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February 10, 2016 12:18 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Ash Wednesday (Feb. 10)

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Get More SmarterSlowly but surely, the Presidential race is moving toward states where people actually live. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► The New Hampshire Primaries concluded last night, but not before making a significant impact on the Presidential race. As expected, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders were victorious in their respective Primaries, but it was the rest of the ballot that really made New Hampshire interesting. Here’s how Politico and the Washington Post viewed the fallout from New Hampshire. If you missed any of the coverage, we’ll catch you up with a couple of bullet points:

♦ Hillary Clinton lost by 22 points to Bernie Sanders, and the Clinton campaign is now bracing for a long, protracted Primary fight.

♦ Tuesday was a terrible night for the Republican “establishment.” Trump easily won New Hampshire by nearly 20 points, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich pulling a surprise second-place finish. Ted Cruz finished in third place, followed by Jeb! Bush and Marco “Roboto” Rubio in a distant fifth place. Conservative commentators, including National Review, had been saying that Rubio needed to make sure he finished ahead of Jeb!, which didn’t happen.

♦ Rubio’s fifth place finish also means he left New Hampshire without a single delegate pledged to his campaign. If Rubio can’t recover in time to perform well in South Carolina on Feb. 20th, it could be the end of the line for the Florida Senator’s Presidential hopes.

♦ Here’s a fun fact: In modern history, Republicans have not elected a nominee as President who didn’t win either Iowa or New Hampshire. If history holds, the GOP is looking at Cruz, Trump, or bust.

♦ With a sixth place finish, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has reached the end of his Presidential rope; Christie announced today that he would “suspend” his campaign.

 

 

► Republican Ben Carson said on Tuesday that he “would consider” an offer to be Donald Trump’s running mate if His Hairness wins the GOP nomination. Of course, Trump didn’t actually suggest that he might tap Carson for that role.

 

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) has been campaigning around the country on behalf of Marco Rubio. Somewhere along the way, Gardner thought it would be funny if he likened Hillary Clinton to a terrorist. Classy move.

 

► Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler was unable to convince a jury to support the death penalty for the man convicted in the Aurora Theater shootings. For some reason, this has convinced state Sen. Kevin Lundberg that Colorado should change the law to make it easier for prosecutors to get a death sentence.

► Congress has approved legislation to increase oversight and management of large construction projects connected to the Veterans’ Administration. We can’t say we’re surprised — Rep. Mike Coffman has been the Chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for the House VA Committee, and he hasn’t overseen a damn thing.

 

► TABOR daddy Doug Bruce may be going back to prison, as the Denver Post reports:

A Denver district judge has found Douglas Bruce, the author of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, violated five conditions of his probation in a 2012 felony tax evasion conviction.

Judge Sheila A. Rappaport wrote in a Jan. 19 ruling that evidence shows Bruce failed to report contacts with law enforcement and did not disclose certain financial dealings and tax documents as mandated.

Rappaport called some of Bruce’s defense against the accusations “semantic” and noted the weight of proof showing his guilt.

Bruce is scheduled to be re-sentenced on March 11.

 

► State lawmakers may have to cut as much as $100 million from Colorado’s budget as Republicans balk at any attempt to increase revenue.

Meanwhile, Republicans are proposing a budget cut that would come from doing away with a bunch of voting centers in Colorado. Freedumb!

 

► According to a new government report, eight states saw a “significant” decrease in the number of residents who are uninsured in the aftermath of the Affordable Care Act.

 

► Democrats in the state legislature are pushing forward with a proposal to help Colorado get more aggressive in fighting climate change. The legislation is likely to die in the State Senate, however.

 

► Rain barrels went away in the 2015 legislative session but have come again another day.

 

Funding for full-day Kindergarten in Colorado is going nowhere, again, because Senate Republicans hate children. 

 

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Westminster City Council Member Bruce Baker is being pressured to resign from office following his weird comments a few weeks ago. Baker announced in January that he would run against Rep. Ed Perlmutter in CD-7, with a campaign platform centered on “ending immigration” (not just “illegal” immigration — ALL immigration).

 

Personhood legislation returns to the State Capitol this week. On Thursday, NARAL Colorado and Planned Parenthood are holding a joint press conference to condemn yet another silly attempt to give a zygote a social security card. From a press release:

On Thursday, February 11, women’s health advocates, providers and legal experts will hold a news conference on two dangerous bills that threaten access to safe, legal abortion services in Colorado. To quote Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst in her opening day speech: “These attacks on women’s health will not be tolerated.”

The first bill would create fetal personhood (HB 1007), the second would ban abortion and criminalize doctors who provide vital care for Colorado women (HB 1113). The goal of both bills is clear, to attack access to abortion in Colorado, which would put Colorado women’s health in danger. The bills will be heard in separate committees Thursday (HB 1007: Business Affairs & Labor in LSB-A, HB 1113: Health, Insurance, and Environment in Room 271), both at 1:30 p.m.


ICYMI

► The Denver Broncos were treated to a victory parade in downtown Denver on Tuesday. The crowd was so large — some estimates said a million people were in attendance — that the parade could be seen from space.

 

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6 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Ash Wednesday (Feb. 10)

  1. Who the heck would agree to be Trump's running mate? Would he want an elected officeholder (a member of the FreeDumb Caucus?) or tap a favorite corporate raider?  Tom Tancredo? 

    1. Ivanka

      Any one of the myriad Kardashians

      Jerry Springer

      Montel Williams

      Mike Huckabee

      Sarah Palin

      Bristol Palin

      Dumptruck Palin

      Gordon Klingenschmitt

      Dan Kapliss

      Tom Brady

       

  2. Hillary Clinton may have lost by 22 points in terms of delegate count, but her 394"superdelegate votes" actually make it a tie in terms of eventual delegates to the national Democratic convention.15:15, as Maddow explains.

    This may be good news for you Hillary supporters, but I wonder, if Clinton plans to rely on superdelegate support, if it won't backfire on her come crunch time, as it did in 2008. The "superdelegates are more equal than other delegates" feels an awful lot like the Establishment gaming the system – and the electorate this year is in no mood to tolerate deck-stacking.

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