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Heck’ve-a-Job Brownie having a heck’ve-a-hard time understanding federal immigration bill

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Michael "Heck've-A-Job" Brownie took to the airwaves Monday to slam Sen. Michael Bennet for promoting the immigration bill that Congress is currently considering. On his KHOW show, Brown called the bill a "bologna bill" and said he's "so tired of the BS" from Bennet and others, like Bennet's statement in an […]

Hickenlooper Working Against Democrats on Fracking Legislation?

As Fox 31's Eli Stokols reports, Democrats in the legislature are concerned that Gov. John Hickenlooper may be actively working against efforts to pass new fracking safety legislation. That Hickenlooper, an unabashed supporter of fracking, would undermine legislative efforts is not a total surprise — though they have a right to expect more frank conversations […]

Anatomy of a Colorado PERA Pension Contract Breach. (Part 1 of 2.)

In this article I have compiled an extensive (but, incomplete) chronology of events and statements surrounding the Colorado General Assembly's breach of Colorado PERA pension COLA contracts in 2010.  Colorado PERA retirees have filed a lawsuit, Justus v. State, asking that Colorado courts protect the retiree's accrued, earned, contracted Colorado PERA public pension benefits.  (More […]

Anatomy of a Colorado PERA Pension Contract Breach. (Part 2 of 2.)

January 2008 U.S. Government Accountability Office, “State and Local Government Retiree Benefits: Current Funded Status of Pension and Health Benefits,” (GAO-08-223.)  The GAO report notes on p. 15, “Many experts and officials to whom we spoke consider a funded ratio of 80 percent to be sufficient for public plans for a couple of reasons. First, […]

Delving in to the immigration reform package

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In the midst of the craziness of the news of the last week, it’s little wonder that the largest reform to our nation’s immigration policies ended up taking a back burner in news coverage.  Lost in the shuffle were a few items worth of our consideration here in Colorado. The bi-partisan […]

PPP: Hillary Bests Hickenlooper in 2016, Gun Safety Still Popular

Lots of interesting poll results from Public Policy Polling today, the second half of their recent survey work in Colorado. PPP is generally considered a Democratic-leaning firm, but their performance in recent elections has been quite good. A study by Fordham University rated PPP the most accurate pollster nationally of the 2012 elections. From today's memo […]

Red-on-Red Racist Mailer Scandal Rapidly Escalating

UPDATE: Story now up at national progressive political blogs ThinkProgress and Huffington Post. —- A very important update today to the story we've been following of attack mailers sent into Mesa and La Plata counties this past weekend, going after Republican clerks for their support for House Bill 1303–the Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act modernizing election procedures […]

Bennet Raising Big Money for DSCC

It came as little surprise when Sen. Michael Bennet confirmed in December that he would take over as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) for the 2014 election cycle. Bennet had withstood entreaties to run the DSCC for the 2012 cycle, which he could reasonably avoid after having just finished a brutal 2010 […]

A great interview about CO Election-Modernization bill on progressive talk-radio show AM 760

If you’ve been listening to conservative talk radio lately, you know most radio hosts on these shows don’t like the election-modernization bill working its way through the Legislature. Don’t fall off your chair. Though it might be hard to tear yourself away from Steve Kelley on 710 KNUS in the morning, you might give yourself […]

How To Fail At “Reaching Out To Women”

Last August, we took note of a "debate" held by the right-wing Independence Institute on energy issues, at least nominally billed for "women of all political stripes." It was by all accounts more of a Hannity and Colmes energy industry infomercial than a real debate, though that's to be fully expected. What we were struck by […]

Post editorial provides insufficient evidence that timeline for election-day registration is too short

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In an In an editorial yesterday,, The Denver Post praised all the provisions of the election-modernization bill that just passed the State House, but the newspaper questioned the timeline on the implementation of election-day voter registration. The Post Editorial stated that the "Internet technology specialist" in the Secretary of State's office […]

Discrimination? “I Choose To Work Where I Want To Work”

We wrote yesterday about the debate over House Bill 1136, which extends the same protections against discrimination to employees of small businesses as presently exists for all other businesses with 15 or more employees under federal civil rights law. The Job Protection and Civil Rights Enforcement Act has drawn fierce opposition from Republicans, who have denounced […]

Gessler Loves SCORE, Except When He Doesn’t

A pair of fascinating audio clips sent to us today, timely as debate continues on the Colorado Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act, House Bill 1303. The first clip is Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler speaking last January in defense of the SCORE statewide voter registration database. You might recall that last year, the online voter registration interface […]

