Subject: Dick Wadhams

• State of Reddiness

  December 15, 2006

• ProgressNow Shows Subscribers a Dick For April Fool's Day

  April 1, 2008

• Dick Wadhams Reads From the Ward Churchill Phrase Book

  July 24, 2008

• Dick Wadhams Manipulates the Media With His "Ass"

  August 5, 2008

• Dick Wadhams Manipulates the Media With His "Ass"

  August 5, 2008

• The Denver Dailies Gear Up For the Olympics

  August 6, 2008

• The Rocky Mountain News Almost Lets George Carlin Swear

  August 12, 2008

• Wayne Allard: gone fishin'

  August 20, 2008

• Dick Wadhams on the loose

  August 26, 2008

• Dick Wadhams on the loose

  August 27, 2008

• Getting scandalized about Bob Schaffer

  September 5, 2008

• A Boulder Daily Camera headline that really sucks

  October 6, 2008

• The Green Candidate

  Armed with deep pockets, Terry Walker mounts a bid for governor.

  October 16, 1997

• Collect Calls

  Did US West install a party line for Bill Owens?

  September 17, 1998

• Scott McInnis prematurely pisses on GOP's grave

  October 29, 2008

• Off Limits

  July 27, 2000

• Colorado first state among equals in NBC correspondent Chuck Todd's new Obama election book

  The importance of Colorado in Barack Obama's presidential victory is underscored by its placement in How Barack Obama Won: A State-By-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election, a just-published book by NBC News political director Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser, the net's elections director. Colorado is the first state listed in the tome's breakdown, heading the "Battleground States" category. It's one of eight states in the grouping, and the authors see the entire gaggle as likely

  January 16, 2009

• Off Limits

  November 22, 2001

• Off Limits

  October 24, 2002

• Dick Wadhams's formula for a GOP comeback: Hit harder, faster!

  Since figuratively getting their heads handed to them during last November's election, Republican operatives have been trying to figure out how to get off the mat prior to the next big vote less than two years from now, thereby setting the stage for a real comeback in 2012. According to "Republicans Staking Early Claim in 2010 Senate Cycle," an article in the well-read political publication The Hill, numerous conservative strategists believe the best way to do so is to "lambaste Democrats in a

  February 4, 2009

• Dick Wadhams has a greeting for Barack Obama

  Dick Wadhams. Sweeping defeat in the 2008 elections hasn't made Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams any less feisty. On behalf of the state GOP, Wadhams purchased enormous advertisements in both the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post featuring the banner headline "COLORADO REPUBLICANS WELCOME BACK PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA..." Predictably, the ad's not much of a welcome -- more like a series of shots across the bow, including a couple aimed at new Colorado Senator Michael Bennet. But

  February 17, 2009

• Jon Caldara on today's Barack Obama protest

  In addition to buying a full-page ad needling President Barack Obama, who's in town today to sign a $787 billion economic-stimulus bill, Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams is also taking part in a protest at the Colorado State Capitol co-starring a number of big names in local conservative circles: Jim Pfaff, state director of Americans for Prosperity; State Senator Josh Penry; Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin, who relocated to Colorado Springs earlier this year (more about th

  February 17, 2009

• More from yesterday's State Capitol Obama protest: Michelle Malkin with "Swastika Guy"

  The photos captured by Melanie Asmar for "Colorado Conservatives' Porkiest Anti-Stimulus Protest Ever," a blog about a State Capitol rally yesterday, were plenty weird -- but as a commenter to that post pointed out, they were nowhere as jaw-slackening as the image above, captured by ProgressNow Colorado and initially published on this page of the Daily Kos. The so-called "Swastika Guy" seen posing with beaming Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin also popped up in Channel 31's coverage of the

  February 18, 2009

• Is it Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?

  Peter Boyles. The name game took a loopy twist after Colorado Media Matters published an item last Wednesday attacking KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles for referring to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as "Vagina DeGette" and "Vagina DeJet," for reasons that are too dopey to explain -- although CMM did so at length in its initial item, as well as not one but two follow-up blogs. And as if that weren't enough, two Denver Post scribes, staffer Chuck Plunkeet and columnist Susan Greene, subsequently we

  February 23, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Ward without end, and other long-running controversies

  News is busting out all over today -- and not just in Denver District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom, where Ward Churchill may take the stand in his case against the University of Colorado, now starting week two. Or on the Auraria campus, where veteran newshounds of the Rocky Mountain News will unveil their plans for www.iwantmyrocky.com at 11 a.m. Today's also the day that the Colorado Supreme Court will issue its long-awaited ruling in Mesa County Board of Commissioners v. State of Colorado

  March 16, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of 9/20/2007

  September 27, 2007

• Is ProgressNow getting a taste of April Fool's Day revenge?

