(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%
We turn again to our friends at the Pueblo Chieftain’s editorial board, a subject we’ve spent some enjoyable time with in the recent past. From some of the more egregious distortions we’ve seen this side of the North Korean News Agency to an hysterically fact-free lovefest for Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler and his […]
‘Tis the season for annual shame lists, from Colorado Ethics Watch’s release today: In its annual effort to round up the year in ethics in Colorado, Ethics Watch honed in on the largest controversies and qualified them as the Top Ethical Failures of 2011. The most egregious of ethical failures took place in Adams County, […]
(Gessler, are you paying attention to what happens when you legislate against “fraud” that does not appear to exist? – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) Last May, the Governor of South Carolina signed a bill that changed the voter identification requirements to include a photo id. As many of you are aware, minorities are much more likely […]
The city of Longmont has featured very lively municipal elections for the past couple of cycles–first there was the 2009 takeover of that city’s government by Republicans non-partisans out for revenge over a development battle between the city and LifeBridge Church. This year, fights over city council races and the narrow defeat of conservative Mayor […]
Last Friday, we noted a story from the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper that struck us with its misdirections and questionable conclusions–as you know, the rate of ballots returned by “inactive-failed to vote” voters this year was substantially higher statewide than in prior years, and in Pueblo County, the percentage of these ballots returned by “inactive” […]
Summarizing ballot initiatives around the country yesterday, the Washington Post reports: Ohioans voted Tuesday to repeal a Republican-backed law that restricted collective bargaining for public workers, while Mississippi voters blocked an amendment that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person. The union victory in Ohio and the defeat for the “personhood” amendment in […]
We’re kind of surprised by what seems to be a pushback attempt on the principal story from this week’s election in Pueblo County. On Election Day, Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz put out a statement showing that, based on preliminary returns as of the night before, “inactive–failed to vote” voters who received ballots in the […]
If these numbers are correct, we can imagine no more compelling repudiation of Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s lawsuit to stop the delivery of mail ballots to registered voters flagged as “inactive” for not participating in the 2010 elections. From the press release we just got from Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz: Pueblo County Clerk […]
If you’re registered to vote but still haven’t received a mail-in ballot for next Tuesday’s elections, it probably means you are an “inactive” status voter–perhaps you didn’t vote in the 2010 elections, or maybe there was a problem with correspondence to your address at some point. Whatever the case may be, today is the last […]
This hasn’t exactly been the most electrifying election season Jeffco’s ever seen. Races for the top spots in Lakewood, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, and Golden are all more or less uncontested, and as a result, there’s been less focus than usual, even, for downballot races for Treasurer, Clerk, and City Council positions. Sure, candidates have begun rolling out yard signs, but voters won’t really start paying attention until ballots arrive on their doorsteps, and even then, they still probably won’t know much about those for whom they’re voting.
In Wheat Ridge, there are campaigns for City Council in three districts, a campaign for city treasurer, and a remarkably competitive campaign for city clerk. City clerk is one of those odd positions that you wouldn’t really expect to be elected; it belongs more to a bureaucratic functionary than to a politico. In Wheat Ridge, the city clerk journals all council meetings, officiates and maintains custody of all official city documents, certifies all ordinances and resolutions passed by council, publishes all notices, proceedings, and so on and so forth. It’s an administrative position.
Needless to say, it’s a position that could really mess up the entire city if occupied by the wrong person. That’s the problem with directly electing an administrator; the City of Wheat Ridge may end up with the person best able to win an election, not the person best able to coordinate all the mechanisms that keep the city going.
Cue the four — yes, four— candidates running for city clerk in Wheat Ridge this year, and you may start to worry a little bit. Leah Dozeman, Lenny Ortiz, Deanna Davia, and Maureen Keller will all be appearing on the ballot this November. None of the candidates are really remarkable, but we think that Dozeman might be the worst of the bunch.
You may have seen Leah Dozeman’s yard signs popping up around the city. We’ve heard she’s done a pretty good job at canvassing; she’s knocked the doors you need to knock in order to win, and she’s getting her name out there. The problem with Dozeman, then, isn’t that she’s running a bad campaign. The big problem with Leah Dozeman is that she’s 21 years old, and the City Clerk position would be her first job.
