Against all odds, Tom Tancredo seems to be gaining momentum in his third-party gubernatorial run. With pundits essentially writing off Republican nominee Dan Maes, whose recent attempt to raise $500,000 in a day fell over $400,000 short, Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge is buoyed by new poll numbers and confident…
Today’s entertainingly pissy political pissing match pits Clear the Bench Colorado’s Matt Arnold, who wants to throw the bums off the state’s supreme court, against Colorado Ethics Watch, which filed a campaign-finance complaint against Clear the Bench in May. The issue? Legal bills Arnold says he’s owed — ones that…
“Hi, I’m Ken Buck! As we move toward the general election, you Tea Party fuddy-duddies who are in a snit over my ‘evolving positions’ need to know that I still want want to have a political relationship with you. However, we can no longer be an exclusive item. In order…
It’s the middle of the afternoon and Mike Fallon is at Pint’s Pub. The Republican candidate for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District wasn’t driven to the bottle by the rigors of campaigning, however. Rather, he’s holding the first in a series of town-hall meetings that will take place at bars and…
Jason Clark learned a hard truth about Craigslist today. The independent candidate for governor found out that no matter how excited one may be about that rare and precious find, buyers have no guarantee that the goods are built for the long haul and have little recourse if the purchase…
Yesterday, Dan Maes spokesman Nate Strauch confirmed that the Maes campaign fell over $400,000 short of its $500,000 fundraising goal on Friday — and this after he raised just $14,000 during the previous reporting period. It’s the latest setback for Maes — and political consultant Eric Sondermann wonders if his…
On Monday, advocates rallied at North High School in favor of the DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for undocumented graduates from U.S. high schools. (See a recap and photos here.) But yesterday, Senate Republicans stalled the measure, likely killing it for now. Colorado Immigrant Rights…
Dan Maes’s embattled campaign for governor has been perpetually short of funds. With that in mind, the Republican nominee’s finance committee sent out a release last week declaring the intention to raise $500,000 in a single day, September 17. How close did they come? Not very. Maes campaign spokesman Nate…
Back in February, we told you about Seth Brigham’s nipple-baring appearance at a Boulder City Council meeting — a protest of sorts against a proposed nudity ordinance that would have criminalized the display of female nipples in the city. Brigham, who remained in his boxers, was arrested — a move…
The anti-establishment fever ripping across the country has led to increased interest in third-party and independent candidates. And here in Colorado, these candidates are doing their best to roil election cycle formalities like the debate process, which have historically ignored minor party and unaffiliated candidates. The latest to raise his…
Abortion is seldom a major debating point in campaigns these days — not because it’s deemed an unimportant issue, but because most people already have made up their minds on the subject. It’s an interesting twist, then, that the Campaign for a Strong Colorado, which opposes Republican senate nominee Ken…
The town of Telluride is just weeks away from becoming the first municipality in the state to ban plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers — a move that keeps the mountain town in the vanguard of high-country green gestures, right up there with Aspen’s designation of free parking…
As the big names in the Colorado gubernatorial race drag an already strange election into even stranger territory, independent candidate Jason Clark has quietly toiled in obscurity. Well, not entirely. Back in May, Clark posted an ad for his running mate on Craigslist…
At 4 p.m. today, a rally will be held in support of the DREAM Act, a proposal that would allow select undocumented students who’ve lived in America for at least five years and graduate from a U.S. high school the chance to earn legal residency status. The measure faces steep…
Call us jaded. GOP gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes has spun so many bizarre and jaw-dropping yarns, about everything from his generous mileage reimbursements to being fired as a Kansas cop because he dared to investigate his future in-laws’ gambling activities, that we’re no longer easily a-Maesed. Not even when a…
Douglas Bruce, the California Democrat turned Colorado Republican, is the embodiment of the classic bad boy character of children’s literature. Of course, he isn’t trying to be bad, it’s just something that’s natural. Everyone and everything that comes into contact with him turns out bad, from mail-order brides to constitutional…
The crazy whirlwind that is Republican nominee Dan Maes’s guv run just keeps spinning faster. Below, spokesman Nate Strauch offers his take on four big stories: the hiring of new campaign manager George Culpepper, Maes’s explanation for why he was fired as a Kansas cop, a new poll showing Maes…
It’s hard to pick a favorite claim by GOP gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes. His accounts of himself, from “I did so drive 80,000 miles” to his denunciation of Denver’s bike program as a UN plot to his boasts of undercover police work invite us into a realm hitherto unknown, at…
Watching Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper showering in his clothes almost seems normal in what will surely go down as the strangest election cycle in state history. It is only fitting in the crazy Colorado campaign of 2010 that Hick is willing to portray himself as “all wet.” Instead of using…
The lawsuit filed against Tom Tancredo has fallen short of its goal: A judge has ruled that Tancredo’s name will remain on the November ballot. The decision pleases Tancredo campaign operations manager Cliff Dodge — but he’s still irritated that his guy had to jump through this particular hoop…
It didn’t take long to get to the main event at the Denver District Court today. Tom Tancredo was the first witness called to the stand to defend his right to run for governor on the American Constitution Party ticket…
Twentieth century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was keen on constructing impenetrable monoliths of text about nothingness. But his notion that the absence of something is just as important to an experience as the presence of something ties directly into this year’s Colorado ballot initiatives…
