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Is Colorado's caucus system for party nominations outdated? If so, what system should we use? Some thoughts on the subject follow the jump. Please contribute your own ideas as well. With Colorado's caucus only a few days away, I find myself sitting amongst boxes of caucus materials at the Denver Dems office thinking there must be an easier way to do this. I began looking at the candidate nomi...
Colorado Pols - 11:07 a.m. - 2 clicks 
In Orange Good morning, and it's glorious! Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging. It's still been quite cool here in Denver for the past week - midweek we were only in they mid-40s, but temperatures finally nudged up into the high 50s yesterday. As luck would have it, the Bossman was out of town so I had an extra day off, and I spent it cleaning up the veggie patch, whacking back...
SquareState - 10:25 a.m.
As the Denver Post reported yesterday: A Colorado Springs resident claims a state senator who is paying only $500 a month rent for a downtown Denver condo is violating the state's ethics laws. A complaint filed this week with the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission says Sen. John Morse accepted something of value greater than $50, which was outlawed when voters in 2006 approved Amendment...
Colorado Pols - 10:25 a.m.
The Republican Hate Machine has really cranked up against health care reform. This says two things: it is obviously an excellent policy choice, despite some weak points in the legislation, and Republicans' primary policy goal is to stop any and all reform. Why do they hate Coloradans ? The Grand Junction Sentinel describes what happens when Republicans are worried about being on the wrong s...
SquareState - 8:05 a.m.
R's are doing exactly as expected : Republicans are tightening the pressure on U.S. Rep. John Salazar , D-Colo., trying to turn around his yes vote on the House health care measure. The National Republican Congressional Committee started making "code-red alert" robo-calls Thursday to voters in Salazar's 3rd Congressional District, which includes most of the Western Slope. Democratic constituenc...
SquareState - Sat 12:41 p.m. - 2 clicks
Rep. Mark Ferrandino's attempts to cap interest rates on payday lending in Colorado stalled Friday in the Legislature , the Denver Post's Tim Hoover reports, as House leaders postponed a vote because two Democrats were absent. The margin could be as close as a single vote, Ferrandino told Hoover. Who's opposed? House Republicans, who say reining in 300 percent interest rates would hurt t...
Colorado Pols - Sat 5:44 a.m. - 7 clicks
The Green Party of Colorado state business meeting and nominating convention for 2010 will be held on Saturday, May 1. Location for the gathering is in Florence, Colorado. MAP More details at this web site in coming days....
Metro Denver Greens - Fri 3:05 p.m. - 4 clicks
Just released today, Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter has officially endorsed Sen. Michael Bennet . From a press release: Democrats in Colorado are blessed to have two highly qualified men running to represent Colorado in the United States Senate. One is our sitting US Senator, Michael Bennet, the other is our former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Andrew Romanoff. I have rema...
Colorado Pols - Fri 2:20 p.m. - 2 clicks
SATURDAY UPDATE: The Denver Post's David Harsanyi did respond , but we think beer-thirty started early at the Post yesterday afternoon. Should have probably just taken his lumps, because this response is, well, it's unusually and notably ridiculous. The bill gives Amazon an ultimatum. Collect taxes on your site for Colorado or hand over the names of those who do not pay up. If you do no...
Colorado Pols - Fri 2:20 p.m. - 2 clicks
Ken Hutcherson, who leads Antioch Bible church in Washington and is a loyal friend of Dobson's, wonders whether Dobson was ousted by Focus' board of directors as the organization attempts to forge a less divisive path....
Elevated Voices - Fri 1:02 p.m. - 6 clicks
Two state senators are calling for a "full-blown" independent investigation into the 2008 death of an infant in Fort Collins, a move blasted by Evan Dreyer, Governor Bill Ritter's spokesman, as "the worst, most shameful form of politics."...
Elevated Voices - Fri 12:44 p.m. - 5 clicks
If it's up to the Teamsters union, any flights that would whisk mechanics out of Denver and transfer them to Wisconsin as part of corporate reorganization will be grounded....
Elevated Voices - Fri 12:44 p.m. - 4 clicks
Today's PPP poll on the Colorado Senate race shows the same trend found in recent Rasmussen polling: Andrew Romanoff does better than Michael Bennet against the leading Republican, Jane Norton . According to a poll pitting the Democrats against the top three Republicans , Romanoff would beat Norton 44-39, while Bennet and Norton would be tied at 43-43. Both Democrats do well against Ken Buc...
