(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 Denver Post's Ryan Parker sort-of reports: The National Association of State Chief Information Officers presented Gessler the State Technology Innovator Award on Tuesday, according to a news release from the secretary of state's office. Gessler introduced the country's first web-optimized site allowing citizens to update or verify voter registration using a smartphone or tablet […]
The Fort Collins Coloradoan's veteran political reporter Patrick Malone has a great story up about GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Gessler's first full day on the campaign trail. One of the reasons that Gessler has so richly earned his nickname "Honey Badger" is the ruthless indifference with which he has pursued a partisan political agenda since taking office […]
Denver fixture columnist Mike Littwin, now writing for the Colorado Independent, caught up with Secretary of State Scott Gessler at yesterday's event announcing Gessler's gubernatorial campaign. Doing what apparently none of the fancy-pants mainstream media outlets could not, Littwin asked Gessler the same question we would have: what do you think of Boulder resident Jon Caldara's […]
That's the word in an awesome shareable graphic now making the rounds: We assume it's Scott Gessler's long awaited announcement that he's running for Governor, but it could be the hat.
(Read this – Promoted by Colorado Pols) What led to the latest court ruling in two recall elections in southern Colorado is an apparent conflict between Colorado's Constitution, which gives recall candidates 15 days to qualify for the election ballot after the election date is set, and Colorado law, which gives them 10 days. But it […]
As the Boulder Daily Camera's Erica Meltzer reports: Last month, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler gave Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett a list of 17 names, all suspected of voting in the November election despite being non-citizens. Those names were among 155 people identified statewide as possible illegal voters. But an investigation by […]
As the Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek reports: ON WEDNESDAY, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office signed off on ballot language for the state’s first-ever lawmaker recall election, where Democratic state Senate President John Morse will effectively face Republican City Council Member Bernie Herpin. The Morse campaign doesn’t like the ballot language and believes the […]
We've been talking for a few days now about allegations being made by conservatives regarding Colorado's voter registration process after the passage of House Bill 1303, the Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act–which will be in effect for the first time for the recall special elections in two Colorado Senate districts next month. Following some alarmist (and […]
FRIDAY UPDATE: Maddow Blog's Laura Conaway graphically summarizes: If you're keeping track at home, the defense-to-fine ration is about 43:1, rounding down. Just for fun — because anything this expensive ought to be fun — my colleague Steve Benen charted the amount taxpayers have spent defending Gessler and the amount of the fine. —– A press […]
Appearing on KNUS’ Peter Boyles show yesterday, Scott Gessler lit into top Colorado Democrats, saying he thinks Senate President John Morse said “stuff like, people who own guns are a mental sickness.” Gessler also agreed with Boyles, when he said Gov. Hick delayed the killing of murderer Nathan Dunlap because Hick couldn’t have gone to […]
Keeping it in the family, the Denver Post's Kurtis Lee reports: Republican Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has hired an attorney with ties to his old law firm to file a bold court order against Gov. John Hickenlooper in an effort to force the governor to set election dates in the recalls of two […]
Still-Secretary-of-State-with-an-eye-on-the-door Scott ("Honeybadger") Gessler has decided that those who have spurned his efforts are not as important as other things. The elected official tasked with overseeing elections has ditched the bi-partisan Colorado County Clerk Association's Summer Conference. County Clerks are the elected officials tasked with carrying out the elections, under the oversight of the Secretary […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports on the conclusion by a grand jury in Denver that no criminal charges will be filed against Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler over his misuse of office funds to attend Republican political events during the 2012 election season. This comes after Gessler was found by the state's Independent Ethics Commission […]
Back during the legislative session, a mail piece attacking Republican county clerks for their support of House Bill 1303, this year's election modernization bills, drew nationwide condemnation after it photos in the piece were determined to have been altered to remove African-American faces from a line of people waiting to vote. Among those who called out […]
("Honey Badger" doesn't care – promoted by Colorado Pols) Update: Audio added 6-15. Click here for Audio __________________ Reporters apparently missed Secretary of State Scott Gessler's first direct response to the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission's finding that he violated state ethics law and "breeched the public trust for private gain." Gessler made his comments on […]
UPDATE: IEC reportedly levies the maximum fine, roughly $2800 all told–less the amount he had already repaid. —– AP via 7NEWS, too bad for the "Honey Badger." Colorado Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler has been admonished by an ethics panel over spending office funds to attend a GOP conference during the party's national convention […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Former state GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams believes Colorado Republicans should find state-wide candidates modeled after Wayne Allard, Bill Armstrong, Bill Owens, and Hank Brown. "They were candidates that appealed to a broad section of Coloradans," Wadhams told internet-radio host Art Carlson Saturday. "They didn't go out of their way to alienate […]
AP's Ivan Moreno reports from the scene late Friday: Republican Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler testified Friday to defend himself against an ethics complaint alleging misuse of state funds for political events, insisting he used his discretionary office funds appropriately. At issue is Gessler’s travel last summer to a Republican conference on elections law […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post's Joey Bunch reports–catch the fever! Gessler said he expects to make a final decision in one to three months. He could still relaunch his secretary of state campaign, if he finds the governor's race isn't a good fit, he said. We're guessing that's not going to be their slogan. Seriously folks, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) If you’re a reporter, and you’ve been covering Secretary of State Scott Gessler, it’s been a tough few years, because he plays so fast and so loose with the facts. That’s an accurate assessment, based on Gessler’s record of distorting basic voter information (Voter Fraud! Illegal Voters!), and has nothing to […]
An eventful week in Colorado politics began with the entry of a joke GOP candidate into the Colorado gubernatorial field, which if anything helped underscore the GOP's lack of candidates for this race–followed by that candidate's swift and unceremonious exit as two very well-known Republican political commodities filed to enter the race for the right […]
UPDATE #3: The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels: Secretary of State Gessler filed paperwork to run for governor on Thursday, two days after reimbursing the state nearly $1,300 for a political trip to Florida last year. His political director, Rory McShane, said Gessler's decision to reimburse the money — which led to an ethics complaint against […]
As the Craig Daily Press' Joe Moylan reports: For Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, there was no more blatant example of partisan political power than House Bill 13-1303, a 128-page rewrite of Colorado’s voting laws… On Saturday, Gessler was the featured speaker during the annual Moffat County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner at the […]
That's the word late today from the Denver Post's Kurtis Lee: Republican sources have told The Denver Post Gessler is strongly considering dropping a re-election effort for his post as secretary of state — where he's served since being elected in 2010 — to seek the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. "No […]
UPDATE: Colorado Ethics Watch updates us on the question of a previous Secretary of State who took the entire $5,000 discretionary account balance in the form of a check: —– As reported in yesterday's Denver Post, the result of an independent investigation into Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's alleged use of state funds to travel […]
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