After a costly effort to unmask the creators of an anonymous website backing three controversial tax-relief issues, an administrative law judge has fined three of the listed proponents of the measures for violating state campaign finance laws — and concluded that tax crusader Douglas Bruce was deeply involved in behind-the-scenes…
To protest an ordinance that might have criminalized women who publicly bare their nipples, Boulder’s Seth Brigham stripped to his boxers at a February city council meeting — and was promptly arrested. Four months later, David Lane, fresh from winning a $5.9 million settlement for Tim Masters, has taken up…
Last month, a representative from Americans For Legal Immigration blasted ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo for pledging to participate in a June 5 rally in Phoenix whose organizer allegedly had ties to neo-Nazi groups. Tancredo refuted these accusations, and he says his opinions were borne out by the rally, where no white…
According to Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams, there’s a very simple reason why Republicans like Jane Norton have concentrated more on Michael Bennet and less on Andrew Romanoff in relation to the White House job offer scandal. Wadhams sees no scenario in which Romanoff can defeat Bennet in the Democratic…
Andrew Romanoff’s confirmation that the White House floated three jobs past him after he announced his intention to challenge Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 Democratic primary isn’t his favorite subject, and he admits that he tried to avoid talking about it for as long as possible. “I declined to…
Although Andrew Romanoff has been getting loads of attention for revealing details about the White House allegedly offering him a job if he stayed out of the Democratic senatorial primary, Republican senate hopeful Jane Norton still can’t take him seriously. Instead of focusing on Romanoff in her release on the…
During yesterday’s announcement about her intention to retire in November, Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey said a vigorous campaign against her and three other justices had nothing to do with her decision. That’s Mullarkey malarkey, counters Matt Arnold of ClearTheBenchColorado.org, the organization spearheading the Supreme crusade. “Any claim…
In recent weeks, senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff has been under increasing pressure to talk about alleged job offers from the White House if he wouldn’t challenge Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in November, especially in light of similar claims made by Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak. Now, at last, Romanoff’s come clean –…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there’s increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the faltering Coloradoan out of the spotlight and find other, less compromised figures…
The idea that a White House job offer to Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak — one allegedly designed to convince him not to challenge Senator Arlen Specter — might be an impeachable defense has been popular in Republican circles of late. So it’s no surprise that controversial ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo would pile…
It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-hatted bureaucrat who blusters about keeping his foot on the neck of British…
While many of America’s celebrities announce their Arizona boycott plans, Colorado’s most famous performer is preparing a big show of support. Inspired by the new immigration law passed by the Arizona state legislature, Tom Tancredo is getting the band back together…
Across the country, major party candidates who’ve been associated with the so-called establishment have had a far tougher time than anticipated. No wonder Republican Scott McInnis asked Margo Knutson, a member of a grassroots Douglas County 9.12 Project group, to place his name in nomination for governor at the party’s…
Update, 7:48 a.m., May 28: The Hickenlooper campaign has responded to this post. See how after the original item, published at 3:27 p.m. on May 27. The latest assault on Democratic guv candidate John Hickenlooper from the Republican Governors Association is at least novel. It features part of an ad…
Shocking news: Immigration critic Tom Tancredo’s not impressed by President Barack Obama’s plan to send 1,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. In two tweets on his Twitter feed, Tancredo writes, “Govt of Mexico just issued following statement: ‘The GOM expects that Ntl Guard..will NOT…conduct activities directly linked to the… enforcement…
A July 2008 Greeley Tribune article predicted that “an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, a flashpoint of controversy when it was proposed three years ago, will open this fall in Greeley.” Wrong. It took nearly two more years before the Greeley branch officially opened yesterday. Such public events are rare…
The anti-incumbent mood of last weekend’s state Republican Assembly may spread to this weekend’s wedding of party chairman Dick Wadhams to Wendy Evans… As seen above, Evergreen businessman Dan Maes, who cultivated Tea Party support to gain top gubernatorial primary ballot placement, will no doubt score another shocking upset when…
It’s official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to four times greater than original estimates. In a teleconference with journalists this morning, United States…
After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it’s easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished on the criminal justice front in the legislature this year. Yesterday, Ritter signed into a law a package…
Shortly after Colorado media outlets like Channel 4 caught on to GringoMask.com, the site went from being an amusing satire of Arizona’s controversial immigration law to a much less funny protest against it. The site, created by Miami’s Zubi Advertising, originally featured very Caucasian masks that folks worried about police…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s name was recently juxtaposed with that of an extremely unsavory fellow — serial killer Scott Lee Kimball. A front-page Denver Post story over the weekend noted that Suthers, who was then a U.S. Attorney, “signed the order that transferred the habitual criminal and escaped convict…
As oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to stain shorelines along the Gulf Coast, beauticians across the nation are learning that one of the more feel-good (and dubious) solutions proposed in recent weeks to the spreading slick won’t be tried after all. A couple of weeks ago, stories like…
