(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Unbiased observers, like ColoradoPols and Mike Littwin of the Colorado Independent, have concluded that Tom Tancredo has been winning the GOP gubernatorial debates by not showing up. But Tancredo is apparently willing to put his winning streak on the line by debating Hick, if Tanc wins the GOP primary. That is, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) American Spectator columnist Ross Kaminsky was the only media figure who reported on a private meeting last month between Republican Senate candidate Cory Gardner and "a small group of Republicans" to discuss immigration policy. "The roughly 10 people in the room," Kaminsky wrote in his much-discussed column about the meeting, "included […]
Steve Kreisberg, AFSCME (International) on Public Pension Contractual Rights. A few important statements from a former AFSCME Colorado Official: "AFSCME's endorsement of screwing public employees out of their pension COLAs in Colorado is unfortunately quite true." "AFSCME has always placed the interests of the union and the Democratic Party above that of rank and file […]
We're at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood for Live Blog coverage of the GOP Gubernatorial Debate. We've got Bob Beauprez, Scott Gessler, and Mike Kopp battling it out once more. Tom Tancredo is not here, as expected. They're calling this "Women and Colorado's Future." *All comments are paraphrased unless in direct quotes. FINAL THOUGHTS This […]
Since his entry into the U.S. Senate race in late February, a defining characteristic of Rep. Cory Gardner's campaign strategy has been the swift and unapologetic abandonment of a number of stridently conservative policy positions. The most widely publicized example of this has been Gardner's flip-flop on the Personhood abortion bans, for which Gardner's former […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Fox 31 Denver's Eli Stokols reported this morning that Rep. Mike Coffman will stage a press conference today calling on his Republican colleagues in the House to pass the Enlist Act, which would offer a young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship through military service. News coverage about Coffman's bill, which […]
9NEWS' Brandon Rittiman breaks the news, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is wading into the Colorado Republican gubernatorial primary! And that means, of course, that the other three candidates are gone. Scott Gessler, Tom Tancredo…and who's the third one again? You can add another former GOP presidential contender to the list of people endorsing former congressman Bob […]
The Colorado Statesman's Ernest Luning follows up in the latest issue last week's big story of endorsements rolling in for Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Bob Beauprez. With Beauprez calling in his many chits, Tom Tancredo standing firm on his built-in base of single issue support, and Mike Kopp fading quickly into irrelevance, Secretary of State Scott Gessler is battling […]
(Us too – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last week, Colorado Pols reported that Colorado gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez agreed, in no uncertain terms, that the federal government has the right to require you, dear citizen of the United States, to have health insurance, just like auto insurance. It's called the "individual mandate" and, of course, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) So I attended the Pueblo County Republican Party Meeting on May 13, 2014. My intent was to go incognito, as a generic interested Puebloan, and to find out what Marilyn Marks, (left) the featured speaker and Colorado elections activist, had to say about elections in Pueblo, as well as how the […]
The State of Colorado and a state agency (Colorado PERA) are currently attempting to escape obligations to which the state and many Colorado local governments are contractually bound. Oral arguments in the resultant lawsuit, Justus v. State, will be heard by the Colorado Supreme Court in approximately two weeks. The State of Illinois, having adopted […]
As the Colorado Independent's John Tomasic reports, food for thought as the debate over "fracking" near Colorado's populated areas goes on: The energy and environment research Center for Western Priorities this week released a map of oil-industry spills that have occurred in Colorado over the past 13 years. It’s a colorful map but it’s not very […]
Public pension contractual rights advocate Fred Klonsky in Illinois, on May 15, 2014: "Belz has sent the message to the Legislature, Governor and Mayors that the courts will not likely approve pension theft." "On a personal level . . . all this ignores the pain and fear that retirees across the state must endure while […]
Anyone familiar with Colorado politics knows that there is no more important county than Jefferson when it comes to winning statewide elections. It may be mathematically possible to win a statewide race in Colorado without carrying Jefferson County, but nobody in their right mind would actually consider that approach. That's why the spectacular implosion of […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols reports on a new poll that validates something we've been saying for weeks: measures working their way toward the ballot to enhance local control over oil and gas drilling are also good politics. We understand this fact may upset some conventional wisdom: According to the statewide poll by RBI Strategies, which […]
(Um – Promoted by Colorado Pols) GOP gubernatorial candidates will be debating the issues from a "feminine perspective" May 20 at the conservative Centennial Institute, housed at the conservative Colorado Christian University (CCU), presided over by the conservative former Sen. Bill Armstrong. Here's a description of the debate topic: The Women of Centennial Institute, a […]
While working for the most politically active agency in Colorado state government, Colorado PERA administrators must balance scores of political relationships, and divide hundreds of thousands of Colorado PERA trust fund dollars each year among hired Colorado PERA lobbyists. These PERA lobbyists seek to effect the political goals of the Colorado PERA Board of Trustees, […]
Attorney Stacia Kuhn is the Republican nominee for HD-28 (Lakewood), where the GOP has an uphill battle in trying to defeat incumbent Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen. Kuhn's website sports a really ugly logo that would have been trendy in, say, 1985, but she does have a catchy slogan–and it's already been proven to be effective! […]
As we have seen, the Colorado Legislature has not met its full public pension obligations since 2003, and now seeks to shift the resultant, accumulated state debt onto public pensioners. These pensioners bear no "market risk" under their state public pension contracts, yet the Colorado Legislature is attempting to retroactively alter the pensioners' contracts, imposing […]
(No question about it – Promoted by Colorado Pols) On Friday, Joe Hanel ended a nine-year run at the Durango Herald, leaving for a job at the Colorado Health Institute. Hanel wrote a lot about politics, and he was clearly one of the best remaining political journalists in Colorado. His departure is yet another blow […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Chutzpah. That's the first word that came to mine as I read my email from the Centennial Institute's John Andrews, introducing the Weld County Model of governance. The first sentence was filled with the descriptors "big", "oil-rich", "self-confident", "the birthplace of last year's secession movement". How could I possibly stop myself […]
This week, the Colorado legislature wrapped up the 2014 session. Some really good things happened this year: help with childcare for working families, better education funding, disaster relief, environmental protections, and supporting high paying jobs in our state. In addition, some bad things got defeated, like crazy abortion bans and repeals of Colorado’s great […]
Readers new to this discussion should know that the State of Colorado is currently seeking to break contracts to which the State is a party, specifically public pension contracts. In less than one month, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the resulting lawsuit, Justus v. State. In 2009, a public pension system […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) "Members, this is a war on rural Colorado. This product on the Uravan mineral belt is their only option for jobs. With this bill, that option is lost." Rep. Don Coram on SB 14-192 What Colorado State Representative Don Coram calls a “War on Rural Colorado” others might call the “holding […]
WINNERS LOSERS 1. Colorado students This year, Colorado finally began the road back from years of devastating budget cuts to our public schools and colleges. Thanks to an improving economy and sound budgetary decision making, the state was able to restore $100 million in funding for our colleges and universities and begin to restore […]
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