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PASSED OVER: Polis Loses Promotion
After losing out on the Chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that he coveted like a teenage girl after a boy band, Rep. Jared Polis tossed out this lame excuse about why he’s not sad (via: The Denver Post): Polis said in a statement. “My top...
UDALL 2.0: Michael Bennet Wants Imperial Obama
Senator Mumbles is starting off his bid to be re-elected in 2016 by taking a page right out of soon-to-be-ex Senator Mark Udall’s playbook: voicing a desire for President Obama to force through O’s agenda without consent from Congress. We know Michael Bennet was busy...
NEW DEM LEADERSHIP: New Faces, But Dems Hold Out Hope for May Re-Elect
Last week, Dems held elections for State House and Senate leadership positions. Dems tried to laud the Democratic women elected to leadership positions - as if this would make up for a) not paying women equally (ahem, Sen. Udall and Rep. Polis) and b) focusing...
UNRESOLVED: Hick’s Punt Lets Boulder Extend “Illegal” Fracking Ban
This should have been viewed as inevitable, when Gov. John Hickenlooper decided he’d place his own political survival over what was best for Colorado. In typical Boulder being Boulder fashion, last Thursday the Boulder county commissioners voted to extend their...
FINAL TOTALS: $82 Million In Political Ads For Colorado
The Center for Public Integrity just released its final study of the breakdown for political ads in Colorado for the 2014 election cycle. Senator-elect Cory Gardner was outspent by Sen. Mark Udall by over $3 million ($5.2M to $8.5M), and had nearly 6,000 less ads...
PHOENIX: A Reborn Ken Buck Elected GOP Freshman Class President
This time four years ago, if you said that Ken Buck, excuse us Rep-elect Ken Buck, would serve as the GOP's Freshman Class President in the U.S. House of Representatives, we would have thought you were insane. Not because he's not worthy of such an honor, but because...
SLICK HICK: Hick’s Gov Propaganda Fail
Gov. John Hickenlooper (brand trademark pending) once again is trying to push himself as a moderate by coopting the themes of fiscal conservatism without actually delivering results. Then again, as liberal-loved brands like Apple have shown, you don’t actually have...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT (AGAIN): CO Insurance Commissioner’s Husband Sits on Exchange Board
What a tangled web the Colorado insurance industry is. While reading an article about how frustrated some Colorado Exchange Board Members are with the exchange's cost overruns, we came across an odd discovery - Division of Insurance Commissioner Margeurite Salazar's...
NEXT CYCLE BEGINS NOW: Bennet Listed Among Most Competitive Seats
In sports, it’s almost inevitable now that the day after a championship is won people are already predicting who will win the next championship. Why should politics be any different? Even though we are just over a week removed from the end of the 2014...
FLIPPING CO THE BIRD: Was the Sage Grouse Decision Retribution for Udall Firing?
There was a collective sinking of spirits when it was announced yesterday that the Gunnison Sage Grouse would be listed as a threatened species, meaning that hundreds of thousands of acres of the bird's "habitat" in Colorado and Utah could not be developed. We...
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