CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
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%
July 10, 2013 06:34 AM UTC
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The worker/producer pays all taxes, really who else could?
"Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing."
Neo Conned by Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSY296oTHyw&feature=player_detailpage
Ron Paul? That guy who's been on a government paycheck for how long now? Thanks Ron for living fat off the suffering 'poor and low-middle inclome workers'
I read a story this morning about how Rand is just as crazy radical as his daddy, Ron…but he is deliberately hiding it. I'll see if I can find it again and post a link.
… something about trying to swim outside your gene pool???
Found it…
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/10/like-father-like-son-ron-paul-passes-the-neo-confederate-baton-to-rand.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
As Rand Paul’s national profile continues to rise, one question has dogged the Republican senator from Kentucky: Is he is father’s son, ideologically speaking, or his own man? Or, to put it more bluntly, how far has the apple fallen from the extremist tree?
There are two probable answers. Perhaps Rand is indeed an independent thinker who, while sharing the broad, small government and non-interventionist leanings of his dad, is not a crank. Or, Rand is indeed a crank, yet one whose ambitions outweigh his ideological convictions. In other words, Rand knows that, in order to succeed on the national stage—he is widely expected to make a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016—he can’t let his freak flag fly.
Since Rand’s emergence on the national stage several years ago, I’ve been inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. But in light of a blockbuster report by Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon, I now lean more toward the latter. Goodman reports that one of the senator’s closest aides and the co-author of a 2011 book, Jack Hunter, spent years as a neo-Confederate activist and radio host. From 1999 until last year, Goodman reports, Hunter was the host of a South Carolina radio program whose alter ego was “The Southern Avenger.” Hunter, who would sport a Stars-and-Bars mask during public appearances, praised John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln—whom he compared to Saddam Hussein. Earlier, Hunter had been a leader in the League of the South, a secessionist organization
Rand Paul is part of the "revisit" the Civil Rights Act of 1964…you know the one about no discrimination in public accommodation; it is a federal law. Well…RP is one of those who thinks that private property rights and states rights should trump the 14th amendment,,, This is, IMHO, the absolute danger behind the rash of abortion laws in the states…..as well as the possible, and I stress possible, consequence of DOMA. If SCOTUS decides that abortion is a matter for each state to decide…which is the official Republican/religious postion, it opens the door to
unravel civil rights legislation and the ability of the federal government to guarantee equal protection under the law as stated in the 14th Amendment……
The overturning of DOMA could become important if subsequent SCOTUS decides that marriage is an issue to be decided by each state…..the DOMA decision did not
make marriage equality a civil right….
@dwyer, that is correct. Whether states that don't currently recognize same-sex marriage have to recognize marriages from states that do is a seperate issue that hasn't been decided on yet. I imagine this issue will be before the court in the couple of years (certainly less than a decade).
A scathing indictment of the current political situation in Texas:
Thanks for posting this, DP. I watched this earlier and was proud of this young person's bravery and ability to speak truth to power. Amazing and sad that the Tx legislature had to forcibly remove her!
I saw her on Last Word /Lawrence O'Donnell last night. Truly inspirational.
Good ideas our state should consider
DIA to Grand Junction, David. We'd get back some of the skiers we lost to Utah. (If we ever get any snow, that is.) I know a guy who works building the light rail–a billion bucks to go from DIA to Silverthorne alone, he says. But I think it would be great for the state.
Not so fast there …
DIA to Silverthorne is one thing …
But, I really enjoy our 13,000-foot plus natural barrier that keeps the majority of Grand Junction righties from crapping up our side of paradise (or, at least slows their progress …)
(Along those same lines, I think the very best thing we could do for Colorado would be to erect an impenetrable mountain range just south of Trinidad to keep that Texas riff-raff out …)
And we really appreaciate our 13,000-foot plus natural barrier that keeps city folk down there in the flats. We wish it kept our water over here too.
Et to(uché), Twitty??!! …
;~)
BTW, you'd be one of the few that's welcome to come visit (your water) over here anytime …
What do you mean your water? That's our water pardner!!!
