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Today the Colorado-Cross Disability Coalition responded forcefully to controversial comments made by GOP State House Candidate Don Beezley . In the recently disclosed remarks , Mr. Beezley stated that before the Americans with Disabilities Act, "it had been a pleasure to help a disabled person out with a tray, a door or whatever. After that, I could only think, "you better use my d bathroo...
Colorado Pols - 8:05 a.m. - 2 clicks 
THURSDAY UPDATE #2: Moments ago, Dan Maes posted this defiant-sounding update to his Facebook page. Does this read like a man about to pull out of this race? THURSDAY UPDATE: The Colorado Statesman's Jody Strogoff confirms much of this story in a detailed must-read report this morning: renewed pressure to withdraw, a few days of expressed leeway by the Secretary of State's office s...
Colorado Pols - Wed 8:27 p.m. - 5 clicks
Earlier this week, polling was released in some Federal office races. Rasmussen has the Republican Ken Buck up over the Democrat Michael Bennet 49 to 45. Magellan has Republican Ryan Frazier over Democrat Ed Perlmutter in CD-7, 40 to 39. Scott Tipton released a Magellan poll he commissioned showing him up over John Salazar in CD-3, 49 to 43. Cory Gradner's race against Betsy Mark...
Colorado Pols - Wed 7:09 p.m. - 7 clicks
Oh, thank you Colorado, for making this election season just a little bit fun (via TPM ). Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes on Tuesday backed away from a claim that, as a police officer 25 years ago, he worked "undercover" with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Maes previously said he was fired as a police officer in Liberal, Kan., after working undercover with the KBI in a g...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Wed 3:45 p.m. - 6 clicks
We were pleased last fall to note a new addition to the reporting team at the Colorado Springs Gazette : we knew about the work of Eileen Welsome from the 1990s during her time at the Albuquerque Tribune . Welsome won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on government radiation research on human subjects during the Cold War. As a reporter for the Gazette this year, Welsome was already showing ...
Colorado Pols - Wed 3:45 p.m. - 5 clicks
This was a surprising interview. I expected to mostly be discussing illegal immigration and why that was the key issue in the race. Instead I found Congressman Tancredo to be primarily concerned with the lack of integrity in Dan Maes and secondarily concerned with the state of our public schools. And yet, Tom's instinct is to discuss illegal immigration to the exclusion of most everything else. ...
Colorado Pols - Wed 12:49 p.m. - 4 clicks
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Colorado Pols - Wed 11:42 a.m. - 3 clicks
UPDATED with comment from Buck campaign. I was rushing out of town last week, and unfortunately I just missed a phone call from Joe Cole, News Director and weekday anchor at Fox 21 in Colorado Springs. I had called Cole for a comment on a piece I was writing, alleging that Fox 21 had erred in reporting that U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck held a "U.S. Senate unity rally" in the Springs Au...
Colorado Pols - Wed 9:20 a.m. - 4 clicks
As the Pueblo Chieftain's Patrick Malone reports: Payday lenders will be required to give pro-rated refunds to customers who pay off their loans early. Under enforcement rules adopted Tuesday by the Colorado Attorney General's office, payday lenders cannot keep origination fees for their loans... Representatives of the payday lending industry testified Tuesday before the Council of Advis...
Colorado Pols - Wed 8:44 a.m. - 3 clicks
In the current conditions, the gubernatorial race in Colorado is not competitive, and cause of that I will not include finally D Maes in the series, like I include not the republican challengers for VT-Sen, HI-Sen, RI-Gov and NH-Gov for the previous states of this series. I update the series after new votes or political events, and if these races change for become more competitive I would include...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Wed 5:47 a.m. - 3 clicks
Hello Square State. We haven't posted here before, but we thought you'd enjoy this. Before Don Beezley was the Republican nominee in House District 33, he told the unvarnished truth about his vision for Colorado, and his vision is, in a word, bizarre . The Broomfield County Democrats launched a website today www.BizarreBeezley.com , dedicated to educating voters about the real Don B...
SquareState - Tue 8:44 p.m. - 5 clicks
Before Don Beezley was the Republican nominee in House District 33, he told the unvarnished truth about his vision for Colorado, and his vision is, in a word, bizarre . The Broomfield County Democrats launched a website today (www.BizarreBeezley.com), dedicated to educating voters about the real Don Beezley. We could say more, but we'll let Mr. Beezley speak for himself. Each of th...
