Subject: Ryan Frazier

• The Tiger Lovers behind Ryan Frazier’s Right to Work Crusade

  October 15, 2008

• DeAngelo Starnes is "recovering from media rape"

  October 30, 2008

• Ryan Frazier on Amendment 47’s failure

  November 5, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, December 12 edition

  And you thought you'd finished all your assigned reading... Today in Backbeat Online: • Dave Herrera confesses his musical addiction to Friday Night Lights. • Mile High Makeout: Alone again or. • Rap-Up: A Ground Zero Movement reunion? • Memorialize Monolith on the cheap. Today in Cafe Society: • No proofreaders need apply at Blues on Blake. • Project Angel Heart is feeling the squeeze. • Sunday is fun day at Elway's downtown. • The Candy Girls try Bahlsen Domino Lebkuchen. â

  December 12, 2008

• From the week of October 30, 2008

  October 30, 2008

• From the week of October 23, 2008

  October 23, 2008

• Ryan Frazier puts his job on the line with Amendment 47

  October 16, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 15 edition

  Photo by Eric GruneisenCobra Starship's Gabe Saporta has some issues. I'll try not to make this too taxing. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Fall Out Boy at the Fillmore. • Last Night: Mastodon at the Fox Theatre. • DJ Vajra impresses NAMM crowd with his turntable magic. • Update: Hot IQs calling it a day. • The Denver Boot: Voices Underwater -- 09.29.05. • Guest DJ with DJ MU$A at the Coral Room. • Free Tauntaun show Saturday at Wax Trax for Record Store Day. • Record S

  April 15, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of 10/4/07

  October 4, 2007

• PoliticsWest Gangs Up With Gang of Four

  The Post's Gang of Four blog is turning into a cyber-soap opera thanks to a pair of melodramas co-starring columnist David Harsanyi.

  September 27, 2007

• Ryan Frazier throws his hat into the Senate race

  Ryan Frazier Two-term Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier has announced that he's formed an exploratory committee for the Colorado 2010 U.S. Senate Race. The development, which Frazier will announce today at a Grand Junction tea party rally, makes the 31-year-old Frazier the first Republican to take official steps towards what's likely to become one of the most-watched Senate races in the country -- though for months insiders have been expecting just such a move from the GOP up-and-comer. Frazi

  April 15, 2009

• Is Colorado Ethics Watch getting nitpicky with its complaint against Aurora councilman Ryan Frazier?

  Ryan Frazier Yesterday, Colorado Ethics Watch, a nonprofit watchdog group, leveled a formal complaint against Aurora City Council member Ryan Frazier with the to-do of a major political bombshell. Noting they'd filed a compliant with the Aurora City Clerk accusing Frazier, an up-and coming GOP hotshot who's aiming for Michael Bennett's Senate seat, of filing inaccurate financial disclosures for the past three years, Colorado Ethics Watch Director Chantell Taylor said in a phone interview that F

  July 1, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: The chase is on

  On Saturday, as railroad enthusiasts chased the 65-year-old Union Pacific steam engine powering the Denver Post train to Cheyenne Frontier Days, the chase was also on inside the train: to find out if Bob Beauprez is going to throw his cowboy hat in the ring for the U.S. Senate seat that Michael Bennet has occupied for just six months. Beauprez managed to evade his questioners, although he did say that the race -- hypothetically speaking, of course -- will be a costly one, since Bennet has alrea

  July 20, 2009

• More signs that Bob Beauprez wants to take on Michael Bennet

  Bob Beauprez.​Our Monday Denver Blogs post linked a Colorado Pols item about Bob Beauprez, who lost to Bill Ritter in a 2006 gubernatorial bid, and now seems eager to take on Senator Michael Bennet in 2010. A Politico article Colorado Pols references finds Big Bob denigrating the chances that either Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier and Weld County district attorney Ken Buck, the two announced challengers to Bennet, can actually win, given their weak fundraising efforts to date. Granted

  August 5, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Republican candidates on parade

  ​Politicians were out in force at the Arapahoe County Republicans fundraising roast of former congressman Tom Tancredo on Saturday. John Suthers, the only GOP member currently elected to a statewide office. Mike Coffman, who moved from a statewide office to fill Tancredo's seat in the Sixth Congressional district. U.S. Senate candidates Ken Buck, the DA in Weld County, and Ryan Frazier, Aurora councilman. Even Dan Caplis, a fellow Tancredo roaster, who admitted he's not officially out of t

  August 11, 2009

• Josh Penry would like to grill barbecue thieves

  Josh Penry pricing new grills: "Man, these things are expensive!"​Josh Penry may be quickly becoming the leading Republican candidate for governor, thanks to the rapid implosion of Scott McInnis' campaign and the difficulties Ryan Frazier is having in regard to gaining traction -- but not everything's going his way. Yesterday morning on his Twitter feed, he wrote, "What kind of a person steals a man's BBQ grill? It happened to me this weekend -- right off my back porch." Minutes later, he

  August 19, 2009

• Could Republican disarray lure Bill Owens into Senate race?

  Bill Owens.​With Democrats worrying about a possible challenge to Senate appointee Michael Bennet by former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff, Republicans ought to like their chances in the race for that seat, slated for 2010. Instead, they can't settle on a viable candidate. Announced contestants such as Ryan Frazier left the National Republican Senatorial Committee with such an empty feeling that the organization has registered a couple of domain names on behalf of Jane Norto

  September 1, 2009

• Jane Norton for Senate: The next great GOP hope

  Jane Norton.​Last month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee registered a couple of domain names on behalf of former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton -- and today, Norton's using one of them, JaneNortonForColorado.com. Up-front: A news item that declares, "Jane Norton officially filed the Jane Norton for Colorado campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission. The committee will allow Norton the opportunity to explore a bid for the United States Senate in 2010." A

  September 9, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: And they're off!

  ​The 2010 election is still more than thirteen months away, but the race for the U.S. Senate season occupied (for the past eight months) by Michael Bennet really starts this week. On Tuesday, former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton will formally announce her bid for the Republican nomination -- taking on Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck and Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, among others. She's making three official appearances that day, starting at the Tech Center, moving on to C

  September 14, 2009

• ProgressNow Colorado takes aim at Jane Norton

  ProgressNow Colorado's Michael Huttner during a recent Fox News appearance.​How do you know that Jane Norton, who announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate yesterday, is the first Republican in the race feared by Democrats? Because she's already under attack by ProgressNow Colorado, the most effective and aggressive liberal-oriented media strike force in these parts. This week, multiple mailings impugning Norton have gone out under the signature of Michael Huttner, ProgressNow Colorado's

  September 16, 2009

• Jon Caldara doesn't like being ignored, Mr. Ritter

  Jon Caldara makes his feelings known.​Late Thursday afternoon, the Independence Institute, a right-leaning think tank, published an article revealing that only one of Governor Bill Ritter's cabinet members had filed a conflict-of-interest report despite an executive order requiring that everyone do so -- a Todd Shepherd-penned piece that led directly to Ritter issuing a new measure basically restating the first one, with officials given until October 25 to comply. However, the Institute's

  October 6, 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

• Denver Blogs: Senator calls for end to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

  Mark Udall doesn't want to ask, and doesn't want you to tell.​The last of the week's local-blog wrangling. Happy Friday, all. Senator Mark Udall on HuffPo Denver: "The time has come to end 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'" If a Senate candidate (Ryan Frazier) announces he's now a House candidate and there's no one there to witness it, does it make any noise? Colorado Pols say no. Oh, how things have changed: Literally 98 percent of Broncos fans say the team will make the playoffs (at the botto

  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