CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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15%↑
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
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State Senate Majority
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State House Majority
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November 17, 2011 09:08 PM UTC
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Not until bridges fall down, the roads are full of potholes, there are 50 kids in a class, and it costs less to go to college out of state.
And it will barely pass.
Yeah, that’s a deeply cynical view.
Evidence?
Exhibit A: The Republican field vying for the presidential nomination.
Exhibit B: The negotiating prowess of elected Democrats.
Why not expand this state #1 economic resource, energy? Let’s grow the economy and the tax base.
Beyond that, it’s time to consider a repeal of Amendment 23. It sits on top of other, older constitutional amendments and conflicts with them. Education doesn’t need more money, it needs structural reform and innovation.
65% of the state spoke clearly this month. Now it’s up to Democrats to listen.
that energy is the state’s ‘#1 resource’
I mean, what does that even mean? Better than the headwaters of the Colorado River, for instance?
Colorado has a billion barrels in the Niobrara Formation. We have more kerogen in oil shale than Saudi Arabia has oil. And the Piceance Basin is a treasure trove of 100 years of natural gas.
Oh yeah, wind power and Obama-funded solar plants too! Colorado is an energy state any way you slice it.
And it’s just as easy to extract, right?
Why do you want to give everything away like some commie?
I thought so.
I kind of doubted that you had anything other than absurd oily booster blurbs…
By ‘posting something’ I meant more than empty bullet points, I meant–rather–something that demonstrated you weren’t just a fart machine…even Herman Cain can repeat talking points, when he can find the right one twirlin’ about in his head. Can you ever demonstrate that you know what you are talking about? I am skeptical that you can (or do).
Kerogen is not oil, and it is spread out over 16000 square miles… requires 100% surface disturbance, still unknown amounts of water, still unknown where massive energy loads would come from to mine/retort/heat…
I’m sure that repeating vacuous talking points works with people you know, deficit of facts or merely stupid, but it doesn’t sell here. Rather its more like standing on a box and shouting that you are an idiot…
Just sayin’
If A-23 sits “on top of other, older constitutional amendments and conflicts with them”, doesn’t that mean that the voters, having seen the effects of those other, older constitutional amendments, decided, you know, to AMEND them?
Furthermore, the base Colorado Constitution – no amendments – provides the following:
The state has already figured out what it’s like to be in violation of that provision – Court-ordered increases to education funding.
The state’s current financial mess requires more than some glib “just cut it” attitude – by law it either requires a rewriting of the state constitution or an increase in education spending. Whether or not that increase comes with a matching revenue stream depends on the voters.
than we give ourselves credit.
One definition of gratuitous is: not called for by the circumstances.
We’ve got that one covered. Almost as well as Mississippi.
it is not yet “practicable”. It won’t be until the 1% are satisfied that they have everything they want
back when the state’s public education system was set up. Kinda hard to go back on that one.
We could drill it all – that does not address public education funding.
Bridges are falling, the roads are crappy, class sizes are growing and it already costs less to go to college out of state.
And yet Prop103 failed and no one is serious about modifying TABOR out of existence or funding the public infrastructure.
http://youtu.be/A1iXXKmq58g
First off the problem is not solely funding, but funding is a big part of the problem – including for higher ed. And the lack of qualified workers is the main limiting factor for high-tech jobs in this state. (And note to ArapaGOP, high-tech arguable provides more jobs than energy in this state.)
How bad is it? One of the start-ups here in Boulder has purchased ads on the sides of buses advertising their openings.
Private schools were good enough for my parents’ and grandparents’ generations. And for everyone prior to the 19th c.
We aren’t going to catch up to China or India (or S Korea) in production of engineers and scientists – why should we try?
Colorado has no shortage of college grads. That we have to import them from other states is no big deal. Let’s save the money and gut higher ed….and without publicly funded higher ed, no need for college readiness at hs graduation…and the certificate in auto maintenance or HVAC installation doesn’t really require a hs diploma, so no need to actually graduate.
Hell, once students learn that obedience is why they are in school, game over. Most of them can learn that by 8th or 9th grade. Sooner but for the deadbeat parents.
We don’t need schools – we just need more prayer and God.
And it can only help that anyone thinks the local quarterback is Jesus.
Constitutional.
Convention.
Or we can screw around for another few years until things get really bad.
Good luck with that.
Our legislators and party officials are so scared of what the people might do that they are willing to let the state just go to hell. Never mind that it is the people who came up with the constitution to begin with.
So, it looks like screwing around is the order of the day. Thanks, oligarchy.
Sort of the same thing – but
or, a little more rough spoken
. . . Doug Bruce, John Andrews, John Caldara, Ken Buck, . . . the list of frightfully scary people in this state is nearly endless.
You might get one or more of them in the convention. But each state Senate district gets two representatives, which will dilute the crazy. In addition, the new constitution would have to be approved by a vote of the people as a whole. See my old diary at http://www.coloradopols.com/di… for more details.
I’m willing to bet that there were just as many crazy people around in the 1870s, and yet we got a reasonable constitution.