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POLIS’ TANTRUM: Orders ‘No Changes’ to Local Control Compromise
After months of negotiations between many factions in the local control initiative, it seemed on Friday that the Governor's team was one step closer to calling for a special session. That is, until stakeholders caught wind of the terms of the deal that had been...
UNION POLITICS: Lessons Jeffco Should Learn From Dougco
Ever since the Jeffco school board was taken over by a majority of reform-minded members, the teachers’ union has taken what it means to be a sore loser to a whole new level of pathetic. The union has taken to drumming up controversy over standard operating...
VIVA MIKE KOPP: Kopp Shows Creativity In His Lt. Gov Pick
Former state Minority leader Mike Kopp showed with his pick for Lt. Gov. that should he win the GOP primary he will surround himself with strong people to beat Gov. John Hickenlooper this fall. This morning, Kopp announced former Pueblo city councilwoman Vera Ortegon...
MULTIPLIER EFFECT: New Study Shows That 5,000 New Oil and Gas Jobs Would Create Additional 20,000 Jobs
A new study out yesterday from The Common Sense Policy Roundtable shows the ripple effect of the oil and gas industry’s prosperity in Colorado. Using the Regional Economic Models, Inc. modeling, CSPR determined that the creation of 5,000 energy industry jobs would...
RIDE ON: Two CO GOP Hopeful Take To Their Bikes
In what should certainly be an unforeseen twist with state Sen. Greg Brophy out of the governor’s race, two GOP governor hopefuls took to their bikes in hopes of wooing more votes. Former state Minority Leader Mike Kopp rode his bike 436-miles across the state of...
PeakFeed: A Republican Independent Expenditure Enters GOP Gov Primary
The first pro-Republican independent expenditure group entered the GOP gubernatorial primary race yesterday as the maybe-we-should-have-spent-some-money-on-a-branding-coordinator 527 group, Republicans Who Want to Win, released this ad for former Rep. Bob Beauprez:...
PAGING ETHICS WATCH: Sen. Bennet Named in IRS Ethics Complaint
Looks like the Democratic party might be corrupt from the top down as a new ethics complaint filed by the Center for Competitive Politics with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics has named Colorado Democratic Senator Michael Bennet, who chairs the Democratic...
HICKENLOOPER WEAK: Dems Find It Necessary To Influence GOP Primary
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s campaign and Colorado Democrats must not feel as secure in their reelection bid as they would have us believe. Enter a 527 group possibly looking to do in Colorado what Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill did last election cycle: pick the opponent...
MIA: Sen. Mark Udall’s Big Spring Break
An astute reader yesterday pointed out a tweet by a group called Debating Chambers that is tracking when the Senators returned from their ten-day Memorial Day break. Almost all Senators returned to work on Monday; however, there were four who had not returned as of...
PeakFeed: Family Guy’s Stewie Sings About Colorado Frack Bans
What can we say about this clip except that it is a pretty hilarious and accurate musical interpretation of Colorado’s frackig fight? Stewie's song starts with people being perfectly fine with fracking and all the jobs it provides, but then takes a gloomy turn as he...