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The Get More Smarter Show: June 23, 2016

This week on Get More Smarter: Jason Bane and Alan Franklin talk Donald Trump, followed by a deep dive on next week’s primary elections! Then stay tuned for more great discussion on the primary as we interview Ernest Luning–that’s LUH-ning for those of you pronouncing it wrong like we have for years–of the Colorado Statesman. […]

The Get More Smarter Show: June 16, 2016

This week on Get More Smarter: Jason Bane and Alan Franklin discuss the presidential race, the Colorado GOP U.S. Senate primary, and some bizarre stuff happening in legislative races on both sides of the aisle. Now with this new concept we’re working on called “segments!” Somebody explained to us that segments are what TV shows do. Thanks […]

The Get More Smarter Show: June 9, 2016

This week on Get More Smarter: now with fewer glaring technical problems! Jason Bane and Alan Franklin discuss the Republican U.S. Senate primary, Bachelor star Ben Higgins, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s veep speculation, and more! Then stay tuned for an interview with former Chief of Staff for House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst Ian Silverii, now the executive director […]

The Get More Smarter Show: May 25, 2016

This week on Get More Smarter: in our technically-challenged first episode of the Get More Smarter Show, Jason Bane and Alan Franklin discuss the Jon Keyser petition fraud scandal and Colorado’s crazy GOP U.S. Senate primary. Then, stay tuned for Part 1 of GMS’s exclusive interview with Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado! Along with the Get More […]

Marshall Finds Maureen, Hilarity Ensues

UPDATE: As Denver7’s Marshall Zelinger reports: The woman who turned in petitions with some signatures that Denver7 has identified as being forged, would only respond “No comment” when we met up with her late Monday morning. In the last three weeks, Denver7 has exclusively reported a number of stories surrounding forged signatures on petitions that […]

BREAKING: Jon Keyser’s Epic On-Camera Meltdown

UPDATE #6: The Colorado Democratic Party is collecting reaction from around the country: Elena Schneider – Politico – “Oh, wow.” Alex Roarty – Roll Call – “one of the more painful interviews you’ll see this year” Jack Fitzpatrick – Morning Consult –  “Man, there is a lot going on in this #COsenvideo” John Frank – Denver Post – “must-see raw footage” […]

Coincidence or collusion or what?

In the Sunday Daily Sentinel, dated May 8, 2016, Christian Reece, Executive Director of Club 20, was published as a guest editorial. The title was “Supreme Court ruling a victory for property rights, jobs.” Today I found an “opinion” editorial by Kelly Brough, President and CEO of Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, published in the […]

Tom Sullivan’s War: Casus Belli

Embed from Getty Images We’ve had a few occasions to mention the name Tom Sullivan in recent years, long before he announced his candidacy for the Colorado Senate a few weeks ago. Sullivan is the father of a victim of the 2012 Aurora theater mass shooting that left 12 people dead and many dozens more […]

Shark Attack: Who’s Taking Loan Shark Money in Colorado?

As another late bill, Senate Bill 16-185, to allow subprime personal lenders to charge higher interest rates on bigger loans makes its way through the Colorado Senate–debate of the whole chamber on the bill was scheduled for yesterday but punted to Monday–Colorado Ethics Watch released a detailed report on the influence of the subprime personal lending […]

Stay Classy, Donald Trump (Barking Hillary Edition)

Is this what we want for a President? A video posted by Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on Mar 16, 2016 at 9:15am PDT TIME reports on a new online ad from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, turning his bile toward the general election and his increasingly likely showdown with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: A new video […]

Top Ten Stories of 2015 #7: Cory Gardner Makes Liars Of Everybody

By far the biggest defeat suffered by Colorado Democrats in 2014–and arguably the biggest loss for Democrats in this state since retaking control of the state legislature in 2004 and starting their roll toward political dominance here–was the narrow election of Cory Gardner to the U.S. Senate. Gardner’s defeat of Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Udall was […]

Oil & Gas Lease Hoarding Threatens Iconic Colorado Public Lands

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Over three million acres of America’s Public Lands are being held hostage by the oil and gas industry, padding private portfolios and spurring speculation at the public’s expense. This is according to a recent report by The Wilderness Society, “Land Hoarders: How Stockpiling Oil and Gas Leases is Costing Taxpayers.” Oil […]

And Now, Peggy Littleton!

