Seen those “They Spend, You Pay!” billboards? The ones in which Barack Obama looks kinda drunk, John Hickenlooper appears homicidal, and Betsy Markey, Ed Perlmutter, John Salazar and Michael Bennet seem amused by your pain? According to Kelly Maher of WhoSaidYouSaid, the website behind the campaign, a hundred boards are…
Whether you love Tom Tancredo or loathe him, there’s no denying that he’s a highly unusual politician. Whereas many of his peers always seem to be speaking from a heavily lawyered script, he talks off the cuff with a lack of self-consciousness that’s startling and refreshing. He exhibited that quality…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is focusing on busting criminal aliens — like the 78 people recently rounded up statewide. And there’s more where they came from. ICE has just released statistics for fiscal 2010, which ended September 30. The arrestee total for the Denver area of responsibility, which includes…
Jorge Moromisato is running for Colorado Senate as an independent, and whatever you think of his policies, criticism that his platform is short on specifics is not an accusation that will stick. The Denver Plan details Moromisato’s ideas on how to end unemployment and fix the myriad problems facing the…
Last week, Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams said he wasn’t worried about Dan Maes falling beneath 10 percent support. But plenty of other folks seem to be, judging by today’s Denver Post, which outlines the prospect of the GOP winding up with minority party status if Maes doesn’t register…
The Tom Tancredo-Grizzly Rose fundraiser co-starring Dog the Bounty Hunter and Sheriff Joe Arpaio in late September helped prompt rising poll numbers and new momentum for his gubernatorial run, according to Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge — and the attendance at a Saturday town hall at DU sponsored by the…
It says something about the level of noise in this year’s gubernatorial race when the candidate with the lowest profile has perhaps the most intriguing back-story. Paul Fiorino didn’t advertise for his running mate on Craigslist, he doesn’t have Dog the Bounty Hunter campaigning on his behalf, and he hasn’t…
Polish your resume and bone-up on the issues; independent candidate for Governor Jason Clark went back to Craigslist today to replace his departed lieutenant governor. Clark set his sights a littler higher this time. Here’s the ad, written in the third person with exclamation points, nicknames and all:…
When Dan Maes’s footnote to Colorado history is written, his downfall will not be attributed to sloppy accounting or historical revisionism. Instead, he will forever be remembered as the candidate who failed to take complete advantage of the similarities between his last name and the Spanish word for corn. Imagine…
Proponents of Amendment 62 hit a roadblock yesterday in their drive to get Colorado voters to approve Amendment 62, an updated version of the anti-abortion measure that voters soundly defeated in 2008. A suit brought by amendment sponsors Gualberto Garcia Jones and Leslie Hanks had claimed that the Blue Book…
In an interview in the October 15 issue of Rolling Stone, President Barack Obama defends his administration’s overhaul of the Department of the Interior amid agency scandals and outrage over the Gulf oil spill — and insists Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will keep his job, calling him “an outstanding public…
Yesterday, Tom Tancredo’s campaign sent out a release noting that Dan Maes had earlier said only candidates polling above 20 percent should be invited to participate in gubernatorial debates and wondering if he’d pull out now that a new Fox News poll puts him below that threshold. But Tancredo operations…
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…
Even as Tom Tancredo was partying with Dog the Bounty Hunter and Dan Maes defendng his firing as a Kansas cop, John Hickenlooper’s been trying not to screw up a scenario that led GOP boss Dick Wadhams to brand him the world’s luckiest guy. But is Tancredo starting to get…
The first incarnation of this year’s Personhood Amendment, which says the term “person” applies to humans from their biological starting point, popped up in 2008, when the face of the proposal was 21-year old Westword cover girl Kristi Burton. This year, Kristi’s playing a quieter role for three main reasons…
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 candidates going down with Maes’s ship, and…
A series of letters from Bob Boswell, Republican candidate for state representative, urging lobbyists to “align yourselves and your clients” with his campaign, has prompted widespread cackling on political blogs. The former Western Sizzlin’ operator’s ham-fisted way of seeking donations sounds a lot like he’s putting his yet-to-be-won seat up…
Mayor John Hickenlooper is out with a statement in the wake of Denver DA Mitch Morrissey’s just-announced decision not to file charges in the Denver Jail death of Marvin Booker on July 9. He says the investigation is ongoing, and reveals that his office is working with Booker’s family to…
Dan Maes’s explanations for why he was fired from the Liberal, Kansas, police department in 1985 have prompted plenty of ribbing and incredulity. So today, his campaign has released six documents intended to prove that he wasn’t making up the stories. Trouble is, the items are arguably as embarrassing as…
The political pissing match between Colorado Ethics Watch and Clear the Bench Colorado, which wants to throw the bums off the state’s supreme court, was resolved on Friday in CEW’s favor. Granted, CEW will have to pay some court costs from a July hearing — but Clear the Bench’s Matt…
Last week, we told you about Tom Tancredo’s fundraiser at the Grizzly Rose co-starring Dog the Bounty Hunter and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — and judging by photos posted on the Facebook page of Tea Party Brewing, the event itself more than lived up to its advance billing. Look…
There are no national polls gauging Colorado’s 1st Congressional District race. Staunchly Democratic Denver is widely viewed as a lock for incumbent Diana DeGette, who has held the seat since 1997. But there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that Republican newcomer Mike Fallon is picking-up steam…
