(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%
As the Denver Post reports: For Libertarians, it is a step toward social engineering. But to Gov. Bill Ritter, a proposal to tax candy and soda-pop sales is nothing more than a way to help close a widening budget gap. Regardless of the motivation, if Ritter’s idea is adopted next year by the legislature, Colorado […]
(This ought to bake some “Tea Party” noodles – promoted by Colorado Pols) It has been fashionable of late to see campaigns and people that run on an “anti-government” platform and then seek to be a part of “the government” they so disdain. But who is “the government” anyway? It is not an “it” or […]
( – promoted by ClubTwitty) especially in the manufacturing arena where jobs can actually be created. This is from theoilodrum.com, and addresses the wind turbine manufacturing deficit here in the U.S. It makes for a fascinating read imo. 1.One of the reasons US projects need to import foreign-manufactured turbines is that the US-based production capacity […]
It appears that the avid fans at the “Draft Tom Tancredo for Governor” Facebook group got a little ahead of themselves when they announced that former Rep. Tom Tancredo had filed “exploratory committee” papers to run for Governor. But, as Fox 31 reports, they may have only been temporarily mistaken: Contrary to published reports, former […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) joined me in the AM760 progressive dojo this morning for a full hour of in-studio discussion and audience questions. You can listen to the exchange here. It was a good back and forth – and we covered a lot of ground. Specifically, he talked about […]
Or did she blink? Like many of you I received Pat Waak’s informative CDP Week In Review this week which started with the news that four of Colorado’s five Democratic representatives voted for health care reform (130 words). The second item was Betsy Markey’s statement on her lonely negative vote, explained in 187 words, which […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Good morning…I wanted to take this opportunity to talk live this morning. First, a couple of comments. On Veterans Day, despite what any of us think about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can still honor our service women and men and their families. And we can join […]
( – promoted by ClubTwitty) Here’s the story we’ll be posting shortly on 9NEWS.com. State Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) says the reason he’s abandoning his campaign for governor is because “discretion is the better part of valor.” Penry told 9NEWS in his first interview on the subject that he was trailing in […]
I attended the pre party at the Denver Democrats dinner. In great pain this week from a nuerological disorder, I only stayed through Sen Bennet and Speaker Romanoff’s speeches. I read the text of David Sirota’s speech posted in full on the internet. Certainly the most poignant line occurred when Sen.Bennet qouted from the eulogy […]
There is a saying, “Give the people what they want, and they’ll come out for it.” It appears the citizens of Douglas County, CO wanted to see Big Labor’s hand picked school board candidates kicked out of office and that’s just what the citizens delivered this 2009 election year. The 2009 race saw a 72% […]
It’s the handwringing topic du jour, as the Denver Post reports: One bill would require medical-marijuana dispensaries to provide other health services, limit where they can operate and require additional screenings of younger patients. Another would put the state in the pot-growing business and require dispensaries to have licensed pharmacists on staff… The fight will […]
By now we’ve all read the “extended” unemployment figure–17.5% of Americans who want to work full-time are unable to find full-time jobs. HOW CAN IT BE, I ask, that Congress is about to pass a health insurance bill–let’s call it by the more accurate term health care financing bill– that is built primarily on the […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Note: I’ll be keynoting the Democratic Party of Denver’s annual Edward M. Kennedy dinner tomorrow night. Details here – hope to see some of you there! – D Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D) made his debut appearance in the AM760 progressive dojo this morning. You can listen to my […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain reports: Senate candidate Jane Norton said Wednesday that she doesn’t want the federal government to condemn land to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site… Norton said she would allow ranchers who want to sell their land to the U.S. Army to do so. But, “I wouldn’t support condemnation,” she said. “I […]
Interesting press release just came across from the Colorado Democratic Party: SENATE REPUBLICANS DROP SUPPORT FOR JANE NORTON GOP Can’t Count on DC Money DENVER – Speaking about the upcoming 2010 Senate elections, National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Senator John Cornyn pledged that the committee would not spend a cent in a contested Republican […]
( – promoted by ThillyWabbit) As Colorado Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry hypocritically attacked the state government and Governor Bill Ritter during Colorado’s ongoing budget crisis, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest online progressive advocacy organization demanded Wednesday that Penry come clean about immediate family members both recently hired and currently employed by Mesa State College. […]
Yesterday, two versions of Colorado’s controversial Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) went before the voters in Washington state and Maine. Where, in both states, TABOR was roundly defeated by bigger-than-expected margins, educated by Colorado’s painful experience–as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports: Tim Eyman, the backer of Initiative 1033, admitted Tuesday night that the effort to cap […]
Tim Hoover: http://www.denverpost.com/elec… or John Ferrugia: http://www.thedenverchannel.co… Now, I’m not delusional. I don’t expect this diary to be promoted but it should be. Since the Governor’s Co-Chief of Staff Jim (I should have been a) Carpenter is keen on lurking around the Pols site on the state’s dime, maybe he can respond. Given his deer-in-the-headlights […]
Republican Gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry has been actively shooting himself in the foot lately, but he’s not the only Colorado politician with that same talent. A Pols reader sent us this newsletter from Democrat Cheri Jahn, who is running for Senate in SD-20 (Moe Keller is term-limited), and, well, let’s just say it opens up […]
(Smoke ’em if you got ’em. – promoted by Colorado Pols) As a blogger, owner of a dispensary, a restaurant and as a private citizen, here is what I saw last night. I attended last night’s council meeting about MMJ. All I can say is the City is very confused on what to do, how […]
Republican Gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry has been actively shooting himself in the foot lately, but he’s not the only Colorado politician with that same talent.
