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Nancy Pelosi

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Ron Paul blasts Newt Gingrich as serial hypocrite in advance of Colorado appearances

    Ron Paul isn't the only presidential candidate in Colorado today; Rick Santorum is slated to speak at the Lone Tree Golf Club Lounge at 10 a.m. But Paul will certainly make a bigger splash, with three events on tap. And in advance, his surrogates are taking shots at one of his principal opponents, N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Janice Hahn attack ad filmmaker fine with liberal media branding his clip racist (VIDEOS)

    Video below.​Last week, we noted the weird cameo by convicted Greeley gang-banger Christian Hanson in an allegedly racist attack video aimed at Janice Hahn, a California candidate running for Congress in a special election taking place tomorrow. Afterward, we heard from filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Scott Tipton back in ethics spotlight over use of telecommunications biz owned by his nephew

    Scott Tipton.​In late May, Representative Scott Tipton apologized to the House Ethics Committee for his daughter Elizabeth's tactic of dropping daddy's name while seeking clients for Broadnet, the family-related telecommunications firm where she works. Although Tipton's staff denied that Eliza ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Scott Tipton apologizes for daughter's improper e-mails as spokesman goes after Nancy Pelosi

    Scott Tipton.​Shortly after winning praise for getting the ban on the military expansion of Pinon Canyon restored, Representative Scott Tipton faces potential embarrassment over letters sent by his daughter, Elizabeth, in which she dropped daddy's name to seek business for the family-connected ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Michael Bennet the next Al Franken?: Read Republican Party chair Michael Steele's op-ed

    Michael Steele.​Michael Bennet's camp knows turnout will decide if he retains his Senate seat or loses it to Ken Buck -- and so does Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele. In conjunction with the launch of NoMoreFrankens.com, a website using the SNL performer turned Minnesota s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    David Sirota apologizes to Mike Rosen -- but not for attacking comments about NY Islamic center

    David Sirota.​KOA's Mike Rosen unloaded on AM 760's David Sirota earlier today, arguing that Sirota's claims about Rosen's comment regarding an Islamic Center near Ground Zero, which got Rosen branded the worst person in the world by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, twisted what was obviously a satiri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    John Salazar or Ken Salazar? Not knowing the enemy wins group Shmuck of the Week honors

    Which one are you?​Americans United for Life wants Colorado voters to know that U.S. Congressman John Salazar "voted for taxpayer-funded abortion in Nancy Pelosi's health-care bill." But the Washington, D.C.-based pro-life group isn't doing a very good job of spreading its message, at least o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Dan Maes: Will he sink other Republicans or become an "embarrassing afterthought?"

    Dan Maes.​Yesterday, Dan Maes spokesman Nate Strauch confirmed that the Maes campaign fell over $400,000 short of its $500,000 fundraising goal on Friday -- and this after he raised just $14,000 during the previous reporting period. It's the latest setback for Maes -- and political consultant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Top Chef D.C., round nine: Colorado loses a contestant

    Kenny Gilbert got booted last night.​Are the folks at Bravo as bored with Top Chef as some viewers have started to be? No photos of the food on the website this week. No insider blogs. No Michael Voltaggio telling us how to make the winning dishes, which is the only way I can figure out why th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Jane Norton will get at least one endorsement during Sarah Palin speech -- from Hugh Hewitt

    "Either way, I'm a winner."​Yesterday, we told you about bickering between Republican senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton over Sarah Palin's Denver appearance on Saturday. Buck said it would be rude of Palin to endorse Norton, which the grapevine says she plans to do, the same day as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Carl Fuermann's quest to fix oil spill with meditation has its doubters

    Bet Carl is very zen about the criticism.​Today's nominee for best article ever goes to the Boulder Daily Camera piece about Carl Fuermann, a staffer in the CU registrar's office who thinks the gulf oil spill can be resolved if people all over the world meditate to make the rig's blowout preve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Immigration reform must happen now, says Denver City Council proclamation

    Chris Nevitt has something to proclaim.​The controversial Arizona immigration bill hasn't stopped any folks from coming into this country illegally yet. After all, it won't take effect until July. But it's certainly led to a bumper crop of proclamations, including denunciations by Denver Publi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Betsy Markey targeted by Gun Owners of America -- because of her health-care vote?

    "Who isn't mad at me these days?"​In the immediate aftermath of yesterday's health-care vote in the U.S. House, Republican Party types have deemed a number of representatives nationwide as being ultra-vulnerable, with Betsy Markey's name coming up as often as anyone's. One reason: Markey voted ... More >>

  • Film

    January 28, 2010

    Edge of Darkness

    "Who isn't mad at me these days?"​In the immediate aftermath of yesterday's health-care vote in the U.S. House, Republican Party types have deemed a number of representatives nationwide as being ultra-vulnerable, with Betsy Markey's name coming up as often as anyone's. One reason: Markey voted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Jared Polis, health-care hero? Democracy For America thinks so

    "Me a hero? Ah, shucks."​As President Barack Obama prepares to make his first State of the Union address tonight, the promise of a health-care bill actually earning passage looks pretty sick thanks to the election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown -- a man who Colorado candidates Scott McIn ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 21, 2010

