Subject: Ed Perlmutter

• More Messages: Truth Testing

  October 12, 2006

• More Messages: The Out-of-Towners

  September 27, 2006

• The Real Pornmutter

  July 17, 2007

• Howard Dean v. The World's Largest Rubberband Ball

  August 22, 2007

• Howard Dean v. The World's Largest Rubberband Ball

  August 24, 2007

• The Real Results of the Colorado Caucuses

  February 6, 2008

• The Colorado officials who bucked the bailout -- and those who went along

  September 30, 2008

• Off Limits

  May 20, 1999

• Snap Judgments

  Colorado's unrestrained growth is not a pretty picture.

  November 9, 2000

• Spin Cycle

  A page-one story about Bill Owens was wrong. So why isn't the governor angry?

  March 14, 2002

• Wake-Up Call: An open Senate seat means more musical chairs

  At parties and openings, all the talk is about who's going to take Ken Salazar's seat in the U.S. Senate -- it's a lot more fun than talking about the economy -- and what spot might then open up. If outgoing Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff gets the nod, there's no game of musical chairs, because he won't leave a vacancy. If Diana DeGette leaves the House for the Senate, there would suddenly be a slot open in the coveted 1st Congressional District, a safe seat for just about any Democrat.

  December 17, 2008

• Wrong again! Ritter to announce Senate candidate tomorrow

  I haven't been so wrong about a political pick since I predicted that then-Lieutenant Governor Joe Rogers would lead a crowded pack in the Republican primary for the congressional seat ultimately claimed by Democrat Ed Perlmutter. Governor Bill Ritter just announced that he'll hold a news conference at 2 p.m. tomorrow (and not January 6, as I'd predicted this morning) to announce and introduce his appointee to the U.S. Senate. And that appointee won't be Perlmutter, or Andrew Romanoff, or John

  January 2, 2009

• Best Politician

  April 4, 2002

• Republicans weren't the only ones who took a beating in 2008

  January 1, 2009

• Who should replace Salazar in the Senate? Go straight to the Hart.

  December 25, 2008

• Inside one of the nation's top carnivore sanctuaries

  October 23, 2008

• Play Bawl!

  Who's ready for some Fantasy Congress?

  October 26, 2006

• Change of Plans

  Once hailed as the perfect community, Northglenn is ready to fight for its life.

  November 30, 2006

• On Watch

  Media Matters leans left as it targets the right.

  September 14, 2006

• Letters

  April 30, 1998

• Power Steering

  Last session legislators gambled on a new program that lobbyists claimed would make Colorado's roads safer. Don't bet on it.

  November 13, 1997

• Playing Monopoly

  How US West tried to hard-wire the legislature into giving it a last-minute sweetheart deal.

  May 15, 1997

• God's Own Party

  Everything's divine in Arvada, where the GOP has veered sharply to the religious right.

  May 1, 1997

• Big Bang Theory

  December 26, 1996

• Truth or D.A.R.E.

  The anti-drug program definitely works--in trying to promote its own survival.

  December 12, 1996

• DON'T LOOK NOW

  HE WATCHED A CRIME FROM HIS OFFICE WINDOW. NOW THEY'RE WATCHING HIM.SHOOT TO CHILL WILL WITNESS INTIMIDATION TURN THIS ASSAULT ON THE 16TH STREET MALL INTO AN OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE?

  February 1, 1995

• Ed Perlmutter does a pretty mean cartwheel... for a Congressman.

