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How ’bout a paragraph or two for Emily Rice?
The Denver Post, The Westword and the Rocky Mountain News all report that the parents of 24-year-old Emily Rice, who was jailed immediately after receiving treatment by Denver Health, following a car accident on February 18, 2006, has filed suit against the City of Denver. Emily’s blood alcohol was 0.121%, slightly above the legal limit. […]
New York Times / CBS Poll shows wide support for immigration bill provisions
NOTE: login may be required to read article but registration is free. So don’t be a paranoid chump, just sign up. http://www.nytimes.c… Some interesting findings after the jump… As opponents from the right and left challenge an immigration bill before Congress, there is broad support among Americans – Democrats, Republicans and independents alike – for […]
How to be a Delegate
With the 2008 Democratic National Convention coming to Denver, Colorado Democrats are licking their lips at being able to be a delegate without having to spend big money traveling to another state. The Colorado Democratic Party today released its delegate selection plan, according to a press release: A copy of the Colorado Democratic Party’s 2008 […]
How will changes in primaries affect presidential campaigns
The NY Times reports that some 20 states are moving toward holding presidential primaries on Feb 5, 2008, creating uncertainty among the stratgists for the candidates. Link is here: http://www.nytimes.c… Will the Feb. 5 primaries make Iowa and N. H. more or less important, or not change their importance? How will the famous candiates like […]
How about just “reasonable”?
We’re still so saturated in the “conservative v. liberal” political spectrum, nobody seems to question whether it’s the only spectrum along which we can identify ourselves and across which we can debate. I’m a social liberal, a fiscal conservative, an admirer of the power of markets who believes they should be harnassed to serve values […]
Democrats openly show that they do not support the troops
Since the U.S. invaded Iraq, anti-war protestors at moveon.org and in the hard left wing of the Democratic party have said that while they don’t support America’s war effort in Iraq, they support our troops. Now the Democrat’s Speaker of the U.S. House and Majority Leader of the Senate are showing they no longer support […]
How opportune and free market oriented…
“It simply gets government out of the way of contractual agreements between employers and unions.” Amazing to see how lefty Sen. Veiga now finds it convenient and contorts herself to no end to finesse her support for the labor bill sitting on Ritter’s desk.…I suspect she won’t be nearly as accommodating when other pieces of […]
How to be a Delegate
Colorado Confidential has a good rundown of what it takes to become a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
How GOP turned Colorado dark blue
The Dec. 30, 2006, Rocky carries a thoughtful column by Mark Hillman, “How did Colorado turn blue? Dems had a meticulous plan.” In short, “It wasn’t my fault.” But, Mark, it was your fault. John Andrews’ fault, and Bill Owens’. You blew it with your sellouts to Dobson, Armstrong and all the other Repulsive Republican […]
Bob Beauprez: Talk Show Host
Since Bob Beauprez was so good at saying crazy things on the radio, perhaps it made sense to make him a radio talk show host, as Haley’s Comment reports: That familiar voice on your drive-time radio tomorrow afternoon will be Bob Beauprez, retiring congressman and guv runner-up. Beauprez, who has said he won’t retire into […]
How’s your town doing with the snow?
In our Greenwood Village community, the snow plows came through a couple of times Wednesday morning, and then no more until sometime today. They took a quick run around the complex, ignored half the streets and all the culdesacs and left people stuck. This is not satisfactory. In previous big snows, the streets were plowed […]
Predictions: How’d we do?
I made predictions in 86 races and got all of them but 15 correct. The ones I missed: Musgrave (CD7) But she only made it by 3% Fawcett (CD5) Probably just wishful thinking Richardson CU Regent (AL) another close one. Kopp (SD22) Thought Noonan’s money would win it Labuda (HD1) Denver Dems got motivated at […]
9News Hosts Marquee Ritter vs. Beauprez Showdown
Tell us how they did.
How Damaging is BeauprezGate?
As the Rocky Mountain News: The fallout from an FBI investigation into the Colorado governor’s race could significantly damage the already struggling campaign of Republican Bob Beauprez, analysts from across the political spectrum said Thursday. A day after law enforcement officials launched a criminal probe into the role of the Beauprez campaign in accessing a […]
How Ken Gordon Wins
Democrat Ken Gordon has a great new ad online that you can see here which shows him swimming with sharks (well, floating with sharks, anyway). If this gets on TV, it is the kind of ad that could win the Secretary of State race for him, because it’s different and it’s funny. In a race […]
Tell All Book Shows Hypocrisy of Bush’s Faith Based Initiatives
http://www.crooksand… David Kuo’s book “Tempting Faith” has come out and details the Bush administration’s take on the religious right. Needless to say it is not portraying Bush and Co. in the most flattering light. The link has a clip of Keith Olbermann discussing the book, and it is certainly interesting to say the least. I […]
How Much Does Your Favorite Staffer Earn?
There’s a new Web site online that allows you to search for the salaries of congressional staffers. Check out the dramatically-named Legistorm.com.
Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq
This article is a little long, but a good read none the less. I think that there comes a time when the realization must be made that what may be right for America (or wrong depending on your view) is not what is right for Iraq. By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September […]
Conservative Talk Show Host (and part-time clown) Insults Minimum Wage Earners
Check it out. Colorado Media Matters has an audio clip of comments from a conservative talk show host in Colorado Springs . This is the highest rated news talk station in the media market. GO TO http://colorado.medi… This from a guy who calls himself a motivational speaker?
How Will Lieberman’s Defeat Affect CO Gov?
As someone who has only been in CO for a year, I’m trying to come up to speed on the political landscape. No one has a crystal ball, of course, but in this oddly mixed Republican/Democrat state which runs the gambit of liberal/conservative constituencies can’t we expect Lieberman’s defeat to have some affect on CO […]
How’s the Voting Going?
Not so well in some parts of Denver, according to news reports. How’s it look where you voted?
How to Spin, and Win
The release of yesterday’s SurveyUSA poll has provided some great press for Democrat Ed Perlmutter, whose team did a great job spinning the results. How good a job did they do? They got Chris Barge of the Rocky Mountain News to write a hypothesis that doesn’t even make sense. Barge says that one of Peggy […]
New Poll Shows Perlmutter with Big Lead
The Rocky Mountain News reports that a new poll to be released soon shows that Democrat Ed Perlmutter has a huge lead over Peggy Lamm and Herb Rubenstein heading into next week’s CD-7 primary. According to the campaign, the Survey USA poll of likely Democratic voters in the suburban Denver district found the following amount […]
How to Marginalize Yourself
Republican congressional candidate Doug Lamborn yesterday openly marginalized fellow candidate Jeff Crank in a press release, declaring the CD-5 primary to be down to himself and Lionel Rivera. So how does the Crank campaign respond? By marginalizing Crank, of course. Check out this press release we received last night from the Crank campaign… Tomorrow morning, […]