(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%
In three of the stories that The Denver Post ran about Michael Hancock’s alleged ties to prostitutes, including the big splashy ones on the front page, Post reporters, as if to bolster a weak story, tossed in vague and misleading references to U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham. 9News revealed in 2008 that Nottingham was allegedly […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The conservative talk-radio world erupted in anger a few weeks ago, when Gov. John Hickenlooper vetoed a bill that would have required families near the poverty level to pay more for state-subsidized health insurance for their kids. On KLZ’s “Grassroots Radio Colorado” June 1, Rep. Brian DelGrosso told hosts […]
Bloggers like me see it as big win if a serious journalistic entity like The Denver Post credits them for breaking a news story. People read about your blog in the newspaper, and your audience might increase from three to five. But the best part is the credibility. Most bloggers still flail on the margins […]
Perhaps more of a flip-flop-flip, reports ABC News this weekend: Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain have announced that they won’t sign the Susan B. Anthony’s List Pro-Life Presidential Pledge, which five other Republican contenders –Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum — agreed to sign. Romney announced his […]
A fascinating story from the Loveland Reporter-Herald’s Alicia Stice: responding to criticism of Rep. Cory Gardner’s vote for the “Ryan Plan” 2012 budget, a textbook deception: A group of about 50 people gathered Thursday outside of U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner’s Fort Collins office to protest his recent vote for a budget proposal that would make […]
New York Times’ Jeff Zeleny–let’s count up the problems with this: Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop [in Tampa, FL] on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own. […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Los Angeles Times: “Given the important U.S. interests served by U.S. military operations in Libya and the limited nature, scope and duration of the anticipated actions, the president had constitutional authority, as commander in chief and chief executive and pursuant to his foreign affairs powers, to direct such limited military operations abroad,” the […]
In today’s Denver newspaper, Denver Mayor-elect Michael Hancock supplies the first affirmative rebuttal to charges leveled against him just before the election that he was a client of the infamous Denver Players prostitution ring while serving on the city council. Last weekend, Hancock landed on the front page of the Denver paper after an agreement […]
In a front-page story today in the Denver newspaper, the rapidly developing post-election scandal surrounding Denver Mayor-elect Michael Hancock becomes both much worse and, with respect to at least one important detail reported in recent days, the subject of an interesting disagreement between media outlets. Chuck Plunkett and Jeremy Meyer report today that Hancock has […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Last month, Sarah Palin made a joint appearance in Denver with retired Gen. William Boykin, who believes Islam shouldn’t be given the same first-amendment protections as other religions. Palin came and went, and most major local media didn’t mention Boykin’s anti-Islamic views, which would surely have been reported if […]
FRIDAY UPDATE: Complete Colorado adds some details on the open records request–make that requests–Monday, from Michael Hancock’s campaign and at least one news outlet seeking any surveillance evidence of Hancock having visited the Denver Players. As we said yesterday, DPD reports that no such photo or other record exists: it likely wouldn’t, given that his […]
Despite the distraction of Weinergate, Denver Mayoral rumours, and the lure of the penalty box parties calling me back, I’ve been watching the news about the enormous wildfire in Arizona. As of yesterday afternoon, the inferno was zero percent contained and almost 400,000 acres, an area larger than the city of Phoenix. The weather forecast […]
(Yup, this legislation is dumb. With a capital DUMB. – promoted by Colorado Pols) Does the acronym PIPA mean anything to you? Well, it should. It represents the PROTECT IP Act, otherwise known as the Internet Blacklist Bill. This act, currently being considered by Congress, would give the government the power to block access […]
Revisiting a report from the Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover late last month: Colorado gaming commissioners have approved a 5 percent tax decrease for casinos that will enable the businesses to keep about $5 million more of revenue for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. The across-the-board tax cut – the first given […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The Ruby pipeline–which will bring gas from Wyoming and Colorado to the West Coast–is set to come online soon, the Sentinel is reporting: The Ruby Pipeline, scheduled to go online in March, is set to begin carrying natural gas from the Rocky Mountains west to Oregon in July, officials […]
Los Angeles Times: “We’re going to be in this race, and we’re in it to win,” [Rick] Santorum said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He said his campaign has a “lot of momentum” in the early primary states. Santorum planned to give a speech later Monday morning in western Pennsylvania, near where his immigrant Italian […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Right wing “news” site WhoSaidYouSaid really enjoys going after Democrats over their paperwork. Physician, heal thyself. The parent organization of WhoSaidYouSaid is Citizen Media: A Message from the Colorado Secretary of State This e-mail is notification that Citizen Media has become Noncompliant for failure to file its Periodic Report. […]
(Tipton had better straighten this out, and soon. In politics the coverup is almost always worse than the crime, and Tipton’s in danger of making this look like a bigger scandal (whether it is or not) by not getting his story straight. – promoted by Colorado Pols) In another exemplary radio interview on the conservative Steamboat […]
The State of New York has filed suit against the federal government over fracking, alleging a failure to uphold national environmental law in moving toward approving thousands of new wells in New York and Pennsylvania. Shareholders for Chevron recently came close to forcing that corporation to disclose more of its fracking practices, and a […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) “You are among friends here,” Rick Wagner told his radio guest Scott McInnis Thursday. “No one is going to try to pick at you because I know there is a limited amount you can say about it.” Wagner kept his promise, stroking McInnis for about 15 minutes, even saying […]
We’ve previously discussed right-wing Jefferson County Board of Education member Laura Boggs, censured last December for her “erratic, disrespectful and inconsistent” behavior toward other board members–the first such action against a board member in the history of the district. From fighting against desperately needed grants to physically sneaking into a JeffCo teacher’s union meeting, Boggs’ […]
We’ve previously discussed right-wing Jefferson County Board of Education member Laura Boggs, censured last December for her “erratic, disrespectful and inconsistent” behavior toward other board members–the first such action against a board member in the history of the district. From fighting against desperately needed grants to physically sneaking into a JeffCo teacher’s union meeting, Boggs’ brief term on the JeffCo school board has been lively to say the least. Boggs even actively campaigned on behalf of the “Bad 3” initiatives, last year’s Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101, after voting with the board to officially oppose them.
Having failed to gain traction for…whatever her agenda is from present fellow board members, it would appear that Boggs is calling for “Tea Party” backup. And some GOP big names.
Boggs is sponsoring a meeting at the Arvada Public Library on June 15th to discuss JeffCo school board elections in November (details follow). JeffCo’s school board will have two seats vacated by current members who are term-limited. According to the announcement, a “Tea Party”-sounding group, Revive Our American Republic (ROAR), is hosting this meeting.
ROAR is registered with the Secretary of State’s office as a nonprofit, with the filing agent listed as notorious GOP attorney John Zakhem. What we’re hearing about the JeffCo school board today is eerily similar to ambitions expressed by Republicans prior to the takeover of the Douglas County Board of Education in 2009. High profile elected Republicans like Sen. Ted Harvey joined in that battle, which ended in GOP “nonpartisan” victory–this year bearing fruit in the form of a controversial new voucher program funding private schools.
A voucher system to siphon resources from an already strapped–but still very proud–school district would face a much more uphill fight in Jefferson County, with much greater political consequences. Our first thought is that JeffCo surer than hell isn’t DougCo, and were it not for a heavy hitter like Zakhem involved, we would dismiss this as a fringy fool’s errand.
But given the history, maybe we’d better not be so dismissive…
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: Look who the New York Times’ Carl Hulse leads off the story with: Sal Pace, the Democratic leader of the State House in Colorado, was already preparing to run for Congress in a district captured by Republicans last year, but his party’s special election win last week […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: How about a little spin with your Sunday morning coffee? Romer and Hancock respond: Hancock: In the words of Wellington Webb, “A poll is just a snapshot in time. The only poll that actually matters is the one on Election Day.” We know from early ballot returns […]
“Economic expert” Eric Fruits. (photo via Twitter) Right wing blogs, followed yesterday by the Colorado Senate Minority press office, are eagerly distributing a new “study” from a purported economic expert named Eric Fruits of Portland, Oregon. This “study,” according to local Republicans anyway, claims a revenue proposal from Sen. Rollie Heath to reset sales and […]
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