Subject: U.S. Republican Party

• Rudy Giuliani for the Low, Low Price of $1000

  June 1, 2007

• Fate of the Union

  January 29, 2008

• The Straight-Talk Express Goes to Utah. And Europe.

  March 13, 2008

• The End... Probably

  June 4, 2008

• Hand Puppets Call for "Total Destruction" of DNC

  July 23, 2008

• DNC Orientation Video: Because you can't get drunk from hope alone

  August 20, 2008

• DNC Craigslist rentals: File under are you f$*king crazy?!?

  August 21, 2008

• Benny's: The life of the Republican Party...

  August 24, 2008

• Get your Gay Republican Trading Cards at the DNC!

  August 26, 2008

• John McClane for President

  August 26, 2008

• John McClane for President

  August 27, 2008

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

  September 30, 2008

• Did you know Mike Coffman was running for Congress?

  October 6, 2008

• The Green Candidate

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

  October 16, 1997

• Life of the Party

  Winning the Governor's Mansion could be a religious experience for the GOP.

  April 9, 1998

• Savage Love

  July 29, 1999

• Scott McInnis prematurely pisses on GOP's grave

  October 29, 2008

• No Republican is safe -- not even Carol Chambers

  November 5, 2008

• Ten words to replace "liberal" as a GOP slur

  November 10, 2008

• Off Limits

  May 16, 2002

• Denver Blogs: Democrats, meet your new nemesis

  Behold, our daily tour of the local blogosphere. Send tips. Colorado Republicans react to new GOP boss. They seem to like him. Weird, eh? (Mount Vitrus, via Slapstick Politics) Stimulus money will not keep that highway from crumbling beneath your tires. (Colorado Independent) Builders are totally over the whole rent-control thing. (Colorado Pols)

  February 3, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 4 edition

  Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta wins in Colorado Wine Industry awards. • Grand Junction's food scene: pickups and empty places. • Lamb lovers unite! • Our Daily Bread: Dinner Roll at Smiling Moose. Today in The Latest Word:

  February 4, 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

• In-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants and shifting political tides

  John Andrews. Don't miss "Past Immigrant Tuition Bill Won Votes from GOP," an article by the Denver Post's Lynn Bartels that neatly captures the absurdity over the politics of illegal immigration in this state. Bartels points out that "five years ago, a Republican-controlled Senate approved an amended bill that would have made the children of illegal immigrants eligible to pay in-state tuition" -- and the measure was exceedingly similar to one boosted by Democrat Chris Romer that's likely to ge

  April 6, 2009

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

  October 16, 2008

• Preconceived Notions

  War on Error shows how wrong stereotypes can be.

  January 24, 2008

• Wed Alert

  Marilyn Musgrave will be singing a different tune.

  September 28, 2006

• Pop Quiz

  Bug Juice
  June 5, 2003

  June 5, 2003

• Making Book on Bill Owens

  Questions about the religious right are this GOP candidate's cross to bear--or is that bare?

  August 6, 1998

• The GOP? In Boulder?

  A mainstream Republican starts what could be a strong run to replace David Skaggs in Congress.

  September 4, 1997

• Rules Made to Be Broken

  Confusion reigns on Amendment 15, and the secretary of state takes heat for her campaign-finance edicts.

  July 31, 1997

• God's Own Party

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

  May 1, 1997

• Party Crasher

  Back from the abyss, Sam Zakhem campaigns for the forgotten man: himself

  January 16, 1997

• Letters

  January 9, 1997

• Off Limits

  August 15, 1996

• AGAINST THE WIND

  CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, GALE NORTON'S QUEST FOR THE SENATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT A BREEZE.

  June 7, 1995

• THE YEAR IN REVIEW

  December 28, 1994

• OFF THE RECORD

  WHOSE DIVORCE RECORDS ARE SEALED? READ ALL ABOUT IT.