  Somewhere, Dick Wadhams is laughing. Earlier today, the liberal ProgressNow Colorado organization sent out its regular e-mail news digest under the signature of Dick Wadhams, head of the Colorado Republican Party, complete with a goofy pic of Dick at the top. Happy April Fool's Day! But something not as funny from ProgressNow's standpoint -- but probably hilarious to conservatives -- subsequently took place. At this writing, attempts to visit ProgressNow's website is greeted with a message that

  April 1, 2009

• From the week of February 26, 2009

  February 26, 2009

• Were Democrats dumb enough to write this "idiot" memo?

  October 9, 2008

• The Democratic National Convention transformed the Pepsi Center into a media echo chamber.

  September 4, 2008

• Speer Boulevard corners the market on views -- and Obama souvenirs

  August 28, 2008

• Republicans Say DNC Will Be a Grand Ol' Party

  Colorado Republican leader Dick Wadhams thinks the 2008 Democratic National Convention will help his party, too.

  September 13, 2007

• Big Deal for Big Head Todd

  The Hillary’s suddenly alive with the sound of good music.

  December 13, 2007

• The Message

  Sold!

  November 11, 2004

• The Message

  Brave New World

  June 12, 2003

• Follow That Story

  Taco's New Tone

  February 27, 2003

• The Message

  A hard-nosed TV reporter is peddling a new line -- of cosmetics.

  February 20, 2003

• The Shifting Drug War

  The pendulum is swinging back from stiff mandatory sentences for drug offenses.

  November 22, 2001

• Off Limits

  Up the creek

  July 26, 2001

• Old-Age Wisdom

  The state told Virginia Fraser to shut up, but she won't give up on the elderly.

  July 19, 2001

• Give Him the Bird

  What do Bill Owens and Bert from Sesame Street have in common? Pigeons.

  May 11, 2000

• Road Warriors

  Boon or boondoggle, Bill Owens's highway plan has to get past Douglas Bruce before it goes anywhere.

  October 21, 1999

• Off Limits

  May 6, 1999

• Off Limits

  August 15, 1996

• Wake-Up Call: A very civil insurrection

  ​At a round of town-hall meetings on health care that kick off today, first-term congresswoman Betsy Markey will hand out copies (abridged) of a George Washington favorite, "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation," originally a 110-item list of Jesuit guidelines for civil behavior. Great idea, but it raises two questions: Did she send a copy to Dick Wadhams, chair of the Colorado Republican Party, who's labeled Markey's small-form meetings a "sham"? And if so, wha

  August 18, 2009

• Michelle Malkin tells Sean Hannity Democratic HQ window-smashing is a "teachable moment"

  Michelle Malkin.​The instant it became clear that Maurice Schwenkler, busted for smashing windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters earlier this week, was a far-left radical, not a right-wing healthcare-reform opponent, Republicans began to salivate, and that makes perfect sense. After all, Schwenkler, also known as Ariel Attack, unwittingly handed conservatives a wonderful gift, which they're taking great pleasure unwrapping on Fox News. Last night, Sean Hannity and Colorado-based

  August 27, 2009

• Feeling the power of ColoradoPols

  Dick Wadhams.​Locals who want to know the latest political scoop know they'll find it first at ColoradoPols.com, a website whose power and reach is obvious even when the information it passes along doesn't pan out. Case in point -- rumors that Colorado Republic Party head Dick Wadhams might be leaving that post in order to become campaign manager for Sue Lowden, who's likely to target U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Shortly after ColoradoPols posted an item on this subjec

  September 9, 2009

• Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: Nobody beats a Dealin' Dick Wadhams candidate

  Since Dick Wadhams was named the State Chairman of the Colorado Republicans, the party has lost control of the state Senate, the state House of Representatives, the Governorship, one U.S. Senate seat and one U.S. House of Representative seat. But Dick is not depressed. He is energized! Like General Motors, the G.O.P. is too big to die. Taking a page out of the auto-industry restructuring play book, all Dealin' Dick Wadhams has to do is declare political bankruptcy, void his commitments to social

  October 8, 2009

• Dick Wadhams on Tom Tancredo's impending run for governor

  Dick Wadhams isn't leading the "Run Tom" parade. But he swears he's not putting up roadblocks, either.​Yesterday, Tom Tancredo confirmed his plans to run for governor now that state senator Josh Penry has dropped out of the race. That throws a kink into frontrunner Scott McInnis' dream of a united party -- united behind him, anyhow. Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, claims to be uninterested in throwing himself on the tracks in front of the Tancredo Express before i

  November 13, 2009

• Scott McInnis: Is he more politically skillful than we thought?

  "Can't we all just get along?"​Political observers have spent a lot of time har-dee-har-ing at Scott McInnis over the years -- and indeed, he's made plenty of errors and gaffes during his time in the public eye. Note his prediction that fellow Republican Bob Schaffer would lose the 2008 Senate race to Mark Udall -- and that he would have won -- in the days before the election took place; the use of a non-Colorado mountain as the centerpiece of his gubernatorial campaign website; and a hil

  November 20, 2009