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HOUSE PANEL: Cost Estimates Should Be Required on Citizen Petitions
The tell-tale sign that campaign season is officially upon us is when those obnoxious petition hawks flock to the grocery store parking lots in droves, to annoyingly peck at us for our signatures on some sad and raggedy sheets of paper. We remember when petitions were...
BAD TIMING: Hick Asks for TABOR Exemptions Day After $25 Billion Tax Hike Hearing
Talk about bad timing. Not 24 hours after the lawyer for the Colorado Democratic Party and Marc Grueskin associate Martha Tierney pitched the idea of a $25 billion tax increase that would exist outside the confines of TABOR, liberal Governor John Hickenlooper took his...
FEMINIST SAID WHAT?! Women in Energy Sector Work as Whores or Maids
Are you a woman looking for a job in the field of oil and gas development? Then you too can become a prostitute or a maid! It’s a little known fact -- except among feminists -- that women are too stupid to be engineers. They’re not smart enough to be scientists,...
CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING 101: Washington Gets Colorado Politics Wrong
There is nothing the Washington media enjoys more than comparing apples and oranges to render a non biased judgment about fundraising efforts. In a report Sunday, The Hill selected fragrant oranges to surround Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, but pelted Republican...
MAS INFORMACION: How Do You Say Astroturf in Spanish?
Earlier this week, union front group Mi Familia Vota, which claims to want to increase the Latino community in the civic engagement, sent a letter to its members imploring them to write their legislators to oppose H.B. 1057. This bill would require financial impact...
CAPTION THIS: Zoo Day at the Capitol Leads to Prickly Meetings
Democratic Rep. Joe Salazar, who often suffers from foot in mouth disease, has been one of our favorite representatives to, ahem, p0ke because his skin is just so thin. That why when the Colorado Democrats distributed the photo below on Twitter as part of Zoo Day at...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HILLARY? Sen. Bennet Mumbles Endorsement for Would-Be Boss Lady
Yesterday, The Hill made a list of all of those who had endorsed liberal presidential contender Hillary Clinton. In total, Clinton has gathered 99 endorsements from sitting legislators, including Colorado Reps. Polis and Perlmutter. Surprisingly, despite her Twitter...
DOUBLING DOWN ON FAILURE: Dems Propose a $25 Billion Tax Increase
Has the sting from Tax Day worn off yet? Yes? Good thing we're here to rip the scab off. If you thought a billion dollar tax increase for Amendment 66 in 2013 was bad, brace yourself for Democrats' latest tax increase ballot initiative. It's a $25 billion tax...
KEYSTONE CENTER TO HICK: Create More Work for Us to Suck at
The paid facilitators who work for the Keystone Policy Center became a running joke throughout the course of the Governor’s oil and gas task force meetings. They were disorganized and would allow recommendations voted down one day to pass the next. It was chaos, and...
PROTEST FUTILITY: CU Boulder Kids Lose Divestment Fight
CU Boulder students striving for infinite irrelevancy have been camping outside this week -- sleeping in tents that were manufactured in China then transported to America via magic unicorns powered by rainbows -- to protest the university’s investments in fossil...