(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 #3: Nate Marshall not ready to formally resign as candidate in HD-23 (h/t to Ernest Luning of the Colorado Statesman). In a diatribe posted on Marshall's website (all CAPS is how it appears on Marshall's site), the candidate says that Jeffco GOP Chair Bill Tucker "[threw] him under the bus": I AM DONE WITH […]
UPDATE: More GOP anger at Gardner, as Eli Stokols reports at FOX 31: Just like Ken Buck, the GOP’s 2010 Senate candidate who first supported personhood only to disavow it later in the campaign, Gardner is suddenly the target of heavy criticism for trying to fool conservatives now that he’s through a primary. Personhood USA […]
UPDATE: Vic Vela at Colorado Community Media sheds some light on the arcane workings of TABOR in play here: A TABOR technicality may require the state to issue pot revenue refunds – even though voters intended for money that's collected from marijuana tax money to go towards school construction and the cost of pot industry […]
We suppose it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. From Politico: Momentum is building in Congress to wield the United States’ vast natural gas resources to break Vladimir Putin’s energy stranglehold over Ukraine — although some lawmakers acknowledged their efforts would have no immediate impact on the crisis in Crimea. […]
Via Twitter, as seen on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today. Please shield the eyes of impressionable, nerdy children: Reaction from the peanut gallery was swift and brutal: Oh no Jared Polis no pic.twitter.com/iINuciCOre — Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) February 25, 2014 Dennis Tang at GQ: Worst ever? Yeah, right, how bad […]
The new conservative members of the Jefferson County School Board have created such a stir (and not in a good way) that a group of parents and community leaders has formed a new organization to keep the public informed about the Board's actions. From the Denver Post: Its mission is to "communicate to the community […]
AP's Ivan Moreno reports via the Fort Collins Coloradoan: The Democratic candidate for Colorado attorney general says the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional rights of gay couples and that the law shouldn’t be defended. Don Quick made the comments Tuesday morning, putting the issue into the spotlight in the state’s attorney […]
UPDATE 1/1 #2: The Denver Post's John Ingold: Colorado's ambitious experiment in cannabis policy hit a historic milestone Wednesday, when licensed stores began making the first legal sales of recreational marijuana anywhere in the world. A few people queued up outside pot shops early Wednesday to celebrate and claim bragging rights, but longer lines began […]
There are a great many things that can motivate a person to run for public office, running the full spectrum of ethical defensibility. In the case of Colorado's most upwardly mobile Republican member of Congress, Rep. Cory Gardner, his time in office has been marked by an unrepentant embrace of the trappings of power […]
Following up on a story that first appeared here at Colorado Pols (and Jeffco Pols), Zahira Torres of the Denver Post digs into the strange goings-on among the three new members of the Jefferson County School Board: The Jefferson County school board's new majority may have skirted a law that requires them to conduct business […]
UPDATE: Readers remind us of Twila Sue Peach, a two-years deceased voter who "signed" a Kennedy Enterprises petition, and other related allegations made during the recall of John Morse this past summer: —– The Denver Post's Kurtis Lee buries the lede yet again–paragraph fifteen of today's story on the "grassroots" recall attempt underway against Sen. Evie Hudak […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Oil shale is the ‘fuel of the future,’ and it always will be. -Some Colorado Wise Guy from Way, Way Back When This past Tuesday Royal Dutch Shell—for decades considered the leader in oil shale research—made a surprising, although familiar, announcement regarding its ‘unconventional resources’ priorities moving forward. It would […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) "We've met the enemy and he is us" ~Pogo There is a "War on Rural Colorado" – but it's not being waged by who you think it is. It's not a war waged by urban Democrats. It's not a war waged by our Governor. It's a war waged by entrenched rural […]
Whether they will admit it or not, most people understand that the government (and yes, taxes) are a necessary part of our everyday lives when it comes to basic things like firefighters, police officers, and roads. It can be difficult to continue your daily commute if a giant freakin' hole opens up in the middle […]
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey announced yesterday that his office would seek the death penalty in the prosecution of Dexter Lewis. As the editorial board of the Denver Post notes, Morrissey is following the law as it is written in making this decision (the Post has repeatedly editorialized in opposition to the death penalty as […]
Last Sunday morning the headline in The Daily Sentinel was, “Fruita Cops Shoot Man Dead.” That story, written by one of my favorite Sentinel reporters, Charles Ashby, was carefully crafted, with lots of quotes from officials, because the details were still sketchy. Unfortunately the reader was led to believe that the man “ran” from the […]
The Colorado Secretary of State's office announced today that organizers seeking to recall Senate President John Morse submitted 10,137 valid signatures, easily surpassing the 7,178 signatures needed to initiate what would be the first recall election in state history. Or maybe not. While it appears that Kennedy Enterprises directed its hired troops to collect enough […]
Hey fellow Polsters, this post is a bit off-message for me, but I had to share this amazing short video on racial profiling (produced by ABC). Watch this, gain some cultural insight, and be saddened that we remain somewhat primitive. The video was recently shared on Facebook by Progressive Outreach – Colorado. http://now.msn.com/hidden-camera-captures-racial-profiling-in-viral-video-involving-bike-theft […]
UPDATE: AP has now posted a major correction to the story this post is based on: In a story May 28 about Democrats facing recall efforts, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a conservative consultant said out-of-state donors helped fund her donation to a potential recall of the president of the Colorado State Senate. Laura Carno […]
Over the weekend, the editorial board of the Denver Post weighed in on the Gubernatorial candidacy of Republican Tom Tancredo, who surprised many last week by throwing his hat in the ring for 2014. And what did the Post have to say? Well, they're about as excited for another Tancredo candidacy as a kid who […]
With a H/T to Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post, supporters of Senate President John Morse are circulating a new video, reportedly shot this week, of a paid circulator for the recall petition against Morse attempting to convince someone to sign it. Pretty much entirely by making stuff up.
The editorial board of the Denver Post weighs in today on the legislature's failure to pass a bill that would have increased fines for oil and gas rules violations: The bill that would have rewritten the fine structure, however, died on the issue of minimum mandatory daily fines. Sponsors could not muster the votes for […]
The local Colorado Springs media appears to have finally become aware that something is not quite right in the "grassroots" signature drive to place a recall of Colorado Senate President John Morse on the Senate District 11 ballot this fall. A scathing new report last night from NBC affiliate News 5's Jacqui Heinrich puts key […]
This video from locally-based conservative "gotcha" site Revealing Politics has been making the breathless rounds within conservative social media circles since the weekend. A new GOP tracker named Brandon Morse has been hanging out at the state capitol for the last couple of weeks monitoring hearings, and it appears in his spare time, he popped […]
As news broke over the weekend that paid petition gathering company Kennedy Enterprises has joined the recall effort against at least one Colorado legislator, Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs, there have been several aspects of this story worthy of attention. Yesterday, we released video footage of a training session last week at Kennedy […]
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