    Medical marijuana patients enjoy pot luck at 8 Rivers

    "Me a hero? Ah, shucks."​As President Barack Obama prepares to make his first State of the Union address tonight, the promise of a health-care bill actually earning passage looks pretty sick thanks to the election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown -- a man who Colorado candidates Scott McIn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Betsy Markey's "no" vote on healthcare bill worse than a "yes," says Cory Gardner rep

    Cory Gardner's attacking Betsy Markey for voting his way. Huh?​You've got to have a surplus of political creativity to criticize an opponent for voting as your guy would have, as opposed to going the other direction. So props to Cory Gardner campaign manager Mike Ciletti for pulling off a diff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Abortion rights a hill Diana DeGette's willing to die on in healthcare debate

    Will Nancy Pelosi get so mad at Diana DeGette that she actually blinks?​Just because the House of Representatives passed a healthcare bill this weekend doesn't mean it'll stay passed. Denver congresswoman Diana DeGette is leading a group of reproductive-rights supporters who are mad as hell th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Diana DeGette belatedly getting her healthcare on

    Diana DeGette.​Back on August 4, the conservative Face the State website (which is currently in limbo as it attempts to restructure), went out of its way to slap Congresswoman Diana DeGette for scheduling only one healthcare town hall -- over the phone. At the time, a number of congressional r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Jared Polis' fondness for polar bears and afterbirth

    Jared Polis and a polar pal.​Jared Polis: He's everywhere these days. When he's not sucking down a cold one with Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, beer-bong style, the Boulder Democrat is pointing the camera at himself as part of Freshman Year, a CNN series in which he and Utah Republican Cong ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Pelosi appearance: Free (and often stupid) speech lives

    Just because speech is free in America doesn't mean it's always enlightening. That truth comes through loud and clear from the video above, assembled by Fireside Productions during Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit yesterday to the Stout Street Clinic, 2100 Broadway -- an effort by Democra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Why the Truth may be bad radio but a good business decision

    The Truth logo.​The Truth, at 101.5 FM, has launched its new website following yesterday's switch from its inspired interim format, The Pole. As a result, we now know the station's full slate: Mancow (6 a.m.-10 a.m.), Neal Boortz (10 a.m.-1 p.m.), Jerry Doyle (1 p.m.-4 p.m.), Michael Savage (4 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Nancy Pelosi in the hizzy

    The lightning rod named Nancy Pelosi.​The U.S. House of Representatives is on recess -- but that doesn't necessarily mean its members are having fun. They'll likely spend much of their time off pimping healthcare reform -- and to that end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- the woman with giant eye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    So that's why Polis has been so ballsy on health care: He's been making it rain on the Hill

    "I got money in the bank/Shorty what you drink?"​House Democrats are playing nice again, and moving closer to finding compromise on a stripped down version of the president's health-care plan. And wouldn't you know it, just days after irking upperclassmen with his very-un-freshman-like stance ... More >>

  • News

    May 28, 2009

    Jared Polis is having a tough year on TV

    Colorado connections make these reality TV shows more fun to watch.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Sorry, Jared Polis: You're fired (from your CNN series)

    Jared Polis as he appears on an episode of CNN's "Freshman Year." The last time we blogged about Freshman Year, CNN's You Tube-y reality show about two totally different congressmen picked to serve in the House, we had these predictions for forthcoming episodes: Conservative Utah father-of-three Ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    The Real World of Jared Polis, courtesy of CNN

    Jared Polis, looking "real" for CNN. Freshman Boulder Congressman Jared Polis caused a stir yesterday -- both locally and nationally, it seems -- when the Denver Post reported that he told a progressive political group on Saturday that bloggers killed the Rocky Mountain News, an act he hailed as " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Watch the KRDO report featuring Ted Haggard's latest accuser

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Hot food, hot topics at 8 Rivers

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • News

    September 4, 2008

    Boom With a View

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Watching the Obama acceptance speech from Bob Uecker's seats

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Watching the Obama acceptance speech from Bob Uecker's seats

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    And the recipient of the first DNC protest is ... Nancy Pelosi!

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    Shirley Franklin, convention co-chair and Atlanta Mayor, has advice for Denver

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    Delegating Denver #43 of 56: Puerto Rico

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Twenty-Three Administration Quotes That Have Come to Shape America

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    Fate of the Union

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2008

    Delegating Denver #24 of 56: Maryland

    Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    The Ice Man

    When Al Gore and other global-warming experts want to come in out of the cold, they turn to Boulder's Konrad Steffen.

  • News

    September 20, 2007

    New Forecast

    With Tony Snow out, Colorado-reared Dana Perino steps into one of the most thankless posts ever: White House press secretary.

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2007

    Delegating Denver #6 of 56: California

    With Tony Snow out, Colorado-reared Dana Perino steps into one of the most thankless posts ever: White House press secretary.

  • Film

    May 10, 2007

    28 Weeks Later

    War on zombies, war on terror, what’s the diff?

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2006

    More Messages: The Berg Legacy

    War on zombies, war on terror, what’s the diff?

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Play Bawl!

    Who's ready for some Fantasy Congress?

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Off Limits

    Talk Scoop

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of April 3, 2003

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