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GOP Candidates Were ‘Taken Advantage Of’ by Money-Chasing Consultants, Says Nat’l Republican Leader

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Appearing on a Denver radio show on New Year’s Eve, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel was asked by host Randy Corporon if she had any idea why Republicans were “wiped out” in Colorado. After acknowledging that the state has been trending more Democratic in recent years, she said lots of […]

McCarthy Fails on Ballot #11; Congress Inches Toward Record

UPDATE #10: McCarthy failed yet again in an 11th round of voting. House members then agreed to recess until Noon EST on Friday. —– UPDATE #9: Kevin McCarthy finished the 10th round of voting in pretty much the same position as he started. Republicans are talking about trying to recess until Tuesday, though Democrats are pushing […]

Get More Smarter on Thursday (Jan. 5)

Believe it or not, there are other political stories not related to the GOP’s persistent inability to select a House Speaker. 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 […]

Race for State GOP Chair More Muddled than Ever

As The Colorado Sun reports in its “Unaffiliated” newsletter, a potential top candidate for State Republican Party Chairperson has decided to remove his name from consideration: Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams says he has decided not to make a bid to chair the Colorado GOP. “I have some family milestones that I want to focus […]

Top Ten Stories of 2022 #9: Temporary Relief For Abortion Rights

Just one of several convergent storylines around the issue of abortion rights that we’ll be discussing in our ongoing recap of the top stories in Colorado politics for 2022 is the legislation passed this year by the Colorado General Assembly expressly codifying abortion rights into statute. This legislation was forced by the widely-expected and since-fulfilled […]

They Love “Luhansk Lauren” In Moscow

  Barely re-elected Rep. Lauren Boebert received the usual headline-making scorn she cannot distinguish from praise last week after publicly dissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during Zelensky’s address to Congress. Joining with Rep. Matt Gaetz to ostentatiously sit out repeated standing ovations for Zelensky while scrolling on their phones, Boebert announced afterward that she would […]

Welp, Mike Coffman Blew It: Aurora Mayor Shrugs Off Racism

THURSDAY UPDATE: Steve Sundberg finally got around to commenting on his racist videos with one of those “sorry if you were offended” type of “apologies.” From The Denver Post: “In a dark Covid shut down, when businesses were fighting to survive, with people experiencing mental health issues, uncertainty, suicide, substance abuse, domestic violence and fear, […]

Hunt: CO Christian University Is ‘Safest’ Campus Because ‘We’re Committed to Jesus’

(Would Jesus steal elections? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Christian University (CCU) is “honestly, the safest campus in Colorado because we’re deeply committed to Jesus,” said Jeff Hunt, a CCU leader on his podcast last month. “There’s not a lot of craziness going on.” Hunt didn’t respond to an email seeking data to back […]

98% Of Oil & Gas, 87% Of Big Pharma Dollars Given to Republicans

(promoted by Colorado Pols) by Sean Price, Colorado Times Recorder This year in the lead-up to November’s midterm elections, prominent oil and gas and pharmaceutical companies mostly donated to Republican politicians and conservative-leaning groups, according to an analysis of state and federal campaign finance records by the Colorado Times Recorder. In Colorado, the Democratic party has […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (Dec. 20)

It’s about to get really freaking cold in Colorado. Like, dangerously cold. Bundle up, people! 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 […]

Kristi Burton Brown Done As Colorado GOP Chair

UPDATE: The Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul: Burton Brown, a lawyer who got her start in politics as an anti-abortion advocate, took the helm at the Colorado Republican Party in March 2021 when the state GOP was at its lowest point since 1936. She sought to reverse the party’s losses in 2018 and 2020 through a […]

Kevin McCarthy’s Season of Discontent

UPDATE: Shots metaphorically fired as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bodyslams Rep. Lauren Boebert for her lack of fealty to Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy: Perhaps in the end there really can be only one. —– There will be a vote on January 3, 2023 to elect the next Speaker of the U.S. House. But as […]

