(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) If you want to hear what the base voters of the Republican Party are thinking, tune to…talk radio! This is especially true when the radio hosts themselves are conservative former Republican officials and office holders, as is the case with former CU regent Tom Lucero and former Larimer County GOP executive […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado’s 2013 Legislative Session is in the books, er, I mean binders. It was a doozy. Shit got done. Progress got made. And the women who make up 41% of the folks representing Coloradans at the Capitol were a huge reason why. We decided to take a look back at some […]
After Colorado's State Treasurer Walker Stapleton was arrested for driving under the influence, his honesty and integrity were called into question. In this article, I examine the circumstances of Treasurer Stapleton's DUI arrest and ask if a pattern of personal failings relating to "honesty and integrity" have spilled over into his participation in the Colorado […]
As expected, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill today making it a crime to commit cause the death of a fetus due to reckless acts against pregnant women (like a drunk driver hitting a pregnant woman). Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains issued a statement praising the bill’s sponsors, Reps. Mike Foote and Claire Levy, and […]
UPDATE #2: From Conservation Colorado's Pete Maysmith: “We applaud Governor Hickenlooper for signing significant legislation into law which will expand clean renewable energy to more of Colorado,” said Pete Maysmith, Executive Director, Conservation Colorado. “The Governor’s signature today reaffirms that clean wind and solar energy are a critical part of the foundation of Colorado’s energy […]
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." –Thomas Paine
As Eli Stokols at Fox 31 reports, Governor John Hickenlooper is still mulling over whether he will sign or veto several bills still awaiting their fate after passing through the legislature: After nearly a month of deliberation, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is expected to take action Wednesday on a handful of controversial bills that remain […]
As the Denver Post's Kurtis Lee reports today, newly filed spending disclosures reveal over $55,000 from a "Colorado Springs-based" (as characterized in most media reports) 501(c)(4) organization called I Am Created Equal to fund a paid petition drive to place a recall of Senate President John Morse on the ballot sometime later this year: The […]
We didn't want to miss this story from late last week about Xcel Energy and Colorado growing Wind Energy industry. From the Denver Business Journal: Xcel Energy Inc. is asking state regulators to add 550 megawatts worth of wind-generated power to its Colorado grid — boosting its amount of wind power by 25 percent. If […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) I blogged Friday about complaints from an African-American radio host, who's also a leader of the Black Tea Party, that Colorado Republican Chair Ryan Call isn't properly supporting grassroots organizing efforts to diversify the state GOP. The Colorado GOP responded Saturday to that criticism, which was aired by Derrick Wilburn, founder […]
It is always amusing, and somewhat irritating, when national pundits decide to take a gander at political races in Colorado with very little understanding of what is actually possible plausible in our state. The dead giveaway that a national outlet is clueless about Colorado is when they start mentioning candidates for higher office based solely […]
Colorado Ethics Watch: Colorado Ethics Watch released Spend, Baby, Spend: How Oil and Gas Controls Colorado, revealing the powerful influence this relatively small industry seemingly has on legislation and public officials in our state. Spend, Baby, Spend breaks down direct and indirect spending by the oil and gas industry to influence Colorado politics, and points […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols with a late-breaking story today: Dave Kopel, the Independence Institute’s resident Second Amendment expert, is the lead attorney on the lawsuit. And FOX31 Denver has found that Kopel has received $1.39 million in grant money from the N.R.A. Civil Rights Defense Fund between 2004 and 2011. The group continues to fund […]
(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 […]
Over the weekend, the editorial board of the Denver Post weighed in on the Gubernatorial candidacy of Republican Tom Tancredo, who surprised many last week by throwing his hat in the ring for 2014. And what did the Post have to say? Well, they're about as excited for another Tancredo candidacy as a kid who […]
UPDATE: FOX 31's Eli Stokols: The Republican field, at the moment, is nonexistent. And FOX31 Denver has learned that other would-be candidates who Republicans in Washington are trying to recruit are also saying no. “They’re thinking outside the box, but they’re striking out in trying to find a Major League candidate to run against Udall,” […]
Setting the mood in a story last week from the Loveland Reporter-Herald: "The Democrats in the Legislature? Their three buzzwords were cooperation, collaboration and consensus," Gessler said. "Remember that? And what did we get? … They used to accuse Republicans of only caring about God, guns and gays. And what did the Democrats come up […]
TREASURER STAPLETON: THERE WAS NO "ACTUARIAL EMERGENCY" IN 2010 WHEN SB10-001 WAS ENACTED BY THE COLORADO LEGISLATURE. COMMENTS OF COLORADO PERA DIRECTOR WILLIAMS, PERA TRUSTEE CAROLE WRIGHT, PERA GENERAL COUNSEL SMITH, AND TREASURER STAPLETON. In 2010, the Colorado Legislature enacted legislation breaking Colorado PERA pension contracts. Members of the Colorado Legislature, generally, have little respect […]
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 […]
We received an announcement a short while ago from Steve Laffey, the Rhode Island transplant who briefly entertained the whimsical notion of running for governor of Colorado this week. On account of Laffey being ideologically in sync with Tom Tancredo—thanks for letting sane Colorado voters know this prior to running for anything else, Mr. Laffey–he'll […]
With a H/T to Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post, supporters of Senate President John Morse are circulating a new video, reportedly shot this week, of a paid circulator for the recall petition against Morse attempting to convince someone to sign it. Pretty much entirely by making stuff up.
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 […]
CLEARLY LEGISLATIVE OVERREACH. Last year, the National Association of State Budget Officers published an Issue Brief that places public pension funding in a state budgetary perspective. The Issue Brief brings perspective to the Colorado General Assembly's breach of Colorado PERA public pension COLA contractual obligations in 2010. A lawsuit contesting this state taking of PERA […]
I caught a piece on NPR just recently by reporter Jackie Northram. She tells the story of a $15 billion expansion project at the Sabine Pass natural gas terminal. Phase one of the expansion will enable the facility to export (emphasis mine) U.S. natural gas worldwide. 5 LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) storage tanks, each containing 160,000 cubic meters […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Jeff Crank works for Koch-Brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity and doubles as a poster child for conservative talk-radio host, holding forth on KVOR in Colorado Springs. I offer Crank's comments below, from Saturday's show, to illustrate how the troubles at the IRS give echoers like Crank the perfect springboard to reach for […]
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