  Say what you will about Ed Perlmutter. The 1st term Democrat representing Colorado's 7th District really knows how to cartwheel for votes, as you can see in the video above. It's unclear why the crowd at this Memorial Day Parade in the mean streets of Commerce City started chanting "Cartwheel! Cartwheel!" as the Perlmutter procession passed. Is this a signature Perlmutter move? Like Bill Ritter doing the robot or Mike Coffman busting out the worm on the campaign trail? Either way, the 56-year

  May 26, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 26 edition

  Trouble Andrew. Is it almost the weekend again? Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Trouble Andrew at the Bluebird. • Over the Weekend: Iwrestledabearonce at the Marquis Theater. • Over the Weekend: Moderat at Beta. • ManeLine breaks in the Deuce's live stage as first local hip-hop act. • Metric grabs tops spot at Wax Trax. • Green Day top seller at Twist and Shout. • Eminem tops Independent Records best seller list. Today in Cafe Society: • Cafe Scientifique explore

  May 26, 2009

• Conflict-of-interest accusation against Ed Perlmutter regarding green banking

  Ed Perlmutter. Did Colorado Representative Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat, insert a provision in a climate-change bill to benefit so-called "green" banks like one he helped found in San Francisco? That's the charge leveled by an article in the Washington Times. The measure in question, according to the Times, "calls on bank regulators to promote green banking and says federal dollars should be used to support energy-efficient home improvements at government-funded housing projects." As such, it woul

  July 16, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 16 edition

  Photo by Lori Midson"Are you sure we're empowering ourselves by doing this?" This shortcut is a stripped-down version. Today in Cafe Society: • Jonesy's EatBar staff bears their cleavage for a good cause. • Tonight: Twenty bucks, twenty wines at the Table Mountain Inn. • Mulberries to pack up on South Pearl. • Westword.com's Map of the Bars. • Whoa! Big Hoss opening halted. Today in Backbeat Online: • Clutch, Airborne Toxic Event, Chickenfoot shows announced. • Mile Hi-Fidelity

  July 16, 2009

• To defeat the evil health-care legislation, Republicans will target a lawmaker near you

  They're coming for you, Betsy Markey.​Politico reports this morning that the battle over President Obama's health care-reform bill will be waged, and won, during the upcoming August recess. And Republicans is already identifying Colorado Democrats it believes it can persuade to stiff-arm the president come vote time. From Politico's piece: "There's a reason why they wanted to pass this before the August break, and that's because the president continues to see his popularity slowly come d

  July 27, 2009

• Ed Perlmutter gets an earful at health-care meeting in Brighton

  On Friday, we shared a video in which folks protesting healthcare reform in Pueblo compared Obamacare to Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler -- and this brand of overheated rhetoric is hardly isolated to that community. Over the weekend at an event in Brighton, pro-healthcare reform rep Ed Perlmutter was greeted by a group toting signs with slogans such as "Seniors: Get Your Death Pills Here" -- and at one point, you'll here one man shout, "We will ram it down your throats and shove it up your butt. And

  August 10, 2009

• Colorado Crimes: Obamacare supporter claims car vandalization politically motivated

  Some of the damage meted out against a ProgressNow Colorado staffer's car.​Yesterday, we shared a video of protests that took place at a healthcare town hall staged by Representative Ed Perlmutter at a Brighton King Soopers -- an event at which feverish, easily manipulated Obamacare haters carried signs featuring slogans such as "Seniors: Get Your Death Pills Here." In the clip, one man can be heard wailing, "We will ram it down your throats and shove it up your butt. And you'll like it!"

  August 11, 2009

• Flipping off Obama in Grand Junction

  President Barack Obama's Saturday appearance at Central High School in Grand Junction was a consistently civil event, particularly compared to healthcare town halls like the one staged by Representative Ed Perlmutter earlier this month. But predictably given the number of national media representatives in town to cover the get-together, there was plenty of hubbub outside the gymnasium where Obama spoke -- and no lack of grandstanding. Above, check out a clip of a man who proudly gave the finger

  August 17, 2009

• Attendees actually let Jared Polis talk during latest health care town hall

  When he's not doing beer bongs with Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, Rep. Jared Polis has been staging health care town halls during the August recess -- more of them than colleagues such as Betsy Markey, Ed Perlmutter, Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn. And while it's far too early to say that such sessions are generally becoming less contentious, Polis's latest, staged at the Mary Carpenter Recreation Center in Thornton over the weekend, didn't devolve into screaming sessions about death panels

