Lobbyists are First Amendment Superheroes
Republicans in the Colorado state legislature are currently operating with historically-small minorities. Of the 100 state legislators elected in Colorado, 69 are Democrats; the margins for the GOP work out to a 23-12 minority in the State Senate and a 46-19 micro-minority in the State House. Colorado Republicans have reached unprecedented lows for a variety […]
Republicans, Thiry Want Inmates to Return Asylum Keys
UPDATE: As expected, Senate Bill 101 failed to make it out of the Senate State, Military and Veterans Committee on Thursday and is now officially dead. Republican State Sen. Larry Liston was the only ‘YES’ vote. —– There is an effort underway by the likes of “Unaffiliated” voter enthusiast Kent Thiry and Republican State Sen. […]
Racist Gun Group Demands Republicans Dance Harder
Earlier this week the House of Representatives concluded “Second Reading” debate on HB23-1165, legislation that would expand local control by allowing Colorado counties to decide whether it is necessary to prohibit the discharge of firearms in a particular area within the county. As Marianne Goodland explained for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman: […]
Why Can’t Anybody Just Say Sorry?
An incident on Monday afternoon at the venue hosting a debate for Denver City Council District 10 candidates is provoking lots of discussion today about the hardships faced by people with disabilities in everyday life. The Denver Post’s Conrad Swanson reports: Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds couldn’t maneuver his wheelchair onto the stage at the […]
The Revolution Probably Won’t Start Saturday
But we’re dutybound to advise potential visitors to the Colorado Capitol this coming Saturday at noon that some of the most hardcore of the hardcore nether-right conspiracy set will be out in…well, we can’t say for sure they’ll be out in force, but in some quantity: As a general rule, when the stated goal of […]
Republicans Get Worst Possible Outcome in El Paso County
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Ernest Luning of the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman follows up from Saturday, in which MAGA Republicans handily defeated efforts by establishment Republicans to push them out of the way: After easily winning reelection to a third term chairing the El Paso County Republican Party on Saturday in Colorado Springs, Vickie […]
AFP Says Free Market For Me–But Not The PUC?
We were forwarded this ad from the conservative “astroturf” organizing group Americans for Prosperity Colorado, the longtime local affiliate of the Koch corporate empire’s political chicanery wing, hitting Colorado energy consumers with a head-turning message considering the source–keep in mind these are so-called “free market” advocates, who profess to be loath to government regulation of […]
And Moses Told Pharaoh: “Let My Gas Stove Go!”
Two freshman Republican lawmakers from Colorado Springs have emerged as the face of the GOP in the State House of Representatives in 2023. State Reps. Ken “Skin”DeGraaf and Scott “There Is No” Bottoms regularly monopolize the microphone in both committee hearings and floor speeches; together they carry the torch for the never-ending combination of victimhood […]