If the Good Lord had wanted eastern plain cityfolk to stray futher than Vail Resorts, he wouldn't have named your trickle over there the SPlatte.
If the Good Lord had wanted you to keep your water, he wouldn't have put us downhill of all that lovely snowpack 🙂
As it has been said at many a water conference, if God had wanted all of the Colorado River to flow west, he would have given Glenn Saunders to the Western Slope.
Proud to see the transportation company operating out of Longmont CO!
That tube transport system is nothing short of fucking amazing. And from a company in Longmont too. Thanks for posting it.
Rand Paul is Ron Paul, only more handsome and less honest. In other news, things are getting ugly in Pueblo. Mountain West Research, a firm based out of Pocatello, Idaho, but which contracts with Asian call centers, has begun "push-polling" against Senator Angela Giron in Pueblo. The calls begin with a 10 minute questionnaire designed to draw out the interviewee's political leanings and opinions on the recall election and gun legislation.
Then, things get ugly. The questioner presents, in a thick Pakistani accent, 5 "hypothetical" questions about Giron. The format is, "If this were true, how would you feel? Would it change your level of support for Senator Angela Giron?"
The five hypotheticals include falsehoods or exaggerations about raising taxes, cheating non-immigrants on tuition rates via the ASSET legislation, overrunning costs on Boys and Girls club as the CEO, being congenitally against the second amendmendment, and having a "known criminal" working for her in the anti-recall effort.
To me, this is the quintessence of calculated political evil – to ask which of five lies will be most effective in changing voter's minds. Stay tuned.
OMG
The American Corporate Ideal, applied to government (and politics) by Republicans. It doesn't matter if it's ethical; if it survives a Cost-Benefit Analysis and maximizes gain, go for it.
@Phoenix Rising, Whose cost-benefit analysis? Increasing numbers of minimum-wage, part-time jobs, with little upward mobility certainly passes a corporate cost-benefit analysis (cheaper labor costs).
However, it fails the societal and macro-economic cost-benefit analysis. Unless we’re willing to allow people to be homeless or hungry, despite working, it becomes a question of pay now, or pay later. If people are without access to healthcare, or don’t make a living wage on the front-end, we all end up paying later in the form of welfare, food-stamps, and reimbursing hospitals for uncompensated care.
Their CBA, Urban. The one that reflects the real world consequences as it applies directly to them over the course of some short-sighted future.
For corporations, it's the CBA that says "We can dump toxic chemicals that would cost us $1,000,000 to mitigate; worst case we can reach a settlement to clean it up for the same $1,000,000 – and there's only a 3% chance we'll be caught."
For this push polling group, it's pure numbers: how many people can they dissuade vs. how many people are turned off by the tactic, and how much does it affect the person they're actually supporting? I don't even know who's opposing Giron – the worst that could happen is they make my support for her even stronger than it is already. Using that kind of math, it's no wonder they pull these stunts.
The Republican Party has bought in 110% to the "run the government like a corporation" mantra: maximize shareholder profit and all other consequences be damned.
Just curious…did the Chieftain get this right on the injunction about implementation of the new gun laws?
Perhaps a Sleeping Giant is awakening in time for 2014 elections:
From Greg Sargent:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/07/09/sabotage-governing/
WHAT? Todd reports on MSNBC; a cable channel that supports the "progressive
perspective." That doesn't mean that Todd is biased.but he is no Uncle Walter. The observation that the Republicans have abdicated the role of the opposition party is correct. It is their political strategy that is working for them. Obama can not get his agenda passed….none of it. Meantime, the repubs are winning in the states…..and using that power to successfully pass their agendas…..see, we do not have a popular national election. Everything happens in the individual states. The federal House of Representatives is secure far into the future for the Republicans. They are posed to take over the Senate in 2014.
You will not hear this on Chuck Todd's program. "Progressive" blogs are the equivalent of right wing talk radio Everybody sprouts the party line.