(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%
UPDATE: It was just brought to our attention that reporter Allison Sherry of the Denver paper wrote a good “Beltway Blog” post on Scott Gessler’s testimony late last week, including a reference to the 32,000 people who became United States citizens in Colorado during the period Gessler cites (see our spreadsheet). Kudos to her, we […]
A new report from the Colorado Statesman’s Marianne Goodland about the ethics complaint against Senate Majority Leader John Morse, and the organization that filed it, the Colorado Government Accountability Project (CoGAP), has got to make you wonder: The request for an ethics investigation was filed with the Senate on March 10 by the Colorado Government […]
As reported in the Greeley newspaper this weekend, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler made a fairly astounding slip during a keynote speech to the Weld County GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner. Or maybe it wasn’t a slip–speaking before a friendly and rural Republican audience, with no television cameras to be seen, maybe Gessler just felt […]
The Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams reports: Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, according to the Denver Post, will be proposing a new set of rules that would waive or reduce a significant number of campaign finance fines for political committees that fail to file disclosure reports… “If someone is willfully blowing it off [Pols […]
One of the few anti-immigrant bills to escape the narrowly GOP controlled Colorado House is the somewhat more subtle House Bill 1003, a voter photo ID proposal we’ve talked about a couple of times now (see: Stay Classy, Jim Kerr). Set for debate this afternoon in the Senate State Affairs committee, we expect this bill […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) State Senator Ted Harvey’s bid for chairman gains momentum HIGHLANDS RANCH — “I’m honored to have Secretary of State Scott Gessler, State School Board Chairman Bob Schaffer and District Attorney Ken Buck support my campaign for state chairman. I appreciate their votes and am grateful for their leadership and […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Big news today when Secretary of State Gessler hired a new Chief Administrative Officer in the form of Gary Zimmerman. OK, maybe not so big news. Gessler seems to think the pundits and chattering class will be suspicious because he knew Zimmerman in his pre-SoS professional life. That’s not […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: It’s all over, folks, as the Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover reports: Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has abandoned his plans to do side work for his former law firm, he announced Tuesday afternoon. In fact, Gessler will not do any side work with any law […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) It’s one thing for KHOW’s Caplis and Silverman show to get deep into the political weeds when the program is ground zero of the GOP soap opera around a huge political race, like the campaign for governor. It’s another for the show to continue to hide out in the […]
From a release this afternoon: Today, Colorado Ethics Watch, a nonpartisan, nonprofit legal watchdog group, sent Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) requests in writing to State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, and Attorney General John Suthers requesting information relating to the outside employment of Walker Stapleton while he is State Treasurer and […]
ProgressNow Colorado delivers names, comments of nearly 5,000 citizens demanding Gessler give up irresponsible “moonlighting” plans FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, January 27th 2010 DENVER: Responding to the week-long controversy over Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s decision to continue working part time for his law firm while he serves, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest online progressive […]
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler tells The Denver Post that, if he moonlights for his former law firm, which specializes in election law, he’ll disclose the names of clients he’s working for. But reporters should ask him if this solves his conflict-of-interest problems. On KHOW’s Caplis and Silverman Show Monday, host Craig Silverman asked […]
UPDATE: Reporter Tim Hoover of the Denver newspaper corrects our source, who told us that Scott Gessler also owns a “Lexus SUV” considerably newer than the “14-year-old Honda” that Gessler pled his case for extra money with earlier in the week. The Gessler family SUV in question is in fact a Volkswagen Touareg, which Gessler […]
Does anyone know what involvement, if any, Scott Gessler had surrounding SB 203 (signed into law last year) which requires corporations and labor unions to register their election campaign donations with an independent agency, showing both the donor and the amount of the donation. Of course, the Secretary of State’s office is responsible for implementing […]
(We don’t need no stinkin’ budget cuts – promoted by redstateblues) Scott Gessler is making headlines again, and again, they’re not the good kind. Gessler has concluded that his office will not do its part to balance the budget. As an (assumed) fiscal conservative, he wants the cuts to take place elsewhere, in less important […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler told KHOW radio’s Craig Silverman yesterday that he “purposely decided to have this conversation to start talking and telling the people of Colorado what was going on before” starting to moonlight for his old law firm. But do you “purposely decide” to start […]
In a Denver newspaper story today by reporter Tim Hoover, embattled Secretary of State Scott Gessler appears to be giving in to the firestorm of criticism that erupted late last week, following his announcement that he intended to continue working part-time at his former law firm. Gessler’s firm, the Hackstaff Law Group (previously Hackstaff Gessler) […]
Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler has been under fire for the last few days for complaining that his $68,500 annual salary (which pays about 33% more than the average $46,000 salary in Colorado, according to the Colorado Department of Labor) just isn’t enough and that he needs to work a second job with his […]
A report from KRDO-TV on the scandal over Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s decision to work part time for his politically radioactive law firm, somehow free of conflicts of interest: To be clear, we have no interest in defending Secretary Gessler’s decision to “moonlight” for his old firm, which is in turn connected to some […]
Before his election last November as Secretary of State, Scott Gessler was a partner in one of Colorado’s most politically connected law firms. He represented some of the state’s most controversial right wing political groups and candidates. Some of Gessler’s clients have been disgraced by campaign finance disclosure complaints, allegations of unlawful false statements against […]
(Did we predict Gessler would be a four-year field day for Democrats? Three years, eleven months, and one week to go! – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE #2: From the Colorado Independent: Making sure that any work [Gessler] does for Hackstaff doesn’t conflict with the work he has sworn to do for the people […]
The Colorado Independent is reporting: “With respect to me being ‘linked’ to 527’s, you may be aware that I am an attorney,” Gessler added. “As such, I represent clients. Some of my clients are occasionally accused of violating Colorado’s reporting requirements. I represent them in those matters. Ergo, a ‘link’” America’s justice system is adversarial, […]
Colorado Secretary of State-elect Scott Gessler sat down for a brief interview with the cam-wielding GOP staffers “journalists” at WhoSaidYouSaid. Now, we know what you’re probably thinking: we’ve been hard on Gessler for his background as the state’s leading election law offender, now very oddly in charge of enforcing election law. But when we saw […]
We can tell you that a lot of Democrats took the ultimately unsuccessful defense of Colorado Treasurer Cary Kennedy quite personally, and felt some emotion when they got this today, well after her fate was known: I called Walker Stapleton last night and offered him my congratulations. Walker has my full support, and I ask […]
Back in May of 2009, we first employed what seemed to be an apt analogy to describe GOP Secretary of State candidate Scott Gessler: “Fox for Henhouse Secretary.” At the time, we were commenting on Gessler’s strained opposition to a petition reform bill before the legislature–he’s given us a number of opportunities since then to […]
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