(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%
(The battle of Andrea Merida vs. everybody else rages on – promoted by Colorado Pols) It’s always good to see our elected officials take to the interwebs to engage in some good ol’ interaction with the people they are supposed to be representing. Of course, for most politicians, that might mean responding on twitter or […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Recently Kevin McCarney was quoted, first in the Denver Post and later in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, in stories about how the IRS went after conservative groups and how Western Slope Conservative Alliance (WSCA) was hassled by the IRS and still does not have its not-for-profit status. These days WSCA […]
"Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?" ~Henry Ford The United States Senate will have the opportunity to make history this week […]
STATE LAWYERS ARGUE THAT COLORADO CANNOT MEET ITS OWN CONTRACTUAL PENSION OBLIGATIONS. IF THIS IS TRUE, HOW HAS THE STATE MANAGED TO PAY $700 MILLION FOR PENSIONS THAT ARE NOT ITS CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION? Three years ago, a mob of statehouse lobbyists (paid by self-interested parties) set their sights on breaking Colorado state and local government […]
As CBS News reported last night, a story that could dramatically change the narrative of Republican attacks on the Obama administration over handling of the attack on a consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September. The Benghazi attack is a political controversy. Republicans claim the administration watered down the facts in talking points given to U.N. […]
It's one of the last remaining questions from this year's legislative session, reports FOX 31's Eli Stokols: On Tuesday, Hickenlooper met with both Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer that has several facilities in Colorado and supports the measure, and with Tri-States Generation and Transmission, which provides electricity to 18 state energy co-ops and […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Interestingly, the first national pickup for this story is from the conservative Daily Caller, which makes little attempt to defend Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman–and includes a conciliatory quote from House Minority Leader Mark Waller, the other Republican legislator present at yesterday's forum. While Tom Sullivan spoke, Cadman fidgeted with a notebook and […]
As the Durango Herald's Stephanie Dazio reports: The U.S. Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act by a 69-27 vote last week. The bill generally would subject online shopping to state sales taxes. The taxes would be sent to the state where the purchaser lives. Current law says states can force retailers to collect sales taxes only […]
The Denver Post's opinion board released their list of winners and losers of the 2013 Colorado legislative session late Thursday. Without getting too far into the weeds criticizing yet another bizarrely skewed perspective on this year's legislative session, in which apparently recording devices only worked when Democrats said something stupid–we've already promised a more comprehensive […]
UPDATE: Washington Post's Greg Sargent: As Reid Wilson recently put it, the Colorado measure is “the Democratic comeback to voter ID.” Reform advocates who have been briefed on Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s plans tell me they expect him to sign the legislation tomorrow. The measure, which has cleared both houses in Colorado, contains a number […]
The afterparties ran late into the night after adjournment sine die yesterday afternoon of the first regular session of the 69th Colorado General Assembly. Both sides agree that this was the most momentous legislative session in many years, reaching beyond the memory of just about everybody working in or around the state capitol today. That's where […]
(Here come the recaps – Promoted by Colorado Pols) This year's session of the Colorado General Assembly was truly historic. After two years of divided control and stagnation in the legislature, a large backlog of high-priority, common-sense reforms awaited lawmakers in January. Working tirelessly in the face of right-wing obstruction, smear campaigns, and even threats […]
On Monday, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the Job Protection and Civil Rights Enforcement Act, House Bill 1136. This bill's purpose is well-explained in its summary: While federal employment antidiscrimination laws allow such damages in cases where intentional discrimination is found, and allows an award of reasonable attorney fees and costs, only employers who employ 15 […]
Perhaps the biggest reason why Colorado Pols is the most read and discussed blog in Colorado politics is our astute community of readers. We have always placed a high value on providing a forum for political debate for our readers, many of whom are themselves political insiders. That's why our reader account and community blog system has […]
UPDATE #3: Colorado Public Radio's Megan Verlee: As he announced the 11th hour resolution’s demise to his chamber, Senate President John Morse warned his colleagues that the marijuana industry doesn’t have any incentive to campaign for the tax measure this fall, and may fight legislative efforts to raise taxes on it in the future. This […]
The law that gave personhood to corporations can be directly blamed for the current division within the city of Grand Junction. Normally city council elections are ho-hum affairs, and not many people pay attention. I started paying attention when I realized that the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce was stacking the deck. Western Colorado Business […]
This year at Colorado Pols, we've faced a real challenge keeping track of the drastically higher volume of unsourced, un-factchecked, and uncritically reported nonsense filling the space between rational debate over the issues affecting Colorado politics during the current legislative session. Particularly with regard to the gun safety debate, but with examples ranging the gamut of […]
AP reports via the Durango Herald from our caddy-corner neighbors to the southwest: Just days after Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law designed to hinder police participation in gun-buyback events, the city of Phoenix on Saturday held the first of three buybacks that organizers are calling the largest effort of its kind in the state’s […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On its website last week, ABC News reported that petition drives to remove CO state legislators from office, in retaliation for their support of gun safety legislation, are "being run by political newcomers who claim little or no experience working on elections." ABC News' Chris Good wrote in an online story […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports: The 20-15 vote, with all Democrats in favor of and all Republicans against the measure, came after a four-hour debate with almost every Republican senator arguing that bill will open up the state’s elections to rampant fraud. “You’re already winning the elections,” Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, said. […]
(Tell us how you really feel – Promoted by Colorado Pols) In The Denver Post over the weekend, former State Senate President John Andrews wrote that if Colorado has election-day voter registration, as proposed in the election-modernization bill winding its way through the State Legislature, Democrats would "presto" have "tilted the electoral playing field permanently […]
Photo by Colorado House Democrats UPDATE: FOX 31's Eli Stokols: “It’s perseverance,” [former Rep. Val] Vigil told FOX31 Denver afterward. “You know when you truly believe in an issue, you don’t give it up.” …Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, a former teacher and principal, described the despair of one of his former students who graduated high […]
Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about the incipient recall campaigns against several Colorado legislators in the wake of passage of gun safety legislation this year. There hasn't been much good to report on the recall campaigns so far, with public leaders and visible organizing efforts both revealing themselves to be, to put it […]
After some six hours of debate that lasted well into the evening yesterday, House Bill 1303, the Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act, passed the Senate State Affairs Committee on a party-line vote. Having passed the House, the bill appears increasingly certain to become law–that is, after Republican legislative opponents and Secretary of State Scott Gessler […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: And for good measure, NBC News' Rachel Maddow: —– UPDATE: Folks, you did realize NBC News' Al Sharpton was going to see this eventually, right? Holy crap: —– David Weigel of Slate is the latest national voice to weigh in on the growing controversy over mailers attacking Republican county clerks, sent by a group headed […]
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