(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%
Violently anti-gay and weirdly pro-sex offender El Paso County Chair candidate Dave Williams (part one, part two, part three) lost his race one week ago today. Williams earned 41% of central committee members' votes, to opponent Jeff Hays' 59%. When even conservative talk radio started calling for Williams to step aside because of his inability to […]
Conservative talk radio is reverberating with misrepresentation, confusion, and falsehoods about the gun safety legislation moving through the State Legislature. Now would be a good time for fact-based listeners to call into these fear-based shows to straighten out the hype-based hosts and their back-scratching guests. For example, Sen. Kevin Lundberg said the following on KFKA's […]
For those who have not yet heard, the State of Colorado is trying to break its contracts. Why is this news to so many people? I’m not aware of many other instances in which the State of Colorado has tried to break its contracts. This is not a commonplace. So, I’m surprised that the attempt […]
The idea of having a voice in government is so central to the ideals of America that you wonder how politicians like Rep. Mike Coffman can contemplate giving millions of undocumented workers “legal status,” without offering them the hope of becoming citizens and participants in the democracy that surrounds them, such as it is. But […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports on yesterday's gripping testimony on bills to close the "background check loophole" and restrict the capacity of ammunition magazines sold in the state of Colorado before the Colorado House Judiciary Committee. Perhaps the most compelling witness was Arapahoe County coroner Michael Doberson. For our out-of-state readers, Arapahoe County includes most […]
Reporting on town a hall meeting in Aurora on Sunday, The Denver Post’s Nic Turiciano did a nice job focusing on what’s emerged as the central issue in the immigration debate: whether to grant a path to citizenship to the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the United States. Turiciano reported that Rep. Jared Polis […]
UPDATE: Conservation Colorado blasts Gov. John Hickenlooper in a statement a short while ago: Conservation Colorado Deputy Director Carrie Curtiss released the following statement on Governor Hickenlooper’s comments in front of a U.S. Senate Energy and Environment Committee today: "Looks like Governor Hickenlooper really drank the frack-aid on this one. We're astounded that Governor Hickenlooper […]
This morning the Mesa County Commissioners considered a resolution, drafted by Commissioner and attorney Pugliese, which resolved to protect the Second Amendment in Mesa County. After much discussion, the resolution was unanimously passed. This was a raucous meeting. Most of the people in the room were there to offer their enthusiastic support for the resolution, […]
As reported by Nic Turiciano of the Denver Post today, above is video we received of GOP Rep. Mike Coffman, speaking yesterday at a forum on immigration policy at St. Therese Catholic Church in Aurora. Yesterday's forum before a packed crowd also included U.S. Rep. Jared Polis and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. For anyone familiar with Rep. Coffman's […]
Democratic Sen. Mark Udall has already been busy raising money for his 2014 re-election bid, even though he doesn't yet have a Republican opponent. Udall ended the last reporting period with $1,358,707 in the bank, and as Fox 31 reported earlier this week: But any Republican may have a harder time convincing donors, discouraged after […]
UPDATE: The Durango Herald's Joe Hanel: Democrats got an endorsement Tuesday from Jane Dougherty, a Colorado woman who lost her sister, Mary Sherlach, in the Connecticut elementary school shooting. “Assault weapons are weapons of war. They belong on a battlefield. They have no place in a home,” Dougherty said. Her sister died while running toward […]
In 2010, the Colorado Legislature passed a bill to take back public pension benefits earned by Colorado PERA retirees over many decades. Some of these retirees are in nursing homes. Some spend their days fighting chronic pain. Many were in no position to defend their rights in the lobbies of the Colorado Capitol in 2010. […]
Unlike Colorado’s public sector unions, Pennsylvania’s AFSCME and the Pennsylvania State Education Association aggressively defend public pension contractual rights . . . indeed, they vow to protect these rights in court. From delcotimes.com: “Leaders of Pennsylvania's two largest public employee unions on Friday vowed a court fight if Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers approve reductions […]
(The "Honey Badger" lays down with the lamb? – promoted by Colorado Pols) I reported last week that Secretary of State Scott Gessler was in Glenwood Springs recently telling a local reporter that he'd been working with Denver County Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson to solve their disagreement about whether voters who've missed just one general election should […]
UPDATE: here come the embargoed stories, FOX 31's Eli Stokols: Romanoff, who famously waited several months to announce a primary challenge to Sen. Michael Bennet that was ultimately successful, became the first official challenger to Coffman, who is ranked as one of the top 10 most vulnerable members of Congress. Former state Rep. Karen Middleton, […]
Earlier today, I posted about Dave Williams' extreme hostility toward the GBLT community, and the anti-gay bullying which led to Dave's impeachment as UCCS student body president. Yesterday, we covered Dave's disturbing, quasi-violent response to a request for an apology to the gay Army colonel he booed at the 2012 Republican state convention. Because Dave is so deeply committed to opposing homosexuality, one might assume he'd be […]
Aspen's <a href="http://www.kdnk.org/story.cfm?id=1359581730222" target="_blank">KDNK radio</a> reported this week on a visit from Secretary of State Scott Gessler to Glenwood Springs where Gessler hoped to get feedback from locals on how the last election went for them. KDNK reported that Gessler was "getting away from the usual talking points and what he called 'people who are […]
SB 13-140 has been introduced in the Colorado Senate which attempts to nullify any federal statue, rule, or regulation concerning firearms which becomes effective on or after January 1, 2013. The legislation is sponsored predominately by the usual suspects who want federal laws regulating a woman's reproductive plumbing, but God have mercy on you if […]
with a few small edits, 2/1 The letter in the Montrose Daily Press doesn't mince words in firing back at the misleading article that had appeared in its pages a few days before: BLM using divisive tactics.
Politico reports, it's already softening-up time in key 2014 battlegrounds: House Majority PAC will run off-year political programs in the districts of 10 GOP lawmakers it hopes to knock off in 2014, a strategist for the outside group told POLITICO. That means running ads on the airwaves and online, as well as working social networks […]
My most recent Free Press column covered a lot of ground making the point that industry is using Ray Scott to rob Colorado of severance taxes, and that you can’t believe much of what they say. The article generated a response from Ed Baltzer, President of Avant Environmental Services, Inc. According to their website, “Avant […]
I was looking forward to hearing former Rep. Tom Tancredo on talk-radio radio, after Obama’s announcement yesterday, and he didn’t disappoint. He appeared on KNUS’ Kelley and Company, KHOW’s Peter Boyles show, and KLZ’s Grassroots Radio Colorado, where he called the Senate immigration deal a “Republican suicide pact” that “opens the door for millions who […]
Politicians have always grasped with a difficult period early in a potential campaign: How do you make it known that you are a serious candidate for higher office without really committing to running for said office in case you find out nobody cares? We saw this play out over the last two days with State […]
Senator Kent Lambert must like video games a lot. Colorado Senate Bill 13-062 reads like a cross between the latest edition to the Tycoon series and an exciting first-person shooter. In Senator Lambert's video game, you're a lone hero with a gun. In the opening scenario, you're sitting quietly in a dark movie theater when […]
This article addresses ten of the most fascinating minutes of legislative debate in the history of the Colorado General Assembly. These ten minutes dramatically illustrate the control that lobbyists have over the members of the Colorado Legislature. Video of the ten minutes is available on the website of “The Colorado Channel.” Link: http://www.coloradochannel.net/colorado-senate-2010-legislative-day-20 (Click on […]
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