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Half-Assed Attack on Secretary of State’s Office Backfires on Gabe Evans
As you might have noticed last week, schools and office buildings across the Denver Metro area were shut down on Thursday and Friday because of a massive snowstorm that snarled roads and highways. Many areas received more than a foot of snow, which prompted the Colorado legislature and most state and local government offices to […]
Dave Williams, Vickie Tonkins Accused of Criminal Tampering With Delegate Process
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This story originally appeared in The Colorado Times Recorder. According to a news release, a criminal complaint was filed today with the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s office by Colorado Congressional District 5 candidate Joshua Griffin, who is alleging that El Paso County Chair Vickie Tonkins and Colorado GOP Chair — and […]
Extra Pod: The Scourge of Uncertified Potatoes (feat. Christy Powell)
Snowed in and bored already? Fortunately we have some extra podcast content this week! Today on the Get More Smarter Podcast…Christy Powell is back! We’ve got a whole Christy-only special on the halfway point of the Colorado legislative session as a bonus episode! Our unofficial third cohost stops by to give us an update on […]
Throwback Thursday: Blizzards Break But Also Make Colorado Politicos
With a major snowstorm bringing public business to a halt along the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains today, we recall some moments in time when Colorado’s infamously fickle winter weather had political effects that endured long after the snow and ice had melted away. Longtime residents will recall the great Christmas Blizzard of […]
Boebert Rages While Dust Settles On Buck’s Momentous Exit
Now that (some) of the smoke has cleared from Rep. Ken Buck’s surprise announcement on Tuesday that he would be resigning from Congress effective March 22, it’s time to take another look at why this happened, what it means for Colorado Republicans, and what comes next. The Quiet Part (Not) Out Loud Nobody is saying […]
BREAKING: Ken Buck to Resign from Congress and Drop Anvil on Lauren Boebert
UPDATE: Okay, bear with us because this is confusing… Governor Polis has called a special election in CO-04 to align with the June 25 Primary Election already scheduled. This makes sense, because it saves the state money by not requiring county clerks and the Colorado Secretary of State to conduct two separate elections within a […]
Way, Way Off The Deep End With Rep. Scott Bottoms
Freshman Rep. Scott “There Is No” Bottoms of Colorado Springs, whose day job is lead pastor at an area evangelical Christian church, has a reputation for couching most if not all of his views on the temporal world in the language of “spiritual warfare”–this in accordance with Bottoms’ apocalyptic worldview in which we are presently […]
Boebert: Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods, Except Steve Bannon
Newsweek reports from carpetbagging crusader Rep. Lauren Boebert’s latest check-in with coup plotter and hirsute layer-dresser Steve Bannon, whom we’ve always known was an idol of Boebert’s…but now it’s, well, official idolatry: Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert has said that former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon is considered a “god”. In conversation with Boebert on his […]
New Election Year, Same Old Big Oil BS
Friday night, 9NEWS’ Marshall Zelinger fact-checked an ad from the American Petroleum Institute that has been in heavy rotation in recent days including the local broadcast of the Academy Awards last night. It’s another ad darkly warning that Democrats in the Colorado legislature are “pushing the most extreme anti-energy bills in state history,” echoing the […]
Two Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives Move Closer to November Ballot
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This week, the Colorado Title Board approved two ballot initiatives targeting transgender people in Colorado. “Public Athletic Programs for Minors,” which would require transgender athletes to compete according to their sex assigned at birth in school or intramural athletics, and “Prohibit Certain Medical Procedures for Minors,” which would ban gender-affirming care […]
Boebert’s Big (Last?) Chance To Disrupt The State of the Union
Via Raw Story’s Brad Reed, former Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, now a talking head for the Fox News Channel with a reputation for taking the occasional dunk on his former Republican colleagues, speculates about one of the things we’re also pondering–in what could be Rep. Lauren Boebert’s final appearance at a Joe Biden […]
Only Jerry Sonnenberg Can Save Us From Lauren Boebert Now
As Jeff Rice reports for the Sterling Journal-Advocate, the endorsement dropped like a live grenade by ex-President Donald Trump for carpetbagging Rep. Lauren Boebert in the overcrowded CO-04 Republican primary could be having the effect that Boebert’s opponents ironically need: recognition that the field of candidates not named Boebert must winnow down to a single […]
Race to the Bottoms: Personhood, IVF, and Prosecuting Women for Abortions
UPDATE: As expected, Bottoms’ “personhood” bill failed to make it out of committee. —– Republicans are in dangerous place, politically-speaking, on the issue of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and so-called “personhood” legislation that seeks to give a zygote the same rights as a walking, talking human being. Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Scott “There is No” Bottoms […]
SCOTUS Rules Trump Eligible, Leaves Crucial Insurrection Finding Intact
Colorado Newsline’s Chase Woodruff reports this morning, it’s the outcome overwhelmingly expected after tough oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court last month–with Justices ruling unanimously that the state of Colorado cannot itself enforce the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution barring individuals who have engaged in insurrection from running for federal office. “Because the […]
Nobody Seems to Like Dave Williams, So How is he Still State GOP Chairman?
