Dick Wadhams

Dick Wadhams, Colorado's former GOP boss, on state's swing status

As the Democratic National Convention gets under way in Charlotte today, it's impossible not to recall Denver's time in the spotlight as the host of the 2008 DNC -- and contemplate its role as a key swing state in this campaign. Dick Wadhams was the chair of the Colorado Republican Party in 2008, w ... More >>

Jesus wouldn't want federal budget deal to screw the poor, say Colorado clergy

Flickr​Consider perusing these three Denver blog posts. Colorado Independent's John Tomasic notes that 95 members of Colorado's clergy have joined 4,000 pastors nationwide asking that President Obama and Congress don't make poor people bear a disproportionate burden when it comes to a budget ... More >>

John Elway not satisfied with Tim Tebow, wants to upgrade Broncos' quarterback position?

​Denver blog posts? Got 'em here. Mile High Report fan poster Jumpslash believes John Elway isn't satisfied with current Broncos QBs. Who might he target? Colorado Pols thinks the feud between Dick Wadhams and Ted Harvey over the future of the Colorado GOP is getting nasty. Colorado Indepen ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony: Should Denver Nuggets retire his jersey even after ordeal of Knicks trade?

Carmelo.​Denver blog posts are reproducing! Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein wonders if the Nuggets should retire Carmelo Anthony's jersey. His conclusion: not anytime soon. 5280's Michael de Yoanna: Dick Wadhams chalks up Ken Buck's senate loss on his inability to appeal to unaffiliated wome ... More >>

Dick Wadhams's successor as CO Republican Party boss to be a "real" conservative?

Dick Wadhams.​Howdy! Let your mouse mosey through these Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols tries to figure out what being a "real" conservative means when it comes to picking a successor to Dick Wadhams. Denver Egotist welcomes the Denver Clothing Company. Mile High Hockey's David Driscoll-Ca ... More >>

Colorado's GOP hopes to strike while the irony is hot

Dick Wadhams's exit from Republican chair race to help Ted Harvey and party conservatives?

Ted Harvey.​The Colorado Republican Party didn't just lose the governor's race in November -- it also lost over a hundred bonus members of the State Central Committee, which will vote for the new party chair next month. Incumbent chair Dick Wadhams was going for that slot again -- until his M ... More >>

Dick Wadhams, not running to lead Republicans in CO, is tired of carping, conservative strategies

​Yesterday morning, I was talking to Dick Wadhams, the chair of the Colorado Republican Party, about the upcoming State Central Committee meeting, where he would be going for a third term. Yesterday evening, I was talking with Wadhams about his sudden announcement that he would not run again.

Dick Wadhams decides against a third term as Colorado Republican Party Chair

Dick Wadhams​Dick Wadhams, who's served two term as chair of the Colorado Republican Party, has decided not to run for a third term next month. His departure from the race leaves state senator Ted Harvey; John Wagner, who ran the Senate campaign of Clive Tidwell, in 2010; and Bart Barton, who ... More >>

John Hickenlooper's race for guv not close at all despite Tom Tancredo surge, says head Dem

Pat Waak.​Yesterday, state GOP chieftain Dick Wadhams weighed in on the upcoming election, predicting much ugliness for Democrats. Shockingly, head Dem Pat Waak has a very different take. She doesn't foresee the kind of Democratic apocalypse plenty of pundits are predicting.

Dan Maes's troubles not hurting other GOP candidates, says Republican boss Dick Wadhams

Dan Maes.​Yesterday, GOP guv candidate Dan Maes released documents connected to his firing as a Liberal, Kansas cop in 1985 -- a bizarre assemblage of material unlikely to supercharge his faltering campaign. But Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams isn't worried about other GOP can ... More >>

John Hickenlooper is "the luckiest guy in the world," says Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams

Dan Maes.​At this point, Dan Maes has the Republican governor's nomination, endorsements from conservative heavy hitters like Hank Brown and not very much money -- which is why Colorado Republican Party head Dick Wadhams's $250 donation made local news. But while consultant Katy Atkinson sugge ... More >>

Dan Maes can't win if Tom Tancredo stays in the race, says CO Republican boss Dick Wadhams

Dan Maes.​On Monday, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy insisted his guy wasn't a dead fish. But at this writing, he's flopping on the dock, refusing to admit that he doesn't have lungs -- or that he lost last night's primary to Dan Maes. But while Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams h ... More >>

Dick Wadhams suddenly getting laryngitis about Tom Tancredo's run for governor?

