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Free pass! Ethics board clears Denver mayor in Thanksgiving travel complaint
The teflon mayor skated away from the complaint he behaved in a manner contrary with the city’s code of ethics when he told employees and residents to stay home for Thanksgiving then hopped a plane south for the holiday. Denver’s board of ethics ruled unanimously...
Freedom of speech is already dead on social media
How should Facebook treat views expressed by political candidates, office holders and former office holders, considering the importance of political opposition and the public’s right to information? Duh. Fairly, one would think. And yet the question is not so clear...
Carpetbagger Kerry doesn’t live in the district she wants to represent
Vail State Sen. Kerry Donovan doesn't even live in the district she's running to represent in Congress, according to the Denver Post. Donovan recently announced she is running for the Democrat nomination in the 3rd Congressional District, in what's already shaping up...
Colorado Senate leader strikes God and world peace from Lincoln quote
Democratic state Senate President Leroy Garcia kicked off the legislative session Tuesday with a rousing speech recalling the death and misery of a pandemic, and the division of a state and nation we are supposed to assume is not of his party’s making. Gazing across...
Dem calls press sexist as Smith upstages Donovan in primary fight to take on Boebert
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert isn't up for reelection for another two years, but the primary fight for the Democrat nomination of the 3rd Congressional District seat is already getting downright nasty. Democrat state Sen. Kerry Donovan's campaign announcement was severely...
Denver Mayor changes his tune before ethics hearing on Thanksgiving travel
The ethics board meets Wednesday to hear a complaint against Mayor Hancock, who hypocritically boarded an airplane south for Thanksgiving just moments after warning everyone else against holiday travel to stop the spread of COVID. Hancock has already responded to the...
Colorado’s National Guard faces D.C. deployment through the fall
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in charge of Congress seem to think the National Guard is their own personal security force. Now they want to keep the 6,000 troops including 200 men and women from Colorado until fall. Why? No one will explain, and that’s unacceptable....
CO based Lincoln Project consultant reportedly ‘brushed off’ concerns about John Weaver
UPDATE 2/16/21: Several individuals released from nondisclosure agreements by the Lincoln Project said Sarah Lenti knew of the harassment allegations against Weaver dating back to May 2020, far earlier than previously reported....
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