(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 AP’s Kristen Wyatt reports: Hospitals with religious objections to procedures such as abortions would have to tell patients in a special notice Colorado’s Senate approved Friday. The measure was approved over vigorous objections from Senate Republicans, who called the notification bill a thinly veiled attempt to stigmatize religious hospitals… The bill’s sponsor, Democratic Sen. […]
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock today announced that Denver’s 46 DMV employees will stay at work while other city employees will be forced to take furlough days.
Fox 31’s Eli Stokols has the story:
DENVER – Mayor Michael Hancock announced Monday that workers at the city’s Motor Vehicle offices will be exempt from taking four furlough days like other city employees.
It’s an effort to ensure that DMV offices remain open and accessible and, to the extent possible, to limit wait times and improve customer service.
“I am dedicated to making Denver better, faster and stronger,” Mayor Hancock said in a press release. “Keeping our DMV open during furlough days is not just about cutting down wait times. It’s about being more efficient, more effective and providing the highest level of service to our customers, the neighborhoods, residents and businesses of Denver.”
Hancock’s administration is reviewing all DMV operations as part of a Peak Performance initiative that is gathering data in an effort to make government agencies more efficient.
Denver’s four DMV offices, which employ a total of 46 people, process motor vehicle registrations, titles, temporary permits and license plates for City and County of Denver residents.
Nobody likes an hours-long wait to renew their license plates, after all, so the DMV becomes the quintessential example for many taxpayers of government inefficiency. In keeping DMV employees at work even while other city employees will be forced to stay at home, Hancock may be trying to keep “government running like a business” by ensuring that lines are that much shorter and nobody’s enraged when they drive to the DMV only to find out that it’s closed.
The problem with Hancock using the DMV to show that the city can “do more with less” is that taxpayers probably should be angry that the DMV is closed. They should be disappointed that the city doesn’t have enough money to keep city services running. In that disappointment is a lesson in taxation: tax revenues are what keep the city going. No citizen sees any purpose to paying more in taxes if their city is able to, say, keep the DMV running smoothly based off current revenues. But they will be able to connect their low tax rates with the fact that the city can’t provide services like it used to if something like a DMV closure on any given Friday is framed properly.
By furloughing DMV employees, Hancock could’ve made the case that the city simply needs more money to provide basic services. He could’ve linked taxation with government service, a connection that’s most visible at the local level.
Instead, Hancock will be making everybody happy by keeping the DMV’s doors open on furlough days. He shouldn’t be. A business can’t run if its income isn’t sufficient to keep people employed. If the mayor is set on “running government like a business,” he should show that even with efficiency measures and cost-cutting, Denver’s taxpayers aren’t paying enough for the city-provided services they’re receiving.
Hancock’s winning the battle on Denver’s own belt-tightening, but as a result, he may be losing the war on the perception of government.
TUESDAY CORRECTION: Carroll campaign manager Aaron Cohen reached out to us today with a link to Carroll’s own ActBlue page. The numbers on that page indicate that Carroll is actually leading Pettersen in online fundraising with over $7,000 raised through the online portal. We took the $3,600 figure below from the Secretary of State’s TRACER Campaign Finance System which only reported numbers through January 25, 2012. As Carroll kicked off his campaign officially on January 26, whatever haul he brought in from his first major fundraiser wasn’t yet included with the Secretary of State’s office.
That Carroll and Pettersen are both posting strong numbers within weeks of announcing their respective campaigns is evidence of the lack of a clear frontrunner in this race thus far. Both will be able to make a strong case for the nomination, and now that both have picked the off low-hanging fruit through initial fundraisers, the financial race between them will only get more heated.
We sincerely apologize for our mistake.
Still, that Carroll has a primary opponent at all – let alone such a credible challenge from Pettersen – demonstrates the uneasiness of some Democrats in HD-28 to get behind the candidate who put one of their own in a primary. Carroll is raising enough to win the nomination, but had he avoided his earlier entrance into the race against Kerr, the money he’s bringing in now could’ve been saved for Amy Attwood.
For her part, the Republican is reporting over $13,000 in contributions raised since December 15.
