(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 biggest change in the Democratic proposal moves U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican, from a Republican-heavy district into a new swing district. Richard Westfall, who represents the seven Republican plaintiffs, said an expert will refute the idea of using competitiveness as a criterion. “The court does not need to do wholesale surgery to […]
The Republican candidates for President will debate again tonight in New Hampshire, and Herman Cain will take a prominent role on the stage. From our friends at “The Fix“: A new Gallup national poll puts Cain in a statistical dead heat with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for first place. And in New Hampshire, Cain […]
(How long do you think he’ll be waiting? – promoted by Colorado Pols) For about two weeks now, I’ve been calling Scott Gessler’s office most every day, trying to find out if he really believes there’s fraud in Denver elections. It’s a pretty serious accusation, given that we like to think we live in a […]
That’s the word from John Fryar of the Longmont Times-Call: The Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office on Tuesday will mail ballots to more than 145,800 active voters. Then, either later this week or early next week, Boulder County may send ballots to about 24,600 other registered voters in the “inactive/failed-to-vote” category because they failed […]
(As we discussed in February, once he gets through Doug Lamborn it’s a laudable proposal – promoted by Colorado Pols) I may disagree with Rep. Mike Coffman about some things, but he has a lot of guts to call for Pentagon cuts, like he’s been doing, especially since he represents a district near Colorado Springs. […]
Excerpt from a press release from VoteVets.org a short while ago, opening a new front in the battle over mailing ballots to registered voters in Colorado marked “inactive” due to failure to vote in 2010–against a county clerk not involved in litigation, for withholding ballots from “inactive” military voters. As you know, that’s the status […]
Last week, concerned citizens gathered outside an EPA hearing in Denver to demand a change in the EPA’s ‘Haliburton’ loophole. Testifying with them, was former EPA official Wes Wilson who filed a Whistleblower lawsuit against the EPA. Mr. Wilson was there specifically to testify about the EPA allowing Oil and Gas companies to inject toxic […]
A report in The Hill this morning got us thinking: Criticism of the president has long been a staple of politics, but experts say lawmakers are becoming more extreme in their rebukes of the commander in chief. White House scholars say that although every president has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous barbs, it […]
As the Colorado Independent’s Troy Hooper reports: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wasted little time linking at least one Colorado congressman to Monday’s damning Bloomberg Markets Magazine report on Koch Industries… “Representative Cory Gardner’s career in Congress is propped up by the most radical interests in the country who profit off business with the Iranian […]
UPDATE #2: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports that Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz has asked to join the Denver lawsuit as well, as a defendant, to “defend military voters.” Ortiz, who reluctantly complied with Gessler’s order last week not to mail ballots to inactive voters who are members of the military deployed overseas, but stated […]
When the story first broke about Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s lawsuit to prevent Denver from mailing ballots to registered voters marked “inactive failed to vote,” the possibility of a legislative remedy was immediately raised–the situation, after all, was created by the expiration of a temporary requirement that these voters receive ballots passed by the […]
TUESDAY UPDATE #2: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols: Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler and his staff dismissed speculation from Democratic groups that technical problems Monday on the state’s voter registration website were intentional… “There were some intermittent issues, but we got to it as quickly as we could,” said Rich Coolidge, Gessler’s spokesman. “We monitor […]
DPS District 1 candidate Emily Sirota is no stranger to politics. Her husband David Sirota has a national profile in the progressive movement; besides hosting AM-760’s three hour morning block locally, Sirota’s pretty well-known to liberals across the country. Before he wrote mildly well-received books on populist rage, Sirota was also largely credited with getting Brian Schweitzer elected to the Montana Governorship in 2004.
Needless to say, Sirota and Schweitzer have a pretty friendly relationship. Case in point, this e-mail we received from the Sirota for Schools campaign:
Please join Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher, Rep. Joe Miklosi & City Councilwoman Deb Ortega at a fundraising dinner on October 13th at 6pm for School Board Candidate Emily Sirota featuring a keynote speech by
Montana Governor
Brian SchweitzerThursday, October 13th from 6pm-8pm at Beau Jo’s
2710 S. Colorado Blvd (Colorado & Yale)
This is a huge get for Sirota. It’s a testament to the relationship that Emily and her husband have with the governor, sure, but even then, this is a pretty big deal for a school board race. It’d be amazing for almost any race, but for the DPS School Board? It’s so big that it’s unheard of. The sitting Governor of Montana – and one of the most popular governors in America – is stumping and fundraising for a local election.
