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NOT AGAIN: Hick Wants $5M for “Film Credits” as Film Commish Laments Too Few Taxpayer Funds to Subsidize Car Ads
Despite Colorado taxpayers forking over $8.8 million to film producers over the past three years as part of a "film credit" that refunds 20% of a film's production costs incurred in Colorado, the Denver Business Journal reported that the Governor is looking for $5...
NO SHAME: VA Defends Millions in Bonuses, Slams Coffman-Gardner Bill
After bending their knees in shame to the American people and pledging to clean up a mighty mess, top officials at the VA seem to have gotten over the humiliation that their administration has been riddled with scandals. Take, for example, the gall of VA Deputy...
NOT QUITE CONTRITE: Bennet Weasels Out of Dirty Money Contribution
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet won’t be returning a smarmy $10,000 campaign donation to his colleague Sen. Robert Menendez, who was indicted this week for peddling political influence in exchange for nearly $1 million in donations and gifts. However, Bennet said he would...
CLIFF WILMENG UNPLUGGED: He’s Back and More Whack Than Ever
Not only is fractivist fanatic Cliff Wilmeng a socialist, he’s even crazier than we thought. Behold this low-budget propaganda piece by Oakland Socialist, produced with a recent interview of Wilmeng rambling incoherently about his mission to ban all corporations in...
SUNNY TOMORROW: Will Fractivists Come Clean With Fort Collins Campaign Dollars?
The Fort Collins City Council race has taken a turn for the nasty, yet nobody can quite figure out who’s in charge of this stream of vitriol. The group Fort Collins for Common Sense is ganging up on candidate Ray Martinez, former mayor and Fort Collins Police...
QUIT PANDERING: Kerry Donovan Needs a Lesson on Rural Broadband
Of all the unsuccessful amendments that Senate Democrats tried to tack onto the budget this week, Sen. Kerry Donovan’s (D-Vail) attempt to earmark $5 million to pay for rural broad development struck us as exceptionally bad. Yes, there are still parts of the state...
DIRTY MONEY: Will Bennet’s Dwindling Campaign Surrender Chest Shrink Smaller?
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s reelection has become accident-prone when it comes to raising the millions of dollars needed to compete in the 2016 cycle. His campaign comes into play this year with a paltry $1.2 million in his war chest, that’s poverty level...
PARTY SWITCH UPDATE: Remainders of the Day
The 4 p.m. announcement today that U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet will switch to the Republican Party has been postponed due to the fact that we made it all up. April Fools! Most of our readers were on to us, having clicked on the “party switch” link. Others bit the bait,...
CRUISE CONTROL: Mayor Hancock Halts Non-Essential Travel to Indiana
This post is not about a new law in Indiana. Well, it sort of is. We're not going to debate the merits of the law. But, we do have a question for Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who, yesterday, disseminated a press release that prohibits the "use of city funds for...
BREAKING! Sen. Bennet Rumored to Announce Party Switch Today
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has been meeting behind closed doors with top GOP leaders in Washington since last week in what was originally believed to be discussions over Loretta Lynch’s nomination for attorney general. But now Politico reports that the secret meetings...