Our original post follows.
One of the benefits (or drawbacks, depending on your perspective) of the Denver City Council’s in-house management of redistricting is the limited probability that a sitting council member will draw him or herself out of a seat. It only stands to reason — with direct oversight of the redistricting process, each of the 11 district-elected councilors can ensure that their current home remains in their current district, thereby avoiding any messy elections pitting two incumbents against each other.
The city council will host its first public meeting on redistricting later this week. The first topic of discussion at that meeting, we suspect, will be the status of the three draft maps already drawn up by the Redistricting Committee.
If the state-level reapportionment process is any indicator, it’s highly likely that each of those three draft maps will evolve into any number of wild permutations. With the proposals as they stand now, however, there isn’t even the remote possibility that two current council members may end up in the same district.
Redistricting won’t have any impact on either Robin Kniech or Debbie Ortega – both were elected at-large in 2011 and are eligible to continue serving no matter where they live in Denver.
Council Members Jeanne Fatz, Peggy Lehmann, Charlie Brown, Judy Montero, and Jeanne Robb were each elected to their third terms in 2011. They’ll be ineligible to run again in 2015 because of term limits.
That means that the only sitting council members whose political futures could theoretically be affected by redistricting are Susan Shepherd in District 1, Paul Lopez in District 3, Mary Beth Susman in District 5, Chris Nevitt in District 7, Albus Brooks in District 8, and Chris Herndon in District 11.
Shepherd’s residence will stay in District 1 in each of the current maps, so barring any major changes in future proposals, she can continue serving without issue. The same is true for Paul Lopez in District 3, as the southwest Denver district didn’t experience any major population shift since the last Census. Neither do Susman or Nevitt have any cause to worry based off the current proposals – their respective homes will stay put in their respective districts.
That leaves Albus Brooks and Chris Herndon. Brooks will remain squarely within District 8 in two of the current proposals, but in the Redistricting Committee’s “Map B”, he’ll be moving to District 9. Still, Brooks has no reason to fret given that incumbent District 9 Council Member Jeanne Robb won’t be able to run again in 2015; Brooks will have the new district all to himself.
Things get a little complex when you turn to Chris Herndon because his District 11 has nearly doubled in population in the past ten years. Under the council’s first proposal, Herndon will stay in District 11, but the district itself will split in half and a “new” district will be created and labeled District 10 – the current District 10 will be incorporated into Districts 9 and 5. No current council member resides within that new district, so under “Map A,” the city council will be getting a brand new member. In “Map B,” Herndon will be moved to District 8, but under that proposal, current District 8 Council Member Albus Brooks will be moved into District 9, so there’s no conflict. In that map, the new northeast Denver district will be deemed District 11. In the third proposal, Herndon stays in District 11 and the new, empty district gets the District 9 moniker. The current District 9 will be divvied up into Districts 1, 3, 7, and 8.
At first glance, the plans to redistrict the divisions of the Denver City Council seem incredibly complex. Yet because so many sitting council members won’t be able to run again in 2015, all potential conflicts pitting one incumbent against another are more or less resolved.
Still, you’ve got to wonder: if the current homes of current council members weren’t even casually considered as part of the redistricting process, what would the maps, especially at this initial stage, look like?
Jefferson County Democrats have been struggling to field candidates in the two countywide commissioner races this cycle.
Commissioner Faye Griffin is vying for a second term in 2012, and Commissioner John Odom, who filled the vacancy created after Kevin McCasky’s controversial move to the Jefferson County Economic Council, is seeking a full term. No Democrats had announced to take on either Griffin or Odom until attorney Casey Tighe filed papers late last month for Odom’s District 2 seat.
From the Columbine Courier:
Democrat Casey Tighe has the lofty goal of unseating Jeffco Commissioner John Odom in November, and the Colorado Department of Transportation audit director is ending his 24-year career to focus completely on his campaign.
Tighe, a longtime Golden resident who filed his candidate affidavit on Jan. 27, said he does not foresee a highly charged, partisan race for the District 2 seat, which in recent years has been dominated by Republicans.
