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CLASS, THY NAME IS KEITH KING: State Senator To Focus On Education After Reapportionment Shanking
State Senator Keith King is not seeking re-election after being shanked in the back by the Democrats on the Reapportionment Commission, who forced him into the same district as Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman. But Senator King is a class act, compared to the...
DO DEMOCRATS HATE CHILDREN? Party Votes To Block Parents From Knowing About Teacher Arrests
All through the Prop 103 debates, lead sponsor state Senator Rollie Heath (D-Boulder) loved to wax on about how he was doing it "for the kids." It's a common refrain heard from those on the left over the years who want to demagogue spending issues,...
Morse tells Coloradans: Don’t bother without your lawyer
Today's Durango Herald covers a rule making hearing conducted by Secretary of State Scott Gessler. Gessler is looking to re-write the state's campaign finance regulations to clarify the asinine world of campaign finance. For those of us who have to figure this...
Some Perspective on the GOP Candidates
By Kelly Sloan For all the hand-wringing, soul searching, and despair evident among some conservative Republicans contemplating the 2012 GOP Presidential slate, the lineup is really a testimony to the success of the conservative movement over the last 60 years. Though...
NEVER TAXED ENOUGH: Senators Hudak & Newell Cry Out For Gas Tax Hike
UPDATE: Senator Newell is now trying to claim she was just retweeting an informational tweet, which claimed the lack of a higher gas tax was a "big budget problem." Just like Prop 103, Senator Newell wants to support tax hikes without supporting tax hikes. The problem...
BIG TROUBLE FOR BIG O: Obama Down To 39% Approval Rating In Colorado
A recently released Ciruli Associates poll shows Barack Obama in deep trouble in Colorado, with only 39% of voters approving of his job performance. 53% of Coloradans disapprove of his performance. His reception is even chillier on the Western Slope, where only 32%...
Even hard core Leftists getting disgusted with Occupy Denver
Over at the hard-core lefty site Squarestate, they have a diary up titled The Ugly Truth About #OccupyDenver. Fong, Squarestates head honcho and the diary's author pretty much confirms all of those dark rumors about the Occupy movement that have been going...
POLITICAL STUNT: Mark Udall’s Balanced Budget Amendment Charade
Orwellian. Deceitful. A glorified campaign stunt, only ingloriously meaningless and not in a campaign. These are a few ways to describe US Senator Mark Udall's balanced budget amendment charade that went down yesterday. Udall's version of a balanced budget...
How Do We Win Like Tebow?
By Dave Diepenbrock In my last column I said Republicans could learn how to win from Tim Tebow and the Broncos. They have a solid defense and aren't afraid to pull their plays from someone else's playbook. (Peak note: It's a theme that has since been...
The Silver Lining
Fellow elephants, let me assure you: Things are not as bad as they seem. After a couple of very predictable losses at the State Supreme Court, suddenly people think that Colorado Republicans are headed back to the gallows of perpetual minority. It's the Blueprint all...