  October 12, 1994

• 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

• Sheriff Salazar stalled by posse politics

  Republicans rallied the troops in the Senate this morning and managed to block the much-delayed confirmation of David Hayes, Ken "New Sheriff in Town" Salazar's choice to serve as his top deputy at the Department of the Interior. In a crucial test of whether the new administration's bold break with the Bush approach to drilling the hell out of public lands can succeed, anger over Salazar's new direction prevailed, as Dems fell three votes short of the sixty-vote "supermajority" needed to ram t

  May 13, 2009

• Pro-Palin blogger Adam Brickley still in SarahCuda's corner

  Adam Brickley on "The Colbert Report" last year. Alaska governor Sarah Palin's surprise announcement on Friday that she'll be leaving her office eighteen months early because -- well, just because -- distressed many of the GOP faithful. But it didn't upset Adam Brickley, the Colorado blogger credited with helping to land Palin on the 2008 Republican ticket alongside John McCain by way of his website, palinforvp.blogspot.com. Obviously, the name of this page is out of date, but Brickley has kept

  July 6, 2009

• Ali Hasan could be a Colorado leading man

  July 9, 2009

• Vandalism at the Colorado Democratic Party HQ: The story gets even dumber

  A Colorado Democratic Party photo of damage at its Santa Fe headquarters.​"Is Alleged Colorado Democratic Party Headquarters Window-Smasher Maurice Schwenkler a LIBERAL Activist?," a Jared Jacang Maher blog published yesterday, pinpointed some contradictions in a story that was originally framed as an example of anti-healthcare-reform loonies on a spree. Schwenkler, it seems, had received payment last November for election work on behalf of a progressive 527 group whose donors included sup

  August 26, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 9 edition

  Open wide.​Meat, and so much more. Today in Cafe Society: • The winner of the burger battle at Tony's Market. • Open house today at 3014. • Tonight: Denver Five dinner at TAG with local winemaker Ben Parsons. • Chef and Tell: Mark Dym of Marco's Coal-Fired Pizza. • Our Weekly Bread: Cheba Hut. Today in Backbeat Online: • Monolith Q&A: the Bad Veins. • Monolith Q&A: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. • Q&A with Joe Bithorn of Beatles tribute band Rain. • MP3 Freeloader:

  September 9, 2009

• Momentum keeps building for Josh Penry

  Josh Penry.​"Time For Josh Penry to Make His Move in Republican Guv-Nomination Race," a blog published about this time yesterday, noted that Penry seems to be filling the GOP vacuum that his principal rival, Scott McInnis, has left gaping thus far. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza apparently agrees, since he profiled Penry as part of "The Rising," a series about the GOP's most promising new faces. "Josh Penry's Case for Colorado," published yesterday afternoon, offers plenty of positiv

  September 10, 2009

• Legalizing marijuana -- medical or otherwise -- has become the toke of the town

  October 1, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Marilyn Musgrave fights Bill Owens (no, not that Bill Owens)

  ​Marilyn Musgrave's political career rose from the dead last week, as the former Colorado congresswoman and current director of the Susan B. Anthony List's Votes Have Consequences project campaigned for the election of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate running for the 23rd Congressional seat left vacant when Republican John McHugh became Secretary of the Army. Pushing for a third-party candidate rather than the woman nominated by the Republican Party might seem an odd choice

  November 2, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Sperm Egg doesn't equal big donations

  Destination: Ovum!​Local blogs for locals like you. Former Colorado Independent staffer Wendy Norris launches Western Citizen, her new online news project, with a story about the tough financial times being faced by backers of the latest personhood amendment. Fetus don't fail them now. John Reidy at South Stands Denver interviews ESPN's Dave Demshek in anticipation of the Broncos' Monday night matchup against Pittsburgh. Be warned: Dave's a Steelers fan. Colorado Pols notes that Jared P

  November 4, 2009

• Josh Penry campaign scoffs at Scott McInnis' reasons for not debating

  "Put down your weapons. I come in peace."​This morning, gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis' responded to critics of his decision not to debate his fellow Republican rivals with a Denver Post op-ed in which he argued that while "GOP candidate forums" are fine, direct faceoffs will do more harm than good. "Republicans aren't afraid of differing views," he writes. "We must, however, be committed to unity and civility." Andrew Cole, Josh Penry's press secretary, avoids replying to this ass

  November 5, 2009

• Fast-track this: Five untapped Colorado energy sources

  Thar she blows: The Penry-Huttner Geothermal Project.​The Department of the Interior just designated six renewable energy projects, including a 400-megawatt solar tower, as "fast-track" developments deserving of the highest priority. All six of the projects happen to be in California. Hard to believe that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar would ignore all the potential energy sources in his home state. We've got tons of excess energy around here, begging to be harnessed for productive use.

  November 6, 2009