Monday Open Thread
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Greg Lopez Throws Lauren Boebert The Lifeline From Hell
Last night’s vote by 98 Republicans in the remote Eastern Colorado town of Hugo selecting a candidate in the June 25th special election for the Fourth Congressional District, the winner of which will serve out the remaining months of retired Rep. Ken Buck’s term, resulted in the selection of a placeholder who is not on […]
Who Will Win the Republican Vacancy Appointment in CO-04?
All aboard to [checks map] Hugo, Colorado! Hugo and its 786 residents will see quite the crowd tonight when a Republican vacancy committee meets to determine who gets to be on the ballot for the June 25 Special Election to fill the remainder of former Rep. Ken Buck’s term in Congress. If you’re not familiar […]
Yes, Please: Guns Out Of The State Capitol
Marianne Goodland of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports on a surprising twist in the debate over legislation that would allow for additional areas where firearms including concealed weapons are banned across the state. Although the bill’s original scope was scaled back in amendments, a location added to the list of gun-free zones could […]
Get More Smarter on Thursday (March 28)
The first games in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament kick off tonight; here’s hoping your bracket isn’t already busted. 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 […]
‘A Massive & Horrible Conundrum:’ GOP Election Expert Skeptical of His Party’s Plan for Scantron Voting at Assembly
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) When it comes time for a party led by election deniers to count ballots, trust is inevitably hard to come by. Chairman Dave Williams, along with former state Rep. Ron Hanks, a fellow election fraud conspiracist whom Williams has appointed Chair of the party’s Ballot & Election Security Committee, are in […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (March 27)
Happy Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. 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. […]
Wednesday Open Thread
“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’” –Marcus Aurelius
Republicans Quail As Post-SOTU Joe Biden Throws Blows
The Washington Post’s Toluse Olorunnipa reports today on the sustained new vigor seen from President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign in the weeks since Biden’s fiery and on-point State of the Union address upended the manufactured presumptions about Biden’s fitness for office. After giving the speech of his life, Biden on tour is making the case […]
What Does Blue Do for You in 2024?
We first started taking note of Congressional funding requests from Colorado’s delegation back in 2021, when rules were relaxed on so-called “earmarks” after a 10 year moratorium on the process. As we noted in May 2021, Colorado received $123.3 million in “Member Designated Projects” and “Community Funding Requests” for local communities — every dime of […]
CO Congressional Candidate Gabe Evans: ‘I Support President Donald Trump’
(Gabe-ish Evans casts his lot — Promoted by Colorado Pols) State Rep. Gabe Evans has been running for Colorado’s newest congressional seat since September, but despite being the most prominent Republican in the race, he’s mostly avoided bringing up the name of his party’s standard bearer, former President Donald Trump. That changed Saturday when Adams […]
One Small Mistake, Thousands of Donor Dollars Wasted
Late last week, the mailer you see below from the notorious “no compromise” gun rights group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners landed in mailboxes across Senate District 12, the Colorado Springs-area seat being vacated by GOP CO-05 congressional candidate Sen. Bob Gardner. The mail piece in RMGO’s usual in-your-face style doesn’t mince words or images, with […]
Wait, What? Republicans Balk At Holding Sex Predators Accountable
As CBS4 Denver’s sometimes-unreliable political narrator Shaun Boyd nonetheless gets right his time, Democrats in the Colorado General Assembly appear to have flipped the script on Republicans, who have been cranking up the outrage machine for weeks over the Democratic majority supposedly “protecting” child sex predators–resulting in death threats against lawmakers that Republicans have not […]
Who Stands Up For “Underrepresented” Men? Scott Bottoms, Baby!
Yesterday was the annual Latino/a Advocacy Day at the Colorado State Capitol, an annual event that like so many other routine functions at the Capitol didn’t result in much controversy in the “before times”–that sometimes-mythologized halcyon period before either the global pandemic or Donald Trump where the discourse under the Dome was somewhat less consistently […]
Sad RMGO Rally Demonstrates How Much Colorado Has Shifted on Gun Safety
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 […]
Rep. Brandi Bradley Echoes “Dr. Chaps” Death Threats
Back in February, we took note of a QAnon-sized hissy fit thrown by freshman Rep. Brandi Bradley of Highlands Ranch, who was so bitterly incensed at the Democratic supermajority for killing her bill imposing mandatory minimum sentences on a range of sex offenses that she appeared to condone death threats made about the legislation directed […]
Half-Assed Attack on Secretary of State’s Office Backfires on Gabe Evans
As you might have noticed last week, schools and office buildings across the Denver Metro area were shut down on Thursday and Friday because of a massive snowstorm that snarled roads and highways. Many areas received more than a foot of snow, which prompted the Colorado legislature and most state and local government offices to […]
Dave Williams, Vickie Tonkins Accused of Criminal Tampering With Delegate Process
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This story originally appeared in The Colorado Times Recorder. According to a news release, a criminal complaint was filed today with the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s office by Colorado Congressional District 5 candidate Joshua Griffin, who is alleging that El Paso County Chair Vickie Tonkins and Colorado GOP Chair — and […]
Rep. Scott Bottoms Headlines J6 Insurrectionist Sympathy Event
If you’re in the vicinity next Tuesday evening of Colorado Springs’ Fervent Church, which we’re told amply lives up to their name, GOP Rep. Scott “There Is No” Bottoms is headlining an event hosted by the (again, they pick these names) Spunky Patriots, featuring a man by the name of Tom Hamner–there to tell his […]
Throwback Thursday: Blizzards Break But Also Make Colorado Politicos
With a major snowstorm bringing public business to a halt along the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains today, we recall some moments in time when Colorado’s infamously fickle winter weather had political effects that endured long after the snow and ice had melted away. Longtime residents will recall the great Christmas Blizzard of […]
Boebert Rages While Dust Settles On Buck’s Momentous Exit
Now that (some) of the smoke has cleared from Rep. Ken Buck’s surprise announcement on Tuesday that he would be resigning from Congress effective March 22, it’s time to take another look at why this happened, what it means for Colorado Republicans, and what comes next. The Quiet Part (Not) Out Loud Nobody is saying […]
BREAKING: Ken Buck to Resign from Congress and Drop Anvil on Lauren Boebert
UPDATE: Okay, bear with us because this is confusing… Governor Polis has called a special election in CO-04 to align with the June 25 Primary Election already scheduled. This makes sense, because it saves the state money by not requiring county clerks and the Colorado Secretary of State to conduct two separate elections within a […]
Brandi Bradley Says House Republicans Plan to Waste Even MORE of Everyone’s Time
Republicans in the Colorado House of Representatives waste a MASSIVE amount of time talking about ridiculous ideas, making utterly disgusting speeches, and allowing folks like Rep. Ken “Skin” DeGraaf to mutter big words he recently gleaned from a thesaurus. No subject is too far out of bounds for the GOP micro-minority. Democratic House Speaker Julie […]
Ridiculous GOP State of the Union Response Goes from Bad to Worse
President Biden delivered a passionate State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Thursday that was more political than most but appeared to hit all of the right notes. As The Hill newspaper reported on Sunday, even former Biden detractors were applauding his SOTU remarks: New York Times columnist Ezra Klein walked back his previous demands […]
Weekend Open Thread
“The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower