(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%
Governor Jared Polis (D-Boulder) today delivered his second “State of the State” address to an audience of Colorado lawmakers and elected officials. Polis’ speech focused largely on health care issues and providing financial relief for Colorado families dealing with the high cost of health coverage and prescription drugs. Most of today’s “State of the State” […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, upstart CD-3 Republican primary challenger Lauren Boebert broadsided GOP incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton over his recent vote with “Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 224 other Democrats” in favor of a new farm worker visa program bill: Rifle restaurant owner Lauren Boebert, who announced last month that she […]
Merry Christmas, Russia! Please celebrate responsibly. It’s time to 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]
Welcome back to your desk. There’s a lot happening with the holiday season in our rear-view mirrors, so 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter […]
Here’s our definitive recap of the wild wooly year in Colorado politics that was 2019.
As the Wall Street Journal reports: New state population totals released Monday offer fresh signs of how southern and western states will gain political power after the 2020 census. The figures from the Census Bureau measure changes to state populations for the year ended July 1. Because they come less than a year before the […]
The Denver Post’s Saja Hindi published before Chirstmas a very good long-form story on the changing politics of reproductive choice in Colorado, an issue long disparaged by local political reporters as irrelevant given the state’s solid Democratic control of the levers of power, but no longer as the rightward lurch of the federal judiciary up […]
Bloomberg News reports on the continuing impasse in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate over passage of the SAFE Banking Act, legislation to allow state-legal marijuana businesses to access banking services currently denied them under federal law: Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said he’s hoping the Trump administration and other lawmakers can help him salvage a plan to […]
Last night, the management of local hard-right AM talk radio station 710 KNUS took another step in what may become by the end the biggest housecleaning in local broadcast history: following the abrupt termination of the Chuck and Julie Show after host Chuck Bonniwell said Tuesday on the air that a “nice school shooting” would […]
If you’re counting today, there are six shopping days left until Christmas. It’s time to 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get […]
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.” –Saint Augustine
UPDATE: And then there’s Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs), the dope of the Colorado delegation: Rep. Lamborn twice suggests that Obama sought help from the Russians in the 2012 election. But Obama’s remarks — “After my election I have more flexibility” — never requested help from Russia. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/LCGgcXtbyq — Justin Wingerter (@JustinWingerter) December 18, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In what appears to be another sign that KNUS 710-AM is unconcerned about allegations that a staffer is a Nazi, the station’s afternoon-drive show conducted an on-air film review Friday of a classic anti-Nazi movie, Inglourious Basterds. “Who doesn’t hate Nazis? We all do,” said KNUS host Steffan Tubbs on air, […]
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. This is our final weekly action alert for 2019. Let’s take a moment to reflect on this amazing year. After an historic landslide victory for progressives in Colorado in 2018, in January the new majority and […]
While you were reading about impeachment news last week, you may have missed a significant vote in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives addressing an issue that is of utmost concern to American voters in 2020: Reducing the outrageous costs of prescription drugs. The “Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act” (HR-3) passed out of […]
Your deliberately oversimplified glance at what happened in Colorado this week. The Colorado Avalanche Went From Worst To First In No Time Flat Hundreds of local officers participate in toy drive at Children’s Hospital Colorado Anonymous donor pays off nearly $2,000 at a Colorado Walmart Layaway for strangers, joining others in selfless giving Here’s Another […]
UPDATE: Oh, it gets worse. As The Independent reports: Donald Trump‘s team have edited his face on to the body of teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg after she was named Time‘s Person of the Year. The official Trump War Room account on Twitter posted the altered front cover of the magazine on Wednesday, the […]
UPDATE: Rep. Ken Buck continues to put the GOP’s worst foot forward, as the Washington Post reports: Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) argued that impeaching Trump for obstruction of Congress doesn’t make sense because Republican lawmakers were “sent here to obstruct this Congress.” …Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) pushed back on Buck, calling it “terrible […]
Rex Huppke of the Chicago Tribune has a great column today that is worth your time. The premise of Huppke’s column is about fighting to preserve important things like truth and facts at a time when they are constantly under attack by right-wing sources: It can feel, especially lately, as if reality has been bent […]
Happy “Indiana Day.” Please celebrate responsibly. It’s time to 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/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show or The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]
Congressman Ken Buck (R-Greeley) moonlights as the State Republican Party Chairman (or vice-versa), so he’s probably a busy guy. But it would be nice if Buck would pay a little more attention to his taxpayer-funded position in Congress. Buck showed up briefly at a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week to ask some inane questions […]
We get a lot of press releases in our inbox, as you might expect. We don’t always have a chance to get to all of those announcements, but we want to start making more of an effort to pass along information whenever a new candidate kicks off a campaign. Send your candidate announcements to alva@coloradopols.com. […]
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Colorado has a Nazi problem. Hate crimes in Colorado are on the rise. [1] Just a few weeks ago, a white supremacist was arrested in Pueblo while plotting to blow up a local synagogue. [2] One […]
Colorado Public Radio’s Hayley Sanchez reports from Saturday’s rally at the Colorado state capitol in opposition to the state’s new extreme risk protection order (ERPO) law, which takes effect on January 1–where gun-rights activists have sworn to resist a law supported overwhelmingly by the public, allowing family and law enforcement to petition in court for […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Senator Cory Gardner has been hard to find in Colorado this year. This evening, however, he and his family will be at Denver’s historic Brown Palace for his annual Christmas Open Home party. According to the invitation, Gardner says he’s looking forward to seeing his fellow Coloradans come out to show […]
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