Recent Headlines
Ken Buck: IN (for U.S. Senate)
Weld County District Attorney and 2010 U.S. Senate candidate, Ken Buck, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Kurtis Lee of The Denver Post scooped the run, quoting longtime Buck consultant Walt Klein saying Buck is back to "finish the job." Buck is full of...
HAT IN HAND: Polis Begs Indulgence From Fracking Industry
Denver Post editorial board editor Vincent Carroll annihilated Obamacare con man Congressman Jared Polis in a column today. In the column, Carroll hits Polis for his "melodramatic overstatement," "conflating drilling and fracking," and "rhetoric [that]...has too often...
AGAIN: Another Major Employer Backs Out of Deal Announced by Hickenlooper
Less than two years after local headlines blared "Hickenlooper makes it official," GE announced that it will not open a $300 million plant that was scheduled to employ 355 people. This announcement is a major economic loss for the state, as the governor called the...
HICK HAILS BACK ROOM DEALS: Governor Blasts Transparency In Government At NGA Conference
In what may be the 2014 version of Mitt Romney's 47% comments, Governor Hickenlooper recently said that he believes politicians should be able to operate through back room deals away from the glare of public scrutiny. Hickenlooper's remarks to Time Magazine underscore...
CRUMBLING: Area’s Famed Regionalism Under Intense Pressure Due to Hancock’s Airport City Concept and Gaylord Hotel Project
In the opening minutes of Mayor Michael Hancock's administration, he promised in his inaugural speech "to build even stronger partnerships with our metro neighbors...to ensure our forward progress is progress for all." After just two short years in office, the...
CHECK THEIR TRACK RECORD
Democrats are at it again. Back in 2005 they urged Coloradans to tweak our constitution's spending limit … to spend more money on “stuff.” Ref C won. They promised they'd spend some extra cash on tourism promotion. The “estimated economic impact from tourism-related...
BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION: Coalition Fighting The Billion Dollar Tax Hike Launches
At a press conference yesterday, the bipartisan coalition opposing the billion dollar tax hike launched. Led by former Democratic State Senator Bob Hagedorn, State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, and education reform activist Karin Piper, Coloradans for Real Education...
PeakFeed: Politico Calls Hick Re-Elect A Nail Biter
Governor Hickenlooper may like to joke about his collapsing poll numbers, but Politico suggests his newfound political peril is no laughing matter. In an article about the gubernatorial races across the country in 2014, Hickenlooper is singled out as a Democrat...
OBAMA’S “GRAND BARGAIN”: Raw Deal for Colorado Small Businesses
Speaking at a Tennessee Amazon.com distribution facility last week, President Obama outlined a plan to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and institute a special 25 percent rate for manufacturers. His captive audience cheered, but it didn't...
DENIED: Tax Hike Campaign Fails At Attempt To Low Ball Cost
The campaign committee to raise taxes by a billion dollars a year, Colorado Commits to Kids, is learning an early lesson in arithmetic. After feeding the press low-balled figures on how much the tax hike will cost individual taxpayers, their fuzzy math is catching up...