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Aurora Councilmember Doesn’t Want To Hear Your Silly Facts
As 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark reports, another head-on collision between online conservative mythmaking and reality is playing out in Aurora, where the city’s nominally nonpartisan but de facto Republican-controlled city government under Mayor Mike Coffman is dealing with a run-down apartment building which has been hyped into some kind of international gangster “no-go zone” by conservative […]
Lauren Boebert Rage Tweets From Garfield County Court
On its face, this was just another incendiary Tweet from Colorado’s patron saint of incendiary Tweeting, Rep. Lauren Boebert: But as Natalie Musumeci reports for Business Insider, unlike most of Boebert’s social media firehose spray of attention-seeking vitriol, it was possible to determine exactly where the Congresswoman from Rifle Windsor was at the time of […]
Ex-Mesa County Elections Manager Further Devastates Tina Peters’ Defense
As Colorado Public Radio reports, following up the testimony of former Mesa County deputy clerk Belinda Knisley against indicted ex-Clerk Tina Peters in her trial on felony identity theft and official misconduct charges, another former subordinate of Peters’ who like Knisley took a plea bargain for reduced charges in exchange for testifying against her former […]
Larry Mizel, Phalanx Of Billionaires To Rub Elbows With Trump In Aspen
Here’s an invite to a fundraiser in Aspen this Saturday so exclusive that as soon as it was discovered on the website of the Orange County, California GOP, it was swiftly removed from view. And don’t worry about actually attending, the event is reportedly already sold out: Generally speaking, when the minimum ask for dinner […]
Former Deputy Clerk Gives Damning Testimony In Tina Peters Case
The trial of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on multiple felony counts stemming from the illegal access and theft of data from Dominion Voting Machines equipment in her care back in 2021 heard testimony yesterday from Peters’ former chief deputy clerk Belinda Knisley, who accepted a plea agreement almost two years ago in this […]
Presenting The Harris/Walz Ticket
UPDATE #2: The Trump campaign is perplexed at how to respond: —– UPDATE: Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis thumbs-ups the selection of fellow Gov. Tim Walz to serve as Vice President after humorously level-setting his own chances of being picked last month: With a proven Governor on Kamala Harris’s ticket, the path to victory is now even […]
Former CO GOP Leader: Republican Infighting Is an ‘Absolute Unadulterated Shit Show,’ Risks Statehouse Races
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder After more than a decade of public service, Colorado Springs Republican Mark Waller has not been an elected official for over three years, and given his party’s current state of chaos, that suits him just fine. The former house minority leader served in the […]
Jenna Ellis Turns State’s Evidence In Arizona Fake Electors Case
As the Washington Post’s Yvonne Wingett Sanchez reports, suspended Colorado lawyer and convicted felon Jenna Ellis has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in Arizona in the indictment against a number of officials from Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign and conspiring Arizona Republicans, in the plot to replace the legal electors in that state with a slate […]
The Get More Smarter Podcast: Weird, Weird, Weird…but Also Good!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…Ian is out of town volunteering at a no-kill aardvark shelter, so Christy Powell is here to save Jason from talking to himself. Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has changed EVERYTHING and Donald Trump’s campaign is falling apart. It’s been a wild few weeks. Former Mesa County […]
Boebert Goes Culture War Ambulance Chasing At The Olympics
A new and heavily misinformed front in the ongoing debate over gender identity and sports opened this week at the Olympic Games in Paris, when a female Algerian boxer widely misidentified as “transgender” easily defeated an Italian female boxer, leading to a fresh round of allegations that “woke culture” was allowing “men to play in […]
The Colorado Republican Party Has Become a Hindrance for Republican Candidates
The pratfalls and misadventures of the Colorado Republican Party have been a key storyline throughout the 2024 election cycle. The infighting that has consumed the Colorado GOP for more than a year isn’t letting up despite the fact that ballots drop in Colorado in about 10 weeks. Candidates and campaigns are now speaking out more […]
Colorado Republicans Cruised Past Parody and Kept Right on Going
Colorado Republicans are, in a word, absurd. If you follow politics at all in Colorado, you are aware that the Colorado Republican Party is in the middle of a spectacular shit show related to various attempts at ousting State Party Chairman Dave Williams. The fact that Republicans are bogged down with this nonsense with just […]
Trump Sets GOP Race Relations Back To Stone Age, Thrilling Lauren Boebert
CNN reports from the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, where Donald Trump appeared yesterday for a sit-down interview with three Black journalists that even on the Trump scale of incendiary shock value is difficult to overstate: a performance that would have ended any other political career, and although it’s not the first […]
Child Actor Ricky Schroder Crashes Tina Peters Trial
THURSDAY UPDATE: Nancy Lofholm reports for the Colorado Sun: Outside the courtroom Wednesday, former child actor-turned-election denier and COVID-19 skeptic Ricky Schroder confronted reporters. He carried a Bible and recited prayers for Peters… In spite of being confined to home (except for her court appearances) and having to wear an ankle monitor, Peters has continued […]
Abortion Rights: What “Leave it Up to the States” Really Means
The issue of abortion rights has been a real problem for Republicans since the June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade that removed federal protections for the procedure. Since that decision, voters in every state that have had an opportunity to vote on the issue — including beet-red states such as Kansas — have overwhelmingly […]
After Calling on His Party’s Leadership to Resign, Will Evans Disavow Their Support?
