(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 #2: Here’s the final Buckpedal: —– UPDATE: Via The New York Times: “We lost our way,” said Mr. Buck, 64, who announced his intentions in interviews and a video news release. “We have an identity crisis in the Republican Party. If we can’t address the election denier issue and we continue down that path, we […]
Remember, folks: If you are still in possession of a ballot for the 2023 election, DO NOT put it in the mail. Ballots must be received by 7:00 pm on Tuesday, Nov. 7, which means that it is now too late to ensure that your mailed ballot will arrive at your county clerk’s office in time […]
Back on September 15, when the #Beetlebert scandal was growing in size quicker than Rep. Lauren Boebert’s date at the Buell Theater in Denver, we wrote in this space that the vaping and the groping and the carrying on could be the thing that finally ended Boebert’s career in Congress: #Beetlebert might well mark the […]
(Down the rabbit hole! — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Supporters and opponents of gender-affirming health care for transgender youth held consecutive rallies at the state Capitol over last weekend. Both included state legislators, advocacy groups and some counter-protestors, but that was where the similarities ended. After “Gays Against Groomers” (GAG), a national group founded just […]
(McPlagiarist musings — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Former Colorado gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis acknowledges that Congresswoman Lauren Boebert messed up in the Buell Theater, where she vaped near a pregnant woman, flipped off staff, and carried on with her date to the pleasure of comedians worldwide. But McInnis, whose demise in the 2010 Colorado Republican […]
Given their phonetically indistinguishable names, some confusion as we predicted was inevitable between the newly-elected Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and relatively newly-elected Democratic Mayor of Denver Mike Johnston. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston wants you to know that under the hood, these two similarly-named public officials couldn’t be more different on the issues […]
What do you need to know about new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson? Well, we’ll tell you in a moment. But there’s a shorter version of this answer: Congressperson Lauren Boebert is a YUGE fan of the four-term Republican from Louisiana. Boebert, in fact, stood literally right next to Johnson during his first press […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) “I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.” – Billy Graham According to the New York Times, Pastor Jared […]
UPDATE #7: Hello, “Square One.” Emmer already dropped out of the running to become House Speaker. Via The Washington Post: Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the House majority whip, and the third Republican speaker pick since the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), had been elected as the GOP nominee on an internal ballot earlier Tuesday. However, […]
The House of Representatives will end its third week without a Speaker of the House after Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan failed (again) to receive enough support from Republicans to put his angry mug in the Speaker’s office. Republicans have reportedly decided not to give Jordan a fourth opportunity to fail, so at least we’re […]
We’re taking a break from wondering if Congress will ever again function normally in order to point you to some absolutely breathtaking corruption currently taking place in one Colorado Springs school district. We haven’t seen any other reporting on this story, but we absolutely should; this is one of those tales that needs to be […]
UPDATE: It doesn’t appear that there is much enthusiasm for “tapping in” temporary Speaker “Mini” Patrick McHenry to at least allow the House to function a bit more than is possible currently. And in case you were wondering…things could still somehow actually get WORSE: Cammack also said there’s concern inside GOP conference that granting McHenry […]
Jeff Hurd is not Lauren Boebert. That’s been the crux of the Grand Junction Republican’s campaign for Congress in CO-03 thus far, and it’s not an ineffective message given Boebert’s uncanny ability to do and say the wrong thing at virtually every opportunity. The August #Beetlebert scandal, in which Boebert was kicked out of a […]
(Never forget — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican Mike Coffman wants to be elected mayor of Aurora again, but for most of his 34-year political career, Coffman was a warrior for issues that had little to do with city government and everything to do with spreading a right-wing agenda across Colorado and the country. Immigration […]
If you’ve followed Colorado politics in the last decade, you’re probably well aware that the Colorado Republican Party has moved so far beyond “dumpster fire” status that it’s hard to come up with an appropriate analogy anymore for their consistent ineptitude. The GOP’s persistent failures were punctuated in 2022 with devastating losses to Democrats up […]
A former school teacher named Tim Hernandez was selected by a vacancy committee on August 26 to serve the remainder of the term of former Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, who resigned her seat after winning election to the Denver City Council in June. Hernandez will serve in the state legislature for one session because of the […]
The ouster last week of Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy took on a whole new shade of irresponsible over the weekend, as geopolitical events made the smallest of potatoes out of the objections of the “Gaetz Eight” including Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck to a functioning House if led by Kevin McCarthy. Although House […]
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” — Ian Fleming in Goldfinger As we noted on Friday, Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) had a really tough week that ended with news that Mesa County Commissioner Bobbie Daniel was joining fellow Commissioner Cody Davis in publicly endorsing […]
The eight Republican members of Congress who voted to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led by Rep. Matt “Giggity” Gaetz and including Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck did not include Colorado’s by-far most cantankerous Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, despite Boebert’s fight to the fifteenth ballot at Gaetz’s side to stop McCarthy from becoming speaker and even […]
Yesterday, the Colorado Sun’s Unaffiliated newsletter featured a chart with a brief explainer, highlighting the members of Colorado’s congressional delegation most inclined to vote against their own party: [Rep. Ken Buck] broke from the GOP majority 14.4% of the time on floor votes from January through September. Buck also had the highest percentage of missed […]
UPDATE #4: The destruction wrought by Matt Gaetz today is just the Colorado Republican Party’s style: Smugness over cash flow is how Dave Williams runs his shop too. —– UPDATE #3: Here’s the moment for posterity — the first time in history that a Speaker of the House has been removed by a vote of his/her […]
UPDATE: It’s almost like Republicans are trying to PROVE that they’re shutting down the government for no reason: WHAT DO WE WANT? “Now!” WHEN DO WE WANT IT? “What?” —– The federal government will officially shutdown at Midnight tomorrow (think Saturday night), as hard-right House Republicans drawed themselves another dumb line in the sand today […]
As The Washington Post reports: During more than three decades in office, Feinstein delivered muscular support as well as withering criticism of the CIA, helped mold the federal bench, championed an assault weapons ban, and held down the center of the Democratic Party as it moved swiftly to the left. Mrs. Feinstein’s death, at her […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, the explosive, sustained controversy over GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s churlish and lascivious behavior inside Denver’s Buell Theater during a performance of the musical adaptation of Beetlejuice on September 10 has forced a prominent Mesa County Republican elected official to take the unusual step of rescinding his endorsement […]
Yesterday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House plowed away on a series of individual spending bills reflecting the non-starter ideological aspirations of conservatives with no seeming regard for the impending government shutdown set to begin at the end of the week. As the clock ticks down on a realistic proposal to fund the federal government, meaning a […]
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