(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%
At the end of January, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reported on angry allegations of favoritism from GOP Rep. Matt Soper of Delta against the new House Micro-Minority Leader Rose Pugliese after Soper was bounced from the House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Committee, ostensibly to make room for ex-Minority Leader Mike Lynch who […]
As the Colorado General Assembly’s 2024 session kicked off last month, we took note of a release from the Colorado Democratic Party responding to one of the loudest and most frequently-delivered complaints from the 19 Republican members of the 65-seat Colorado House: that supermajority Democrats we’re unfairly “silencing” Republicans by curtailing obvious attempts by the […]
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, […]
As Charles Ashby at the Grand Junction Sentinel reports, newly-appointed Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese has the first of what’s expected to be many intra-caucus squabbles on her hands, facing allegations of backstabbery over changes to committee assignments that left Rep. Matt Soper of Delta without his most desired musical chair: No sooner after […]
The 2024 state legislative session has gotten off to a slow start, primarily because House Republicans have been following the lead of their brethren in Congress by acting ridiculous and focusing a significant amount of time on attacking each other. Now that the Republican micro-minority in the House finally has a new “leader,” state legislators […]
awesome + uniting Medicaid reimbursements for autism care could get big bump under proposal initially approved by Colorado lawmakers $88 million in federal funding to improve I-76 and U.S. 160 Chloe Kim becomes first woman to land 1260 in snowboard halfpipe, wins record-tying 7th X Games gold awesome + controversy Denver Basic Income Project extends […]
UPDATE: The Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul: House Republicans are scheduled to meet at 8 a.m. Thursday to pick a new minority leader. Assistant House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, R-Colorado Springs, is the obvious choice, though others may pursue the job. Bottoms has said he doesn’t want to be minority leader… The job of Colorado House […]
Colorado Springs Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn announced last Friday that he would not be running for re-election in the fifth congressional district. If there was a mourning period for Republicans to mark his departure from Colorado politics, it was short; the field of candidates interested in CO-05 is growing rapidly. Ernest Luning of the publication […]
Colorado Republicans have had trouble winning elections in Colorado for more than a decade, but the damage has dialed up exponentially in recent election cycles. Republican candidates have been absolutely throttled at the ballot box in every election since 2018, culminating in a 2022 cycle that one ousted lawmaker labeled an “extinction-level event.” You don’t […]
The Colorado legislature will reconvene in about a month (January 10, 2024, to be exact), and it will likely kick things off with a different clown in charge of the circus that is the House Republican caucus. The current Chief Clown is House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, but Lynch has been widely expected to run […]
Republicans in Colorado have had trouble winning elections for a long time now. There are a lot of reasons for these failures, but perhaps none as persistently problematic as Republican refusals to actually listen to what voters are telling them. To be fair, this isn’t just a problem for Republicans in Colorado. Nationwide, for example, […]
Proposition HH, one of the two statewide measures on the ballot in 2023, has been generating a lot of media coverage lately — in no small part because there’s not much else to really talk about in this election cycle that affects everyone in the state. If you’re unfamiliar with Prop. HH or just need […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Mesa County Colorado is officially on the world map these days, thanks to the likes of Tina Peters and Lauren Boebert, but what is causing me a lot of worry these days is the direction of the Mesa County Health Department’s Board. Janet Rowland got herself appointed to that Board as […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) As the Colorado Democrats’ “Safe Access to Protected Health Care” package of legislation moves to House for consideration, Republicans have taken to talk radio to share their views on the proposed bills that target the marketing practices of anti-abortion centers and their use of an unproven pill to reverse an abortion, expand legal […]
TUESDAY UPDATE #2: The resolution honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. passed in the State Senate on Tuesday. In the final count, only one Republican signed on to the legislation as a co-sponsor: Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen. There are 31 Republicans in the state legislature in 2023. Only one out of 31 Republicans agreed to […]
The 2023 Colorado legislative session kicked off on Monday with some of the newest Republican lawmakers doing the same old Republican things that led to their current micro-minority situation. The more we hear from House Republicans, the more it seems that the GOP is too dysfunctional to even accept invitations to work with Democrats. The […]
FRIDAY UPDATE: House Democrats have selected Rep. Julie McCluskie of Dillon to be the next Speaker of the House. Here are the rest of the leadership positions: House Majority Leader: Monica Duran Assistant House Majority Leader: Jennifer Bacon Co-Whips: Iman Jodeh & Andrew Boesenecker Caucus Chairs: Brianna Titone & Mandy Lindsay Joint Budget Committee: Emily […]
A substantial portion of the 2022 session of the Colorado legislature has been dominated by debate over policy to address the particularly dangerous synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, which has been responsible for an escalating overdose and death rate for nearly a decade as this cheap and powerful drug is smuggled in large quantities into the […]
Last week, as most area news outlets reported, Gov. Jared Polis and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers unveiled legislation meant to crack down on the distribution of the deadly synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, which in recent years has been mass-produced and in some cases substituted to users without their knowledge for other drugs with lethal […]
El Paso County is home to Colorado Springs, the Air Force Academy, and the Fort Carson Army base, all of which contribute to the county’s large contingent of State Representatives. Because El Paso has long been reliably right-wing in its politics, the county can usually count on all six of its State Representatives representing the […]
Able to leap both genders in a single bound! Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter. […]
Colorado Republicans are having a difficult time finding candidates willing to run for statewide office in 2022. Since the GOP can’t manage to find anyone new who is willing to embrace the base and turn off everyone else, they are now looking at ways to recycle. We’re just 14 months away from the 2022 election, […]
When Heidi Ganahl (badly) announced her 2022 campaign for Governor last week, she became the first significant Republican name to officially launch a candidacy for one of Colorado’s four main statewide offices: Governor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, and Secretary of State (SOS). Who’s next? We honestly have no idea…and neither do most Republicans. Former Mesa […]
It’s going to be really, really hot outside in Colorado…unusually hot, in fact. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us […]
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog took note of a Tweet yesterday from Rose Pugliese, the Republican former Mesa County commissioner widely expected to run for Secretary of State against Democratic incumbent Jena Griswold, putting the brakes on that speculation–which as we noted a month ago was getting wobbly: “Despite speculation that […]
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