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FIRE AWAY: Bill To Repeal Magazine Limit Passes Senate with Bipartisan Support
Yesterday, the Colorado State Senate passed a bill to repeal the magazine ban legislation that was passed and signed into law by Governor Hickenlooper in 2013. This law, part of a slate of gun control legislation that ultimately cost three Democratic state senators...
TIPTON DRAWS CHALLENGER: Schwartz Out of Tune with Western Slope Voters
Democrats are giddy that they have one of their own left-wing party stalwarts challenging U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton for the 3rd Congressional District. Gail Schwartz, the former state senator from Gunnison County, is a term-limit opponent who was term limited out of her...
PEAKFEED: Douglas County Delegate Debate Inspires Jimmy Buffet Explanation
There's a debate in Douglas County over whether a Trump supporter Larry Lindsey was denied entrance to the state GOP assembly. As it turns out, it appears that Lindsey skipped a step and didn't attend his county assembly, which was where he would have been elected to...
GRASPING AT STRAW(POLL)S: Why Doesn’t Colorado Have a Straw Poll Any More?
Some of the anger and frustration from Republicans (and, let's be real, Democrats pretending to be Republicans to gin up angst) in Colorado is because they feel that their voice was not heard. In engaging with some of these folks on Twitter, it would seem that part of...
ATTENTION NATIONAL MEDIA: Votes Did Occur in the Delegate Selection Process (an Infographic)
There seems to be much confusion locally and nationally about how Colorado picks its delegates to go on to the national convention to nominate the Republican Party's presidential candidate. We're here to help. See this infographic below, which identifies not only the...
SUPER SWINDLE? Democrats Neglect to Tell Sanders He Can Win Colorado
The Colorado Democratic Party has been keeping a significant secret from the Bernie Sanders campaign — he has a chance to win the primary he won by just one delegate vote. It turns out that the Colorado Democrats are bad at math, or crooked, and “misreported” caucus...
DEGETTE’S CHALLENGE: Chuck Norris Wins Democrat Primary Support
Charles Norris, who has none of the pizazz of the like-named Hollywood actor Chuck Norris, has one thing going for him in his Democratic challenge for Diana DeGette’s congressional seat — he feels the Bern. And so it appears do his supporters, who helped put him on...
STOLEN VOTES: Did Cruz “Steal Votes” as Trump Asserts? No.
Last night, after a fantastically chaotic and fun state assembly, Matt Drudge posted a headline that read: "Fury as Colorado Has No Primary or Caucus: Cruz Celebrates Voterless Victory". As expected, those supporting Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's opponent, Donald Trump,...
MY COUSIN VINNY’S TRAIN: Make the Noise Stop
With only a few weeks left before federal railroad officials back in Washington decide whether it’s really necessary for train horns to be blaring night and day in Fort Collins and other Colorado towns, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is pleading with the bureaucrats to...
AGENDA: The Durango Herald’s Environmental Bias Explained
A Google search of the “San Juan Citizens Alliance” and “Durango Herald” returns more than 7,800 hits, which is only important if one considers this: No wonder @DurangoHerald editorials so closely echo the attacks of Green Lobby extremists. #copolitics #coleg...