Dick Wadhams.​In recent days, Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams has been eager to chat about Tom Tancredo. On Friday in this space, Wadhams blasted Tancredo's planned run for governor, and he gave Tancredo an earful on a radio talk show yesterday. But now that Tancredo is in the race ... More >>

Dick Wadhams: If Tom Tancredo files to run for governor, it's Republicans' "worst nightmare"

Dick Wadhams.​Dick Wadhams, head of Colorado's Republican Party, doesn't mince words when it comes to Tom Tancredo's ultimatum to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes. Instead, he slices, dices and purées the very notion of a Tancredo candidacy in stronger language than he usually deploys against Demo ... More >>

Michael Steele: RNC chair welcome in Colorado, despite his Afghanistan comments

Michael Steele.​Republican Party national chair Michael Steele, who's taken a pounding for referring to Afghanistan as a "war of Obama's choosing," has canceled an Aspen appearance this week. But as far as Colorado Republican boss Dick Wadhams knows, Steele's still planning to appear at the o ... More >>

Sherman, set the wayback to 1990, please

​The latest and greatest from today's Denver Blogs. The Denver Egoist sets the wayback machine to 1990, when Walkmans (Walkmen?) were the rage for portable music, and people wore six neon watches for style. Note the Westword shout-out. Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams was pulling for Sue L ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff can't win primary, says Dick Wadhams, and Michael Bennet needs to fess up

Dick Wadhams, scorching Dem earth.​According to Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams, there's a very simple reason why Republicans like Jane Norton have concentrated more on Michael Bennet and less on Andrew Romanoff in relation to the White House job offer scandal. Wadhams sees no scenario in whic ... More >>

Dick Wadhams-Wendy Evans wedding shakeup: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

The anti-incumbent mood of last weekend's state Republican Assembly may spread to this weekend's wedding of party chairman Dick Wadhams to Wendy Evans... ​ As seen above, Evergreen businessman Dan Maes, who cultivated Tea Party support to gain top gubernatorial primary ballot placement, will ... More >>

John Hickenlooper: Attack ads on the way about his charitable giving?

Photo by Michael RobertsShould Hick feel wary of anyone approaching him with his hand out?​Unlike Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis, whose most prominent charitable donation appears to be elk meat, Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper has released tax returns showing that he's d ... More >>

John Hickenlooper doesn't like name-calling, Dick Wadhams

Photo by Jonathan Shikes"Yes, I know that lots of things rhyme with 'Hick.' But none of them strike me as funny."​Yesterday in this space, Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams veered from ripping that "monstrosity" of a health-care bill to negatively critiquing Democratic candidate ... More >>

Dick Wadhams on health care: "America will be in great political turmoil after the passage of this bill -- and I think that's good"

"No, I'm not being facetious."​The U.S. House's passage of a massive health-care bill President Barack Obama is planning to sign into law today is already having plenty of political impact locally, with the Gun Owners of America targeting Dem Betsy Markey, who voted for the measure (after voti ... More >>

Dick Wadhams: Amendment 54 deserved to die -- and so do other campaign-reform measures

Dick Wadhams isn't shedding any tears over Amendment 54.​Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams isn't shy about speaking plainly. Note that as other leaders were tip-toeing around the controversy involving Governor Bill Ritter and his U.S. Attorney nominee, Stephanie Villafuerte, Wadhams ... More >>

Kenny Be's Hip Tip: Dick Wadhams in Colorado politics 2010 tarot deck

#7 of the 22 Major Arcana: Wendy Evans and Dick Wadhams, the Lovers... ​

Dick Wadhams portrayed as Hitler in new pro-John Hickenlooper video: Typecasting?

Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams is a guy who loves getting under the skin of his opponents, as in this interview, when he gleefully danced on Bill Ritter's political grave. As such, he should take it as a compliment that a new (and thoroughly unofficial) pro-John Hickenlooper video ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Is it John Hickenlooper or John Hickenritter?

"This is my coy smile. Like it?"​Despite what Craig Ferguson says, reading Denver blogs won't make you poop funny. Colorado Pols sees plenty of signs that John Hickenlooper will soon launch a bid for Colorado's governorship -- including Republican boss Dick Wadhams dubbing him "Hickenritter." ... More >>

Dick Wadhams thinks Bill Ritter was done in by sucky poll numbers, a bad environment for Dems -- and the Stephanie Villafuerte nomination?

Dick Wadhams is already consigning Bill Ritter to history's dustbin.​Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams plans to attend the 11 a.m. press conference today at which Bill Ritter is expected to announce that he won't be a candidate for governor in November, in part to bid farewell. ... More >>

Dick Wadhams calls Bill Ritter, Stephanie Villafuerte and the Denver DA's office "liars"

Dick Wadhams has a big stick, and he's not afraid to stir with it.​The pressure on Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination for U.S. Attorney shows no signs of diminishing. The release of a letter to Senator Mark Udall in which Villafuerte attempted to squash accusations that she'd accessed a crimi ... More >>

Dick Wadhams still likes hot Republican-on-Republican action

Dick Wadhams ​After Tom Tancredo declared that he fully intended to run for governor, Colorado GOP head Dick Wadhams insisted that he was okay with such a challenge to frontrunner (and unity fan) Scott McInnis, announcing in this space, "I've always been a proponent -- and I've said this inces ... More >>

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 un ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 n ... More >>

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 un ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 Co ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Wayne Allard: gone fishin'

Dick Wadhams Manipulates the Media With His "Ass"

Dick Wadhams Manipulates the Media With His "Ass"

Dick Wadhams Reads From the Ward Churchill Phrase Book

ProgressNow Shows Subscribers a Dick For April Fool's Day

Big Deal for Big Head Todd

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

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.

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Can't we all just get along?

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Is that a tuba in your pocket?

Give Him the Bird

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

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