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HICK OFF THE HOOK: Hey IEC, Your Liberal Biases Are Showing
Today, the Independent Ethics Commission (IEC) dismissed Compass Colorado's ethics complaint against liberal Governor John Hickenlooper. The complaint alleged that Hickenlooper used state staff to plan a Democratic Governors Association (DGA) fundraiser and for...
GAME OF METAPHORS: Statesman Depicts Hickenlooper as Game of Thrones’ Joffrey
This past weekend at the state assemblies The Colorado Statesmen put out it's usual double issue. This year's edition featured a clever cover based off the popular TV series "Game of Thrones". Now, either the illustrator doesn’t have a good grasp of the show, or he...
PETULANT CHILD: Hickenlooper’s So-Called Transparency Hides Darker Plots
We knew liberal Governor John Hickenlooper didn’t know how to lead, but when did he turn into such a whiny child? Fighting an ethics complaint against him, that receiving over $13,000 in hotel rooms and waived fees from the Democratic Governors Association does not...
OFFICIAL SCOREBOARD: Results from the Weekend of Assemblies
With all the buzz around the GOP State Assembly this weekend, we'll be posting the results for key races here as they happen, so stay tuned. CD4 (Final): State Senator Scott Renfroe wins CD4 with 54% compared to Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, who received...
BLOOMBERG, AGAIN: Colorado’s Least Favorite Former Mayor Meddles in Billion Dollar CO Industry
It should come as no surprise to hear that former Nanny State New York City Mayor is meddling in a Colorado industry. Again. What is it with this guy and Colorado? We love Colorado, too, but he seems a little obsessed. This time, Bloomberg and his environmentalist...
OUR TAKE: Focus Energy on Beating Democrats
It was disheartening to see yesterday’s circular firing squad when members of the House GOP caucus tried to depose the Minority Whip. Hopefully, Republicans can all agree, it’s a heckuva a lot harder to beat Democrats when you’re trying to eat your own. We don’t want...
DIRTY WORK: Hickenlooper Leverages EPA to Attack Rural Coloradans
Liberal Governor John Hickenlooper and his staff felt pretty safe from the reach of Colorado’s Open Records Act (CORA) by using their personal emails. How else can you explain the blatant disregard chief strategist for Hickenlooper, Alan Salazar, has for rural...
OVERREACTING: Don’t Mistake Outliers for Bipartisanship
The Left bloat-o-sphere blog-o-sphere took a Lynn Bartels hyperbolic tweet and ran with it as a condemnation of the Tea Party. But, like any good story from the Left, they don’t bother to let facts stand in the way of the fairy-tales they utter. The Bartels tweet...
FACT CHECK: Executive Director of CDHCP Claims Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce ER Visits
A Denver Post story today details how Obamacare wasn’t so much about making private insurance affordable as expanding government-run healthcare: In Denver, 2½ times as many people enrolled in the taxpayer-funded Medicaid program from October through the first quarter...
MIA KXL: Udall and Bennet ‘Noticeably Absent’ from Letter Urging Obama to Approve Keystone
According to a Wall Street Journal article, 11 Democratic Senators have sent President Obama a letter urging him to approve the construction of the Keystone pipeline, an issue that most Republicans (and Coloradans, for that matter) support. Contained in the letter is...