(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%
Tuesday, August 21 will go down in history as the day that a sitting President of the United States was named as a co-conspirator in a criminal activity that could ultimately lead to the end of his administration. As John Dean, former White House counsel for Richard Nixon, told Bloomberg News: “I think we’ve established today […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last week, after Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with Colorado Republican state senators, including Kevin Grantham of Canon City, Beth Martinez Huminek of Westminster, and Randy Baumgardner of Hot Sulpher Springs, he meandered up to Steamboat Springs, where he gave a lengthy interview praising Trump and warning against blaming climate change […]
Income inequality in the United States is a growing problem. Recent data shows that the top 1% of Americans continue to seize a disproportionate share of wealth compared to the rest of us, and at a rate that is significantly outpacing our counterparts in Western Europe. This chart from the 2018 World Inequality Report explains […]
An editorial published in the Phil Anschutz-owned Colorado Springs Gazette yesterday mounts a surprisingly bitter and sweeping attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center, who readers may know agreed to a significant settlement this week to a person accused of supporting anti-Muslim hate, later stating that accusation was in error. For the Gazette, this settlement […]
Politico reports on the outrage–outrage, mind you–over comedian Michelle Wolf’s monologue at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, in which Wolf roasted both the fourth estate and members of the Trump administration in attendance within an inch of their very comfortable lives: Almost immediately after Wolf, best known as a correspondent on […]
Hey, Steve Lebsock! You’ve just become the first sitting member of the Colorado General Assembly to be expelled in over 100 years. What are you going to do now, the world wonders? Actually, we weren’t wondering. But in case you were: After then-Rep. Lebsock switched his party affiliation approximately one hour before being expelled from […]
A new analysis from Associated Press shows the six biggest Wall Street banks saved $3.6 Billion – that’s with a B – in the last 90 days of 2017 on the tax cut bill Ken Buck voted for. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America did very well thanks to the Republican tax cut […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last month, after students from Parkland, Florida began speaking out for gun safety laws in the wake of a massacre at their high school, Denver conservative radio host Randy Corporon went on the attack, calling the students “manipulated damaged children” and “brainwashed Florida teenagers” and accusing “the left” of “seizing on […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The Colorado Republican Party has decided not to hold its multi-county assemblies at the Best Western Hotel in Longmont, “due to recent news of Best Western pulling their support from the NRA and our 2nd Amendment rights.” In an email announcement about the Republican State Convention, to be held April 14 […]
Early Wednesday afternoon, a large fire broke out at an apartment construction site in the Uptown neighborhood of Denver. It’s unknown as of yet how the fire started, but it quickly exploded into a three-alarm blaze that forced the evacuation of neighboring buildings, literally melted nearby parked cars, and resulted in two deaths and numerous […]
KUNC’s Bente Birkeland reports on the latest case of alleged sexual harassment to hit the Colorado Senate GOP majority–this time an allegation from a fellow lawmaker against Sen. Larry Crowder of Alamosa: Sen. Larry Crowder, R-Alamosa, is the latest lawmaker to be named publicly in allegations of sexual misconduct. His accuser, Rep. Susan Lontine, D-Denver, […]
(With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand! – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner laughed off concerns today about Trump’s proposed military parade. Asked by KOA radio hosts if he was concerned about the parade’s $20 million price tag, Gardner quipped, “Look, as long as they let Michael Dukakis drive a […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) While nearly everyone in Colorado is working on how to solve our challenges, the Koch-funded extremists at Americans for Prosperity are actually suggesting we reduce — or completely eradicate — our income tax at a time when General Fund expenditures are at nearly recessionary levels as a share of our economy. […]
We’d be remiss if we didn’t give some mention to Rep. Mike Coffman’s letter the day before yesterday to Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai, requesting a delay in the commission’s vote on new rules that could lead to the end of “net neutrality”–the principle of internet communications that all traffic should be routed equally […]
CBS4 Denver reported on a rally this weekend urging the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission to reject a proposal to weaken FCC rules mandating “net neutrality”–in general, the requirement that all internet traffic be routed equally with no preferential treatment of origin: A rally downtown on Saturday was the latest attempt to raise awareness for […]
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As more information continues to be released about the weapons employed by the mass shooter in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday night, in which almost 60 people died and over 500 were wounded, we took note of one of the first photos released of one of the high-powered semiautomatic rifles modified to inflict rapid-fire destruction […]
The coming week is full of opportunities to take action in support of our shared progressive values. Now that, with your help, the far-right’s campaign to repeal health reform has been defeated, Republicans in Washington are turning to massive tax cuts for the wealthy and other parts of their agenda that would hurt the middle […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reports, the long failure of the GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act and furious backlash from his own constituents has resulted in an interesting new addition to Sen. Cory Gardner’s pitch on health care: Gardner, a Republican who was part of the Senate GOP team that fashioned a […]
So while the rest of the country, Democrat and Republican alike, were honoring the service of Sen. John McCain and wishing his well as the news of his diagnosis of brain cancer was announced, Colorado’s own class act Shawn Mitchell was busy dancing on a grave not yet dug for the war hero (in spite […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The schism between business groups and some members of the Republican Party in Colorado came into sharp focus Saturday when U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), speaking on conservative radio, lit into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In an interview about his book Drain the Swamp, Buck was asked by KNUS 710-AM’s […]
UPDATE (5:08 pm): National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster just made a brief statement at the White House that was a vague denial of the story. McMaster did not respond to questions. —– Breaking news this afternoon from the Washington Post: President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White […]
As the Colorado Statesman’s John Tomasic reports, the Brick Tamland of Colorado’s congressional delegation Rep. Doug Lamborn has been holding town halls in across the beating red heart of his El Paso County constituency–and like fellow Republicans across the state and nation with the temerity to stick their heads out during the Easter recess, Lamborn got chewed out but […]
As caught on camera by The Hill yesterday, Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner is snarling mad at outgoing President Barack Obama over the commutation of whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s sentence as the clock ticks down toward Donald Trump’s inauguration: REPORTER: And what about the Manning commutation? GARDNER: The, I’m sorry? REPORTER: The Chelsea Manning commutation. GARDNER: Uh, look. […]
Rep. Mike Coffman’s predecessor in CD-6, ex-Rep. and failed freak-right presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, is super delighted this MLK Day about Friday’s transfer of power to incoming President Donald Trump: Trump once described Hillary Clinton as the “founder of ISIS,” but “brother of ISIS” can only mean Barack Obama because obviously a couple of different ways. It’s a good thing Tancredo’s brand […]
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