Colorado Pols - Tue 4:44 p.m. - 7 clicks
GOP-leaning pollster Rasmussen Reports' poll of the Colorado gubernatorial race today: The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Democrat John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver, with 36% support. Republican Dan Maes captures 24% of the vote while Tom Tancredo trails with 14%. Support for both Hickenlooper and Maes is down seven percentage points from two ...
Colorado Pols - Tue 2:48 p.m. - 4 clicks
But then again, I never thought I'd be seeing something like Amendment 62 on the ballot in CO --an initiative so "out there", it gives full personhood rights to a fertilized egg before it even takes up residence inside a woman's uterus. Amendment 62 is an attempt by Personhood Colorado to give legal rights to a fertilized egg, without regard to the consequences. It would ban medical abortion in a...
Colorado Pols - Tue 1:06 p.m. - 7 clicks
At the same time as Attorney General John Suthers was taking a total of over $10,000 from various sources tied to the payday lending industry--donations now the subject of controversy as Suthers' office proposes new regulations on the industry--more evidence has emerged that payday lenders are intensely focused on Colorado races this fall up and down the ballot. And although the industry has...
Colorado Pols - Tue 11:42 a.m. - 4 clicks
How can you tell the virulent anti-tax fervor still dominates American politics in genuinely a bipartisan way? Look no further than Colorado. In a state facing a historic budget deficit - a state that now ranks 40th out of 50 in its funding of education - we get this from the Democratic Party's standard-bearer : Hick: No new money for education Education funding will remain tight, Democrat J...
Colorado Pols - Tue 10:46 a.m. - 7 clicks
(SUMMIT COUNTY) Saturday at 11 AM at Dillon's Crow's Nest Deck facility, the Under-Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Harris Sherman and other leaders will announce a cooperative partnership between Denver Water and the USDA Forest Service - Rocky Mountain......
Colorado House Democrats - Tue 10:46 a.m. - 5 clicks
(DENVER) – Wednesday, August 11 marks the 90th day after the state legislature adjourned and that means it’s the day that 143 new laws go into effect. These new laws cover a wide range of topics from creating jobs to......
Colorado House Democrats - Tue 10:46 a.m. - 4 clicks
(Denver) –State Representative Randy Fischer (D–Fort Collins) acted as tour guide today for the dean, faculty, and staff of the Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences. Rep. Fischer, Chair of the House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources,......
Colorado House Democrats - Tue 10:46 a.m. - 5 clicks
(DENVER) – Wednesday, August 11 marks the 90th day after the state legislature adjourned and that means it’s the day that 143 new laws go into effect. These new laws cover a wide range of topics from creating jobs to......
Colorado House Democrats - Tue 10:46 a.m. - 6 clicks
Today's diary continues checking the strength of M Udall as the third democrat from Colorado against the more prominent republicans from his home state. The next republican included in this series is K Buck, as the winner of the republican primary for senate. In some days I will write a diary more adapted to this year competitive senate election in Colorado with M Bennet vs K Buck, but today we h...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Tue 9:20 a.m. - 7 clicks
Gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes (R) is either seriously math challenged, crazy or a big fat liar. Recently he spoke to the Colorado Water Congress and said: He would support new reservoirs to keep Colorado water in state. and "I have a pretty simple policy on water so far: If it starts in Colorado, it's our water," Maes said. http://www.cortezjournal.com/M... He wants to cut taxes ...
Colorado Pols - Tue 6:44 a.m. - 10 clicks
In the movie Witness, there is a scene where a little Amish boy, who has witnessed a murder, takes the gun of the detective who is there to protect him from a chest of drawers. He is caught by his grandfather who sits him down for a talk. The grandfather asks if the boy would use this gun to kill. The boy says that he would only kill a bad man. The grandfather asks "How will you know who is the ba...
SquareState - Tue 6:21 a.m. - 5 clicks
The Powwow will be September 25 at Rock Ledge Ranch, “technically” according to the West Side Pioneer, local newsletter, a part of the Garden of the Gods. Which is a sacred site for American Indians. The same people who put this really offensive sign up at Bancroft Park that Old Colorado City was the first [...]...
