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( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The walls are starting to close in on the extremists who are backing the Right-to-Work measure. From the Rocky Mountain News The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce will oppose Amendment 47, the right-to-work measure backed by a batch of conservative business leaders. The Denver chamber’s board voted this morning […]

As the Denver Post reports: Colorado Republicans need to focus on fiscal restraint and small government – and avoid social issues – if they want to reassert themselves against the well-funded and well-organized Democratic Party that has emerged in the Centennial State over the last four years, a panel of experts told The Denver Post […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday: Secretary of State Mike Coffman calls Colorado’s testing process for e-voting equipment one of the most rigorous in the country, and national voting system experts agree… The outcome of the state testing, however, has engendered its own controversies. * The company that got Coffman’s stamp of approval from […]

Both candidates made it clear that they want an open debate not run by anyone. Sounds good to me. So how do we get them to do one here in Denver? It seems to me that the way to pull this off is to offer something like Folsum Field, fully staffed and paid for – […]

(By popular demand — is this fair game? – promoted by Colorado Pols) The DailyMail has this scathing piece on yet another one of McCain’s skeletons. But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible […]

As the Denver Post reports, transparency is a good thing–except for the side-effect of giving your opponents ammunition: With Congress facing increased scrutiny for its funding of pet projects, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn pledged to severely limit how many he would request. The Colorado Springs Republican culled his list solely to those he thought supported […]

The news cycle seems to have closed on the recent conviction of Denver entrepreneur William Orr and his now-defunct National Alternative Fuels Foundation, an energy nonprofit whose board of directors included Colorado Senate candidate Bob Schaffer. As we’ve recounted here in detail, Schaffer was on the board during the end stages of the organization’s existence […]

This is either good news for all of us who would prefer to avoid the teargas, arson and broken windows part of major political conventions, or it isn’t. As the Denver Post reports: Activists who plan to protest at the Democratic National Convention this summer are splitting with the umbrella organization, Re-create 68, because of […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Reading Pols the past few weeks, I have been impressed with everyone’s analysis on VP selection. I just happen to think that some of the conventional choices aren’t the ones making the real “short list”. So I’m here to place my bet: Barack Obama WILL select a western governor […]

This will probably be the last diary I post for the next week or so as I am going on vacation soon.  But with the nominees for President settled for both major parties, I wanted to do a quick recap-with winners and losers.  I’ll try to avoid the obvious, but in some cases it won’t […]

Continuing what the Jared Polis campaign sees as a theme worth pressing home (if you filled up your tank recently, it’ll be tough to disagree), he announced a detailed energy plan today. In addition to staking out a growing pocketbook issue, it’s meant to draw a hard distinction between himself and (putatively) “energy industry friendly” […]

This is amazing when you look back at it. We’ve only had primaries via voters for about 40 years and during that period I don’t think we’ve ever had one that was truly this close. Montana and South Dakota vote today – the final 2 states in the 50 state marathon. They say it’s not […]