(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
20%
10%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
40%↓
30%
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
80%↑
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
(D) Wanda James
70%↓
20%↑
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
30%↓
20%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(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%
Testimony will be held today in the State Senate Health and Human Services Committee regarding HB23-1003 (“School Mental Health Assessment”), which has become another flashpoint for right-wing activists forever searching for their next grievance. This legislation, which has already passed the State House, is riling up a group of “parents’ rights” advocacy groups that tend […]
As Colorado Newsline’s Jennifer Shutt reports, Colorado’s two most stridently anti-abortion congresspersons, Reps. Doug Lamborn and Lauren Boebert, joined 67 of their congressional and U.S. Senate colleagues who signed a letter supporting the controversial decision by Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that the widely-used drug mifepristone was wrongly approved by the Food and Drug Administration: A […]
Happy Birthday to David Letterman. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST UP… ► […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced this morning after her conviction of obstruction in one of the cases on the periphery of the larger investigation into the theft of proprietary election data in her failed quest to prove Donald Trump should still be President. As […]
NBC News reports on the shocking expulsion of two Black Democratic lawmakers by the GOP supermajority Tennessee House of Representatives yesterday, while the vote to expel a third white woman representative narrowly failed: Republican legislators in Tennessee voted Thursday to expel two Black Democrats from the state House over their protests on the chamber floor […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Every second Saturday of the month at its headquarters on 17th Avenue, the Independence Institute hosts a “Barter Market,” ostensibly for freedom-loving citizens to exchange goods and avoid sales tax. Items listed as either on offer or requested at the monthly gathering include organic local food items, homemade candles and guitar […]
Democrat Lesley Smith announced on Thursday that she will not seek re-election to her statewide CU Regent seat in 2024 and will instead run for what will be an open seat in the state legislature. Smith will be running for the seat in HD-49, which is a safe Democratic district. This isn’t ordinarily the kind […]
NBC News reported Monday on the rollout by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee–DCCC or “D-Trip” if you want to say it like the cool kids–of their initial slate of 31 Republican-held seats races they’ll be working to flip in 2024. And after coming within 546 votes of losing her on-paper R+9 seat last November, Colorado’s […]
Fresh from Rep. Ken Buck’s drubbing last week at the hands of CNN’s White House correspondent Phil Mattingly over Buck’s trophy AR-15 and Buck’s dreadfully inaccurate recounting of Colorado’s “red flag” gun safety law, Buck was back on CNN this weekend to defend former President Donald Trump in the wake of Trump’s indictment last […]
awesome + uniting Jefferson County gives 20 acres near fairgrounds to Westernaires as permanent home This Colorado ski resort was just named the best in North America by popular skiing, snowboarding website New plan calls for 2M electric vehicles in Colorado by 2035 awesome + controversy Ban on corporal punishment in Colorado schools advances to […]
It’s more blustery outside than the guy inside that paper sack. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and […]
Yesterday afternoon, senior White House correspondent for CNN Phil Mattingly recorded a segment with Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck on the subject of gun control laws generally and the AR-15 rifle in particular–the latter being the overwhelming weapon of choice in American mass shootings, and also a personal trophy hanging on the wall of Rep. […]
The biggest political news of the last week in Colorado has been the end after weeks of increasing obstruction by the Republican micro-minority in the Colorado House of the Democratic supermajority’s patience–leading to the invoking this past weekend of the body’s longstanding Rule 14 to limit debate on an individual piece of legislation, thus […]
Americans take strong consumer protection laws for granted while they protect the public from fraud, defective goods, and bad service. Much like the work week before unions fought for the weekend, life without consumer protection laws would be bad for everyone. Except ripoff artists. Consumer fraud is a huge problem in Colorado. Colorado ranks 12th […]
Colorado Republicans are apoplectic after Democrats finally got tired of the GOP’s pointless stall tactics over common sense gun safety legislation – just a week after another school shooting in Colorado – and enacted a rule to limit discussion so that the process of legislating could resume. This was the second House Republican “filibluster” of […]
Welcome to Spring; enjoy the allergies! Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST UP… […]
As the New York Times reports, the cross-border exchange of marijuana and fireworks between Colorado and our northern neighbor Wyoming is adding another hot product to the interstate commerce mix: abortion pills. Wyoming on Friday became the first state to explicitly ban the use of pills for abortion, adding momentum to a growing push by […]
With your help, great things are starting to happen at the Colorado Capitol this year. I want to start off the week by thanking everyone who contacted your state representative to support House Bill 23-1099, legislation to save Colorado renters money by streamlining the applicant screening process. By allowing renters to provide portable screening reports […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado Republican Party has a new chair — can he possibly be worse than the last one? Colorado has an ongoing gun violence problem, and Democrats in the state legislature are doing something about it. We’ll tell you which Republicans have been named the rightiest of […]
The pivotal moment in last weekend’s election of far-right Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams to be the next chairman of the Colorado Republican Party came when one of Williams’ rivals for the job, indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, spoke out of order following the second round of balloting to announce her supporters […]
Who do you think will make it through to the runoff election in the race for Denver Mayor? That’s the hot question right now in Colorado politics, for a couple of reasons: For one thing, the Denver Mayor’s office is only open (without an incumbent seeking re-election) about once a decade; the ultimate winner of […]
“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.” –Emma Goldman
(Welcome to the previously unthinkable — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Despite losing the election to lead the Colorado Republican Party last weekend, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters may yet have a role in leading the state GOP. Peters says she’s considering a party leadership position offered to her by newly elected Chair Dave Williams, […]
Colorado House Republicans are sad. The GOP’s micro-minority office issued a statement on Tuesday complaining about how they were not included in a discussion about a joint resolution (HJR23-1018) declaring March 14, 2023 as “Equal Pay Day.” The entire statement is worth examining, both for the absurdity of the text itself and for the very […]
As you may have read by now, the Denver Post’s editorial board laid into the Colorado Republican Party this morning for their disastrous selection of former state Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams to serve as the next party chairman, succeeding Kristi Burton Brown who presided over a 2022 election cycle that will go into the […]
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