Not My Tribe - Tue 1:41 a.m. - 10 clicks
FR: Dee Brown The following is an email from the City of Colorado Springs Help Desk support product. CASE_ID_NUM: 10-073910 MESSAGE: The message for you follows Thank you for taking the time to alert the Streetlight Deactivation Team of your concerns. As you may know, the team was created to systematically turn off [...]...
Not My Tribe - Mon 11:46 p.m. - 8 clicks
Update: Thank you all - a boatload of really good questions (and an equal number of snarky ones). Wish I had 2 hours to interview. I'm interviewing Congressman Tancredo tomorrow and I've been promised an interview with Mayor Hickenlooper. So suggested questions please. As to Dan Maes, he's suddenly too busy for interviews. I guess his new handlers have decided they don't want him talking to an...
Colorado Pols - Mon 2:03 p.m. - 9 clicks
Last Wednesday's Ipsos poll showing GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck up by nine points over Democrat Michael Bennet widened a lot of smiles on the right side of the aisle--Republican-friendly polling firm Rasmussen Reports sobers them up today. The U.S. Senate race in Colorado between incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck remains very competitive. ...
Colorado Pols - Mon 2:03 p.m. - 12 clicks
Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family was back in the news over the weekend, and not for a good reason. You'd think they would have learned their lesson after their silly accusation that SpongeBob SquarePants was trying to turn kids into homosexuals was widely mocked...but apparently not. From The Associated Press : The conservative Christian group Focus on the Family is accusing nation...
Colorado Pols - Mon 1:08 p.m. - 8 clicks
The next step in this series is to check the strength of the senator M Udall as the third democrat from Colorado here, against the former governor W Owens. This hypothetical contest is like always in this series for a generic highest level race (senate or governor). Generic questions make we can compare the results of the different diaries. The chance of see this hypothesis becoming real seems...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Mon 6:44 a.m. - 8 clicks
Colorado Confluence is a new kind of political-plus blog, Colorado-based but not geographically (or topically) exclusive, "to articulate the genius of the many with the expertise of the few, the simple pleasures of daily life with the sublime pleasures of aesthetic and intellectual discovery, the roiling surface of the political sea with the surging depths of the human mind." Colorado Confluen...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Sun 5:47 p.m. - 7 clicks
Amendment 63 - as marketed by reactionaries from the Jon Caldara camp at the Independence Institute is misleading; asserting it promotes choice for Colorado's concerned citizens. Let's really look at what Amendment 63 will do in light of the federal coverage mandate by 2014. Insurance coverage vs Health Care? The US adopted a federal insurance based system in 1973, ratcheting the controls of...
SquareState - Sun 2:49 p.m. - 6 clicks
"The Colorado Lawyer," which is the monthly journal of the Colorado Bar Association had a notice that marked the end of an era in its September issue: The Colorado Lawyer has discontinued printing classified ads. Classified advertising is being accepted for online posting only on the Colorado Bar Association website, www.cobar.org. When I started practicing law in Colorado, those print edit...
Wash Park Prophet - Sun 2:22 p.m. - 7 clicks
After reading the Denver Post article of 8/24 regarding Silt, I had to stop and gather my thoughts. When television news became the easy way to get your news, we knew at a certain level that it was quick sound bites but we also knew we could trust Cronkite, Burroughs, and a few others. But we knew that for in-depth intelligent analysis you went to the paper. Unfortunately, at lea...
SquareState - Sun 2:47 a.m. - 10 clicks
Republican Senate Candidate Ken Buck has tried really to convince Colorado that he really isn't an extremist. He walked back that whole repealing the 17th amendment business that he used to support. He also now supposedly no longer wants to abolish the Department of Education. He even used a tea party rally to try to turn back that extremist label. Too bad for Buck that there's that thin...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Sat 5:25 p.m. - 8 clicks
In yesterday's diary the people select here M Udall as the third democrat from Colorado. Again a tie, and like always here, I must take the politician what hold the higher level offices (now and in the past). Today I begin with the diaries with a democrat and a republican face to face checking the strength of the different politician in a format what help us to compare the results between politic...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Fri 7:44 p.m. - 6 clicks
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll [pdf] finds mixed news for Dems in Colorado. The basics : Democrat John Hickenlooper has a substantial lead in the Colorado governor’s race in which a third-party candidate is splitting the Republican vote, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. But the Democrat in Colorado’s Senate race, incumbent Michael Bennet, trails Republican challenger Ken Buck...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Fri 6:02 p.m. - 9 clicks
There were 4.2% fewer births in the United States 2009 than there were at the 2007 peak. In Colorado, there were 3.2% fewer births. The trends don't necessary closely track the impact of the financial crisis. Florida and Nevada, for example, were both very hard hit economically, but did not see big declines in births (Florida's increased, Nevada's stayed almost the same). But, births are, of...