Heidi Ganahl Can’t Stop Not Stopping

Four years ago, Republican Walker Stapleton lost an open race for Governor to Democrat Jared Polis by 11 points. A few weeks later, a photo emerged of a newly-bearded Stapleton smiling into a camera during a family vacation to Hawaii. Stapleton had been preparing to run for Governor for roughly a decade, so you could […]

Here’s How Much Money Colorado Republicans Lit on Fire in 2022

Sandra Fish of The Colorado Sun outlined today some big-picture campaign spending takeaways from state races in Colorado, with the main takeaway being that Gov. Jared Polis was the biggest spender of them all in 2022. You can argue about what Polis’ self-funding means in relation to elections and campaign finance norms and whatnot, but […]

Get More Smarter on Thursday (Dec. 15)

Where’d everybody go? Did we move Christmas up 10 days? 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. […]

And So It Begins: The Race for Denver Mayor

The 2022 election was just officially certified this week, but the next election has already hit a notable milestone. Behold, the first widespread touting from a campaign of an endorsement featuring a politician who has nothing to do with Denver! We’re not hating on State Sen. Jessie Danielson endorsing Debbie Ortega. This is a perfectly fine […]

Conservative CO News Outlet Stops Publishing Articles From a Conservative News Service

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Politics, a digital and print news outlet with a conservative editorial page, has stopped republishing articles from Center Square, a conservative news service that claims to be competing with the Associated Press and other newswires. The last Center Square article appeared on Colorado Politics’ website on Sept. 21, 2021, the […]

Defeated Pueblo Abortion Ban Won’t Be The Last

As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Anna Lynn Winfrey reports, a proposed ordinance in Pueblo that would have banned abortions in that city, modeling a local ordinance that has spread in other states lacking Colorado’s recently-passed robust abortion rights protections, is dead after a 4-3 vote to indefinitely table the measure: Council President Heather Graham, Vicente Martinez […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (Dec. 13)

There are 13 more days until Boxing Day. Now, 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.   […]

Barb “Kirkliar” To Help Write Colorado’s Budget

As Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reports, the Colorado Senate GOP minority caucus has selected Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer of Weld County to replace retiring Sen. Bob Rankin on the General Assembly’s powerful Joint Budget Committee: Senate Republicans elected Kirkmeyer to the position by acclamation on Friday. She was the only nominee for the position. “I deeply […]

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“Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.” –Norman Schwarzkopf

Buck Votes Against Own Gun Safety Bill, Says He Didn’t Read it Closely Enough

(Ken Buck at his finest — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Congressman Ken Buck, who has campaigned for nearly two decades on his pro-gun stance, finally found a gun safety bill he could support, at least until it came time to vote for it. Buck, a Republican, is a co-sponsor of a proposal to create a […]

Could An “Adjudicated Recount” Make a Difference in CO-03?

One of the more surprising outcomes of the 2022 election has opened the door to an unusual new recount request that could potentially have repercussions elsewhere. As part of the massive “Bluenami” that drowned darn near every Republican in Colorado in 2022, Democrat Bob Marshall upset “incumbent” Republican Rep. Kurt Huffman in Douglas County (HD-43) […]

Meet The Incel Insurrectionist Pushing Abortion Ban In Pueblo

FOX 31’s Gabrielle Franklin reported last night on the controversy brewing in Pueblo over an anti-abortion city ordinance nominally introduced by recently-elected City Councillor Regina Maestri, but under the hood the brainchild of a Texas-based anti-abortion rabblerouser who participated in the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol: “There’s an ordinance that had just […]

The Tide Swamps Future Republican Hopes in Colorado

(Interesting analysis — promoted by Colorado Pols) I took a break over lunch hour and looked at some of the election results here in Colorado. Bottom line: the cracks are in the Republican firmament in Douglas, El Paso and Weld counties. Mesa remains reliably Republican but its significance is declining due to the growth on […]

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