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THE OTHER RECALL: Giron Camp Flush with Cash from “Nonprofits”
Yesterday, the Pueblo Chieftain reported significant out of state money flowing in to aid embattled State Senator Angela Giron as she fights a grassroots recall effort prompted by her support of radically left-leaning gun control legislation signed into law this year...
BIG APPLE BUCKS: Morse Tells Post He Hopes Bloomberg Sends Some More Money
Senate President John Morse isn't hiding his budding bromance with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg anymore. In an article by Lynn Bartels of The Denver Post, Morse openly declares his fervent hope that Bloomberg rides to the rescue with some more cold hard cash...
DC/CHICAGO/NYC VS. COLORADO: Morse Recall Fight Pitting Outside Interests Against Locals
In the fight to recall Senate President John Morse over his "insane...absolutely nuts" gun control legislation, national liberal interests have flocked to Morse's defense, while the anti-Morse forces have drawn support much closer to home. The recall campaign was...
MISSING CONTEXT: Lynn Bartels Lets A Morse Backer Pose As A Concerned Citizen To Attack The Recall Campaign
We don't criticize The Denver Post's most beloved political reporter, Lynn Bartels, often. Most of the time the hall monitor of Colorado politics is beyond reproach. She's quick to call out either side when she thinks they're not telling the full story. So we thought...
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Will Curtis Hubbard Pitch The Post’s Allison Sherry On Mark Udall Coverage?
Many serious questions have been raised about the unholy conflict of interest created by The Denver Post's former news editor and editorial page head Curtis Hubbard moving to a Democratic consulting firm, OnSight Public Affairs. So far the Post has not disclosed...
THAT DOG DON’T HUNT
Sunday's Post recyled a 2012 liberal meme: that reasonable efforts to prevent voter fraud should stop … because they amount to vote suppression. Common Cause's Elena Nuñez claimed fraud prevention efforts “reduce … voter participation.” Nuñez cleverly calls herself a...
VULNERABLE: Andrews Rejects the Conventional Wisdom that Hickenlooper is Unstoppable
Over the weekend, Centennial Institute Director and former Colorado Senate President John Andrews published an op-ed in the Denver Post that called into question a sense of so-called inevitability about the re-election of liberal governor John Hickenlooper. Andrews'...
REPRISE: Will John Morse Plead Guilty To Political Overreach By Resigning From Office?
A while back we wrote about the possibility that Senate President John Morse was actively considering resigning his Senate seat, throwing himself on the proverbial grenade so that a vacancy committee could appoint another Democrat to serve out the last year of his...
DOLLA HOLLA: CU Spends Millions on Coaching Severance Packages, Needs More Taxpayer Funding
The Denver Post reported on Sunday that CU president Bruce Benson may be looking to raise taxes on all Coloradans to fund the school. All the while, the school admits that it lags behind its peers in alumni fundraising and has spent millions over the past few years...
GAME ON: Morse Recall Organizers Turn In Over 16,000 Signatures To Remove Senate President
Once derided as a rag tag effort destined to fail, the organizers of the recall campaign of Senate President John Morse proved their naysayers wrong and turned in over double the minimum number of signatures required this morning. To initiate a recall election of...