(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%
FOX 31's Eli Stokols—seriously? This again? [The Independence Institute’s Jon] Caldara blasted Morse, who faces a recall election next month for his support of gun control legislation, for a speech he gave on the Senate floor back in March when he attempted to quote a Robert F. Kennedy speech about violence given just weeks after the […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) State Sen. Vicki Marble went on KLZ’s Grassroots Radio Colorado Friday to discuss the controversy over her comments about the eating habits of minorities. Radio is a particularly good medium for someone to explain a botched public utterance, but the radio hosts put zero effort into eliciting a meaningful explanation from […]
That is, the Contracts that Were "Unilaterally Ignored by Government" in 2010? Vince Carroll, Let's See the Denver Post Editorial Board Act on Principle, Write a Column Defending Existing Public Pension Contracts. On March 18, 2009, in the thick of U.S. market turmoil, while the public was calling for the heads of the Wall Street […]
Today (August 23, 2013) the AARP published an article on the AARP Blog: "Cutting Detroit Retirees’ Pensions Violates State Constitution." The AARP has decided to defend the contracts of retirees in Detroit. You may have heard that Detroit has filed for municipal bankruptcy and is attempting to take back contracted public pension benefits from the […]
KVOR talk-show host Jeff Crank said on-air Saturday that it’s impossible for GOP recall candidate Bernie Herpin to favor personhood, as claimed in a TV advertisement by Herpin’s opponents. Crank raises his voice on his Jeff Crank Show as he explains why, citing evidence provided by the folks who made the anti-Herpin TV ad. Crank: […]
A second clip of video of right-wing Independence Institute President Jon Caldara, speaking in Colorado Springs earlier this month about the recall special election coming up in September against Senate President John Morse. In the first clip we debuted last weekend, Caldara spoke of his goal to incite "a wave of fear" in state legislatures across […]
According to poll results just released by Quinnipiac University, Colorado voters oppose the use of recall elections despite opposition to recent gun control measures. From a press release: By wide margins, Colorado voters oppose efforts to recall two state legislators and say 2-1 that efforts to remove legislators when people don’t agree with their vote […]
UPDATE #5: The Denver Post editorial board weighs in on Marble's idiocy: We are saddened a state lawmaker can be this ignorant in 2013. —- UPDATE #4: Moving forward, our conversation needs to be elevated to address poverty, economy, and quality of education. Not fried chicken. #COleg — Rhonda Fields (@reprhondafields) August 22, 2013 —– […]
I'm writing today with a simple message. Everything you and I have fought for in the past decade is under attack. Click here to fight back: the most important election you've never heard of is only three weeks away. For years, Senate President John Morse and Senator Angela Giron have fought for our shared values. In 2013, after victory […]
(Seriously? Is this a joke? – Promoted by Colorado Pols) You want a columnist to have an opinion but only if the facts supporting it are actual factual facts. Pueblo Chieftain Managing Editor Steve Henson got the opinion part of the columnist's job right on Sunday, but he dropped the ball when it came to […]
The Colorado PERA retiree COLA lawsuit, Justus v. State, is currently pending before the Colorado Supreme Court. In this lawsuit, retirees in the Colorado PERA pension system contest the retroactive reduction of their contracted public pension COLA benefits by the Colorado General Assembly in 2010. (The Colorado Legislature seeks to take money from old people […]
(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 […]
Editorials in the Colorado Springs Gazette today and the Pueblo Chieftain yesterday attempt to blame a court ruling this week throwing the upcoming recall elections into chaos on an election modernization bill passed this year, House Bill 1303. As the story goes, HB-1303 conflicts with Article XXI of the Colorado constitution, enacted in 1912, which prescribed […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) "We've met the enemy and he is us" ~Pogo There is a "War on Rural Colorado" – but it's not being waged by who you think it is. It's not a war waged by urban Democrats. It's not a war waged by our Governor. It's a war waged by entrenched rural […]
Last February during the gun safety legislation debate, we took brief note of an altercation between the lobbyist for the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Joe Neville, and GOP Rep. Cheri Gerou of Evergreen. As we understand the story, Rep. Gerou became upset about undue pressure from RMGO about the gun safety bills (which Gerou was always opposed […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On KHOW radio Friday, U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck said voters can "absolutely" count on him to vote his conscience. (Listen to Ken Buck @6:50) Normally, you might think this would be a good thing. But when it comes to Ken Buck, and you recall his conscience-laden opposition to abortion, even […]
UPDATE #2: FOX 31's Eli Stokols: The Sept. 10 recall elections of two Democratic Colorado lawmakers was supposed to be the first test-run of a new election overhaul, passed this year by Democrats, that would have sent mail ballots to every voter. Now, those elections won’t involve any mail ballots at all. After a long […]
Jaxine Bubis only wrote erotica "to support her family," but she's got her eyes on a bigger prize than the meager royalties from "Beantown Heat": $54,000,000 in damages, demanded in a claim naming GOP State Chairman Ryan Call, El Paso County GOP Chair Jeff Hays, and others. The RMGO-endorsed would-be replacement for Senate President John Morse withdrew from her race […]
UPDATE: According to the Denver daily paper, Ken Buck has filed paperwork with the FEC to run for Senate in 2014, making Owen Hill debatably, by a slim margin, the second-least laughable of the 2014 Republican US Senate primary candidates. I'm quite sure that the lessons Buck learned from losing his last Senate race have […]
Yesterday, fellow ColoradoPolster Elliot Fladen noted that he wants to do some "interesting reading" on public pension contractual obligations. He referenced a paper written by Professor Amy Monahan of the University of Minnesota School of Law. I consider Monahan to be the preeminent scholar in the nation in the area of public pension legal doctrine. […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Just when I thought that the Pueblo Chieftain was trying hard to be more balanced and less sensational, they run a piece like this one. First line: There are growing concerns about the potential impact of the state’s new voting law. So, we have anonymous third party attribution of a quote. […]
We've written before about the curious case of one Twila Sue Peach, the dead woman whose name nevertheless showed up on a recall petition in Colorado Springs. We would think it is harder for a dead person to sign a petition than to cast a ballot, but how about making a campaign contribution? From USA […]
The Illinois Legislature is currently debating potential reform of its public pension systems. Like Colorado, Illinois has traditionally failed to pay its public pension bills. Like many Colorado politicians, many Illinois politicians are contemplating various means of escaping accrued public pension debt. A recent article in Truthout exposes the surreptitious efforts of those conspiring to […]
We told you this was coming. An email from One Colorado, the state's leading LGBT advocacy organization: Many of us remember the heartbreak our community felt last year when extreme, anti-equality forces killed civil unions legislation. But following that defeat, we fought back and prevailed. Now, they’re back. A small, radical group has launched a misguided […]
Three weeks ago, FOX 31 aired a story about Colorado’s state-owned jet, including the fact that Gov. John Hickenlooper flew on the plane, along with businessman Ken Gart and his son, to the 2012 Pro Cycling Challenge in Durango. The FOX 31 story wasn’t received very well. Denver Post editorial writer Tim Hoover reviewed the […]
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