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ROADTRIPPIN’: The Bipartisan Tour and Brandon Shaffer’s Uphill Battle To Defeat Cory Gardner
This past week rising star Congressman Cory Gardner and Senator Michael Bennet toured Northern Colorado businesses together, earning media coverage in just about every major outlet that covers Gardner's district. During the trip they pledged to move beyond the...
FIRST (REAL) GOP DEBATE: Winners and Losers
We at the Peak are staying out of endorsing or backing a 2012 primary candidate to allow us the ability to analyze the race in a more objective manner. We plan on calling 'em like we see 'em and giving our readers our take on what various speeches, hires,...
CONGRESSMAN PERLMUTTER: Is Your Integrity Only Worth $1000?
Last week we were the first to report the striking difference between Congressman Ed Perlmutter's tone in his 2006 campaign ad about online predators, and how he has dealt with an online predator of his own party. We noted that the 2006 campaign ad was no longer...
MATT DRUDGE MEET TODD SHEPHERD: Colorado’s Drudge Report In More Ways Than One
There are some striking similarities between Complete Colorado and the Drudge Report, and it's more than just the bare-bones layout of the sites and conservative leanings of the sites' editors. The Drudge Report burst onto the national scene in the 1990s with...
BREAKING NEWS: First Draft of Salazar’s Political Obituary Released for Inspection
We have been predicting the demise of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for some time on the Peak. In the Sunday Denver Post, Allison Sherry wrote the first draft of his official political obituary. While Sherry takes it easy on him and frames it as Salazar not making up...
FULL CIRCLE TO FOLEY: Weiner’s Interaction With 17 Year Old Girl vs. Perlmutter 2006 Campaign Ad
Fox News is reporting potentially explosive news about Congressman Anthony Weiner's propensity for perverted texts, sexts, and Facebook messages. A Fox News reporter was at the home of a 17 year old girl who allegedly exchanged messages with the Congressman when...
FRIDAY FUNNY: Dan Maes Writing a Book
Why are we talking about Dan Maes again? Because it's Friday and yet another too-hard-to-ignore Amaesing Dan Maes story has popped up. This time it's the Amaesing One trumpeting the fact that he's writing a book. In his email to what is a...
ROBBED BLIND: Taxpayers Covering Billions in Contractor Retirement Benefits
A few billion here, a few billion there, and as the old adage goes, soon we're talking about real money. FOX Business is out with a startling story based on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on yet another reason why the federal government is good at...
SHADES OF WEINER: Grey Area of Denial and Arrogant Mainstream Media
UPDATE: The 7News story has been updated and includes a key crux of the story. Hancock: "If there are documents that have my name on them, a tie to an escort service, they're categorically untrue. They are falsified because I have never used a service, have never gone...
DEMOCRATS DEMAND WEINER RESIGN: Why Are No Colorado Democrats Among Them?
The Washington Post reports that the list of Congressional Democrats calling on Anthony Weiner to resign is growing, currently at eight Democrats, including the head of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-PA). We at the...