Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Colorado Senator Michael Bennet guaranteeing no Medicare benefit takeaways because of healthcare reform passed 100-0. Among those voting for it: Arizona’s John McCain, who’s featured in current Benet-targeting robocalls claiming that healthcare legislation would “[cut] vital Medicare coverage for our seniors.” Lauren Weiner, spokeswoman for…
Update, 12:14 p.m.: Just received an e-mail from Todd Shepherd, who now recalls Peter Boyles seeing a copy of a February 2008 letter described below around the time of its writing, after at first being uncertain if that was the case. Read on for details. Earlier today, we shared with…
A new twist in coverage of Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination as U.S. Attorney. KHOW radio host Peter Boyles has devoted a great deal of airtime to this tale (I’ve joined him to speak about the subject on numerous occasions), and as such, he’s become a hero to those who believe Villafuerte…
While talking with Dan Caplis about his life-saving Thanksgiving earlier this week, another subject arose: his current feelings about presumed Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis. Back in August, McInnis treated the GOP-minded Caplis like a hostile interrogator during an appearance on the latter’s KHOW talk show, earning plenty of brickbats…
Updates below: The appearance last month of an anti-Obama billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, prompted plenty of attention and even charges of racism for the way it linked the President (caricatured in a turban) to jihad and the murders at Fort Hood,…
The nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney wasn’t supposed to have been this complicated. But in recent weeks, implications that she may have improperly participated in accessing a criminal database (an act that led to the firing of former ICE agent Cory Voorhis) prompted her to write a letter…
Good news, Denverites! Next year (probably in August), you’ll get a chance to vote on UFOlogist Jeff Peckman’s ballot measure to create an “extraterrestrial affairs commission.” Denver Clerk and Recorder Stephanie O’Malley has confirmed that Peckman’s surpassed the 3,974 signatures needed for inclusion. Not that everybody’s cheering. In noting this…
Local blogs need you. Including these three. John Tomasic at Colorado Independent unearths a tribute ditty (to the tune of “My Girl”!) about female Tea Party leaders that includes a shout-out to Colorado-based Michelle Malkin. Who brings sunshine on a cloudy day? SquareState.net’s Wade Norris thinks Michael Bennet is sucking…
The pressure on Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination for U.S. Attorney shows no signs of diminishing. The release of a letter to Senator Mark Udall in which Villafuerte attempted to squash accusations that she’d accessed a criminal database for political purposes (the same act that led to the canning of former ICE…
Today, a ban against texting while driving takes effect in Colorado — not that Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle expects it to have an enormous impact. In widely quoted comments, he called the measure a “feel good” law that would be tough to enforce. State representative Claire Levy, a Boulder…
Local blog-finding just got a lot easier. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein calls the Nuggets’ home loss to the Timberwolves last night “unacceptable.” And a few other choicer words. Over at Lakewood Edge, former Rocky Mountain News scribe Kevin Flynn describes the traffic woes expected to result from FasTracks work on…
You just can’t please some people, especially if you happen to be the Secretary of the Interior. Sure, the job has some neat perks–all those trips to national parks and press conferences at glaciers and other cool stuff. But there’s no way to manage what amounts to one-fifth of the…
After Tom Tancredo declared that he fully intended to run for governor, Colorado GOP head Dick Wadhams insisted that he was okay with such a challenge to frontrunner (and unity fan) Scott McInnis, announcing in this space, “I’ve always been a proponent — and I’ve said this incessantly — that…
Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination as U.S. Attorney for Colorado hasn’t gone smoothly. Opponents continue to suggest that she may have taken part in accessing a federal database for political reasons — the very thing for which former ICE agent Cory Voorhis was canned. And the release of a letter to Senator…
Locals curious if yesterday’s unity press conference on behalf of gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis has weakened the resolve of Dan Maes, McInnis’ only remaining Republican challenger, need only to listen to his voicemail-intro messages to get an answer. On his main office line, Maes says, “I don’t care what contract…
Update below: A short time ago, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis joined one former rival (State senator Josh Penry), an ex-rep who was a whisker away from challenging him (Tom Tancredo), a former guv (Bill Owens) and conservative legislators past and present to laud the “Platform for Prosperity,” which McInnis…
Finding good Denver blogs made easy. Jeremy at Roundball Mining Company worried about the Nuggets’ lack of heart in a dispiriting loss to (eesh!) the Clippers. But their win against the Bulls proves they’ve still got the beat. Ken at DenverInfill.com takes on Vince Carroll and the Denver Post editorial…
A single word from Senator Michael Bennet has simultaneously thrilled his supporters and emboldened critics who think he’s might an incredible strategic blunder. That word is “yes.” This weekend, Bennet appeared on CNN’s State of the Union program, and when interrogator Jon King asked if he’d still support the current…
Last Thursday, Tom Tancredo confirmed in this space that he was part of a group coming up with a unity platform Republican Scott McInnis could use against Bill Ritter in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign — and that if all went well, an announcement about it could be made on Monday…
Here are some local sites you might enjoy visiting. A thread on DenverRadio.net’s Comments & Rumors board begins with questions about why no local stations have started playing wall-to-wall Christmas music yet — and ends with news that KOSI has begun the yuletide frenzy. Somewhere Der Bingle is counting his…
The nomination as U.S.Attorney of Stephanie Villafuerte hasn’t gone nearly as smoothly as the Obama administration would like, due largely to accusations that she was involved in the political accessing of a federal database during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign — the very act for which former ICE agent Cory Voorhis…
Political observers have spent a lot of time har-dee-har-ing at Scott McInnis over the years — and indeed, he’s made plenty of errors and gaffes during his time in the public eye. Note his prediction that fellow Republican Bob Schaffer would lose the 2008 Senate race to Mark Udall –…