Colorado Pols - Fri 12:22 p.m. - 6 clicks
The Department of Homeland Security rushed out to a U.S. Census Bureau office in Grand Junction as police investigated what turned out to be a large marijuana-growing operation in a suite in the same building....
Elevated Voices - Fri 11:06 a.m. - 4 clicks
Sara Cotner, an education consultant and schoolteacher, planned her wedding the same way she approaches her lesson plans: by thinking of the outcome first....
Elevated Voices - Fri 10:41 a.m. - 4 clicks
This time it's an op-ed repeating GOP talking points in the Washington Post. How much do you want to bet Andrew Romanoff's biggest regret is having hired this clown : If Democrats ignore health-care polls, midterms will be costly By Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen Friday, March 12, 2010 ...[The Democrats'] blind persistence in the face of reality threatens to turn this political m...
Colorado Pols - Fri 10:41 a.m. - 4 clicks
We're a little behind on this, but just a few weeks after former Rep. Tom Tancredo endorsed his campaign for Congress , Republican Jimmy Lakey pulled out of the race in CD7 (h/t to Complete Colorado ). According to a Facebook announcement: While I have truly enjoyed meeting so many wonderful people, I have come to the conclusion that this is not my year and I will live to fight another d...
Colorado Pols - Fri 10:08 a.m. - 2 clicks
This afternoon, Colorado Senate Republicans' press office kicked into high gear to start the damage control against the Republican Caucus' opposition to a bill that allows pregnant women to get insurance in Colorado. First, a few facts about the bill, House Bill 1021 : The bill requires all insurance plans sold in Colorado's individual and small-group markets - the only markets over which th...
Colorado Pols - Thu 5:45 p.m. - 3 clicks
It's now been over 22 weeks since Jane Norton has been quoted directly in The Denver Post. Now wait a minute, you say, in The Post on Nov. 11, in the year 2009, there's a quote attributed directly to Norton, not to one of her spokespeople or to a news release. Norton was quoted as saying, "The very heart and soul of who we are as Americans is being eroded. We're seeing Washington's giant ha...
Colorado Pols - Thu 5:45 p.m. - 4 clicks
The animal-rights group wants to purchase trash cans for city parks that would feature an anti-meat slogan---"Meat trashes the planet. Go vegan."---with a smiling blond wearing a bikini made of lettuce....
Elevated Voices - Thu 2:05 p.m. - 3 clicks
There are times when our criminal justice system delivers a conviction and in so doing delivers some solace to victims but without delivering justice. Willie Clark's conviction today strikes me as one of those times . A guilty verdict has been rendered, some closure may be found for Williams family, the Denver Broncos and the city of Denver. I just don't think we'll ever know who actually shot Da...
Steam Powered Opinions - Thu 1:00 p.m. - 3 clicks
Less than 48 hours into the effort, support is growing rapidly for ProgressNow Colorado's call to boycott online retail giant Amazon following its decision to terminate relationships with affiliates in the state. The public can sign the pledge to boycott Amazon here: http://progressnowcolorado.org... The editorial board of the Aurora Sentinel writes in today's edition ( click here to read...
Colorado Pols - Thu 1:00 p.m. - 4 clicks
Two more mishaps have emerged in the nation's efforts to ensure the safety of travelers, and both emanate from Colorado....
Elevated Voices - Thu 12:25 p.m. - 4 clicks
A lot of things went right for the Colorado Rockies last season, and one thing that went very right was the play of young pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez....
Elevated Voices - Thu 12:25 p.m. - 2 clicks
Hundreds of Women Aiforce Service Pilots, each one an aviation pioneer who broke the gender barrier, received the medal for volunteering to participate in some six million miles of noncombat missions during World War II....
Elevated Voices - Thu 12:25 p.m. - 3 clicks
The prospect of former Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor running for political office does, as Josh Marshall notes , hold a high degree of entertainment value. Press flacks get paid to stand there and spout the company line no matter what the facts actually are or how transparent their dissembling may be. A press flack for any moderately high profile politician is going to be...
Steam Powered Opinions - Thu 10:56 a.m. - 4 clicks
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Colorado Pols - Thu 9:22 a.m. - 2 clicks
Colorado Springs Gazette reporter Mark Barna writes for The Pulpit blog: Focus on the Family founder James Dobson was pushed off the Focus radio show by the organization's board of directors. The board told Dobson that his last "Focus on the Family" radio broadcast would air Feb. 26. Dobson was disappointed. He didn't want to leave his radio show. That's when he decided to start "Family Ta...
