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Ganahl/Moore: The Park Meadows Mall Ticket

The Republican candidate for Governor, Hiedi Heidi Ganahl, did more than lie to Coloradans with the announcement of her Lieutenant Governor choice. In selecting Centennial businessman Danny Moore to be her running mate, Ganahl undercut one of her regular attacks on incumbent Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. Ganahl often alleges — without any evidence — that Polis […]

“MyPillow Guy” Fails To Intervene For Hanks, Peters

Last week, as readers know, two defeated Republican candidates who had run for higher office this year more or less on single-issue campaigns to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and state Rep. Ron Hanks, requested recounts in the races they both lost by substantial margins alleging that the result had […]

Heidi Ganahl Lied About Her Running Mate

UPDATE: Wherefore art thou, Felix? —– Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl (finally) announced her Lieutenant Governor running mate on Monday morning. It was not who she said it would be. Earlier this month, Ganahl said on a right-wing radio show that she would name on July 7 an Hispanic male as her running mate […]

Ganahl Announcing Lite Gov Monday, For Real This Time She Says

That’s the word from Matt Connelly’s Republican agit-prop website Campfire Colorado–more than a week after GOP gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s originally scheduled announcement of her pick for lieutenant governor last Thursday crashed and burned, with apparent first choice Las Animas County Commissioner Felix Lopez catching a case of much too publicly cold feet, another […]

“The Magnificent Putz” Strikes Again

Former Republican District Attorney George Brauchler has repeatedly earned the title of “The Magnificent Putz” here at Colorado Pols for his almost superhuman ability to make stupid mistakes, offensive statements, and ridiculous arguments — either in politics or in legal matters. Brauchler is no longer in elected office (thankfully), nor is he a candidate for […]

Manchin Kills Climate Change Bill to Joe O’Dea’s Delight

West Virginia “Democratic” Sen. Joe Manchin is every Republican’s favorite Senator. He showed why again on Thursday, as The Washington Post reports: Manchin told Democratic leaders Thursday he would not support an economic package that contains new spending on climate change or new tax increases targeting wealthy individuals and corporations, marking a massive setback for […]

Just Like You…If You Ride Your Horse to a Sushi Place

Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea was looking for a way to visually convey the fact that he is a regular Coloradan through and through. Joe O’Dea wants you to truly understand that he knows what you’re going through because he has been in your horse shoes. So he posted this picture to his Facebook account: […]

Aurora Mayor Hoped to Push Homeless to Other Communities But Objects to Dougco Doing Same

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman is up in arms about homeless people coming to Aurora from Douglas County, despite saying last year that he hoped Aurora’s camping ban would result in Aurora’s unhoused population migrating from Aurora to “another community.” “No jurisdiction should export their homeless to another jurisdiction without that jurisdiction […]

The Colorado Republican Party Might Be Drunk

UPDATE: It gets worse. Of course it does. According to a press release from the non-partisan Colorado District Attorney’s Council: The Colorado District Attorneys’ Council and the remaining 21 district attorneys are dedicated to ensuring that all criminal matters pending in this jurisdiction are handled in a professional manner and that all victims of crime […]

Never Over: Ron Hanks, Tina Peters Request Recounts

A report from Steamboat Radio has the latest in what could be a never-ending saga of denial and bad faith, as the two Colorado Republican candidates most closely identified with the conspiracy theory positing that Donald Trump should still be President of the United States refuse as promised to accept the results of GOP primary […]

Trump Smash! 2024 Campaign is Bad News for Colorado GOP

UPDATE: As The Intelligencer at New York Magazine reports, Trump has already decided to run for President in 2024. The only question left is when he announces his intentions: “Do I go before or after? That will be my big decision,” he said. He was thinking aloud now. “I just think that there are certain […]

Back To Jail Scrubs For Tina Peters?