GOP’s Ugly Side Shows in Job Discrimination Debate

The Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby reports, another great story outside the paywall: Small businesses, just like larger ones, could face employment discrimination lawsuits under a bill that won preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Wednesday. The measure, HB1136, extends to employees who work in business with 14 or fewer workers the same right […]

When The Sheriff Is The Fringe

We were recently forwarded copies of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners candidate questionnaire for 2010 candidates for county sheriffs, with some responses from now-incumbent sheriffs. As you are probably aware, an ad hoc coalition of county sheriffs is threatening to sue, along with the right-wing Independence Institute, to block the two principal gun safety bills passed […]

Mental Health Reforms “Studified”

As the Durango Herald's Joe Hanel reports: Legislators at last began moving on the final piece of their gun-violence agenda Tuesday with the first of two bills addressing people with dangerous mental problems. Sponsors have scaled back their original plan to allow mental-health professionals to flag possibly dangerous patients and keep them from buying guns, […]

Alva Asked: Colorado Pols Mailbag

Periodically we have run a "mailbag" at Colorado Pols, generally dubbed "Ask Alva." We put out the call for questions in late March, and now we give you the answers. For our next "Ask Alva" feature, we expect you to do a lot better with the questions. We had a lot about technical problems (we're […]

Sen. Vicki Marble: The New Gold Standard For Crazy?

We get a lot of email newsletter updates from Colorado legislators in both parties. Most of them are mundane and loaded with canned rhetoric about the legislative session, in between event announcements and other routine constituent communications. We've talked this year about, for example, false statements made in legislative communications about gun safety bills, but […]

6,000 Colorado Police and Firefighters to Consider Taxing Themselves to Pay for a Pension COLA Benefit.

(IN DECADES TO COME, WHEN THE COLA IS ALL PAID OFF . . . WILL THE STATE LEGISLATURE JUST TAKE IT?) In 2014, more than 6,000 police officers and firefighters in Colorado will have a chance to vote on the question of raising their pension contributions (by a gradual increase of an additional four percent) […]

Durango Herald correct in asserting that academics don’t see partisan advantage in election-day registration

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In his April 9 article about proposed legislation that would, among other things, allow citizens to register to vote through Election Day, Durango Herald reporter Joe Hanel wrote: Conventional wisdom holds that same-day registration will give Democrats an advantage. However, academics who have studied the idea find the evidence for it […]

Did Larimer County Sheriff Smith forsake the truth after pressure from Rocky Mountain Gun Owners?

(To protect, serve, and kowtow? Promoted by Colorado Pols) In 2010, when he was running for Sheriff of Larimer County, Justin Smith answered a "candidate questionnaire" from Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. It posed 10 questions for candidates running for the office of sheriff, and it advised that "failure to answer this survey" would be viewed […]

Gessler says Denver Post out to get him and other conservatives

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On KOA's Mike Rosen show this morning, Secretary of State Scott Gessler amped up his attacks on The Denver Post, saying, among other things, that the newspaper is "ideologically skewed in one direction, and that's where they devote their resources." Tell that to ColoradoPols, Mr, Secretary of State. But it gets […]

Spelling Bee Gets More Stupider

Like many fellow Polsters, your thoughtful editors may have participated in a Spelling Bee or two in their younger days. But those were simpler times, when you could spell a word that you could virtually guarantee you would never use in a sentence for the rest of your life. The new Spelling Bee is now […]

Coffman, Romanoff Q1 Virtual Tie, Advantage Romanoff

UPDATE: FOX 31's story revised–did Andrew Romanoff in fact outraise Mike Coffman in only two months? [R]oughly an hour after FOX31 Denver reported Coffman’s fundraising, Romanoff’s campaign called and said that its first quarter total is actually $513,977 — possibly just more than Coffman, who’s exact total has not been released. —– FOX 31's Eli Stokols: Coffman, R-Aurora, raised […]

The Nation’s Public Pension COLA-theft Champion Receives her Comeuppance.

FORBES COLUMNIST LAMBASTES RHODE ISLAND TREASURER GINA RAIMONDO. RAIMONDO ON COLORADO PERA MANAGEMENT FEES. In the United States, we have a handful of prominent self-serving politicians who support the breach of public pension contracts.  As we have seen, such politicians serving in the Colorado General Assembly are attempting to take earned, accrued, contracted public pension […]

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