(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 […]
Denver7’s Óscar Contreras reports on the sentence handed down yesterday to Jacob Travis Clark of Colorado Springs, once proud to have been one of the first to make his way into the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 with the intent of taking control of the building and thus preventing the certification by Congress of […]
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 […]
Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) had a nice time on Capitol Hill this week celebrating the election of her pal Mike “No T” Johnson as the new Speaker of the House. Unfortunately for Boebert these days, good news is often followed by bad news. In this case, another big endorsement for her main Republican Primary Election […]
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 […]
UPDATE: 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark explains the next steps in Jenna Ellis’ new life as a convicted felon: Colorado’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel will review whether Ellis’ criminal act “eflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness.” Ellis previously admitted to that body that she lied about election rigging and wasn’t disbarred for it. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
UPDATE #3: Rep. Jason Crow checks in with a plea for the chaos to end, on account of the world desperately needing American leadership in a time of crisis and all that sundry stuff: Checking in: just took my 17th vote for Speaker this Congress. The vote failed. Again. The House still has no Speaker. […]
After several days of controversy over newly-appointed Democratic Rep. Tim Hernandez’s initial refusal to condemn violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians at a pro-Palestinian rally a week ago last Saturday, Hernandez offered what’s generally been accepted as a thoughtful and sincere apology acknowledging the pain his omission of Israeli suffering had caused and promising […]
UPDATE #2: Rep. Joe Neguse of Boulder channels the mood as “Gym” Jordan loses on his first ballot: No word on when that next vote will take place. In short, it’s January all over again. —– UPDATE: Rep. Ken Buck votes for Rep. Tom Emmer after missing the first roll call. Ken Buck planting the […]
We have been waiting on federal fundraising reports from Q3 (July – September 2023) in hopes that they might provide some fresh insight into several 2024 congressional races in Colorado. Those numbers are now available, and they indeed tell an interesting story. Let’s break down the reports by Congressional District… CO-03 (Southern and Western […]
Last Friday, the controversy over newly-appointed Rep. Tim Hernandez’s initial refusal to condemn the unprecedented violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians a week ago changed course after Hernandez about-faced and issued an unequivocal, point-by-point apology. The Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports: A Colorado legislator apologized Friday for not explicitly condemning the deadly terror attacks […]
One of our longest running features at Colorado Pols is something we call, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” where we detail a strange story that is normally about a politician from somewhere outside of Colorado. Sometimes, unfortunately, this feature applies to weirdos in our own state. State Rep. Scott “There is No” Bottoms, a […]
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 […]
In a narrow 113-99 vote by the U.S. House Republican caucus today, Louisiana GOP hardliner Rep. Steve Scalise was nominated to succeed the ousted former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. AP reports via Denver7: In private balloting at the Capitol, House Republicans pushed aside Rep. Jim Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chairman, in favor of […]
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 […]
The numbers don’t lie, as The New York Times reports: In a sign of continued economic stamina, American payrolls grew by 336,000 in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said on Friday. The increase, almost double what economists had forecast, confirmed the labor market’s vitality and the overall hardiness of an economy […]
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 […]
“Bumfuzzle.” That’s today’s “word of the day” from an email list that we somehow ended up joining. Regardless, it’s useful for today’s news. “Bumfuzzle” means “to confuse or perplex; to bewilder.” We are completely “bumfuzzled” by Republican attempts to blame the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ON DEMOCRATS. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) […]
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 […]
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”50%”]“For Mr. McCarthy, who practiced a management style of doing and saying pretty much whatever it would take to get through the day, tomorrow finally arrived.” — The New York Times (10/4/23)[/mantra-pullquote] Kevin McCarthy made history on Tuesday by becoming the first Speaker of the House to have his gavel taken away […]
As the dust settles on yesterday’s historic ouster of former Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy at the hands of eight of his Republican colleagues–and yes, Democrats who saw no reason to intervene and save McCarthy from his own–the fury of the Republican Party’s less self-destructive faction is falling squarely on those eight GOP […]
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 […]
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