UPDATE #2: Denver7’s Blair Miller reports: On Thursday afternoon just before 1 p.m., Steinberg filed a motion to quash the arrest warrant and a request for a hearing with the court, primarily arguing that he had not seen the judge’s July 11 order by the time she had left and that he did not properly […]

Ganahl: Most Colorado Kids Can’t Read, Write, or Do Math

Earlier this year we posted a bracket-style look at the worst major political campaigns in the last two decades in Colorado. The Winningest Loser in our bracket was Republican Bob Beauprez’s disastrous campaign for Governor in 2006, but we noted at the time that 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl was making a run […]

Not With A Bang, But Covfefe: The End Of Shooter’s Grill

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent confirms the end of Shooter’s Grill as we know it, though freshman GOP rolling calamity Rep. Lauren Boebert hints that (threatens?) some kind of “smaller scale” establishment may replace it. No promises: Boebert said she doesn’t want to make any promises, but she and her husband, Jayson, are praying […]

Who Will Win the Attorney General Race? (7/13)

Readers of Colorado Pols have traditionally been pretty good at predicting the outcome of key races in a given election (although readers didn’t so so well in the Primary Election last month). It’s time to start our General Election polling to get a sense of how perceptions of various races might shift over time as […]

Walls Finally Closing In On Clerk Tina Peters?

As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, a new arrest followed by felony charges filed against a third Mesa County Clerk’s office employee in the case of Clerk Tina Peters’ alleged breach of election system security, and other assorted felony and misdemeanor misconduct in a misguided attempt to prove the 2020 presidential election was […]

Rose Pugliese: Smashing The Spin Like A Wrecking Ball

A story last week from the Colorado Springs Gazette’s veteran political reporter Marianne Goodland takes a look at the post-primary Colorado House Republican caucus, which has seen some significant changes as a slate of candidates supported by the notorious Rocky Mountain Gun Owners went down in defeat on June 28th, and incumbent members of the […]

O’Dea Not Following Jan. 6 Hearings, Doesn’t Blame Trump

The Jan. 6 House committee hearings are again leading the national headlines. Today’s star witness is former White House Counsel Pat Cippolone, who described details of an “unhinged” Oval Office meeting on Dec. 18 that presaged former President Trump’s infamous Tweet later that night (early morning Dec. 19) calling on supporters to come to Washington […]

Sorry Doug Lamborn, Atheism Isn’t A Religion

The right-wing Washington Times reports on GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn’s latest culture war axe to grind: A State Department grant of $500,000 to fund the promotion of the rights of atheists and other nonbelievers in the Near East and South-Central Asia has drawn fire from more than a dozen members of Congress who say the […]

Phil Weiser Goes to the Mat for Colorado in New Interview

Democrat Phil Weiser is seeking another term as Attorney General in 2022, and he’s making it very clear where his policy priorities stand on several key issues. Weiser was a guest on “Colorado Matters” with Colorado Public Radio interviewer extraordinaire Ryan Warner today. The incumbent AG left no doubt that he plans to protect the […]

Get More Smarter on Monday (July 11)

In celebration of the 95th birthday of popular convenience store 7-11, you can get yourself a free Slurpee 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 […]

Heidi Ganahl’s Epic Lite Gov Fail Comes Full Circle

We wrote and updated at length on Thursday as yet another stupendous uncontained public relations failure played out in Republican gubernatorial nominee Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s campaign. After announcing to multiple radio outlets that she would make her selection for lieutenant governor public Thursday, saying “he’s a great Hispanic leader from rural Colorado,” word of Las […]

“Secession Barb” Goes Mostly Quiet After Catching The Car

It’s been over a week since the November election field was set in the June 28th primary elections, but you wouldn’t know it from the virtual absence of press coverage in what’s expected to be Colorado’s–and perhaps the nation’s–hottest congressional race for the state’s new CD-8. After a feisty three-way contest between Weld County Commissioner […]

State Senate Battlegrounds Take Shape

We’ve been meaning to write something about control of the State Senate in Colorado now that the Primary Election is over. Sandra Fish at The Colorado Sun beat us to it, so we’ll start there: Democrats now hold a 20-15 advantage in the Senate. They are guaranteed 12 seats, with 11 holdovers and one Democratic […]

Ganahl Choice for Running Mate May Have Backed Out

UPDATE (4:11 pm): We’ve been trying to think through how this all went so awry for the Ganahl campaign. The only thing that really made sense is that perhaps Felix Lopez rejected Ganahl’s offer to be her running mate. If Lopez backed out at the last minute, it would be plausible that Ganahl’s campaign was in […]

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