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GYPSY VOTERS? Poorly Written Election Bill Could Pave Way For Recall Voter Fraud
An explosive story by Valerie Richardson in The Colorado Observer yesterday has created some serious concerns about the integrity of the upcoming recall elections of Senate President John Morse and Senator Angela Giron. Due to a bill sponsored by Senator Giron...
WHAT GUN CONTROL? Angela Giron Releases Recall Defense Ad, No Mention Of Gun Bills
State Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) is facing a historic recall election for her anti-gun votes in the legislature, but her first recall ad mentions no mention of the issue. While the rest of the Pueblo delegation, both Republican and Democrat, voted against a...
TOP 2014 RACE: Coffman vs. Romanoff
A recent article in Politico has called Colorado's Sixth Congressional race between current Republican U.S. Representative Mike Coffman and Democrat Andrew Romanoff the toughest in the state for 2014 and, possibly, the toughest in the nation for the off-year...
LOST: Andrew Romanoff Confuses Denver For Aurora, 2010 for 2013
UPDATE: Romanoff has taken down the pictures of him meeting with his "constituents" in Denver Former State House Speaker and failed U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff (D-Denver) has run for so many offices in the last few years it appears he's lost his bearings....
DISTRAINT DISTRESS
Colorado's Democrats are pushing for a $1 Billion personal income tax increase on this fall's ballot. Before we rush to approve this 18% increase in individual income tax collection, let's look at the success Colorado's revenue collectors have in collecting at the tax...
RECALL ADS HIT TV: Gun Group Finally Joins The Fight, Morse Avoids Guns In Ad
Two ads have hit TV screens across Senate President John Morse's district, one from the group defending Morse and another from Dudley Brown's National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), who until this point was MIA from the recall fight. The Morse ad continues the...
NEXT STOP CO? Washington State’s Medical Marijuana Storefronts Raided
Last week, several medical marijuana storefronts in Washington State, which voted to legalize recreational marijuana last year, were raided by the Drug Enforcement Agency, according to the Wall Street Journal. While a person familiar with the raids noted that they...
FLUSHING THE BS: A Plumber From Pueblo, Not NRA Behind Giron Recall
Over the weekend, Kurtis Lee of The Denver Post profiled the real political muscle behind the recall of anti-gun Senator Angela Giron. Spoiler: It's not the NRA, but a 28-year-old plumber from Pueblo named Victor Head. Of course, we enjoyed the article the first time...
HYPOCRITE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER: Polis Makes Profit On Fracking, Sues Neighbor For Doing Same
7/30 UPDATE: An astute reader noted that Polis appears to be claiming an agricultural tax subsidy on his million dollar "bucolic getaway" in Weld County. FLASHBACK TO 2011: "Colorado tax break intended for struggling farmers enriches developers, investors" Is...
NEED A MULLIGAN: Udall Tries to Talk Around NSA Vote History
This weekend, Colorado's Democratic Senator Mark Udall co-authored an op-ed for the Washington Post calling for an end to domestic surveillance activities - the very activities that he, himself, voted for. Udall must think that by repeating the same falsities over and...