UPDATE: Maybe you’ve never heard of Peggy Littleton, but Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt has! Chaps recorded a full-episode interview with Littleton in 2013 on the evils of then-Sen. Evie Hudak and the Common Core education standards. You can watch the whole interview, but here’s the money quote of Littleton denouncing Hudak’s vote for the […]

Health Department To Colorado Republicans: You’ve Got Nothing

Last week, following the announcement by Attorney General Cynthia Coffman that there would be no investigation into the fetal tissue donation practices of Planned Parenthood in Colorado–a formerly uncontroversial practice, recently scandalized by an hidden camera sting campaign against the organization–some 30 Republican Colorado legislators headed up by Rep. Dan Nordberg of Colorado Springs responded with […]

“Trump The Dragon Slayer” Billboard Goes Up Near Junction

That’s the report from KREX NewsChannel 5 in Grand Junction, high-res art above to share with your friends: Readers may recall another “edgy” billboard from 2010 in Grand Junction that made national news, featuring multiple President Barack Obamas dressed up as a terrorist, a gangster, an illegal immigrant, and a gay guy in formation. This latest […]

Gardner, Senate GOP Rush To Vote Against Planned Parenthood

The Hill’s Jordain Carney reports: Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the Republican whip, suggested Wednesday that the Senate will take a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood on Monday. “We’ll find out Monday night,” the Texas Republican told reporters on whether or not Republicans would be able to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a procedural […]

Doug Lamborn Says Burn Those “Baby Body Parts”

How else are we to interpret what the Colorado Statesman reported yesterday? Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn called Friday for Colorado State University to stop using fetal tissue from abortions in its research while CSU defended its work as above reproach both legally and ethically. In a letter to CSU President Tony Frank, Lamborn cited documents […]

Roberts claims media made too big a deal of her contemplated run for U.S. Senate

(LOL – Promoted by Colorado Pols) View image | gettyimages.com Those of you who’ve been following the strange public downfall of State Sen. Ellen Roberts will thoroughly enjoy her interview last week on KNUS 710-AM. If you don’t know, Roberts quickly went from being a rarity in Colorado, a Great Republican Hope to defeat Democrat […]

Damning Deep Dive Details Roberts’ “Difficult” Dilemma

.@Littwin: Does to @SenRoberts what she did to herself. KA-BOOM. http://t.co/4k85fWaGP3 #copolitics — Lynn Bartels (@lynn_bartels) June 5, 2015 View image | gettyimages.com The Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels has been watching as state Sen. Ellen Roberts has mulled a run for the U.S. Senate–and as you can see in the Tweet above, a reference to […]

Ellen Roberts’ Self-Immolation Continues

UPDATE: Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado slams Ellen Roberts in a new statement: “Sen. Roberts’ positions and votes on choice issues over the last few years have been erratic at times – even opposing teen pregnancy prevention and sex education programs. We no longer consider her to be pro-choice, and understand why she’s having a hard […]

Durango Herald Hammers Ellen Roberts’ “Kabuki”

View image | gettyimages.com Sen. Ellen Roberts of Durango has had a tough time this year as she tries to navigate the tricky landscape of apiring to higher office as a female Republican with a “moderate” public image. We’ve discussed a number of instances this year in which Roberts was either forced to move to or […]

Congress Approves Memorial Day VA Hospital Band-Aid, Wound Still Festering

9NEWS’ Brandon Rittiman reporting now on a last-minute deal to keep construction going at the troubled VA medical center project on the Anschutz medical campus in Aurora…for now, anyway: On the same day Congress is preparing to leave for a Memorial Day break, House Republicans introduced a last-minute temporary patch that would prevent another work […]

Ellen Roberts’ “Pro-Choice” Credentials Pulled

View image | gettyimages.com As the Durango Herald’s Peter Marcus reports, Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado is calling out Sen. Ellen Roberts (R-Durango), after Roberts abandoned reproductive choice advocates and voted for multiple pieces of legislation they consider antithetical to the words “pro-choice.” Attacks against Republican state Sen. Ellen Roberts of Durango intensified this week after The […]

Unchallenged on the radio, Cadman claims to have focused on “things that matter to both sides”

(Is that what Tim Neville told him to say? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) KOA 850-AM Morning News anchor Steffan Tubbs wouldn’t be expected to know all the ins and outs of the state legislative session, which ends Wednesday. But if you’ve been following Colorado’s Republicans at all over the past three months, you know […]

Get More Smarter on Thursday (April 30)

The first round of the NFL Draft is tonight; are you excited for the Denver Broncos to draft an offensive lineman? It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).   TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► […]

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