A Republican vacancy committee appointed Odom to fill the seat vacated by former commissioner Kevin McCasky a year ago, when McCasky accepted a job as head of the Jefferson County Economic Development Corp.
“I don’t know that this will be a real partisan race,” Tighe said. “You’re looking for someone who will run an effective government.”
The last Democrat to fill an elected office in Jefferson County was former commissioner Kathy Hartman, who in 2010 was defeated by District 3 Commissioner Don Rosier, a Republican. Hartman was also the first Democrat elected to the seat in 14 years when she won the office in 2006.
But despite the local electorate’s historically conservative leanings, Tighe, 52, said his auditing expertise will make him a competitive candidate.
“I can provide a fresh set of eyes and perspective as a county commissioner,” said Tighe, who was serving on the county audit committee last year when the current Board of Commissioners dissolved it. “I try to make my decisions based on the facts … and not purely on ideology. There’s a lot of talk right now about cutting government … but you need to make the right decisions about where can you cut and where you focus the government’s efforts.”
Further, county residents are interested in a business-friendly atmosphere, he said, an insight that does not appear lost on the current board.
“I know Jefferson County. I know what the people are looking for. … People are interested in business development. They want to see businesses grow,” Tighe said, adding that county services should be streamlined and helpful. “The government should be elegant in that the customer has a positive experience. … It should be an efficient process. You shouldn’t have to go back again to get service.”
That political newcomer Tighe is the only Democratic candidate set to take on Odom in District 2 shows just how intimidating the commissioner’s races are for Democrats. Odom, who lost his first ever political bid against Cheri Jahn for the SD-20 seat in 2010, is arguably much more vulnerable in his re-election bid than Griffin – he lost his last campaign for a much smaller office and never before has been on the ballot countywide. Even with that inherent vulnerability, however, no big-name Democrats were willing to challenge him for the District 2 seat, leaving the race open to the relatively unknown Tighe.
Can Tighe win? He’s got an interesting pedigree, at the very least. The longtime CDOT audit director also served as the chairman of the Jefferson County Audit Committee, qualifications which will enable Tighe to campaign on government transparency and accountability. Those talking points may resonate in light of Jeffco’s own “Bridge to Nowhere” scandal if Tighe can make the case that he’s better qualified than Odom to root out county corruption.
With no contribution limits in county races, however, Tighe’s talking points won’t be relevant unless he can raise enough to televise them. Tighe may have some contacts with the Colorado Trial Lawyer’s Association, but he doesn’t have a record as an elected official. Without it or any other indicator of previous success, Tighe will struggle with convincing donors that he can win the election against Odom. There’s just no way that Tighe’s fundraising list, as a political newcomer, will be long enough to really give incumbent Odom a run for his money.
The commissioner’s race is an important challenge for Democrats – a strong presence at the countywide level will boost turnout for State House and Senate Candidates, especially given that there are no statewide offices up this year with the exception of CU regent at-large.
Tighe may prove a worthy adversary for Odom, but the numbers aren’t on his side. There are more residents in Jefferson County than in the entire state of Wyoming, and unless Democratic challengers can raise the kind of money characteristic of a congressional race, incumbent Republicans will continue to dominate county level politics. Without previous elected service and with a low name-ID, it’s unlikely that Tighe will be able to pull in enough cash to be viable.
Still no word on who, if anybody, will take on Faye Griffin.
Sitting elected officials at the state level are often reluctant – and sometimes downright recalcitrant – to endorse any candidate in a state level race when that candidate is in a primary.
There’s good reason for that, of course, particularly in districts with such heavy registration advantages for either party that the primary election is akin to the general. Sitting legislators will ostensibly have to work with whoever wins their party’s primary, and “working together” becomes a whole lot more awkward when there’s lingering resentment because you endorsed the losing candidate.
That’s why it comes as a surprise that State Senator Pat Steadman will be holding a joint fundraiser with HD-9 candidate Paul Rosenthal. Steadman isn’t just an honorary “host” of a Rosenthal fundraiser – standard fare for an elected endorser. Instead, Steadman will be fundraising for his own campaign right alongside Rosenthal.
