(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Oil shale is the ‘fuel of the future,’ and it always will be. -Some Colorado Wise Guy from Way, Way Back When This past Tuesday Royal Dutch Shell—for decades considered the leader in oil shale research—made a surprising, although familiar, announcement regarding its ‘unconventional resources’ priorities moving forward. It would […]
What happens when Oil and Gas companies contaminate the Water that Brewers rely on for their Beer in the State of Colorado? What happens after the citizens of the towns with those Beers (Da’ Beers!) passed ballot initiatives to protect their towns? What happens these towns are sued to force Fracking against their will and […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Former state GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams believes Colorado Republicans should find state-wide candidates modeled after Wayne Allard, Bill Armstrong, Bill Owens, and Hank Brown. "They were candidates that appealed to a broad section of Coloradans," Wadhams told internet-radio host Art Carlson Saturday. "They didn't go out of their way to alienate […]
FOX 31's Eli Stokols: If Colorado Republicans are looking for a fresh face to take on Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper next year, one of them just appeared. Out of nowhere. Well, Rhode Island, really. Steve Laffey, a former mayor and GOP Senate candidate who moved to Colorado just three years ago, has filed papers to […]
Late this afternoon, the office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers released a long-awaited technical guidance letter prepared for the Department of Public Safety on the implementation of House Bill 1224, the magazine limit bill. This technical guidance was requested by Gov. John Hickenlooper at the signing of HB-1224 into law, following the many objections raised […]
A pair of fascinating audio clips sent to us today, timely as debate continues on the Colorado Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act, House Bill 1303. The first clip is Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler speaking last January in defense of the SCORE statewide voter registration database. You might recall that last year, the online voter registration interface […]
We were recently forwarded copies of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners candidate questionnaire for 2010 candidates for county sheriffs, with some responses from now-incumbent sheriffs. As you are probably aware, an ad hoc coalition of county sheriffs is threatening to sue, along with the right-wing Independence Institute, to block the two principal gun safety bills passed […]
7NEWS reported from yesterday's debate over the state's General Fund budget bill, known as the "Long Bill." [T]he State Senate's initial approval of the overall budget plan came without Republican support. The minority party said they wouldn't be on board with the spending package because they're upset with Democratic legislation this year. Republican Sen. Kent Lambert, […]
(Answer: not this time! – promoted by Colorado Pols) On Fort Morgan's KFTM radio this week, host John Waters missed a chance to pin down Rep. Cory Gardner about whether he agrees, in retrospect, that Sarah Palin was right that Obamacare put the fate of Americans in the hands of "death panels," with the power […]
The 112th Congress shut down on Thursday to make way for 113 in a sadly fitting fashion. From Roll Call:
There was no formal resolution to usher out the 112th Congress. It’ll just kind of end today, and the new Congress will start as the Constitution instructs it to at noon.
What a perfect coda for the most contentious, fired-up, hard-to-please Congress in recent memory. They couldn’t even formally agree on when to end things.
Perhaps the worst Congress in our nation’s history is now in the history books. Oddly befitting the 112, there will likely be far more written about their two years than the members wrote themselves in terms of legislation. As Bloomberg explains:
What’s the record of the 112th Congress? Well, it almost shut down the government and almost breached the debt ceiling. It almost went over the fiscal cliff (which it had designed in the first place). It cut a trillion dollars of discretionary spending in the Budget Control Act and scheduled another trillion in spending cuts through an automatic sequester, which everyone agrees is terrible policy. It achieved nothing of note on housing, energy, stimulus, immigration, guns, tax reform, infrastructure, climate change or, really, anything. It’s hard to identify a single significant problem that existed prior to the 112th Congress that was in any way improved by its two years of rule. [Pols emphasis]
The 112th, which was gaveled into being on Jan. 3, 2011, by newly elected House Speaker John Boehner, wasn’t just unproductive in comparison with the 111th. It was unproductive compared with any Congress since 1948, when scholars began keeping tabs on congressional productivity.
When it ends, the 112th Congress will have passed about 220 public laws — by far the least of any Congress on record. [Pols emphasis] Prior to the 112th, the least productive Congress was the 104th, from January 1995 to January 1997. Not coincidentally, that Congress also featured a new Republican House majority determined to ruin a Democratic president in advance of the next campaign. The 104th, however, passed 333 public laws — almost 50 percent more than the 112th. The 112th stands alone in its achievement of epic failure.
