(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%
UPDATE: House GOP map killed tonight by the Senate State Affairs Committee, making a special session of the legislature, or the courts, or both, a certainty. —– FOX 31’s Eli Stokols updates on redistricting as the clock runs down to sine die tomorrow: Last night, after a Republican-drawn map passed the GOP-controlled House, Senate Democrats […]
Republicans in the Colorado House today introduced a new proposed redistricting map, which passed that GOP-held chamber today ahead of even more certain death in the Democratic-controlled Senate. The changes are simple enough, as reported by the Denver paper’s Lynn Bartels, and reverse previous concessions made to gain Democratic support–more conservative Littletonians in CD-6, more […]
Last October, a campaign TV spot (above) from then congressional candidate Scott Tipton was highlighted by Colorado Springs’ KRDO-TV: It begins with a clip from Salazar’s campaign ad with the Congressman saying, “I will always fight to protect Social Security & Medicare.” Tipton is intenitonally pictured with a group of senior citizens, most likely because […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) People on the left tend to lump all “conservative talk radio” in the same category. Hate-filled, ill-informed, contrived. That’s not the case at all. The shows differ a lot from one another. Some are filled with passion and authenticity. Others, ironically, bring the Politburo or psychedelic drugs to mind. […]
Happy Mother’s day to all of the great Moms out there. Whether your raised children that were born to you, children that were given to you, shared your child with another family to raise because you loved them so much, or helped someone else raise a child … thank you for your investment in coming […]
With Chris Romer’s volley questioning rival Michael Hancock’s pro-choice credentials, much “he said, he didn’t say” has made its rounds through Denver’s political Web sites and news outlets. The crux of the “discussion” has focused on three main points: Hancock’s self-identification as “pro-family planning” on a Planned Parenthood candidate questionnaire, the only major candidate who […]
With the GOP-controlled House and Democratic-held Senate going their separate ways on competing “compromise” congressional redistricting maps, FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports: With neither side happy with the other’s latest maps, Republicans are planning to pass their map in the GOP-controlled House while Democrats pass theirs in the Senate where they have the majority. Both […]
We’ve spent a considerable amount of time discussing the battle over last year’s so-called “Amazon Tax,” in truth a law, now mired in court proceedings, that would have required online merchants to notify Colorado customers of the use tax they owe (and have always owed) on purchases–and supply the state with monetary totals for verification. […]
McClatchy’s Kevin Hall: At a time when Washington is wrestling with how to end federal budget deficits and trim the national debt – huge questions that are expected to dominate the nation’s politics through the 2012 elections – the fact that Americans are under-taxed compared with U.S. historic norms is central to the discussion. This […]
An interesting take on the possible presidential candidacy of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels from the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank–is Daniels the first candidate to surface on the GOP side who wouldn’t scare away middle America? Mitch Daniels, the conservative intelligentsia’s choice for president in 2012, came to Washington on Wednesday to give a speech on […]
CO SB 85, the “john’s bill” or demand-side diversion program, is in the House for second reading today. What is it? SB 85 attempts to save young people from sexual slavery, by giving cities an option to establish “john’s schools” for first time offenders. Like traffic school, it’s goal is to educate the consumers (“johns”) […]
UPDATE: Not happening, folks. New statement from Sen. Rollie Heath a short while ago: The redistricting process isn’t supposed to create Congressmen or Congresswomen for life. Republican lawmakers owe it to the people of Colorado to support a congressional redistricting map that respects communities of interest and includes competitive districts, a request made repeatedly at […]
Rep. Sally Kern, Republican of Oklahoma City. Have you thought lately about how lucky you are that you don’t live in Oklahoma? Here’s another reason. http://blog.seattlepi.com/seat… “We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison because they are black or because they don’t want to study as […]
We were amused to see a guest op-ed in today’s Denver newspaper from former Colorado Senate Majority Leader Mark Hillman, getting terribly uptight about the proposed Democratic congressional redistricting map introduced by Sen. Rollie Heath last week. Hillman opens by defining “gerrymandering” for the reader as “irregular manipulating of electoral district boundaries to give an […]
According to a release we just received from Colorado Ethics Watch, they are objecting to the filing of an amicus brief from Secretary of State Scott Gessler, in effect on behalf of one of his former election law clients Clear the Bench. As we noted a couple of weeks ago, Gessler’s moves to assist Clear […]
Yes, it’s early. Yes, the 2012 election is still a long ways from now. But we’re a political blog, and we’ve got to ask the obvious question: Does killing Osama bin Laden all but guarantee that President Obama will be re-elected in 2012? This paragraph alone, from Obama’s speech to the nation last night, is […]
It’s worth saying again, given that about 30,000 newspaper layoffs have occurred in the past three years, how much a community loses when a veteran journalist loses her job. For example, someone like me has to spend hours poring over Nexis to discover that the Rocky reported 20 years ago that former Gov. Dick Lamm […]
As the Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reports: Sen. Keith King, R-Colorado Springs, wrote a short-lived bill to help local school districts convince their voters to raise property taxes. The bill died Thursday, but King has proven to be a master of turning today’s rejected ideas into tomorrow’s laws… Twenty years ago, the state paid a […]
As I noted the other day, the Colorado Springs Mayor’s race continues to be a bit more interesting than the Denver mayoral. Just saw this pop up on their blog down there (can we post links to the gazette? I don’t remember… Sorry if we’re not supposed to!). After crazy rightwing radio host Jeff Crank […]
As the Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover reports: Colorado business groups got the result they wanted when the state Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a bill creating a health care exchange board, but they were not happy with the vote tally. Every Republican in the Senate voted against Senate Bill 200, sponsored by Sen. […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Reporters don’t have much time to pore over Nexis, like I do, and they might argue that even if they had extra time, they wouldn’t want to spend it researching stories about redistricting, which seems to end the same way every ten years anyway. But I found an old […]
FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports, as originally announced by Sen. Rollie Heath last week: Senate Democrats Thursday afternoon introduced a proposal to re-draw Colorado’s seven congressional districts in a way that makes them more competitive. This comes after the 10-member bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Redistricting broke down last week, after Democrats and Republicans couldn’t […]
Update: We won with a 6-5 bipartisan vote. The bill now goes to the House floor. ************************************************* I am excited to be joining friends — international anti-trafficking expert Beth Klein and Colorado activist/organizer Debbie Fischer, along with a slate of bipartisan supporters, to testify on behalf of CO SB85. SB85 will stiffen fines for johns […]
I’ve written in the past–whether it was about IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge or City Forward projects–about the different ways that cities can serve as laboratories of government and how cool it is that these projects can be part of this process. Given their size and immediacy in our lives, they are the level of government […]
(Ryan Call’s love-hate relationship with the truth goes on – promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado GOP chair Ryan Call was on Jon Caldara’s “Devil’s Advocate” TV show on KBDI (Channel 12) Friday, and the pestiferous Caldara was ribbing Call about how the Colorado GOP inevitably bungles things up when it comes to elections. Call was […]
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