From Steadman:
Please join us on Thursday, March 8th from 5:30-7:30P.M. for a rockin’ happy hour in support of two candidates for the 69th General Assembly.
Suggested Contribution: $50
($25 to each candidate committee)Contribute online at http://www.peopleforpaul.com & http://www.patsteadman.com
Gunther Toody’s Denver Diner
4500 E. Alameda Ave. (at Leetsdale Dr.)
Glendale CO, 80246
That Steadman is encouraging donors to give both to his own re-election campaign and Rosenthal’s campaign fund is evidence that Rosenthal has been widely and wildly accepted as the eventual Democratic nominee in HD-9. Steadman clearly isn’t afraid to step on Rosenthal challenger Bill McMullen‘s toes because there’s no chance that Rosenthal won’t get his party’s nod.
It’s events like these that make the HD-9 race all that much stranger. Paul Rosenthal’s never won any of his campaigns for public office yet he’s being treated as though he’s the sitting representative, joint fundraising events with an area state senator and all. RTD-Director Bill McMullen, on the other hand, can point to his record in public policy and government as well as the fact that he’s demonstrated his ability to win a campaign. By all measures, McMullen is a much more credible candidate – he should be the one enjoying legislator endorsements, or at the very least, he should be able to prevent people like Steadman from endorsing in the race at all.
Chalk it all up to timing, folks. Rosenthal had been publicly gunning for the HD-9 seat since May 2011 and hinting about it even earlier. If McMullen had entered the race the very second Joe Miklosi announced his CD-6 run, he might’ve had a fighting chance. As it stands now, however, McMullen seems like a misguided outsider campaigning against someone with all the benefits of incumbency and none of the drawbacks of a career in politics.
If you’re a candidate for any public office, one of your first steps should be registering a domain name that consists of your first name and last name – nothing more, and nothing less.
The reasoning is simple: when voters first get their ballots and they see an unfamiliar name, they’ll turn to Google before they try to remember what they saw on the mail piece they threw out three weeks ago. If you’re a candidate or any sort of public figure, then, it’s important that the information you’ve crafted be the first info they see on the web and equally important that those supporting your opponent can’t use your own name against you.
HD-1 Rep. Jeanne Labuda has a fairly unique name and as a result her campaign website, jeannelabuda.com, has dominated the Google search for her name. That’s a pretty good URL for Labuda to have: it’s literally as easy to remember as her name, and it’s not so long or obscure – think of something to the tune of Labuda4HD1Rep.com – that it would look out of place on mail or yard signs.
The problem with jeannelabuda.com, however, is that Jeanne Labuda no longer owns it. She used to own it, as evidenced by her campaign filings with the Secretary of State’s Office. Sometime between now and last October, however, Labuda (or whoever was managing Labuda’s website) forgot to renew their domain registration. Now, jeannelabuda.com is a headache-inducing blend of green, red, and white hocking LASIK eye surgery in Japanese. The first thing voters will click on when the Google search Jeanne Labuda, then, is a spammy-landing page that has nothing to do with their representative.
All things considered, this isn’t the end of the world for Labuda. She’s re-located her campaign website to jeannelabudaco.com – it’s not nearly as good as her original URL, but at least her name is still in there somewhere.
Still, this is one of those things that Labuda should never have let happen. Any yard signs or campaign literature that had her old domain on it are now useless, not to mention that Labuda’s website is nowhere near the first (or tenth) page of a Google search for her name. Juxtapose that with primary opponent Corrie Houck, who controls the first page of a search for her name, and it’s clear that Labuda should’ve just paid the 10 or 15 bucks to keep her url. Having a workable, searchable domain name is one of those things that doesn’t give your campaign any perceivable edge but really hurts when you neglect it.
Of course, it’s a simple, easily avoidable mistake like this that really showcases why Houck is challenging Labuda in the first place. If Labuda can’t even organize her campaign such that her domain name doesn’t lapse, the argument goes, she may be equally likely to make similar mistakes throughout 2012. The difference is that those mistakes matter; if Labuda hasn’t crafted a campaign organization now, who’s to say she’ll have one by the time she actually needs to defend her seat?
