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Where Have You Been?
As State 38 writes: Democrat Will Shafroth, one of three donkeys running for congress in CD-2 (along with Joan Fitz-Gerald and Jared Polis, announced yesterday that he was calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq. Shafroth is the first of the three candidates to take a public stand on the Iraq war […]
Independent Voters Where It’s At
Colorado takes center stage in a Los Angeles Times article about Independent voters leading the way in recent elections: “These independents are not marching into the Democratic Party and declaring themselves Democrats, but the change is in the tilt,” said Carroll Doherty, associate director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. […]
Rocky Mountain West Wonders About Iraq: Dude, Where’s Our $3,600?
In dollar figures, how much has the Iraq War cost the 8-state Intermountain American West? About $24 billion, when you add up the numbers from a new report by the nonpartisan National Priorities Project that is being released locally in Colorado today by the Colorado Progressive Coalition. Let’s put that $24 billion number into context. […]
Conservatives’ Newest Bridge to Nowhere
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) In the wake of the Minnesota bridge disaster, conservatives like Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi are frantically trying to avoid a debate over taxes and budget priorities. Locally here in Denver, the motivation is obvious: They are likely gearing up for one of their slash-and-burn campaigns – this one […]
Where’s Hefley?
Seems like he up and went away. The former congressman has been very mum and nonexistent in the press. The only stuff I have found recently was about the Jefferson ethics issue. Is Hefley waiting to re-surface when the primary talk begins or is he planning to sit out and let Lamborn’s challenger(s) duke it […]
Picking up where Demogirl left off–sort of.
I make a few things clear now. I am a Jeff Crank supporter. I hope he runs. If he doesn’t, I hope Rayburn does. Other things to make clear. I do not have Demogirl’s wit. I strongly agree with her opinion of Doug Lamborn. After living in El Paso County for almost 30 years, I […]
Where do Udall, Schaffer, Salazars, Musgrave, Lamborn stand on immigration bill?
Will Colorado’s congressional candidates stand up for border and national security or for the farm, tourism, hospitality, construction and agribusiness lobbies? And will they take their stands now or try to escape accountability for their positions on the immigration bill? Will they announced that the they oppose the blatantly dishonest, unworkable bill, or will they […]
Owens Builds Secret Fort, Won’t Tell Anybody Where It Is
As The Associated Press reports: Colorado has an elaborate plan to ensure state government will function in natural disaster or terror attack. There’s just one problem – someone forgot to tell the lawmakers. The clandestine blueprint, kept in a notebook carried by a state patrol trooper at the Capitol, includes secret locations to house legislative […]
Making Lobbyists Everywhere Look Bad
As the Rocky Mountain News reports: A lobbyist accused in an ethics complaint of orchestrating deceptive phone ads in order to torpedo a home buyers protection bill filed a 200-page response Friday. William Mutch says his free-speech rights protect him from punishment. “Mr. Mutch contends, that even assuming he engaged in ‘deceit,’ the (ethics) complaint […]
Where Would You NOT “Use It Or Lose It?”
If you worked for the Bill Owens administration, that’s where. Pretty much nowhere else, and not in Colorado state government any longer, as the Rocky Mountain News reports: Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter has instituted a “use-it-or- lose-it” vacation and sick leave policy for his top appointees. “These rules are fair and they protect taxpayer dollars,” […]
Where Do You Get Your Political News?
You probably get your news from different places, but what is your primary source of political news? Vote below…
Hey, Where’s Our Money?
Apparently Colorado Pols is funded by Tim Gill, Pat Stryker and Jared Polis. … Okay, so where’s the check? … Seriously, where’s our money? … Okay, if we don’t have any money, then how has this dastardly plot been uncovered? By the super sleuths at the oft-wrong Republican blog ToTheRight. They’re all excited over there […]
Where the Party At?
Where are the primary night gatherings in your neck of the woods? Use this post for the when and where of election night parties.
Where’s the Beef?
The Rocky Mountain News editorial board weighs in on the accusations from the Bob Beauprez campaign against Marc Holtzman and his campaign manager Dick Leggitt: So Dick Leggitt, Marc Holtzman’s campaign manager, admitted last week that he made up poll numbers last fall out of thin air. Then he fed them to the media to […]
Where’s Waldo?
Here’s some good Friday fun for all you politicos out there. Democrat Fern O’Brien announced her candidacy for Attorney General yesterday in a series of events all over the state. Someone sent us some pictures from the campaign events; see if you can find the similarities from the two pictures below (the first is from […]
Please Point Your Finger Somewhere Else
It was our understanding prior to today that liberals, for good or ill, were the ones who generally tended towards the wilder conspiracy theories. Maybe it’s different in Idaho. Then we saw this. All Republicans Hans Gullickson, Executive Director Colorado Republican Party November 30, 2005 ColoradoPols Fellow Republicans: The Colorado Republican Party has recently obtained […]
Okay, Now Where are the Parties?
We normally don’t reserve a post for public announcements, but we’ll do so with this one. All you candidates and campaigns out there: help all the other hard-working activists and campaigners find you. If you’re having an election-night party, feel free to post when, where and who in the comments section below.
Wheres Paschall?
Its been over three weeks since we heard of Mark Paschall running in CD 7 against Rick ODonnell …two weeks since he shaved his beard, sent out his first fundraising letter and started gearing up his steering committee. But wheres Paschall now?
Where Does Mike Coffman Fit?
The Rocky Mountain News took a look over the weekend at the upcoming vacancy in the Colorado Secretary of State’s office now that Donetta Davidson appears ready to move on to Washington D.C. …Treasurer Mike Coffman is managing to hold two elected state jobs hostage while not working at either of them. Coffman took a […]
Where’s a Weatherman?
Trying to make odds on the Governors race this early might be foolhardy (weve been told as much), but certainly everybody in Colorado is trying to put their finger on whatever barometrics might be in the wind. The political season in Colorado is going early, and most experts agree that its because of last years […]
Speaker Johnson Extinguishes Jeff Hurd’s Last Hope
CNBC is reporting today that negotiations in the U.S. House to allow a vote on legislation to extend the expiring health insurance premium tax credits before the end of the year, after which millions of Americans will face potentially bankrupting premium hikes, have failed: Key tax credits that reduce the cost of Affordable Care Act […]
Evans Will Fight for his Political Life Next Election, With Expected Referendum on Trump, Say Experts
(Just call him Mark — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Reecorder Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans, a freshman Republican running for reelection next year, faces an extremely tough race as one of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress, election experts tell the Colorado Times Recorder. Political researchers and analysts said that a […]
Leading Colorado GOP Lawyers Trash Fake Tina Peters Pardon, But Not Trump
9NEWS’ Spencer Soicher reached out to prominent legal experts in Colorado on both sides of the aisle for comment on President Donald Trump’s “pardon” of convicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for her crimes in a failed plot to prove Trump’s baseless contention that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and got back the […]
Senate Health Premium Subsidy Extension Vote Fails
As John Ingold reports for the Colorado Sun, yesterday in the U.S. Senate, the vote which had been promised to a faction of Senate Democrats when they caved in to Republican demands to reopen the federal government abandoning their demand for an extension to expiring health insurance premium subsidies took place, and as was fully […]