  August 24, 2009

• Yesterday's climate-legislation rally not so spontaneous

  Arguments continue about just how grassroots protests against healthcare reform like a recent shoutfest at an Ed Perlmutter event really are. But such displays of disaffection are positively organic in comparison with the rally about climate legislation that took place yesterday in Greeley. The Greeley Tribune reports that hundreds of locals raised their voices in unison against a U.S. House-passed bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. But the event was promoted by EnergyCitizens.org, a

  August 27, 2009

• An under-pressure Michael Bennet promotes his healthcare approach

  Senator Michael Bennet's brief stint as a United States Senator hasn't proven scintillating to date -- hence former Colorado House speaker Andrew Romanoff's reported eagerness to make a run for Ken Salazar's old seat himself. But at least his staff made a smart decision about promoting his Friday appearance in Pueblo to talk healthcare. Instead of waiting for opponents to post videos that made the event look like a grassroots uprising to prevent the return of Communism, as colleagues such as Re

  August 31, 2009

• Last night's healthcare rallies not raucous enough to earn much coverage

  At this point, there have been so many rallies about healthcare that they tend to garner relatively little media attention unless they devolve into histrionic scream fests along the lines of one that greeted Congressman Ed Perlmutter a few weeks back. Witness last night's series of pro-reform get-togethers at locations across the country, which were sponsored by MoveOn.org. The Denver assembly earned some pixels because of sheer size: The crowd reportedly exceeded 1,000 folks. But considerably

  September 3, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Ryan Frazier dumps a clunker for a new race

  ​Ryan Frazier is trading in a clunker in favor of a much sleeker vehicle. Six months after the two-term Aurora City Councilman announced that he was running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, he's pulling out of that race and making a fast course correction for the 7th Congressional District instead. The charismatic Frazier will make that announcement this morning at Brighton Ford, the only family-owned auto dealership in Colorado that refused to participate in the federal

  October 15, 2009

• How frightened should Democrats be of House (not Senate) candidate Ryan Frazier?

  Ryan Frazier seen leaning to the left. It's a camera trick.​Earlier today, former U.S. Senate candidate Ryan Frazier officially became current House candidate Ryan Frazier, announcing his intention to challenge Representative Ed Perlmutter in the 7th Congressional District during an appearance at, of all places, the Brighton Ford dealership. (The concept: Ford didn't take federal bailout money. Mmm-kay.) Shortly thereafter, the Colorado Democratic Party released an attack on Frazier, with

  October 15, 2009

• Minority leader Mike May on why he opposes in-state tution for undocumented students: "Membership has its privileges"

  Mike May is a jolly old soul.​Mike May, minority leader of the Colorado House, is coming to the end of what he calls "my eighth and final year down there" -- but he's not going quietly. Yesterday, he introduced the 7th District electorate to Ryan Frazier, who dropped his U.S. Senate campaign in order to run against Representative Ed Perlmutter, and lambasted Governor Bill Ritter when it was revealed that one of the prisoners set free early in a cost-savings move had a previous child sex-as

  October 16, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Frazier's congressional run no trial balloon

  ​Ryan Frazier made a smart move, even though his announcement last Thursday that he was switching from a run for the U.S. Senate to go for the 7th Congressional District seat currently occupied by Ed Perlmutter was completely overshadowed by a certain silver balloon. But someone took notice: The Colorado Democratic Party, which quickly sent out a release headlined "Democratic Party States Ryan Frazier Stoops To Blatant Political Opportunism:"

  October 20, 2009

• Michael Bennet's old boss, Phil Anschutz, donates to his senate opponent

  "Not that you weren't a good employee, Mike..."​Ryan Frazier did the smart thing when he dumped his campaign for the U.S. Senate to challenge Rep. Ed Perlmutter in the 7th Congressional District. The Republican hierarchy has clearly lined up in support of former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, as evidenced by the luminaries named in her first campaign finance report. As noted by CQ Politics, they include national GOP powerhouses like John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Kay Bailey Hutch

  October 21, 2009