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CLASS Dismissed
By Kelly Sloan The announcement a week ago by Administration officials of the demise of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act was welcome news, not only because it was a fiscal nightmare, but because it has the potential to illuminate the...
INSIDE CHATTER: Sources Say Former Governor Bill Ritter Jockeying To Become Next President Of CSU
According to Lynn Bartels of The Denver Post, former Governor Bill Ritter is sitting down for a TV interview next week to talk about two themes: leadership and next steps. We have a suggestion for a question: Governor Ritter, are you running to become the next...
CHICKENLOOPER FEVER SPREADS: Petition Signed By 1200 Left Wingers Urges Guv To Decide On Prop 103
Time was, Colorado Peak Politics was the lone voice who slammed Governor John Hickenlooper for egregiously ducking the Prop 103 debate. We didn't mind at the time, but we'll admit...a little company is nice. Last week, Great Ed Colorado got into...
HARRY REID MEET JOHN MORSE: US Senate Majority Leader Says “Private Sector Jobs Doing Just Fine”
In a case of striking similarity, the US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) echoed the sentiments of Colorado's state Senate Majority Leader John Morse (D-CO Springs) when talking about the need to raise taxes to add more people to the government payroll. On...
HICK VS. HUDAK: Governor’s Words Unleashed On State Senator Of His Own Party
The trouble with being all things to all people, at least in politics, is that you wind up making everyone mad.And mad is probably a fitting descriptor for Evie Hudak today, as The Denver Post reports that a new conservative group is hitting Hudak hard over her...
COUNTDOWN TO ROMNEY ENDORSEMENT? Tancredo Pounds Rick Perry On Caplis And Silverman As A “Fraud”
Tom Tancredo has been one of Rick Perry's biggest detractors since before Perry even entered the race for President, publishing an Op-Ed slamming Perry on his illegal immigration stance weeks before Perry announced his campaign. Yesterday, on Caplis and Silverman...
What is Wrong With Our Election Process
I see the format of the Republican debates, and the types of questions being asked, as a very serious threat to even the possibility of having fair and honest elections that elect fair and honest people, who will truly do what is needed to turn things around, and...
THE ADULT IN THE MIDDLE? Sandvall Rips Hogan’s Cozy AFL-CIO Alliance, Challenges Frazier’s Record
Aurora mayoral candidate Jude Sandvall ripped fellow Republican candidate Steve Hogan today for his cozy ties to the AFL-CIO and for driving the taxpayer funded NW Parkway bonds Hogan was responsible for managing into "junk status" that were "forced to...
KISS OF DEATH FOR CONSERVATIVES: AFL-CIO Smears Ryan Frazier On Behalf Of Steve Hogan
Yesterday, the nails were hammered into the coffin of the mayoral candidacy of former Aurora City Councilman Steve Hogan for GOP voters. The AFL-CIO sent out two different mailers pimping Hogan and trashing Ryan Frazier using a page out of Congressman Ed...
COLORADO’S CHICAGO: Another Corrupt Democrat Revealed In Adams County
This has past the point of ridiculousness. Virtually every elected Democrat in Adams County has now been tied to corruption in the last year. From County Commissioner Alice Nichol allegedly receiving cash payments of $10,000 from a company that charged the county to...