(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%
As the Associated Press reports, all this bipartisan happy talk about “Grand Bargains” and “backup plans” is meeting a stone wall called the “Tea Party”–and freshmen members of Congress elected in the 2010 Republican wave are trapped between their unrealistic promises to an unreasonable fringe, and the inevitable failure to fulfill them: Solid backing of […]
Our friends at the Washington Post take ominous note of Rep. Scott Tipton’s lackluster Q2: After getting off to a slow start in the first quarter, many of the most vulnerable Republican freshmen [Pols emphasis] continued to put off fundraising for their first reelection campaigns. Rep. David Rivera (Fla.) pulled in $34,000 as he faces […]
I have been gone for an extended period of time traveling the great lower 48, but when I returned home, and after a grueling battle with my mail, I found a couple editions of the Statesman. I always enjoy catching up on the weeks “inside baseball” reporting, but what I didn’t expect was a FULL-PAGE […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) TUESDAY POLS UPDATE: Release after the jump. “Our current representative is a politician who has spent much of his career in Washington D.C. as an attorney and congressman. Somewhere along the line, he lost his way. Supporting a plan that would end Medicare as we know it was part […]
(When misogynists say “don’t dress like a slut in order to avoid being victimized,” there always seems to be an unspoken “…by someone like me.” – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) Fourth of July festivities abound in Colorado this weekend, and many legislators will practice their retail politicking at parades, marches, firework displays and other photo opportunities. […]
The Republican budget plan drafted by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan has created a — yes, we’ll say it — shitstorm of problems for Republicans around the country because of a key component that would dramatically change Medicare. Here in Colorado, freshman Rep. Cory Gardner has been furiously trying to spin the Medicare piece of “The […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Original Title-GOP House Guts Food Safety, Rural and Food Aid to Benefit Agribusiness UPDATE Conservation programs also hit, in extended text In the continuing saga of ‘money for our supporters is not really government spending’ being wrought in the GOP House, Colorado’s R-delegation is in lock step with wealthy […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Important details added by the Fort Collins Coloradoan, who put together the probable bottom line here without much help from local Rep. Cory Gardner: The bill is being carried by Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., and has 188 co-sponsors from both parties. But its most prominent backer is energy magnate T. Boone Pickens, who […]
Is there any way Colorado citizens could be convinced to pay to get these arousal-measuring machines hooked up to all male legislative committee “members” hearing the 2012 version of the Steadman-Ferrandino civil union bill? Can we do that? Even as an unfunded mandate, it would pay us all back in so many ways and in […]
Republican Rep. Scott Tipton has had all kinds of problems during his first five months in office. Spending taxpayer money, apparently, has not been one of them. According to a Colorado Pols analysis of House salary data available at the website Legistorm, Tipton spent more money on staff salaries in the first quarter of 2011 […]
The Colorado Republican House Majority and Senate Minority have sent a joint letter to Senate President Brandon Shaffer, asking him to convene a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Legislative Council in response to the lawsuit recently filed attacking the constitutionality of the 1992 Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR): The letter that Shaffer, who […]
CBS News’ Stephanie Condon, covering former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s formal entry into the 2012 Republican presidential race today: [A]s he begins his second bid for the White House, Romney faces some challenges. He’s largely a known quantity among Republican primary voters and has yet to generate significant enthusiasm for his campaign. Among Republicans, he’s […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: Look who the New York Times’ Carl Hulse leads off the story with: Sal Pace, the Democratic leader of the State House in Colorado, was already preparing to run for Congress in a district captured by Republicans last year, but his party’s special election win last week […]
It’s a funny thing about all this clamor and staged hand-wringing over whether, or when, Colorado Senate President Brandon Shaffer plans to start a run for the CD-4 seat presently held by freshman GOP Rep. Cory Gardner–as FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reported Tuesday: Looking to keep the pressure on Senate President Brandon Shaffer following last […]
From Politico: With five Republicans joining Democrats in opposition, the Senate easily rejected a House-passed budget plan Wednesday calling for deep cuts in domestic appropriations and major restructuring of Medicare, the government-backed healthcare program for the elderly. The 57-40 roll call proved more for show than substance but still stung for GOP leaders, coming less […]
(Nervous yet–Cory Gardner, Scott Tipton? Time to get nervous. – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE #3: Politico rings up Cory Gardner–entirely by coincidence! Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), whose district has a similar makeup as the upstate New York district won by Hochul [Pols emphasis], said the Republican message should be that the “Democrats’ plan […]
The Fox News Channel’s Judson Berger reports, it’s at least partly self-inflicted: Gingrich has already conceded he made a “mistake” in choosing to describe the House Budget Committee chairman’s proposal as “right-wing social engineering” in an interview over the weekend. But Tyler, pressed for reaction by The Huffington Post to the media coverage Gingrich endured, […]
As the Los Angeles Times reports: Rep. Paul Ryan spent Monday defending his plan to radically rework Medicare after it came under fire in surprising fashion from a fellow Republican, Newt Gingrich. Gingrich became the first GOP presidential candidate to openly rip the plan, which would convert Medicare into a private insurance program, after the […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE #6: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols: After a tense final 24 hours to the legislative session, House Republicans blinked first in a high-stakes game of chicken over a payday lending amendment to an essential rule review bill. The decision by the House GOP, following a long day of negotiations, will allow the state to […]
You heard the complaints Friday, with varying degrees of factuality, from both Republicans and Democrats about the other side’s proposed redistricting maps and the underlying strategies they reflect. The Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reported this weekend: [House Speaker Frank] McNulty alleged that Democrats were trying to draw a map that Senate President Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, […]
(In the Tea Party/GOP split, Tipton’s taking a side? – promoted by Colorado Pols) A lot of my friends tell me how difficult it must be for me to have to listen to conservative talk radio as part of my job. But they don’t know how interesting it can be, and I’m guessing you don’t […]
UPDATE: Check out the release we just got from Americans United for Change (full text after the jump), lest you think Democrats in Washington aren’t keen to exploit Tipton’s too-swift support for the “Ryan Plan” budget. Says Executive Director Tom McMahon, “There is nothing courageous about Congressman Scott Tipton and his Republican colleagues asking millions […]
Our friends at the Washington Post report: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney formed a presidential exploratory committee today that will allow him to raise money for a near-certain run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. “It is time that we put America back on a course of greatness with a growing economy, good jobs […]
Politico reports, it’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt: The dramatic 2012 spending plan unveiled Tuesday by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan amounts to a test of political will for the GOP’s most vulnerable lawmakers, some of them only a few months into their maiden terms… There’s plenty of reason to be […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) After over seven hours of testimony, the House Judiciary Committee has voted to postpone SB 11-172 indefinitely (kill it). The vote was along party lines with all Dems voting in favor of the bill and all GOP voting against it. GOP Reps. DelGrosso and Nikkel each paused for several […]
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