Colorado Pols - Thu 8:06 a.m. - 7 clicks
"Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them." --Morris K. Udall ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 6:26 a.m. - 5 clicks
We, along with the Denver Post and various other amused parties, have talked quite a bit about GOP Senate candidate Jane Norton's call to 'abolish' the federal Department of Education. The Post's examination of the issue last December found that Norton was pretty distantly behind the times with this Reagan-era canned prescription for "reform," and it's not a talking point we expect to see ...
Colorado Pols - Wed 4:48 p.m. - 8 clicks
Details here: http://publicpolicypolling.blo... Long excerpt: John Hickenlooper is bucking the trends that have Democrats trailing right now in most of the major races across the country, and that makes him the early favorite to be Colorado's next Governor. Hickenlooper leads Scott McInnis 50-39. He's up 48-34 with independents, making this only the third race we've polled since November wher...
SquareState - Wed 12:43 p.m. - 4 clicks
Colorado has had it's share of non-media savvy candidates and campaigns over the years, with Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton's campaign leading the way in 2010 where screwing up the earned media side is concerned. But for all the mistakes of candidates like Norton and " Master of the Terrible Press " Ali Hasan , nobody has quite gotten bad media relations down to a science like Cali...
Colorado Pols - Wed 11:49 a.m. - 6 clicks
Journalists may be doing 17 things at once, but if they're going to write a story quoting not one, not two, but three opponents of bills in the state legislature, you'd think they would at least quote one proponent of the proposed legislation. But in a Feb. 26 article in the Denver Business Journal , three opponents of health-insurance-related bills in the Colorado Legislature were quoted-while ...
Colorado Pols - Wed 11:49 a.m. - 6 clicks
How about this for a question: Are Colorado Gov. Ritter and Lt. Gov. O'Brien as keen on firing teachers in Colorado as President Obama is for terminating teachers' employment in Rhode Island? Considering Ritter's and O'Brien's obsequiousness towards the so-called......
Dave Chandler - Wed 5:20 a.m. - 10 clicks
Way back in 2004, Colorado voters approved the state's first Renewable Energy Standard: 10% by 2015. Xcel Energy was among the large group of critics of that measure, trotting out the usual arguments against any kind of standard or regulation - the industry would collapse, the standard couldn't be met by 2015, thousands of jobs would be lost, yada, yada, yada. As proponents predicted, none ...
SquareState - Tue 2:44 p.m. - 6 clicks
One plus one really does equal two sometimes, even in politics. The knee-jerk tendency to tack to the right by almost every Democratic politician in sight: "I don't think that the scientific community has decided with certainty that climate change is as catastrophic as so many people think," said John Hickenlooper , a former geologist in the energy industry. Plus the undeniable truth stated b...
SquareState - Tue 2:44 p.m. - 5 clicks
Ha ! On behalf of the Executive Committee of the El Paso County Democratic Party I am pleased to announce that Christy LeLait has accepted the position of Executive Director of our County Party. This marks the beginning of a new era for the EPCDP. We are stepping up our efforts to move forward with a Democratic Party presence in what is perceived to be a Republican stronghold. ...
SquareState - Mon 8:43 p.m. - 8 clicks
The 'Dimocrats' deserve to lose their majorities in the Colorado legislature ... and the governorship, too. Last month, the Dimocrat majority in the legislature and the Dimocrat governor of this state enacted into law a provision that now places an......
Dave Chandler - Mon 4:44 p.m. - 11 clicks
Aurora may join Colorado Springs in getting rid of police and leaving public safety up to the whims of the criminals: AURORA - City officials are revisiting the current mandate that requires two police officers for every thousand residents. Only this time, there seems to be some chance the requirement could go away - courtesy of the slumping economy. Voters in 2003 approved a quarter-percent ...
SquareState - Mon 3:29 p.m. - 6 clicks
Okay the Dog has had it right up to here with Republicans saying that unemployment assistance keeps people from finding work. Only a party that is the refuge of scoundrels and the ultra-rich could possibly think this. As one of those folks who is trying (and failing) to get by on the unemployment benefits, let the Dog lay it out for you. In the state of Colorado, you are entitled to 60% of your ...
SquareState - Mon 3:29 p.m. - 7 clicks