(Keep after ’em, Jason! – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) It seems crazy that in Colorado, you won’t necessarily get a ballot in the mail, like other good and decent registered voters, if you missed voting in just one election I haven’t seen much info reported locally on how other states deal with this issue. So I […]
We didn’t want this interview from Monday night’s Rachel Maddow Show (excerpt below) to escape mention. In Colorado, we have a huge number of public servants, both elected and appointed (or simply hired) who work their entire career without ever rising to any kind of prominence–certainly not a moment where something you do becomes a […]
Last weekend I wrote a diary about Latinos for Education Reform’s ties to the pro-voucher community. It sparked no less than four new pols names being created to defend the organization, and as of today has 72 comments. Given the interest, and the many questions that were raised in the discussion, I thought I would […]
That’s the word from John Fryar of the Longmont Times-Call: The Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office on Tuesday will mail ballots to more than 145,800 active voters. Then, either later this week or early next week, Boulder County may send ballots to about 24,600 other registered voters in the “inactive/failed-to-vote” category because they failed […]
Excerpt from a press release from VoteVets.org a short while ago, opening a new front in the battle over mailing ballots to registered voters in Colorado marked “inactive” due to failure to vote in 2010–against a county clerk not involved in litigation, for withholding ballots from “inactive” military voters. As you know, that’s the status […]
(Rep. Crisanta Duran represents Colorado House District 5 – promoted by Colorado Pols) Playing the race card? Secretary of State Scott Gessler recently stated that he was “disappointed that some have played the race card” in response to his decision to sue Denver’s Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson for mailing ballots to legally registered voters […]
TUESDAY UPDATE #2: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols: Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler and his staff dismissed speculation from Democratic groups that technical problems Monday on the state’s voter registration website were intentional… “There were some intermittent issues, but we got to it as quickly as we could,” said Rich Coolidge, Gessler’s spokesman. “We monitor […]
This mess that Secretary of State Scott Gessler has stirred up has me interested in how Colorado should deal with mail ballots. I don’t have a background in law or politics, but I do have a background in computer programming and computers can ONLY do what you tell them to do, not what you meant […]
A potentially new angle on the story of Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s attempts to prevent the delivery of mail ballots to inactive voters–the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic: Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz is pained by the idea that his office would fail to send an election ballot to even one county soldier serving in […]
( – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) With the partisan glow emanating ever more brightly from Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, it’s worth taking a moment to think back on another SOS conflict-of-interest brouhaha that spilled out of the Secretary of State’s office in Colorado in recent years. The local media hasn’t done much of this, […]
Bob Moore of the Fort Collins Coloradoan updates the latest developments in the story of Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s controversial upcoming fundraiser for Larimer County Republicans. Who seem to be reacting poorly to the controversy. The Larimer County Republican Party, criticized by a variety of groups for scheduling a fundraiser with the state’s chief […]
Our friends at the Washington Post report in advance of tonight’s big debate: Aided by strong tea party support, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has surged in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, pushing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney into second place and significantly diminishing the once-rising star of Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), according to […]
Tim Hoover of the Denver paper reports that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, recently challenged for his status as frontrunning Republican presidential candidate in this state by the surging Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, will appear in Denver next week in downtown Denver at a $500-a-plate fundraiser for his campaign. Perry may have shaken Romney’s […]
(We’ve seen worse mug shots. – promoted by Colorado Pols) Bob Moore informs us that Larry Carillo, former Larimer County Republican Party chairman, has surrendered on a felony warrant issued by the Weld County DA’s office earlier this week. Former Larimer County Republican Party Chairman Larry Carillo is free on $10,000 bond after turning himself […]
As the Ft. Collins Coloradoan reports, the Larimer County Republican Party is looking at as much as $216,000 in fines because of problems stemming from former Party Chairman Larry Carillo: Former Larimer County Republican Party Chairman Larry Carillo used more than $17,000 in party money for payments to two companies he owned and for ATM […]
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