It’s this kind of event that will give Sirota an edge over opponent Anne Rowe. Sure, Rowe can make a big deal about “out-of-state” influence impacting the race, but that’s a moot point. This event is going to raise a ton of cash for Sirota and get her news coverage in the Denver newspaper and pretty much every evening broadcast on the 13th. We could even see it getting some national news. It’s a game changer.
Schweitzer’s endorsement and appearance also raises questions about the prescience of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s endorsement of Anne Rowe over Sirota so early on. Normally, we’d say that the endorsement of the mayor of the city in which you’re running for school board is a pretty big deal. When you compare the endorsement of a four-month-old mayor with that of a twice-elected governor of national renown, though, Sirota’s the hands-down winner.
If we were Michael Hancock, we’d be questioning whether or not getting behind Anne Rowe was the savviest move. It’s certainly not a good idea for a western Democratic mayor to be on the opposite side of Brian Schweitzer. It’s definitely not something John Hickenlooper would do.
If anything, this is evidence that Hancock still needs to take it easy in the early days of his administration. He’s not a national figure, yet, as much as it seems that he’d like to be. And in a DPS proxy fight with someone like Schweitzer, it’s hard to see how Hancock could possibly come out on top.
We’ve previously written about Denver Mayor MIchael Hancock’s endorsement of Happy Haynes in her race to fill the at-large seat on the Denver School Board. Haynes and Hancock go way back: she was a vocal advocate of his campaign for mayor and he’s just returning the favor. It’s not surprising, or risky, really, for Hancock to endorse someone who’s already so closely associated with him and his administration.
Hancock won’t stop there, it seems. From an e-mail we received from him on Friday:
Dear Friends,
These are challenging times. Far too many of our children are dropping out of school. Far too many of our children are hungry. Far too many of our children are growing up without an opportunity to grow and thrive.
I truly believe that in the years ahead, whether it is 10, 20, or 50 years from now, people will look back and judge us on our courage, on our wisdom, and on our leadership.
People will not care what side of an issue we were on and they will not care about the labels we assign. They will only care that we did our best – our very best – to live up to our civic duty to create a better future for our children.
I believe Anne Rowe shares the same dedication that I do to building a world-class education system right here in Denver. That is why I am proud to endorse her candidacy for the District 1 Denver School Board.
We understand why Hancock endorsed Haynes in her at-large race. She took a risk early on in endorsing his Mayoral bid, and his subsequent endorsement is really the least he can do. It’s not like he’s taking a risk in that race either; Happy is the frontrunner by leaps and bounds over her four competitors. Hancock’s not really taking a chance in burning any bridges because that race has so many candidates; it’s not a grudge match.
It is curious, however, that Hancock is endorsing in the District 1 race between Rowe and her opponent Emily Sirota. Sirota, wife of politico, columnist, and drive-time talk radio host David Sirota is definitely going to give Rowe a run for her money. Sirota might even beat Rowe. Unlike Haynes’ race, where Hancock is more or less endorsing the candidate most likely to win, there’s a chance that Hancock could be endorsing the loser. That’s embarrassing for any Mayor, but critically embarrassing for someone inaugurated only four months ago. Hancock’s acting like he has all the sway that John Hickenlooper had after years on the job. He doesn’t, and one guaranteed way to lose a lot of political clout is to endorse candidates who end up losing.
We’ve previously written about Denver Mayor MIchael Hancock’s endorsement of Happy Haynes in her race to fill the at-large seat on the Denver School Board. Haynes and Hancock go way back: she was a vocal advocate of his campaign for mayor and he’s just returning the favor. It’s not surprising, or risky, really, for Hancock to endorse someone who’s already so closely associated with him and his administration.
Hancock won’t stop there, it seems. From an e-mail we received on Friday:
Dear Friends,
These are challenging times. Far too many of our children are dropping out of school. Far too many of our children are hungry. Far too many of our children are growing up without an opportunity to grow and thrive.