Here’s a roundup of the extensive statewide coverage today of the General Assembly’s apparent intention to plow ahead with a 22% hike in the daily per diem rate for legislators from outside the Denver metro area. Beginning with the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby: Even though rural lawmakers would get about $4,000 more a year, […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Patrick Malone reports today, and who originally broke the story of the “stealth passage” in the GOP-controlled Colorado House last week of a 22% increase in the daily per diem rate paid to legislators from outside the Denver metro area: Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday that he is sympathetic to lawmakers […]
We talked Wednesday about the testimony in favor of a bill specifying “crimes against an unborn child,” Colorado House Bill 12-1130, in the House Judiciary Committee from one Bob Enyart of Colorado Right to Life. In that discussion, we juxtaposed Enyart’s comparatively mild testimony in favor of HB-1130, noting the “abortion neutral” language and scoffing […]
(The real question is, why wouldn’t he? – promoted by Colorado Pols) ColoradoPols broke the news last month that congressional candidate Joe Coors gave $1,000 to Personhood Colorado, in support of its efforts to pass a personhood amendment in 2010. A handful of news outlets subsequently reported the Coors donation, but it appears no one […]
I love politicians who will talk openly about their “messaging.” Everyone knows it chews up huge amounts of behind-the-scenes time (and money), but the insider debate about messages doesn’t spill out much. When it does, reporters should be all over it, not to play “gotcha,” but to help real people (none of whom read this […]
Nevertheless, FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports: In an Internal Affairs report released Wednesday, Officer Brian Klaus said that Bradford, R-Collbran, initially said she’d only had one glass of wine, but later admitted to having had three glasses after Klaus informed her what he believed her BAC to be. Bradford, who was temporarily relieved as her […]
Can’t see the audio player? Click here. This is an excerpt from the testimony of Bob Enyart, spokesman for Colorado Right To Life, in favor of House Bill 12-1130 yesterday. We discussed earlier this month the defeat of Senate Bill 125, a measure “concerning crimes against an unborn child,” and HB-1130 is the equivalent introduced […]
The Pueblo Chieftain’s Patrick Malone reports today on the nasty debate in the Senate over Senate Bill 3, legislation to forbid the use of credit reports to screen many job applicants: “I am here to speak for the people of Colorado who are unemployed right now and due to no fault of their own are […]
Businessweek reports, and you ought to pay attention: Gas prices are off to a fast start in 2012. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is up more than 8 percent since the end of 2011, rising from $3.25 per gallon to $3.52, according to new data released by the U.S. Energy Information […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) There’s a good chance someone is going to say something newsworthy when they preface it with, “some folks in my office cringed when I said this, but I’m going to say it again.” That’s what Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler told the a GOP group, as reported by […]
Yesterday I attended an event to raise money for Sal Pace, the 3rd District’s Democratic candidate. Sal keeps improving as a candidate, but he is still stumbling on occasion. One example, a few days ago PBS ran a story about health care in the U.S. Because Grand Junction has a very unique health care system, […]
A new administrative feature from our blog software platform, Soapblox, gives us a simple view of the most active users of Colorado Pols, going back almost to our founding in late 2004 (the Soapblox and imported archives date to mid-2005). We thought you’d enjoy this snapshot of the most active voices in our community over […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Patrick Malone reports today: The Colorado House of Representatives quietly and without debate passed a bill on Wednesday that would raise the daily pay of lawmakers who live outside of Denver by 22 percent. Pay for non-metro members of the Legislature would climb to $183 per day from $150 a day […]
Brian Carroll, heretofore the only candidate vying for the Democratic nomination in HD-28, is about to get some company.
Democratic activist Brittany Pettersen this week announced her entrance into the HD-28 race. She’ll be kicking off her campaign tonight at the Paradise Cove restaurant in Lakewood.
From Pettersen’s campaign:
Lakewood, CO-Today, Lakewood resident Brittany Pettersen officially kicked off her Democratic campaign for State House District 28.
