Another week, another series of disasters for the Dan Maes campaign. First came photos of Maes collecting cash in a burlap bag, in apparent violation of campaign rules (but beyond the statute of limitations). Next? News that he’d filed for personal bankruptcy in 1989 — the sort of info that…
Recent U.S. Census Bureau data shows that barely half of Boulder’s work force get to their jobs driving alone — a significant reduction in the number of solo commuters that puts the green-minded community well ahead of traffic planners in Denver and other Front Range cities who are trying to…
On Sunday, Ken Buck compared homosexuality to alcoholism during a nationally televised Meet the Press debate with Senator Michael Bennet — and host David Gregory also brought up Buck’s decision not to file rape charges in a much-debated 2005 case. Not that it matters much, according to Buck spokesman Owen…
From a style perspective, Ken Buck acquitted himself well in his nationally televised debate with Senator Michael Bennet on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday. He came across as forceful and direct, in contrast to Bennet’s occasionally halting hemming and hawing. But Buck made the key mistake of giving the Bennet…
Clear the Bench Colorado, which aims to throw the bums off the Colorado Supreme Court, recently lost a court challenge from Colorado Ethics Watch and now must file with the Secretary of State’s office as a political committee, not an issues committee. And while that may sound like a technical…
Are you ready for Governor Tom Tancredo? Better at least entertain the possibility, because his poll numbers continue to rise, while those of Dem John Hickenlooper and Republican Dan Maes keep slipping. That’s the word from a just-released Rasmussen Reports survey, which shows Tancredo pulling to within four points of…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett’s campaign against John Suthers for Colorado Attorney General is running ads arguing that Suthers let serial killer Scott Kimball remain free as an informant, while Garnett put him behind bars. Texas-based author Ed Coet, who’s written a book inspired by Kimball, his second cousin, doesn’t…
Update: This billboard has now been removed. More info below. Last week, we told you about WhoSaidYouSaid putting up its 100th anti-Barack Obama billboard. But a different board is causing a considerably larger foofaraw in Grand Junction thanks to images of Obama as gay, a terrorist, a gangster and a…
No wonder Michael Bennet’s campaign is so excited for Michelle Obama’s campaign visit at noon today in Englewood: She’s currently much more popular than her husband. That may also explain why so many shots from the White House Flickr stream find Barack basking in the light of Michelle and his…
Each election season, plenty of political yard signs are stolen or defaced — look below to see a shot of a circle-and-slashed John Hickenlooper for Governor placard off I-76. But Aurora’s Rob McNealy says there’s a new twist on this vandalism when it comes to Amendments 60 and 61 and…
On Monday, we told you about Ken Buck’s decision not to prosecute an alleged 2005 rape, which liberal organizations view as evidence that he lacks compassion for women. Buck spokesman Owen Loftus sees something different — an unfair assault on Buck’s character that exploits the woman at the center of…
Is Ken Buck the poster child for Tea Party candidates who were never into witchcraft? Yes, judging by the appearance on last night’s edition of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report of Brendan Steinhauser, the director of state and federal campaigns for FreedomWorks, Dick Armey’s Liberty Movement-boosting organization. When it came…
In recent days, KHOW’s Peter Boyles has talked up photos by T.L. James of a December 2009 appearance at which gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes collected contributions in a burlap bag. If he did so without properly recording donor info, he may well have broken campaign laws. But did he? Maes…
Last night, Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck engaged in their most high-profile debate yet — and shockingly enough, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid believes his guy handily won the 9News-sponsored event on view below. Kincaid also talks up forthcoming appearances on Bennet’s behalf by Bill Clinton and Michelle…
The folks behind Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101, the three tax-slashing ballot proposals that a wide array of opponents are fighting with a multi-million-dollar ad blitz, are pretty upset with the media. So upset that campaign coordinator Natalie Menten fired off a letter to “media members” blasting them…
Update below: Late last month, Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams said Democrats’ decision to attack Ken Buck with ads on issues like abortion shows that they’re “intellectually bankrupt,” since the voting public is clearly more interested in “the economy and taxes and spending.” But Buck opponents aren’t letting up on…
The joy of living in a “melting pot” is to share in the wide variety of different cultural celebrations. The photograph above shows the curious call-and-response customs practiced by Native-American-Mexicans and Italian-Americans on their annual Columbus Day get-together…
A group of Daily Show lovers in Denver are organizing a local version of comedian Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30 at Civic Center Park. The Stewart event, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck’s Rally to Restore Honor in August, will take place…
For years, the Bureau of Land Management has been aiming to remove substantial numbers of northwest Colorado’s remaining wild horses — despite a federal judge’s ruling last year that the agency has failed to prove that the obscure herds are overpopulated. Now, a coalition of activist groups have filed two…
Think Hickenlooper is a bicycle-riding, illegal immigrant-loving, tax-happy left-wing radical elitist? Think again, pal. Turns out “Hick” is a conservative, big-government-hating Republican who opposes Communist conspiracies and civil rights laws…
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…
