CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
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%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
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%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
April 25, 2007 03:45 PM UTC
11 Comments
Jones did attend CU Boulder, so when refers to “higher” standards, he must be smoking something before reporting his “political” news.
……not all of us have low standards!
YOu even spelled its name correctly.
Anyone know if Brad Jones is related to Mike Jones?
He shouldn’t have been given this much credit. The media, including the pols, needs to ignore this kid. He’s wasting (who ever is paying him at the time) a lot money, and do nothing good for the state of Colorado.
than the writers at Colorado Confidential or Colorado Media Matters?
The difference between Colorado Confidential, Colorado Media Matters, and Brad Jones is simple. CC and CCM are both progressive organizations that present their purpose.
Colorado Confidential is “a coalition of long-time progressive bloggers, freelance writers, and professional journalists our aim is to enhance and expand the political dialogue in the Centennial State.”
Colorado Media Matters also presents their purpose on their website as “a Web-based progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
Neither group has a hidden agenda. It’s out in the open for everyone to see. They are honest about their work to expose conservative misinformation, while Brad Jones is deceptive about his agenda.
Jones has been deceptive about his motives, calling for ‘higher journalistic standards’ in political reporting,” while he has no journalistic credibility to make such a claim. What political paper, journal or magazine has he worked for to make such a claim? Did he receive a degree in journalism or english? No, but rather he trolls through the daily papers as stated on his website http://www.facethest… to find articles that present a one-sided view.
Renaming headlines as an the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette would http://www.coloradoc… to push an extreme agenda, is in no way showing readers a higher journalistic standard, but rather he proves himself to be arrogant enough to think people will believe his misinformation.
His drudge like “reporting” is not reporting at all, but rather shrilling. He’s worked for many shrills including Jon Caldara, Jessica Peck Corey, and Senator Andy McElhany who all want to “appear” moderate to the public, but in reality have extremist views and only contempt for the Democratic Party. Their outrageous political stunts in the past decade need no review to prove that point. Jones would rather be a lacky without any class, to earn a badge of honor from the likes of this crowd with his deceptive political cheap shots, than present the public with a “higher journalistic standard.”
As CC and CMM have been charged to do, they called Brad Jones out on conservative misinformation and many occasions. They did their job, and honestly.
Unions Control Colorado Media Matters by Dennis Herzog, GJ Sentinel:
http://www.gjsentine…
Thanks for providing a very entertaining bit of writing.
I take it you did not do as I suggested in our e-mail exchanges regarding Bob Silbernagel’s faulty April 8 editorial and consult either the widespread reporting of Gov. Ritter’s public statements regarding his veto of House Bill 1072, or contact the governor’s office directly to determine whether in fact he ever has cited potential economic impact as a reason for his veto.
The public record in the form of the governor’s veto message, his public statements and the numerous news accounts of the veto are quite clear. Gov. Ritter never has cited potential economic impact as the reason for his veto. Not only was it not ever cited as a secondary reason for the veto, it was not a reason at all. No amount of intellectual dishonesty or post-publication spin can change that simple fact.
Likewise, no unsubstantiated statements that Colorado Media Matters is “in the pocket” of anyone can change the fact that we are not, any more than the Sentinel is in the pocket of its own advertisers or the oil and gas industry. I note that you provide no actual facts to substantiate the smear that the state Democratic party and labor unions control our organization. That’s not surprising, given that such facts don’t exist. This alleged relationship has sprung entirely from the imagination of an editor who incredibly has chosen to tout an unsubstantiated falsehood that one hopes he would not tolerate from his own reporters.
As for our organization’s agenda, that appears to be a rare fact-based element of this blog entry. As Colorado Media Matters makes clear on its website, in our public statements to media and others, and in any materials we provide about our organization, we are a non-profit, progressive research organization focused on identifying and correcting conservative misinformation in the Colorado media. There is no doubt about our agenda and we pursue it proudly; witness the nearly 30 fact-based research items we’ve provided on our website, Colorado.mediamatters.org, noting conservative misinformation that has appeared in your newspaper’s articles and editorials.
Sticking to fact-based reporting and editorial opinion is good for everyone, progressive, liberal, conservative or otherwise. Compounding one falsehood with another isn’t good for anyone, either the Sentinel or its readers.
Bill Menezes Editorial Director Colorado Media Matters 720-219-1191
It drives you to the issues Jones wants to focus on without any opportunity for a free wheeling discussion that allows the exchange of ideas. Instead, it wants to force feed you the diet of whatever Jones wants you to consume. I can make my own decisions on those matters. He should simply say what the agenda of his site is so all comers know in advance–and, they do now any way–and let people poke holes or support his positions, as the case may be. I suspect that anything that runs counter to the news that he wants posted were to be raised in discussions of the items he wants discussed–that is to say, if anyone disagreed with him–he’d simply tell them to “shut up” and delete the messages of counter opinions.