Jason Crow

ICYMI, Jason Crow, who is boldly running for Congress in a district where he does not even live, may be reaching the end of the line.  While other Colorado Democrat candidates are pulling in hundreds of thousands per quarter, Crow limped across the finish line with less than $10,000 raised from Sixth CD donors in the third quarter.

At the same time Crow is struggling to maintain an ounce of traction in the district, his opponent, Bernie Sanders Democrat Levi Tillemann hung $166,800 on the board, from more than 600 donors.

What we see here is more evidence of the splintering of the Democrat party in Colorado.  While Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer push Crow and other top-down directed candidates on the electorate, Democrats are pushing back.  Tillemann, who attended Regis University at age 15 and speaks five languages, pushed back on the DCCC annoited lawyer as someone who lacks fire in the belly and wants to be a Congressman but doesn’t know what he wants to do.

Taking a broad swing at Pelosi’s DCCC, Tillemann called Crow the typical “tool of the establishment” good at little more than “collecting a resume, raising money (well, we can question that now), and losing elections.”

And this bloodbath is going down before they even get a chance to lay a hand on Coffman, the hardest working Member of Congress, and someone who has built a special bond with voters in the Sixth Congressional District that transcends party, race, and religion.

The mythical Coffman-killer Democrat candidate is looking about as real as the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot these days.

The Boy Scouts should have expected trouble in inviting Colorado State. Rep. Vicki Marble to their meeting. At least that’s what the Denver Post claimed in a recent editorial. The editorial also notes that Marble is polarizing. That may be true, Marble may be polarizing. But are the Boy Scouts meant to be a safe space for boys or are they supposed to help young men (and now girls? we don’t get it) grow into successful adults? Can Boy Scouts handle having their beliefs challenged by a polarizing figure? Yes or No? According to the Post, No.

The Post called a move by the Boy Scouts an “unnecessary and hurtful overreaction.” That’s probably something that the boy’s parents should have considered before setting up for failure and making him ask polarizing questions of Marble. Yes, we said it. Even if no other media outlet will say it – we will. There is no way that some 10-year old kid came up with the questions he asked. In addition, he just happened to be there videotaping the incident? And his mom just happened to videotape the incident and share it on social media?

Come on. We weren’t born yesterday and the Post‘s pretense that it was all an innocent affair is just pollyannaish and annoying. What’s really pathetic is that this parent set her kid up for failure, ridicule, and embarrassment. Democrats should stop using their kids to score political points against Republicans. It’s getting old and it damages kids.

Broomfield Ward 3 candidate Deven Shaff, a former opera singer and current stay-at-home dad, appears to have turned running for local office into a new source of household income. This probably won’t please his donors, including anti-fracking Congressman, Boulder millionaire, and would-be governor Jared Polis.

Campaign finance reports filed yesterday show that Shaff has pocketed more than $3,300 of campaign funds since July. That is more than 80 percent of his campaign expenditures to date, according to the report. Among other things, he is using money from donors – including a $500 contribution from the Boulder Congressman – to pay himself as the campaign manager, photographer, designer and printer. What a renaissance man!

But, surely the candidate has contributed to his own campaign, right? Well, sort of. He’s only given $100. Make that $125 if you count a $25 in-kind contribution for buying his own ticket to a beer, wine and pizza fundraiser for the Broomfield Open Space Foundation in August.

Based on this week’s filing, Shaff has received 26 times more money from his own campaign than he has contributed himself. That’s a pretty impressive profit margin, and assuming his donors don’t demand their money back, the sky’s the limit between now and Election Day.

A new video created by Revealing Politics offers and preview of the nasty Democratic primary to come and all we can say is “delicious.” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Michael Johnston developed a concept in which people could work for the state in exchange for free tuition to junior colleges. Sounds interesting and Johnston is a respected voice on education. But, then, comes fellow Democratic gubernatorial candidate Noel Ginsberg with the smack down.

Just watch.

Zinger: “Good people can have bad ideas and bad ideas are those ideas that cannot be done.”

Keep it up, gentlemen. We’ll be waiting with popcorn.

Who knew that the radical gun control legislation wouldn’t actually work in Colorado? Pretty much everyone except for the radical liberals who shoved the 2013 legislation down Coloradans’ throats. New research conducted by Johns Hopkins University and the University of California – Davis found that the laws passed in 2013 had almost no effect.

Here’s an excerpt from the Fox31 story:

“The data show background checks didn’t significantly increase since Colorado passed stricter laws. The study found a modest increase in background checks in private-party sales, but almost no change in gun show sales.”

Color us shocked. And here’s the most shocking part: the researchers blamed pro-gun organizations and lax enforcement.

Or, maybe, the gun legislation just was a solution looking for a problem.