“Epic failure.” How’s that for a legacy, Mr. Speaker?
They can take away my money, my house, my cars…but they can never take…our Epic Failure!
A poll follows.
There is an old saying, credited to British historian Lord Acton. In an April 3, 1887, letter written to Bishop Mandell Creighton, Acton wrote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” He went on to say that great men are almost always bad men. I’ve been pondering this quote over the past few […]
On KNUS’ morning talk-radio show Thursday, Steve Kelley played an audio clip of Obama criticizing Romney’s response to the Libya attack, saying Romney has a “tendency to shoot first and aim later.” Steve Kelley, the host of the show, had Mitt Romney’s son Josh on the phone, and, it’s only natural to try to personalize […]
Of the many snippets we were forwarded this week about Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s latest attempt to challenge the citizenship of voters he “believes” may not be legally registered–a campaign headed for failure as the results appear to make a joke of Gessler’s dire predictions–this audio of an exchange between Deputy Secretary of […]
If you listened to progressive talk-radio host David Sirota and conservative Michael Brown on the radio, before they were paired up on KHOW’s new afternoon talk show, you know that Brown was very much pro-Romney, pro-Republican Party. But you might not know whether Sirota would vote for Obama at all. So you wonder, how will […]
In a blog post yesterday, I offered some fresh examples of how, when Scott Gessler is on right-wing radio, he often sounds just like the right-wing radio host, bashing Democrats. That’s not good, if you’re the Secretary of State, because you’re supposed to be above the partisan fray, at least somewhat, so that people trust […]
(No, not Brownie – promoted by Colorado Pols) If you’ve been listening to President Obama lately, you know he talks a lot about Americans helping each other out, having each other’s backs, and creating opportunity for those who deserve it. This obviously contrasts with the themes you hear a lot from conservatives, who are all […]
A Commentary by American Patriot Story links below (for those who don’t know the story) They say diplomacy is the ability to tell a cowboy to go to hell in such a nice way that he looks forward to the trip. But they also say that war is just diplomacy by other means. But there […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) We’ll be hearing a lot about Medicare this election season, and reporters should study up on some of the expected flashpoints, so they can challenge candidates who try to deceive us. A case in point is Rep. Scott Tipton’s appearance on 9News’ YourShow Sunday. “When we’re talking about health […]
UPDATED AND ALL THAT…THURS, MAY 3 Colorado’s North Fork Valley–with the highest concentration of organic farms in the state and one of only two American Viticultural Areas in Colorado–did it. It forced the BLM to back off and back down. The agency is not giving up the details of what the final thing was that […]
The Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reports: The task force that Gov. John Hickenlooper set up to halt a looming war between local governments and the energy industry came back Wednesday with a plan to keep things mostly as they are. Several Front Range local governments are considering moratoriums and regulations in the face of a […]
UPDATE: Members of the Joint Budget Committee reached a deal today that has Democrats and Republicans claiming victory (per usual), with a 1% reduction that now excludes many vital departments from cuts like corrections. From Colorado WINS’ press release a short while ago: We are thanking the entire Joint Budget Committee for coming to a […]
As the Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reported yesterday: An improving economy will bring about $150 million more to the state budget next year, about a 2 percent improvement over the previous projection from December… While the improving economy is good news for Coloradans as a whole, the slight increase in cash flow threatens to touch […]
Silly season has come early this year, as demonstrated by a week’s worth of lewdness by elected officials, those who’d like to be elected officials, and those who like to be thorns in the sides of elected officials. After reading about Senator Brophy’s outrageously offensive comments, and today’s classy contribution from Matt Arnold, it may […]
I love politicians who will talk openly about their “messaging.” Everyone knows it chews up huge amounts of behind-the-scenes time (and money), but the insider debate about messages doesn’t spill out much. When it does, reporters should be all over it, not to play “gotcha,” but to help real people (none of whom read this […]
UPDATE: ABC News pays out the rope: In a statement by Neppl provided by the Romney campaign to ABC News, the CEO said that the manufacturer “is not a stimulus success story.” “I did not support the stimulus, I did not seek out stimulus funds, and the stimulus did not create or save a single […]
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