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Last Friday Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans publicly called on his own state party chair to resign, and for the party’s central committee to vote him out if he refused to step down. GOP calls for Williams to step down boiled over last month […]
Initiatives 50 and 108 Falling Apart Amid Basic Scrutiny
In the waning days of the 2024 legislative session in Colorado, both Democrats and Republicans came together on a property tax reduction bill to help Colorado families. This bipartisan group believed that SB24-233 would have the side benefit of preventing two different property tax measures from appearing on the November ballot. A Big Business-aligned group […]
Overstock.com Guy Makes Gruesome Threats Against Tina Peters’ Prosecutor
As the Washington Post reported Friday evening and 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark took note of last night (video above), an ally of indicted ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, whose trial in Mesa County on multiple felony charges stemming from the unauthorized access to voting equipment she allegedly allowed in a failed attempt to obtain evidence […]
Oil and Gas Drilling Near both a Landfill AND a Reservoir? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
John Aguilar of The Denver Post reports today on final discussions about a proposal to allow extensive oil and gas extraction operations to take place in and around both the Aurora Reservoir and the Lowry Landfill Superfund Site (where an estimated 138 million gallons of liquid industrial waste are buried): A contentious plan to drill up […]
Judge Pre-Emptively Shuts Down Tina Peters’ “Big Lie Defense”
The long-awaited trial of ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on felony charges related to the theft and redistribution of proprietary Dominion Voting Systems software in her charge as part of a failed attempt to supply evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump begins this week, and the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles […]
BREAKING: Restraining Order Stops Dave Williams Ouster Efforts Cold
That’s the latest highly consequential late Friday afternoon news from Ernest Luning at the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, a restraining order has been issued shutting down tomorrow’s scheduled meeting of Colorado GOP central committee members in Brighton to consider removing chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams and his leadership allies at the behest of […]
J.D. Vance Really, Really Not Going Over Well
Newsweek reports that GOP freshman Sen. J.D. Vance has by all accounts had a historically bad launch as Donald Trump’s running mate, with polls since the end of the Republican National Convention last week showing that Vance is the least popular vice presidential pick from either party in over 40 years: The Ohio senator’s net […]
Republican Effort to Promote Third Party Presidential Candidates Hits Snag in Colorado
The campaign of worm-brained Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. continues to run into snags. As Andy Kenney reports for Colorado Public Radio, Worm-F-K, Jr. isn’t likely to be on Colorado’s Presidential ballot as a Libertarian candidate after all: A fight over which candidate will represent the Libertarian Party on Colorado’s presidential ballot may be […]
Swashbuckling Transphobe Eli Bremer Offers To Save Colorado Republicans From Themselves
UPDATE: Once again from Ernest Luning at the Gazette, Dave Williams’ ally El Paso County chair Vickie Tonkins takes a swipe at her vice-chair, leading anti-Williams insurgent Todd Watkins in the latest round of high-dudgeon low-impact retaliation: A censure resolution pushed by El Paso County GOP chairwoman Vickie Tonkins and approved Tuesday night by the […]