(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
20%
10%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
40%↓
30%
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
80%↑
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
(D) Wanda James
70%↓
20%↑
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
30%↓
20%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(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%
The House of Representatives will end its third week without a Speaker of the House after Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan failed (again) to receive enough support from Republicans to put his angry mug in the Speaker’s office. Republicans have reportedly decided not to give Jordan a fourth opportunity to fail, so at least we’re […]
UPDATE 12:00PM: “Gym” Jordan withdraws from the race for speaker after losing a secret ballot among the Republican conference to try a fourth time. What comes next is anybody’s guess. —– UPDATE 9:20AM: And it’s already over: —– Here we go again, as the Washington Post reports: The House is scheduled Friday to vote for […]
“When there is unhealthy competition everybody is a loser.” –Tanushree Dutta
We’re taking a break from wondering if Congress will ever again function normally in order to point you to some absolutely breathtaking corruption currently taking place in one Colorado Springs school district. We haven’t seen any other reporting on this story, but we absolutely should; this is one of those tales that needs to be […]
Big news out of Georgia this morning in, where one of the key early members of ex-President Donald Trump’s “elite strike force” legal team, attorney Sidney Powell, has agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges of election interference in a deal that avoids conviction for felony racketeering in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential […]
Jeff Hurd is not Lauren Boebert. That’s been the crux of the Grand Junction Republican’s campaign for Congress in CO-03 thus far, and it’s not an ineffective message given Boebert’s uncanny ability to do and say the wrong thing at virtually every opportunity. The August #Beetlebert scandal, in which Boebert was kicked out of a […]
UPDATE #3: Rep. Jason Crow checks in with a plea for the chaos to end, on account of the world desperately needing American leadership in a time of crisis and all that sundry stuff: Checking in: just took my 17th vote for Speaker this Congress. The vote failed. Again. The House still has no Speaker. […]
(Never forget — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican Mike Coffman wants to be elected mayor of Aurora again, but for most of his 34-year political career, Coffman was a warrior for issues that had little to do with city government and everything to do with spreading a right-wing agenda across Colorado and the country. Immigration […]
Because sometimes you really DON’T need anything else but the artist formerly known as Twitter… We have so many questions for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-ifle)… ♦ To whom did you submit legislation? There’s literally nobody in charge right now. ♦ How are the “UN Women” impacting water supply on the Western Slope of […]
UPDATE #2: Rep. Joe Neguse of Boulder channels the mood as “Gym” Jordan loses on his first ballot: No word on when that next vote will take place. In short, it’s January all over again. —– UPDATE: Rep. Ken Buck votes for Rep. Tom Emmer after missing the first roll call. Ken Buck planting the […]
Last Friday, the controversy over newly-appointed Rep. Tim Hernandez’s initial refusal to condemn the unprecedented violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians a week ago changed course after Hernandez about-faced and issued an unequivocal, point-by-point apology. The Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports: A Colorado legislator apologized Friday for not explicitly condemning the deadly terror attacks […]
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 […]
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