“I am proud to announce my candidacy for the Colorado House of Representatives”, said Pettersen. “I was born in Colorado, I’ve lived in Jefferson County nearly my entire life, and I bought a house and made a home here in Lakewood. I want to give back to Colorado and make sure that our state government is listening and accountable to the needs of the people in Lakewood.”
Pettersen has overcome a background as an at-risk youth, put herself through college, and has traveled and volunteered around the world in a school and orphanages with underprivileged children. She currently works for the nonpartisan organization, New Era Colorado, a non-profit dedicated to engaging youth in government and politics.
“I know what it’s like to struggle and survive in tough times,” said Pettersen. “I know and Lakewood families know what it means to persevere. They deserve to know we have a state government that listens to them, that works together to get our economy moving and invests in Lakewood classrooms and local small business growth.”
Pettersen, a lifelong Democrat, understands the need for a collaborative government, working together to improve our schools, supporting technology innovation and find job-creating solutions.
“Good ideas don’t need a party label. As state representative, my focus is going to be on ending partisan gridlock and solving problems in ways that help strengthen Lakewood families and our neighborhood,” she said.
Pettersen plans on running a grassroots campaign and looks forward to conducting a district listening tour in order to hear the concerns of her neighbors. She will be hosting a series of meet-and-greets, as well as knocking on doors through the neighborhoods in HD-28.
“My story is just one of thousands across Lakewood and House District 28. I’m going to take my neighbors’ stories and be their voice at the State Capitol.”
Pettersen was a staffer on James Mejia’s failed bid for the Denver Mayor’s office last year and presently works at the nonpartisan (but nonetheless progressive) New Era Colorado.
Her entrance into this race demonstrates just how reluctant area leaders are to line up behind the candidacy of Brian Carroll since his ill-informed primary challenge against Representative Andy Kerr. Unlike Carroll, who splashed onto the political scene last year only through his campaign against Kerr, Pettersen is a familiar face to Democratic activists, staff, and donors. She should have little difficulty convincing the Democratic establishment to coalesce behind her, much to Carroll’s chagrin.
One of the more potent arguments presumed Republican candidate Amy Attwood had against Brian Carroll was the same argument Kerr used to question the veteran’s primary campaign: Carroll has no history in the area and his campaign for public office appeared motivated by personal, not community, interests. Pettersen, on the other hand, has a history working with civic issues and should be a familiar face to many of Lakewood’s movers-and-shakers. She’s likely a more formidable candidate against Attwood as a result, although we think Attwood still has an edge over both Pettersen and Carroll at present.
Another interesting aspect to Pettersen’s campaign narrative is her relationship with consultant Andy Szekeres. Szekeres, who worked with Pettersen on the Mejia campaign, encouraged Carroll to jump into the HD-28 primary against Kerr. He’s likely still pulling some strings on political newcomer Carroll’s campaign – campaign manager Aaron Cohen is CEO of Szekeres’ 3PG Consulting. If Kerr’s incumbency didn’t motivate Szekeres to tell Carroll to back down, however, we doubt his existing relationship with a former colleague will have any impact.
This is politics, after all.
We didn’t get a chance to get to this earlier, but comments by U.S. District Judge William Martinez yesterday could be the first step in the eventual overturning of TABOR. Tim Hoover of the Denver newspaper reports that Martinez disagreed with a key argument from the defense — in this case, the Colorado Attorney General’s […]
As the Colorado Independent’s Teddy Wilson reports: Colorado Republican Congressmen Mike Coffman (CD-6) and Doug Lamborn (CD-5) have joined a hundred of their colleagues this year in sponsoring a bill to make English the official language of the United States. English language bills are among those introduced practically every session of Congress without any expectation […]
I’ve been thinking that journalists should add a “civility” beat to their shrinking offerings. At least they should give a little extra air, ink (literal and digital) to challenge politicians when they hit below the belt, especially if they do it themselves, in a public forum. An example is Rep. Mike Coffman said about President […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Waiting to testify at the CO Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Civil Unions, I was reminded of something that happened when I was a little girl. We lived three miles outside of Detroit in a small house with eleven residents (my parents and nine children), and my dad had […]
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