I truly believe that in the years ahead, whether it is 10, 20 or 50 years from now, people will look back and judge us on our courage, on our wisdom, and on our leadership.
People will not care what side of an issue we were on and they will not care about the labels we assign. They will only care that we did our best – our very best – to live up to our civic duty to create a better future for our children.
I believe Anne Rowe shares the same dedication that I do to building a world-class education system right here in Denver. That is why I am proud to endorse her candidacy for the District 1 Denver School Board.
We understand why Hancock endorsed Haynes in her at-large race. She took a risk early on in endorsing his Mayoral bid, and his subsequent endorsement is really the least he can do. It’s not like it’s a risky endorsement, either; Happy is the frontrunner by leaps and bounds over her four competitors. Hancock’s not really taking a chance in burning any bridges because that race has so many candidates; it’s not a grudge match.
It is curious, however, that Hancock is endorsing in the District 1 race between Rowe and her opponent Emily Sirota. Sirota, wife of politico, columnist, and drive-time talk radio host David Sirota, is definitely going to give Rowe a run for her money. Sirota might even beat Rowe. Unlike Haynes’ race, where Hancock is more or less endorsing the candidate most likely to win, the Hancock-endorsed candidate could lose. Imagine if Rowe did lose. That’s embarrassing for any Mayor, but critically embarrassing for someone inaugurated four months ago. Hancock’s acting like he has all the sway that John Hickenlooper had after years on the job. He doesn’t, and one guaranteed way to lose a lot of political clout is to endorse candidates who don’t win. Hancock just gave himself an even greater incentive to campaign for Haynes and Rowe; it’s going to look really bad if either end up in second place on election day.
As the Washington Post reported this weekend: In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. “Niggerhead,” it […]
A local Occupy update: I was surprised when I went downtown today to learn that the Occupy Denver rally has been going on for 10 days. Surprised because according to my local news, there is no such thing as ‘Occupy’ anything. What does make the news is that legislators – Democrats and Republicans – just […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports: Secretary of State Scott Gessler is right, but for the wrong reasons, Mesa County Clerk Sheila Reiner said Friday. Gessler is right that county clerks are required to send ballots to registered voters for this year’s all-mail elections. But he’s wrong that they aren’t allowed to include […]
This mess that Secretary of State Scott Gessler has stirred up has me interested in how Colorado should deal with mail ballots. I don’t have a background in law or politics, but I do have a background in computer programming and computers can ONLY do what you tell them to do, not what you meant […]
UPDATE: #2: Now a statement from Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder Gilbert Ortiz after the jump, announcing that his office will “reluctantly” comply with Gessler’s order to not send mail ballots to overseas deployed military marked “inactive failed to vote.” “Pueblo County will honor Secretary Gessler’s order,” Ortiz said, “but this is not over. Pueblo […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Under normal circumstances, I’d slam KHOW’s Caplis and Silverman for letting Colorado’s Secretary of State breeze onto their show Wednesday, assert that there’s a “pretty high incidence of fraud” among one type of Denver voters, and then depart without being forced to explain what in the world he was […]
( – promoted by ProgressiveCowgirl) With the partisan glow emanating ever more brightly from Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, it’s worth taking a moment to think back on another SOS conflict-of-interest brouhaha that spilled out of the Secretary of State’s office in Colorado in recent years. The local media hasn’t done much of this, […]
UPDATE: From MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show yesterday: —– A major story broken last night by the Denver paper, now spreading rapidly–yesterday afternoon, Congressmen Charles Gonzalez of Texas and Robert A. Brady of Pennsylvania sent a letter to U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez expressing “concern about the rights of rights of voters in Colorado”–and asking […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Republicans in Congress and elsewhere have been making hay over the recent bankruptcy of California-based solar electric panel manufacturer Solyndra, including Colorado’s freshman Rep. Cory Gardner who serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee: http://gardner.house.gov/press… “The Solyndra story is one of greed, mismanagement, and incompetence. Emails and documents […]
As widely reported, from FOX 31: “While in Denver, the President will visit Abraham Lincoln high school to highlight his American Jobs Act proposal to put workers back on the job by rebuilding and modernizing schools across the country,” a White House press release says. Lincoln offers Obama a venue in southwest Denver in a […]
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay in the loop with regular updates!