(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%
While Colorado Republicans are busy leaving their firearms unattended in public places, President Joe Biden is fulfilling a promise to close the gun-show loophole. As The New York Times reports: The Biden administration has approved the broadest expansion of federal background checks in decades in an attempt to regulate a fast-growing shadow market of weapons […]
Rep. Ryan Armagost pushed the limits of that question during yesterday’s marathon hearing on legislation to ban assault weapons, perhaps breaking the record for most pieces of “firearms flair” displayed by a lawmaker still managing to conform to the Colorado House’s dress code: We count eleven total–an AR-15 lapel pin, another AR-15 tie tack, and […]
In a remarkably short period of time, former state Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams has transformed from a sideshow occupying the House seat formerly held by the equally embarrassing ex-Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt, not expected to have any further political upward mobility, into a chaos agent perhaps unparalleled in the history of the […]
The Colorado legislature is discussing several gun violence prevention (GVP) bills this session after passing a handful of important changes in 2023. We could point you toward polling data showing how the issue of gun violence has changed in Colorado since Colorado’s “no compromise” gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO), helped lead a […]
As Bente Birkeland and Caitlyn Kim reported Wednesday for Colorado Public Radio: Former President Ronald Reagan famously quipped that the Eleventh Commandment was, “thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” As Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams approaches his one-year anniversary in the job, it’s a commandment he regularly breaches. Under his leadership, Williams is […]
Republican George Brauchler walked away from his KNUS radio show last week so that he could focus his time and energy on winning the Republican nomination for the new 23rd Judicial District. The new district has a favorable Republican lean, but Brauchler’s flip-flopping history with gun safety reforms has him in hot water already. Before […]
UPDATE: Marshall Zelinger at 9News has more on the Republican opposition to a Black History Month resolution: Post by @kyleclark9news View on Threads —– The new House Minority Leader at the state legislature apparently has no more control of the grandstanding imbeciles in her micro-minority than did the previous head clown. Last week, […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the Colorado Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prevents the Secretary of State from placing Donald Trump on the Presidential ballot in Colorado, setting up a constitutional showdown with national implications. Mario Nicolais, one of the attorneys for the six […]
Former President Donald Trump is the likely Republican nominee (again) for the top job in the land. As you are no doubt aware, Trump has never stopped complaining about his belief that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen because of various fact-free allegations about alleged criminal actions that nobody has ever been able to substantiate. […]
HOW TO GET YOUR DIARY PROMOTED The best diaries to promote are those that are both relevant and require little editing for the administrators of the site. You are MUCH more likely to see your diary promoted, for example, if you follow these simple suggestions: 1. Make the headline relevant and short (and please, NEWSMAN, […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, the explosive, sustained controversy over GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s churlish and lascivious behavior inside Denver’s Buell Theater during a performance of the musical adaptation of Beetlejuice on September 10 has forced a prominent Mesa County Republican elected official to take the unusual step of rescinding his endorsement […]
Colorado-licensed attorney Jenna Ellis, indicted last week on felony charges as part of the sweeping indictment in Fulton County, Georgia against ex-President Donald Trump and his alleged conspirators in the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, has been raising money for her legal defense without help from Trump. As USA TODAY reported […]
The Durango Herald’s Reuben Schafir reports on far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert’s August recess tour through La Plata County on Wednesday, sitting down with local officials to discuss issues pertinent to Boebert’s constituents in the southwest corner of the state. High on the list was the ever-present issue of wildfire prevention and management, laying heavily on […]
Mary Shinn at the Colorado Springs Gazette reported from yesterday’s celebration at America the Beautiful Park in Colorado Springs of the decision last week by President Joe Biden undoing the political revenge wrought by President Donald Trump in his last few days in office, ordering the move of the U.S. Space Command and the associated […]
Last week, Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland broke the strange story of Colorado Republican Party chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams’ side gig as a legislative aide, putatively working for at least one member of the GOP House minority. This odd but not unprecedented arrangement was further complicated by two additional factors: Williams’ election in […]
A story from a team of investigative reporters at ProPublica is rocking the halls of power today in Washington, D.C., with Democrats calling for the impeachment or resignation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after revelations of hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed gifts from a Republican billionaire donor over the course of […]
(Republished under Creative Commons license by Colorado Pols) by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline April 5, 2023 As voters in Colorado’s two largest cities returned their ballots on Tuesday in pivotal municipal elections, a news story containing a major factual error about the state’s crime rate was shared widely by Republican leaders, police officials and other […]
We wrote earlier this week about Rep. Ken Buck’s opposition to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee–a move that required a vote of the full House due to that committee’s importance. After earning some plaudits for pushing back on what’s […]
As NBC News reports, the first hearing of the GOP-controlled U.S. House Natural Resources Committee took place yesterday, where the first order of business was an amendment to the committee rules aimed squarely at GOP outrage magnet Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado. Readers will recall that in 2021, then-freshman Rep. Boebert raised eyebrows over a […]
Keeping the home fires burning in the culture wars, over in Arizona where election denialists went down in defeat at the top of the ticket but Republicans remain firmly in control of the state legislature, far-right lawmakers have turned to a stack of anti-LGBT and other wedge issue legislation to keep the faithful ginned up. […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with legendary Colorado politico Alan Salazar and coin a new term from his vast experience. Currently serving as Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, Salazar has been a top adviser to Congressmen, Senators, Governors, and even Presidents […]
Sandra Fish of The Colorado Sun outlined today some big-picture campaign spending takeaways from state races in Colorado, with the main takeaway being that Gov. Jared Polis was the biggest spender of them all in 2022. You can argue about what Polis’ self-funding means in relation to elections and campaign finance norms and whatnot, but […]
The internets are lighting up this morning after a chyron displayed on Denver’s KWGN Channel 2 morning news made a rather unambiguous editorial statement: As clipped from the live broadcast. Who knew we had a local version of Fox and Friends? That, or a staffer has some ‘splaining to do.
Former state Sen. turned ubiquitous GOP political operative Greg Brophy is incensed that Democrats are likening two Republicans in a campaign mailer–two Republicans who Brophy claims to support: In short, Brophy supports both freshman GOP train wreck-a-thon Rep. Lauren Boebert and state house candidate Paul Archer, but Democrats comparing Archer to Boebert directly is “intellectually […]
This new television ad from the CO-07 campaign of Democrat Brittany Pettersen is the single best spot we have seen in Colorado in 2022. Take a look: This single TV ad absolutely demolishes attacks by Republican opponent Erik Aadland intended to label Pettersen as being on the wrong side of the debate about […]
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