Wash Park Prophet - Fri 2:29 p.m. - 6 clicks
This evening Andrew Romanoff held a birthday party in part to help retire his campaign debt and for some reason, Ken Buck, in a classless, antagonistic move crashed the party. Attendees who wanted to take the opportunity to question Buck's policies (and sanity) say Buck wouldn't answer any questions. Who the f#(k does this prick think he is to walk into a hornets nest and then thumb his nose at ...
SquareState - Fri 1:49 a.m. - 8 clicks
The next step in this series finds the third democrat from Colorado. This is a key position for assure the victory in the three highest level offices. For win the two senate seats and the governor, the third democrat must be over all the republicans, and cause of that, this series check the strength of the third democrat from every state against all the republicans what are in this series giving ...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Thu 6:26 p.m. - 6 clicks
When the educrats and politicians fail -- Colorado kids can win! From yesterday's defeat of Colorado's so-called reformers in their avaricious sprint in the "Race to the Top" contest, should come a realization that improving education is not going to......
Metro Denver Greens - Aug 25 - 6 clicks
Dan Maes, the Republican nominee in the Colorado Governor's race, named a running mate as credible as most. Tom Tancredo, in contrast, has named Pat Miller , who served only a single term as a state representative a couple of decades ago and has run some second rate anti-abortion groups in the meantime. Her views are probably further to the right than any other candidate who will appear on the ...
Wash Park Prophet - Aug 25 - 9 clicks
Sometimes I need to stop a little for think and try to give the right interpretation to the people voters in this series, and this is one. I think is not casual to see here D DeGette over well loved and respected politicians like J Hickenlooper. That mean she is very respected and the people see D DeGette as a politician with high value what can take high level offices in the future. She is no...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Aug 24 - 2 clicks
The DSCC is hitting Colorado Republican Ken Buck on his one-time support for repealing the 17th amendment--the one that provides for direct election of Senators. Once Buck realized that this was a slightly nutjob position to run a race for Senate on, he recanted. But it's still a good ad. As crazy as repealing the 17th amendment, or the 14th, or really any of them other than th...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Aug 24 - 3 clicks
Denver Direct notes that the City of Denver first appears to have overpaid for a property adjacent to East High School that was to be used to build a Central Denver Recreation Center (which was a great idea, the Rec Center, not the overpaying part), and then ran out of money to build and operate it in the near future, forcing it to make the $6.5 million dollar property assessed at $1 million in...
Wash Park Prophet - Aug 24 - 3 clicks
Newly appointed Denver Manager of Safety Ron Perea has resigned effective August 31 after his slap on the wrist sanctions for police officers who lied in reports about police brutality received media attention and public protests. Perea, an outside hire from a Secret Service appointment, never understood how important reining in police misconduct was in Denver, or how deeply he was damaging h...
Wash Park Prophet - Aug 23 - 5 clicks
John Salazar (D?-Pueblo/Gunnison), brother of Colorado's semi-beloved, former Senator and current Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar , has been recently found to be aiding and abetting a land swap deal for one of the Koch Brothers up here in Colorado. Locals don't like it. Partly because the recipient of the favors, Bill Koch, can't be trusted , and partly because Salazar is pushing this trick...
SquareState - Aug 23 - 3 clicks
Add Enik Rising to the list of blogs you regularly read on Colorado politics. Denver based author Seth Masket is "a political scientist who specializes in state politics and political parties." The content can be a bit dry and has an inside baseball flavor, but if you're into that kind of thing, that's great. The blog is three years old and I don't know how it managed to evade my active notic...
Wash Park Prophet - Aug 23 - 4 clicks
