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PERRY’S AD BLITZ BEGINS: First Spot A Positive One Focused On Jobs Hits Iowa Today
Over the next couple of weeks we fully expect Rick Perry to attempt to rip Mitt Romney's face off in a blinding blitz of negative TV ads running in Iowa and South Carolina. Before that, as his advisers have been saying for weeks, he will begin with positive spots...
OUT OF TOUCH? Hickenlooper’s Unemployment Statement Misses The Mark (By 200,000 Unemployed)
Yesterday, Governor Hickenlooper was expounding on the reason why it's important to pass President Obama's American "Jobs" Act through massively raising taxes and hiring more government employees. In his attempt to sell Obama's political message...
CAUGHT-ON-TAPE: Senator Linda Newell Outed As Tax Hike Supporter
Some people don't care for bare-knuckle politics. We here at the Peak kinda' love it. One such bare knuckles moment happened last weekend when Victor Mitchell, the leader of the statewide campaign opposing the $3 Billion tax increase known as Prop. 103,...
THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE: Democrats Ducking Obama — Will They In Colorado?
The clearest narrative coming out of Obama's latest taxpayer-funded campaign trip across the country is that Democrats have been ducking their Campaigner-in-Chief. From Virginia to Nevada reporters have noticed a distinct absence of Democrat politicians and...
RYAN FRAZIER ROBO-DIAL: Steve Hogan Loves Occupy Wall Street
Aurora mayoral candidate Ryan Frazier found an interesting way to get around his pledge to stay positive in the mayor's race. Rather than attack his opponents outright, he is attacking their attacks. After coming under massive assault by the AFL-CIO and Steve...
OFF MESSAGE: Liberals Scream “Prop 103 Won’t Really Kill Jobs”
Talk about being off message. In the waning days of state Senator Rollie Heath's campaign to raise taxes by $3 Billion in Colorado through Prop 103, one of the biggest supporters of the ballot initiative, the Bell Policy Center, put out a "study"...
BUSTED: Brandon Shaffer Admits To Supporting A $3 Billion Tax Increase In The Middle Of A Recession
We told you last week we thought state Senate President Brandon Shaffer's Congressional campaign was over before it even really began. His own party threw him overboard in redistricting and the Dems' lead map-drawing lawyer even trashed Shaffer's chances...
BOOM: Coffman Raises A Cool 850k For Team America
Last quarter, Congressman Mike Coffman pulled in a modest sum of $171,000 -- not a huge haul by any standards, but one that still beat his only declared opponent, state Rep. Joe Miklosi (D-Denver). As there has been a lot of talk about redistricting revamping...
CALDARA SPANKS HEATH: It’s The Economy, Stupid
Independence Institute President Jon Caldara has been on a tear recently on state Senator Rollie Heath's (D-Boulder) proposed $3 Billion tax hike known as Prop 103. From the recently published i2i study (PDF) hammering home the point that Prop 103 is a job-killer, the...
HYPOCRITE ASKING FOR A HANDOUT: Hudak Tries Fundraising On Type Of Campaign Ad That Got Her Elected
State Senator Evie Hudak (D-Arvada) owes her position in the Capitol's upper chamber to the outside groups that smeared her 2008 opponent and now-state Representative Libby Szabo (R-Arvada). Knowing this history, it seems more than just a little bit hypocritical...