Update below: It’s deadline day for Dan Maes to announce his choice for lieutenant governor, and speculation continues among his followers about who’ll get the nod. But you can cross one buzzed-about name off the list: Lesley Hollywood, director of the Northern Colorado Tea Party. Hollywood says Maes hasn’t talked…
Dick Morris, the former Bill Clinton hire-turned-Hillary Clinton loather, is the featured attraction at an August 17 fundraiser for Scott Tipton, who’s running for Congress against incumbent John Salazar. But while Salazar has lately gotten some recent bad press over accusations of his involvement in a land swap that allegedly…
Another day, another Denver Post story that treats Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes like an empty-walleted joke. It’s no surprise, then, that Maes, who earlier threatened to limit the Post’s access if the paper didn’t start treating him fairly, has scheduled a meeting with representatives of the broadsheet to air…
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Lawyer and former Colorado Young Democrats president Crisanta Duran defeated Denver Health doctor Mark Thrun yesterday in the Democratic State House primary in Denver’s District 5. The race wasn’t always pretty, with both sides accusing the other of playing dirty. But Duran’s been in that situation before — when she…
With Colorado’s GOP boss saying Republican guv nominee Dan Maes has no chance to win in a three-way race, and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton suggesting that Maes probably isn’t even competent to be dog catcher, it’s no surprise that old-school conservatives are casting around for another option. Right now,…
In late July, after a Denver Post editorial argued that he wasn’t qualified to be governor due to his poor business record, Dan Maes suggested that he might limit the Post’s access if it didn’t begin to cover his campaign more evenhandedly. But Post publisher and MediaNews Group head Dean…
Last night, most of us knew that plagiarism-troubled Scott McInnis had narrowly lost the Republican governor’s nomination to Liberty Movement favorite Dan Maes — but he put off conceding. Now, however, he’s finally grasped reality after several hours of folks like GOP boss Dick Wadhams referring to his campaign in…
No doubt about it: Tea Party and 9.12 Project groups played a huge part in last night’s primary wins by Ken Buck and Dan Maes. But as 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition chair Lu Busse basks in victory, she envisions a scenario in which Maes and Tom Tancredo could work together…
On Monday, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy insisted his guy wasn’t a dead fish. But at this writing, he’s flopping on the dock, refusing to admit that he doesn’t have lungs — or that he lost last night’s primary to Dan Maes. But while Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams…
Scott McInnis looked to have a clear path to the Republican gubernatorial nomination before word broke about plagiarism problems resulting from “musings on water” for which the Hasan Family Foundation paid him $300,000. Now, on the day of what looks to be a very close primary against Dan Maes, McInnis…
While Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been enduring a summer of media broiling over everything from the BP oil spill to federal wild-horse roundups, his brother John has been coolly and quietly toodling toward re-election and a fourth term in Congress. But now, the Other Salazar is facing…
Update below: Days before tomorrow’s Republican senate primary, Jane Norton appeared on the campaign trail with Arizona Senator John McCain — a controversial figure for Tea Party and 9.12 project members. And since those are the very sort of folks who may elevate Ken Buck to a surprise victory, his…
Update below: The Democratic senate race between Andrew Romanoff and Michael Bennet in advance of tomorrow’s primary has been a truckload of ugly — and the Republican matchup’s offered more of the same. Jane Norton has spent week after week slamming Ken Buck — and spokeswoman Cinamon Watson keeps doing…
Update below: If Republican guv candidate Scott McInnis isn’t a dead fish, as his spokesman announced in this space today, some credit is owed his main opponent, Dan Maes, who’s lately made several remarks that have taken on lives of their own. In the view of campaign spokesman Nate Strauch,…
Update below: At 11 a.m. today, Andrew Romanoff will be roaming the 16th Street Mall, shaking hands and explaining to pedestrians why it’s important they vote for him in Tuesday’s primary. And Romanoff spokesman Roy Teicher expresses confidence about victory even as he dismisses complaints from the Michael Bennet campaign…
Update below: Last week in this space, Andrew Romanoff insisted that his quick rise in the polls didn’t come as a result of negative attacks against his primary opponent, Michael Bennet. But during a primary-eve conversation, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid predicts that Romanoff’s gains will prove temporary — and the…
Update below: The Scott McInnis campaign’s August 6 release about his primary night “victory party” (see it below) listed its date as August 12 — two nights after tomorrow’s primary. When asked about that, McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy jokes, “I hope it said Tuesday. Either that, or we’re the world’s…
It’s been a good week to make fun of Dan Maes. But this whole bikes equal communism, let’s take away jobs circus might not have mattered had it not been for his opponent’s colossal stumble in the polls. Scott McInnis, as you will recall, plagiarized a report on water issues…
This is shaping up to be one lively governor’s race, what with GOP hopeful Dan Maes suspecting a UN agenda behind Denver’s bicycle program, promising layoffs of state workers and an unshackling of the energy industry — and claiming to have driven 5,000 miles a month in his campaign. Is…
The bittersweet ache of partial financial disclosure, the hidden truth of lackluster personal success and the yearning to be a leader – these are the touchstones of Republican primary candidate Dan Maes, who came out of nowhere and showed that he could translate the dysfunctional anger of Tea Party political…
By now it’s clear what a huge misstep gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes took in declaring Denver’s Bike Sharing part of a global conspiracy to deprive us of our personal freedoms. For its part, the program is just grateful for the publicity. “It’s shedding Dan Maes in an unfortunate light, which…
