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RAPE WHISTLE REDUX: Jackass Joe Salazar Takes Up Gun Control, What Could Go Wrong?
Update: Jackass Joe voted Monday to postpone indefinitely the bill to repeal the ban on standard-size firearm magazines. That’s super-insider Colorado lingo for: Salazar popped a round into the bill. We have popcorn, nachos, and hot wings at the ready today for our...
FLYING HIGH: Lang Sias Lands in HD27
If there was ever a more deserving candidate ripe for House District 27, it was pilot Lang Sias, who, over the weekend, received his boarding pass to represent the district and replace Libby Szabo. Szabo's last day as a State Representative was on Thursday as she was...
HICK’S BIG ADVENTURE: Gov. Claims 100 Visits to Club 20 Counties
Gov. Hickenlooper claims to have placed “an unprecedented focus on rural Colorado.” Or at least that’s what he told the good folks from Club 20 last week, IN DENVER. “In the first four years, I’ve been to Club 20 counties just over 100 times,”...
GIRL(S) ON FIRE: State House GOP Elects Polly Lawrence Assistant Minority Leader, Perry Buck Minority Whip
This morning, the Colorado House GOP elected two women to leadership as former Assistant Minority Leader Libby Szabo left the State House for a Jefferson County Commissioner seat. Rep. Polly Lawrence was elected Assistant Minority Leader to replace Szabo. Lawrence...
AH HA: Controversy Surrounding State Board of Education Vice Chair Election Explained
Last month, we wrote about how a member of the GOP majority on the State Board of Education was instrumental in handing the board’s vice chairmanship to a Democrat. The deciding vote was unknown and the details were murky. Until now. The blog PolitiChick is reporting...
KEYSTONE AMENDMENTS: Good News in the Details
The U.S. Senate finished it’s first order of business on Thursday and finally passed legislation to build the Keystone pipeline. It took them nearly a month to sift through more than 200 amendments, before finally deciding to vote on more than 40, and then cast all of...
CONFUSION AMONG THE RANKS: Either Everybody Is Racist or It’s Bad Policy
Looks like the right hand wasn’t talking to the left hand in the Democrats’ camp. The leftosphere, including ProgressNow’s angry imp and perpetual intern Alan Franklin, took to Twitter assaulting legislation that would ban discrimination in the financing of...
NO BRAINER: Perlmutter Promotes Bizarre Scholarships
Either U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter has hired a new social media director who thinks they are too clever for words, or we just discovered a honey pot of wasteful spending. Perlmutter was promoting a tuition and scholarship fair that will be held Saturday at the Westminster...
WATER WAR: Eklund Gets the Vapors, Bows to California
This was last month: James Eklund, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, initially gave some tough remarks in explaining his state’s intentions in an interview with The Associated Press. “If anybody thought we were going to roll over and say, 'OK,...
HYPOCRITE: State Tests for Thee, But Not for Me, Says JCEA Prez
Jeffco Education Association President John Ford, apparently, is now backing the sentiment of the Jeffco School Board majority when it comes to testing kids. Ford has requested a waiver for his children for the state-mandated Colorado Measures of Academic Success...