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BIG $PENDER$: Salazar, Campbell, Schroeder Campaigns Spend Money Years After Officeholders Leave
In a shameful manipulation of federal campaign finance laws, more than 100 campaign committees across America have stayed open years after the affiliated officeholder left office (or died, in some cases). Last week the Tampa Bay Times published a database of “102...
OCCUPY BENNET! Democrats Stage Sit-In at Democrat’s Office
Immigration advocates staged a sit-in, or an occupation as Denverite described it, at U.S. Sen. Micheal Bennet’s Denver office Wednesday. They were protesting the inclusion of border security in any immigration bill that would give amnesty to illegal immigrants...
BONUSES WITH INTEGRITY: Chipotle Announces Tax Cut Bonuses
Chipotle may have been grilled about it's food integrity last year, but this year the company plans to serve up bonuses to its employees thanks to the Trump Tax Cuts. According to CNBC, hourly workers could earn up to a $250 bonus and general manager could earn up to...
GRASSROOTS REVOLT: Reporter Uses Colorado’s CD-6 as Example of Backlash Against Establishment Democrats
This morning on MSNBC, the left aired just a little dirty laundry - that the meddling by Democratic Party leadership in contentious Democratic primaries is backfiring. Oh, and, also that Democratic establishment elites are worried that their field is unelectable...
HELP WANTED: How To Run For Congress And Get Paid For It
It turns out you don’t have to actually get elected to office to collect a salary, you can just pay yourself to campaign for it. According to Democrat Mark Williams, who is running for Jared Polis’s open seat in the Boulder area’s 2nd Congressional District, that’s...
LAWYER FOR HIRE: AG Candidate Not Sure Which Job He Wants
Michael Dougherty isn’t sure which job he wants. The Democratic assistant prosecutor for Jefferson and Gilpin Counties launched a primary campaign because he thought he wanted to be the state’s attorney general. But now that Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett is...
UNPLUG THIS SUBSIDY: Why Is Colorado Subsidizing Six-Figure Electric Car Purchases?
Teslas are pretty awesome. The technology seems mind-blowing and, hey, in theory, Teslas are even good for the environment (unless you count the electricity that must be produced via coal and other fossil fuels to charge the batteries). Here's the catch, though. In...
NO LOVE LOST: Head of Left-Wing Think Tank Says Stapleton the Least Loved by Unions
Over the weekend, on Colorado Inside Out, Bell Policy Center President Scott Wasserman offered insights into the thinking behind teachers unions' endorsement of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy. The unusual endorsement set off a chain of additional...
SEAN MURPHY: Former State GOP Official Dies
A former executive director of the Colorado Republican Party, Sean Murphy, passed away Monday of natural causes at his home in the Washington, D.C. area. Murphy served as the party’s director from 1999 through 2002, and was also the former chief of staff for...
WHEN GOVERNMENT FAILS: Colorado Invents WALL-E Robots To Prevent Mining Disasters
Finally, someone has found a solution to incompetent Washington bureaucrats who moonlight as engineers and cause mining disasters like the infamous Gold King. The Colorado School of Mines has created a robot that looks like WALL-E from the Disney movie, to inspect...