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GUEST POST: No Dating During Re-Election Campaigns?
Typically, I'm not one who gives two Schlitz who an elected official's spouse or partner is. I think there are certainly conflicts of interests that arise between a family member and an elected official that could pose a challenge during a campaign that are certainly...
GUEST POST: Colorado’s 2013 Conservative Surge No Fluke
Colorado's Republicans led Democrats by 3.8% in 2013 - which explains Democrats losses last year. That's based on which party Coloradans supported or leaned toward last year. That's quite a change from 2010 (Dems up by 2.2%) when Bennet squeaked by. In off-year...
IN: Republican Larry Sarner of Loveland to Try to Unseat Polis
Not to be outdone by the Democratic primary in Republican stronghold CD5, Larry Sarner of Loveland tossed his hat in the ring for the race in Congressional District 2, the seat currently occupied by Representative (and not, we repeat not, procurer of barnyard animals)...
FRACKING STUDY DISMISSED: Fractivists Push BS Study, Scientists Discredit
Colorado state health officials are putting the kibosh on a study that fractivists are relying upon to push their extreme agenda in Colorado, part of which would include a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing. Dr. Larry Wolk, head of the Colorado Department of...
PAGING RICK PALACIO: Democrats Can’t Field Decent CD3 Candidate
With all the hullabaloo around the Coffman vs. Romanoff race, we almost forgot about U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton's race - if you could call it a race. As Democrats focus on bailing out liberal U.S. Senator Mark Udall, they seem to be unable to field a legitimate candidate...
ALTRUISM DEBUNKED: Left Looking for Union Payday in Minimum Wage Hike
The drum beat from the left for the past couple of weeks has been about raising the minimum wage. Is this an altruistic endeavor meant to care for the working poor? Hardly. This isn't about the working poor or American families. Raising the minimum wage is about...
PANIC! Dem Donors Abandon House to Save Senate at all Costs
It’s good thing Andrew Romanoff raised all that money in 2013 because rumblings from Washington say that Democrat donors are triaging their fundraising because they realize how disastrous 2014 will be for them and, instead of wasting money by tilting at windmills in...
LAUGHINGSTOCK: JeffCo Dems Make Mockery of Hudak’s Constituents
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A lady walks into a legislature, elected by a very narrow margin, but she says damn them to hell and starts legislating like she’s the reincarnate of Jimmy Carter (wait, Carter’s still alive!). Needless to say, this makes her...
ROTTEN APPLES: CEA Goes to Court to Force Bad Teachers on Students
It turns out what most people thought was a cynical political move by the Colorado Education Association and Democrats to avoid a contentious divide right before the public voted on their precious baby Amendment 66 was, in fact, a cynical political move. Having...
TALKS TO SELF: Speaker Ferrandino Believes Voices in Head Enough for Compromise
Is Speaker Mark Ferrandino hearing voices? That’s the only explanation we here at the Peak have for his comments earlier this week in The Denver Post. Continuing their belief that, if they don’t talk about their progressive agenda in 2013, Colorado will forget it...