As Bente Birkeland and Caitlyn Kim reported Wednesday for Colorado Public Radio: Former President Ronald Reagan famously quipped that the Eleventh Commandment was, “thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” As Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams approaches his one-year anniversary in the job, it’s a commandment he regularly breaches. Under his leadership, Williams is […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Feb. 28)
Holy crap! There is so much happening in the political world today that there’s no possible way for us to get to everything without returning to this Get More Smarter format. So let’s do that. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you […]
Dave Williams’ War on AFP: What About Gabe, Dave?
Earlier this month, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby summarized a growing list of allegations against Colorado Republican Party chairman and congressional candidate Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams, who ever since taking the job last year has regularly employed the resources and brand of the state party in pursuit of Williams’ personal career objectives. After […]
Ken Buck Still Groping Blindly For a Legacy
Retiring Rep. Ken “KenSNBC” Buck has substantially reduced his stockpile of friends on the right side of the aisle through his “evolution” away from support for the impeachment of President Joe Biden and more recently Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, while at the same time contributing greatly to the present state of historically unproductive disarray […]
Republicans Caught in Dangerous IVF/Abortion Rights Quagmire
We wrote last week about the devastating opinion by the Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos had the same rights as actual people. That decision has created chaos for families who hope to conceive children through the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) — which often uses frozen embryos for this very purpose. From […]
Colorado Week in Review for February 25, 2024
Our deliberately oversimplified glance at what’s happening in Colorado. awesome + uniting Denver-area residents could soon start getting deliveries by drones Jokic’s triple-double in 130-110 win over Wizards gives him at least one against every opponent Despite many hurdles, Colorado’s economy should plow ahead in 2024, forecast says awesome + controversy Mileage goals, pollution fines, […]
One Too Many Skeletons for “Shady Steve” in CO-03
Pueblo Republican Stephen Varela is one of those politicians who seem to exist in a perpetual state of shadiness. The latest trouble for “Shady Steve” may finally be the one that sinks him. As Sam Tabachnick reports today for The Denver Post, Varela’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in CO-03 would seem to […]
Deja Vu All Over Again: Russian Disinformation Drives Biden Impeachment
As CNN reports–for a party that considers itself the defenders of American sovereignty against evil foreign influences on all sides, the Republican Party sure seems to wind up doing the bidding of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service an awful lot. We’re not talking today about the 2016 presidential elections, in which Russian intelligence played a […]
You Don’t Need Extra Permission to Read This Story
There may be no more annoying, exhausting, and deplorable business model than that of the health insurance industry in the United States. Customers pay a lot of money for health insurance coverage only to be forced to jump through endless hoops in order to receive the very benefits that were agreed upon from the start. […]
Doug Bruce In It To Win It, Or At Least Kick It
As reporter Hannah Metzger writes for Westword today, one of Colorado’s most infamous conservative activists, former state Rep. Doug “Mr. TABOR” Bruce, is officially jumping into the CD-5 primary for retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn’s seat after signaling his intention to do so early this month: Rumors have swirled for weeks that Bruce could join the […]