A Pols reader sent us this newsletter from Democrat Cheri Jahn, who is running for Senate in SD-20 (Moe Keller is term-limited), and, well, let’s just say it opens up a wound you might have thought Jahn would have preferred closed:
Washington just doesn’t get it! An amendment was added to the Health Reform bill that would drastically increase the cost of medications for many Americans. I was outraged when I read the news. This amendment would extend brand-name prescription drug exclusivity from five years to twelve years, and in the process block affordable generics from being developed. Working families and our elderly would be hit especially hard with the increased costs of their medications if this amendment isn’t stripped from the House version of the Health Care Reform Bill.
Too many Coloradans can’t afford to pay the premium prices on brand name medication just to fatten the wallets of the big pharmaceutical corporation executives. We need to be working to make prescriptions MORE affordable – not less! In the Colorado State House I worked to do just that, and in the State Senate I’ll keep fighting to make sure that everybody can afford the medications they need to stay healthy. [Pols emphasis]
That’s all well and good, except that Jahn’s vote essentially killed a prescription drug reform bill when she was in the State House in 2006:
The state House on Tuesday rejected a key Democratic measure to lower the cost of prescription drugs for some uninsured Coloradans.
The 35-30 defeat of House Bill 1100 raises doubts about whether Democrats will be able to deliver on their promise to provide discounted drugs to the uninsured…
…Democrats had planned to send both Senate Bill 1 and House Bill 1100 to Owens with the hope that at least one would become law. But the leadership lost support for House Bill 1100 when pharmacies, HMOs and a business coalition joined lobbying forces against it.
Democratic Speaker Pro Tempore Cheri Jahn said she opposed the bill because not all the groups affected were involved in the negotiations.
Besides, she said, the bill offered discounts that are already available in the private market.
“I do not think it’s fair to ask one industry to pay for the bill – pharmacies,” she said. [Pols emphasis]
Whoops!
He’s getting more play than Ken Buck ever did, and there’s a good reason–as the Grand Junction Sentinel joins in the statewide reporting: In what sounds like a reprise of the race between two Grand Junction Republicans running for governor, a former Grand Junction resident is gearing up to run against a Grand Junction native […]
A very strong group of Democrats met at the Pipefitters’ Union Hall on Sunday November 1st. US Senator Bennet, US Congressional Representatives Perlmutter and Polis, Lt.Governor Barbara O’Brien and former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff headlined a fun event in which notables such as State Senator Pat Steadman, and State Representatives Ed Casso […]
(Bumped into Monday – promoted by Colorado Pols) Respected Denver Post columnist Fred Brown published, we love him but we have to be honest, an exasperatingly Pollyannish op-ed about the state of Colorado Republican Party politics today: The Republican Party, at least in Colorado, may finally be turning away from the wedge issues that have […]
( – promoted by ClubTwitty) One thing Josh Penry and Scott McInnis have in common is their campaign messaging that Gov. Ritter has destroyed and driven out the oil and gas industry in Colorado. Colorado’s energy sector has been dealt a second blow in the form of restrictive new rules and regulations. Josh Penry And… […]
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