(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%
One of our longest running features at Colorado Pols is something we call, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” where we detail a strange story that is normally about a politician from somewhere outside of Colorado. Sometimes, unfortunately, this feature applies to weirdos in our own state. State Rep. Scott “There is No” Bottoms, a […]
The Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain updates on the ongoing case of Andersen v. Griswold, filed by a group of Republican and unaffiliated voters seeking to force Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to remove ex-President Donald Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause: Trump’s lawyers argued in September that […]
UPDATE: Rep. Jim Jordan defeated Rep. Austin Scott in an internal Republican vote, though more than 50 Republicans voted for “not Jim Jordan.” With no path for Jordan — or anyone — to receive the 217 votes needed on the House Floor, Republicans decided to adjourn for the weekend and send everyone home. —– Congressional […]
UPDATE: So say we all: Debunking the Bigfoot video is bad for the sustainability of a profit-driven advertising-supported late-capitalist business model for local news, so make sure it doesn't happen — and if it does, do NOT put it in the headline — Corey Hutchins (@CoreyHutchins) October 12, 2023 We promise not to be the […]
If you’ve followed Colorado politics in the last decade, you’re probably well aware that the Colorado Republican Party has moved so far beyond “dumpster fire” status that it’s hard to come up with an appropriate analogy anymore for their consistent ineptitude. The GOP’s persistent failures were punctuated in 2022 with devastating losses to Democrats up […]
A former school teacher named Tim Hernandez was selected by a vacancy committee on August 26 to serve the remainder of the term of former Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, who resigned her seat after winning election to the Denver City Council in June. Hernandez will serve in the state legislature for one session because of the […]
As readers know, the marquee question on this year’s statewide election ballot is Proposition HH, a referred measure from the state legislature supported by Gov. Jared Polis to slow the increase on property taxes after an historic runup of home values in Colorado over the last few years. Proposition HH limits the pain for homeowners […]
The ouster last week of Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy took on a whole new shade of irresponsible over the weekend, as geopolitical events made the smallest of potatoes out of the objections of the “Gaetz Eight” including Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck to a functioning House if led by Kevin McCarthy. Although House […]
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” — Ian Fleming in Goldfinger As we noted on Friday, Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) had a really tough week that ended with news that Mesa County Commissioner Bobbie Daniel was joining fellow Commissioner Cody Davis in publicly endorsing […]
As CNN reports today, the jockeying to succeed ousted Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy intensified over the weekend, and although two hard-right conservative Republican Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan are formally competing there’s no guarantee that either one will be able to win a majority vote: House Republicans remain badly divided over […]
The shocking news the world woke up to today, as the Washington Post reports on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Saturday that “we are at war” after Hamas militants from Gaza launched a surprise, multipronged attack across central and southern Israel, killing an estimated […]
A guest op-ed appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette last Tuesday, ostensibly written by freshman whack-right Republican state Rep. Ken “Skin” DeGraaf and castigating former Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams for Wadhams’ increasingly intense criticism of the current party chairman, former Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams: Dick Wadhams, although a former Chairman of the […]
The numbers don’t lie, as The New York Times reports: In a sign of continued economic stamina, American payrolls grew by 336,000 in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said on Friday. The increase, almost double what economists had forecast, confirmed the labor market’s vitality and the overall hardiness of an economy […]
It’s been a bad couple of days weeks months for Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle). It would be a rough week for any politician to have been the butt of jokes on late-night television for a scandal (#Beetlebert) that happened nearly a month ago. But Monday’s comedic onslaught is already the least of Boebert’s worries. On […]
The eight Republican members of Congress who voted to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led by Rep. Matt “Giggity” Gaetz and including Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck did not include Colorado’s by-far most cantankerous Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, despite Boebert’s fight to the fifteenth ballot at Gaetz’s side to stop McCarthy from becoming speaker and even […]
“Bumfuzzle.” That’s today’s “word of the day” from an email list that we somehow ended up joining. Regardless, it’s useful for today’s news. “Bumfuzzle” means “to confuse or perplex; to bewilder.” We are completely “bumfuzzled” by Republican attempts to blame the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ON DEMOCRATS. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) […]
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”50%”]“For Mr. McCarthy, who practiced a management style of doing and saying pretty much whatever it would take to get through the day, tomorrow finally arrived.” — The New York Times (10/4/23)[/mantra-pullquote] Kevin McCarthy made history on Tuesday by becoming the first Speaker of the House to have his gavel taken away […]
UPDATE #4: The destruction wrought by Matt Gaetz today is just the Colorado Republican Party’s style: Smugness over cash flow is how Dave Williams runs his shop too. —– UPDATE #3: Here’s the moment for posterity — the first time in history that a Speaker of the House has been removed by a vote of his/her […]
State Rep. Richard Holtorf (R-Akron) has never been all that good with words. He definitely likes using them, don’t get us wrong, but he doesn’t always put the words in the right order or think about whether he should be saying some of the words in the first place. For example, we could cite any […]
An agreement was reached on Saturday night for a relatively “clean” continuing resolution to fund the federal government for a further six weeks, avoiding the government shutdown widely expected when we last wrote on the subject Friday afternoon. Generally perceived as a capitulation by Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy who abandoned his own […]
UPDATE: It’s almost like Republicans are trying to PROVE that they’re shutting down the government for no reason: WHAT DO WE WANT? “Now!” WHEN DO WE WANT IT? “What?” —– The federal government will officially shutdown at Midnight tomorrow (think Saturday night), as hard-right House Republicans drawed themselves another dumb line in the sand today […]
As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports, Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order yesterday directing state agencies to prepare to help keep Colorado’s national parks operating during the federal government shutdown increasingly certain to begin Sunday morning: With Republican infighting so far thwarting any congressional budget deal, the federally managed parks in Colorado — […]
Below are some of the claims Coffman made about his time on the streets, followed by my perspective from what I witnessed. Coffman: “I never met anybody in the encampments that, you know, mentioned a desire to get a job or move away from there. I think it’s very sad.” (KHOW Dan Caplis Show 5/19/21) […]
As Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports, the Colorado Republican Party under the control of far-right former state Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams has landed a keynote speaker for the state party’s annual fundraising dinner that once again promises to raise eyebrows on both sides of the aisle: Kari Lake, […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, the explosive, sustained controversy over GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s churlish and lascivious behavior inside Denver’s Buell Theater during a performance of the musical adaptation of Beetlejuice on September 10 has forced a prominent Mesa County Republican elected official to take the unusual step of rescinding his endorsement […]
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