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UNION DUES GET PAID: Teachers Union’s $2 Million Gets Returned In The Form Of Legislative Attack Ad Bill
UPDATE: A reader points out that State Senator Mary Hodge is getting good at this pay-to-play thing. Hodge, as readers remember, was the lead sponsor of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mag ban bill earlier this session. All the buzz in the State Capitol is that she...
GLASS JAW GOVERNOR? Hickenlooper’s Ability To Withstand A Political Punch Relatively Untested
Governor Hickenlooper has been the recipient of a hard-hitting, professional attack ad campaign by Republicans just once in his political career. Once. And then Dan Maes took the GOP nomination and every outside player fled the state. With Hickenlooper taking a...
STOP LOSS: Democrats Bent on Forcing Small Businesses into State Run Insurance
As the Peak has pointed out time and time again, the Democrat-controlled Colorado state legislature have paid ample lip service to small business and economic issues, but their actions during the session tell a different story altogether. Far left social issues such...
PeakFeed: 6 Ways To Not Eff Up Your Political Paraphernalia
UPDATE: A reader wrote in with another helpful suggestion to help future candidates avoid Perlmutter's mistakes. See 1A. A number of political outfits in Colorado have made some pretty rookie mistakes recently, from poor photoshop decisions to union attack websites...
WE’RE (NOT) LISTENING: Democrat Legislators Ignore Their Own Poll
Democrats in the Colorado legislature came out of the blocks this year with big plans to create a regulatory and economic environment that would be supportive of business growth. We are now 80% of the way through this session, and Democrats have squandered this...
FLASHBACK: Romanoff Campaign Falsified Photos For Campaign Website In 2010
With news of a badly photoshopped mailer against some county clerks, it's worth flashing back to the last time this became political fodder in Colorado. In 2010, then-U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff's campaign website had a photo on it that was found to have...
ADDING INSULT TO DOUBLE INJURY
By now, we are all familiar with the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Those of us on the right are also familiar with the Main Stream Media (MSM) blaming us for this event without any evidence whatsoever. In fact, we were looking for them to do so. We know all too...
THE NEVER-ENDING CAMPAIGN: NRCC Blasts Romanoff, Names Coffman To Patriot Protection Program
We may be over 18 months from Election Day 2014, but with the permanent campaign now a reality in politics, that's no reason not to start running ads defining your opponent today. This morning the NRCC announced they were launching a series of web ads, hitting 6th...
ON DEFENSE: Nothing Sucks Up Like a Hoover
While we suspected that Denver Post reporter Tim Hoover was a closet liberal, we had no idea that his new job was Chief Apologist for Governor John Hickenlooper. Actually, Half Story Hoover's new job is editorial writer for the Denver Post, which means that he can...
EARTH DAY: What Happened to Our Invitation?
A critical mass of city bureaucrats and rent-seekers in the "sustainability" industry will converge on the Wellington Webb building at 10:00 AM today to celebrate Earth Day. In spite of being a zero-emissions enterprise, your friendly reporters from the Peak were not...