(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%
This morning, the Colorado Senate Republican Minority called for Gov. Jared Polis to convene a special session of the Colorado General Assembly over the summer–a call that has left plenty of us wondering who is in charge of the minority of Colorado’s august body–since they don’t appear to have consulted with even their own Republican […]
Since last Friday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Colorado-based web designer Lorie Smith, upholding Smith’s “pre-enforcement challenge” to Colorado law preventing Smith from refusing to make “wedding websites” for LGBTQ+ couples, questions have arisen about the legitimacy of the underlying facts of the case. AP reports via the Denver Post: […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, what are all these MAGA Republicans doing funding my centrist organization? Our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado is (still) more concerned with what Twitter thinks than doing anything constructive for her district; and the ethically compromised United States Supreme Court wraps up this term by […]
It’s probably a good thing that Congress adjourned last week for a long Fourth of July holiday recess, since before lawmakers left Washington and headed to their respective corners of the country, the slow-burning feud between the former “Q-some Twosome,” far-right Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado, exploded into public […]
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.” –Samuel Johnson
It’s been a wild few months for newly-elected Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams, whose brief term in office has been marred by growing dissent, infighting, intraparty score-settling…basically anything except what the Colorado GOP should be focused on, raising money and organizing to reclaim seats in the 2024 elections. Axios’ John Frank […]
Today, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue grassroots advocacy organization, launched a new outreach campaign: Republicans Against Boebert. The reason is simple: smart Republicans from Denver to D.C. are running away from Rep. Lauren Boebert. Sign up to join the Republicans Against Boebert campaign today. Again and again, Boebert has chosen petty political infighting and […]
Roughly 10 percent of Colorado households DO NOT currently have access to high-speed internet services. Fortunately, help is on the way. According to a press release from the office of Gov. Jared Polis, Colorado will soon be on the receiving end of more than $826 million dollars (and 41 cents) in federal money that will […]
UPDATE: Here’s a photo of Robert Gieswein posing with his fellow “Three Percenters” in front of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s now-shuttered Shooters Grill: The town of Rifle is no longer Boebert’s militia Mecca. And that’s good, not even Three Percenters deserve food poisoning. —– Colorado Public Radio’s Tony Gorman reports on the 48-month sentence handed down […]
As Politico’s Burgess Everett reports, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, whose name is mud in many Democratic circles despite having voted after long deliberation with Democrats to pass important legislation in the first two years of Joe Biden’s term, is rumored to be entertaining a third-party presidential run supported by the “post-partisan” political organization No […]
(Dave Williams’ reign of terror marches on — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican Party chairs aren’t supposed to show a preference for candidates within their own party. Yesterday, however, Colorado Chair Dave Williams flat-out warned state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, who lost a nailbiter in last year’s race for Colorado’s new 8th Congressional District (CD8), that […]
Former Republican Congressman-turned Mayor of Aurora Mike Coffman, as we’ve documented in this space over a period of years since Coffman won his current office in 2019 on the rebound from being ousted from Congress, has been on a long-term mission to stack the Aurora City Council with partisan Republicans–and even a former employee, now-Councillor […]
(Better hurry before John Eastman gets disbarred — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Republicans are hiring conservative attorney John Eastman to attempt to overturn the will of the voters. Any déja vu you may be experiencing is understandable. The difference is instead of Trump hiring him to flip a […]
The Denver Nuggets are two wins away from a championship after throttling the Heat in Miami on Wednesday. Game Four is Friday night in Miami. 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, […]
UPDATE (10:23 pm): Goodnight, Irene. Kelly Brough concedes the mayor’s race to Mike Johnston. #DenverMayor — Denver Westword (@denverwestword) June 7, 2023 —– UPDATE (8:30 pm): Mike Johnston’s lead is consistent after the latest update, though only about 10,000 more votes have been counted since the initial dump: —– UPDATE (7:45 pm): Initial results show […]
Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) continues to deal with the fallout of missing the most important Congressional vote of 2023 despite weeks of grandstanding and partisan rhetoric. In an effort to help figure out what Boebert was doing when she missed the key vote on June 1 and why she chose to change her story about her […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we take this show on the road to visit State Treasurer Dave Young; we look at all the weird stuff in the vault near his office and ponder a future economy built on “Dave Coin.” Later, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy got a debt ceiling deal that’s about […]
GOP Rep. Ken Buck has a well-earned reputation for making what he thinks is the greatest argument ever on a given issue, oblivious to the fact that everyone in the room including most of his allies are cringing in dismay. 2023 so far has borne this reputation out with several high-profile cable news gaffes, claiming […]
(Shout out to the Pols’ community! — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Thank you to Pols for inviting us to post this diary. Speaking with the author, she asked that I toot her horn for her. Regular Colorado Pols contributor notaskinnycook wrote a self-help book for the spouses of transfolk about a decade ago and it […]
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” –Oscar Wilde
We’re one day away from Game 1 of the NBA Finals — in Denver! The Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat tip things off at 6:30 pm on Thursday. 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 […]
If you’ve been wondering what former Congressman and two-time gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez has had been doing lately, we’ve got you covered! As The Washington Post reported late last week, Beauprez has resigned his role as Treasurer of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a Trump-aligned right-wing organization known mostly for organizing bizarre conferences upon […]
The two finalists for Denver Mayor — Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough — are actually quite similar in how they would approach many of Denver’s most pressing problems in the months and years ahead. These similarities were again obvious in a recent debate hosted by Denver7, Denverite, and Colorado Public Radio. As Conrad Swanson wrote […]
Regular readers of Colorado Pols are well aware that the Colorado Republican Party has been caught in a downward spiral for many years now. Despite getting absolutely hammered in the last three election cycles, Republicans haven’t yet hit rock bottom… But they’re pretty damn close. As The Colorado Sun reports today in its “Unaffiliated” newsletter, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Pundits and politicos across the country have heralded the victory of Yemi Mobolade over Republican Wayne Williams in the Colorado Springs mayoral race as a great win for progressive Democrats in Colorado Springs, despite the fact that Mobolade is not a Democrat and has a history of union-busting and wage theft as a business owner. “We […]
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