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
50%↑
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%
September 24, 2013 06:28 AM UTC
5 Comments
Ill omen for the School Tax (Amendment 66).
From the front page of the online Denver Post.. "Would you support a temporary state tax increase to pay for the rebuilding of Colorado's flood-damaged roads and bridges?" The non-scientific results: 53% for Yes and 47% for No.
What a surprise, in a self-selecting, non-scientific poll, people want their roads fixed, they just don't want to pay for it.
We'll see if the GOP Majority in the US House will shaft Coloradans like they tried to shaft all the other disaster-hit states.
Good news/bad news — the funding will likely get tacked onto the CR that is the current political football
Apparently, the Colorado legislature authorized a temporary tax increase in 1965, to rebuild infrastructure, as this nostalgic pdf shows. Colorado Peak Politics is all over this, but I won't link to them.
You're right, Dave, in that the flood damages and the real human suffering it is causing will probably bump education funding down to a lower priority.
Heroes of Kenya
The ex-marine who went back into the shopping mall 12 times to save 100 people
The child who told one of the terrorists, "You're a bad man"
You know the farm bill the GOP majority house just passed with, what, two Dem votes(I hope they need help some day)? Turns out it would kick 170,000 veterans off food assistance. Why do conservatives have such contempt for our troops and vets but such adoration for corporate war profiteers? No amount of over-payment with our tax dollars for the war profiteers' shoddy work and spectacular levels of corruption is too much but we can't afford to see that vets and their children have enough to eat? How does this fit in with being a Tea Party or any other kind of patriot?
Isn't it enough that that the people we send to die for us are mainly among the 99% splitting up a mere 5% of the gains we've made while the profiteers who screwed them are among the 1% splitting up 95% of those gains? Now the right wants to literally take food away from their children so even more tax payer dollars can be lavished on breaks and subsidies for the elite. Charming.