So you’re happily listening to your custom-made MGMT station on Pandora Radio when suddenly a dude starts talking to you about elections and stuff and a photo of an earnest-looking guy pops into your track listing. What gives? Welcome to the brave new world of political advertising. Secretary of State…
These days, Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes isn’t getting much love in Colorado, where one poll shows him with just 5 percent support, to the delight of Tom Tancredo. But the national press he’s getting of late may be even uglier, with one major source wondering if he’s the nation’s…
In an unusual court filing, state senator and prominent GOP campaigner Shawn Mitchell states that his battle with anxiety and depression has made it difficult to get work done in his law practice and political life, leading to blown deadlines and missed hearings and campaign events. The affidavit, filed in…
Update: Leslie Oliver, campaign spokeswoman for Ed Perlmutter, says a recent attack ad inaccurately claiming that the 7th District congressman supported supplying Viagra to convicted rapists isn’t the first time an outside group called the American Action Network has battered him with a false ad. She stops short of calling…
We can expect plenty of over-the-top negative ads and low blows in the next few days as this gruesome election cycle enters its final days. But a mailer sent out by Republican statehouse candidate Libby Szabo, trying to paint Rep. Sara Gagliardi as a typical tax-and-spend Dem, is just plain…
Ken Buck ran afoul of the GLBT community when he likened being gay to alcoholism on Meet the Press, prompting activists to demand a retraction. So is Buck prejudiced? He didn’t appear to be in April 2009 when, as Weld County DA, his office successfully prosecuted a case that advocates…
KOA’s Mike Rosen accused AM 760’s David Sirota of being humorless after Sirota circulated a Rosen line from a debate about crashing a plane into a thus-far-unbuilt mosque near Ground Zero — a joke, according to Rosen, but one that still led to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann branding him the worst…
After the election-day stress of choosing the least objectionable candidate and making sense of the Amendments, voters are asked to decide upon the retention of a mysterious list of unknown State, District and County judges. In an effort to help educate voters for the upcoming November 2, 2010 election, brief…
Vandals reportedly attacked the Denver County GOP headquarters twice over the weekend. Who’s to blame? Radical anarchists like Maurice “Ariel Attack” Schwenkler, charged with vandalizing Democratic HQ last year? Republican operatives? Drunk teens who randomly selected the building to test out some power tools? As they say, we report, you…
This weekend, the Denver Post shared polling data showing Democrat John Hickenlooper holding a “comfy” ten-point lead over main challenger Tom Tancredo in the governor’s race. But Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge rejects that, dismissing the Post’s survey as “totally inaccurate” and citing a different poll showing Tanc just three…
The placement of the two ‘Sidewalk Closed Ahead’ signs pictured above give pedestrians a scant three inches in which to make their crossover, presumably between the inwardly pointing directional arrows. This form-fitting placement is not due to Coloradans’ ranking as the least obese in the nation. In a state famous…
The website for Personhood USA, the organization pushing Amendment 62, which declares that the term “person” applies from one’s biological starting point, doesn’t come across as scary. At this writing, it sports the smiling face of Tim Tebow’s mom, who supports the measure. But a video from Personhood USA’s YouTube…
Over the past week or so, UFO sightings have been reported over Denver, New York City, El Paso and Richmond. Whether any of them are either connected or legitimate Jeff Peckman can’t say — but the man behind Initiative 300, which would establish an extraterrestrial affairs commission, feels that interest…
Ken Buck: Too extreme for Colorado? How about, Ken Buck: Too embarrassing for Colorado. We seem to have our own Joe Biden in the house, a guy who can’t stop putting his foot in his mouth. In some ways it’s refreshing to see a politician who’s not slick enough to…
Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell may have dabbled in witchcraft, but she says she’s not a witch — and so does Elvira. The former Cassandra Peterson was raised in Colorado Springs and became the first female celeb to endorse a beer for home-state brewer Coors back in 1987. Now, she’s…
What brings New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Denver? An invite from his Denver counterpart, John Hickenlooper, to participate in tonight’s Denver Scholarship Foundation fundraiser at the Colorado Convention Center Hyatt. But before then, he made a carefully scripted appearance with Denver Public Schools superintendent Tom Boasberg at Bruce…
The Colorado leaders pictured in the UFO above, Gualberto Garcia Jones, Douglas Bruce, Jon Caldara and Jeff Peckman, were all responsible for placing measures on the 2010 ballot and all have great expectations for each Amendment passing. In short, they all have Great Yespectations…
When Tom Tancredo pulled to within four points of John Hickenlooper in a major poll, we guessed that Hick supporters would get ugly on their guy’s behalf. But WhoSaidYouSaid tracked down a recent clip in which Hickenlooper personally takes a more-overt-than-usual shot at Tancredo…
Apparently, politicians can’t say just anything about their opponents in campaign ads. Case in point: Fox 31 has yanked a Cory Gardner spot attacking Representative Betsy Markey for making votes that were actually cast by Massachusetts’ Ed Markey, according to Colorado Pols. It seems that not all Markeys are created…
After the Election Day stress of choosing the least objectionable candidate and making sense of the Amendments, voters are asked to decide upon the retention of a mysterious list of unknown State, District and County judges. In an effort to help educate voters for the upcoming November 2, 2010 election,…
Colorado’s gubernatorial race has offered a good dose of unintentional humor on its own. But Complete Colorado has upped the laugh ante by creating “Real Gubernatorial Genius,” satirical commercials (based on a popular Bud Light campaign) that lampoon Dan Maes, John Hickenlooper and Tom Tancredo…
Dems pounced after Republican candidate Ken Buck likened homosexuality to alcoholism on Meet the Press. And while Buck’s spokesman pooh-poohed the controversy, activists like One Colorado’s Brad Clark aren’t ready to move on. Clark is among those appearing at a press conference at 1:30 p.m. today at which Buck will…
