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April 08, 2016 10:42 AM UTC

Get More Smarter on Friday (April 8)

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Get More SmarterToday is the home opener for the Colorado Rockies. 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…

 

► Colorado will indeed get through the week without a visit from Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, which appears to make more and more sense as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz locks up more Colorado delegates. From the Denver Post:

Ted Cruz added to his lead in Colorado, winning three more national delegates Thursday to boost his total to nine.

The Texas senator found deep support at the 7th Congressional District convention in Arvada among pledged and unpledged delegates, much like he did  Saturday when he swept all six slots award at two conventions

…Donald Trump supporters organized a slate of three candidates for the 7th District convention — the first overt signs of organization from the campaign in Colorado — but still struck out.

According to the folks at Red State, Trump may have failed to pick up support in CD-7 because some of his supporters didn’t pay the proper fees to be listed as candidates. The Post also reports that veteran GOP strategist Patrick Davis is now working for Trump’s campaign in some capacity. Davis has been playing a top role supporting Robert Blaha’s bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.

Elsewhere, as the Washington Post reports, the fate of Donald Trump’s Presidential hopes could be in the hands of just 200 people. His Hairness has hired Paul Manafort as his “convention manager” to help him prepare for a potential “brokered convention” scenario in July.

 

► For several months we have listed Congressman Scott Tipton (R-Cortez) as a 90% favorite to win re-election in CO-3 (check “The Big Line“). Thursday’s news that former state Sen. Gail Schwartz (D) has filed to run against Tipton convinced us to drop Tipton’s re-election odds to 60%. The Cook Political Report also wasted little time in moving CO-3 from “Solid Republican” to “Lean Republican.”

 

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Four Colorado Republicans submitted petition signatures for access to the June 28 Primary ballot. Here’s where it gets complicated.

 

► It will still be a few weeks before we know what the GOP Primary ballot will look like for U.S. Senate, but national pundits are already reclassifying the race in favor of incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Denver). Larry Sabato has moved the contest from “Leans Democratic” to “Likely Democratic,” which is big news nationally considering that Bennet has long been considered the only real potential Senate pickup opportunity for Republicans in 2016.

 

► Speaking, er, typing of Bennet…the Colorado Senator is up with his first paid television commercial of the 2016 election cycle. Bennet talks about the connection between Colorado farmers and craft breweries in the ad titled “Treasure.”

 

► Former Colorado State University Athletic Director Jack Graham was the first Republican candidate for Senate to submit petition signatures for ballot access. Graham might also be the only “pro-choice” candidate seeking the GOP nomination.

 

► Vice President Joe Biden is in Boulder today to speak about sexual violence on college campuses in an event at the University of Colorado.

 

► Lonnie and Sandy Phillips, the Colorado family whose daughter was among those killed in the 2012 Aurora Theater shooting, have some harsh words for Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

 

 

► Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump appears to be uniting Americans…just not in the manner he would have preferred. According to a new Associated Press-GfK poll, Trump is viewed negatively by 7 in 10 people, including nearly half of all Republican voters.

 

► And on the eighth day (of April), Colorado Pols created “The Klingenschgif!

 

► Republican George Athanasopoulos took 85% of the vote at Thursday’s CD-7 Republican congressional assembly, which means he will be the only GOP candidate on the November ballot opposite incumbent Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Jefferson County). Westminster City Council member Bruce Baker, a Republican who announced in January that he would run in CD-7, won’t even find his name on the June 28th Primary ballot because of the Big Vowel’s victory.

 

► Monday was the deadline for Colorado candidates to submit petition signatures to gain access to the June 28th Primary ballot. Aurora Democrat Naquetta Ricks has already been informed by the Secretary of State’s office that she did not collect enough valid signatures to make it on the ballot in HD-42. Democrats Eric Nelson and Dominique Jackson had already made the ballot through the caucus process.

 

► Democratic Presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton was in Denver on Thursday for a fundraiser at the home of Gov. John Hickenlooper.

 

► Critics of efforts to mandate photo identification for voters have long been convinced that the proposal is largely driven by the belief that it would help Republican candidates at the polls. Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman actually admitted as much during a TV interview in Milwaukee this week.

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► There is a “cheese bandit” on the loose in Pueblo, Colorado.

 

► You might think State Senate Republicans would be supportive of efforts to reduce teen pregnancies in Colorado. You would be wrong, sadly.

ICYMI

► An executive from a large coal company has been sentenced to one year in jail for “conspiracy to knowingly violate mine standards.” The sentence stems from a 2010 West Virginia explosion that killed 29 miners.

 

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6 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Friday (April 8)

    1. Unbound can cast their votes as they please:

      http://hotair.com/archives/2016/03/25/time-to-get-ready-for-the-unbound-delegate-primary/

      But here’s an even more interesting take:

      http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/13/rnc-rules-comm-member-every-delegate-at-gop-convention-not-bound-on-first-ballot/

      And of course there’s the fact that rules can be changed pretty much as those in charge of rules see fit. So do any of the previously set rules really bind anyone to anything?

      Stay tuned.

  1. The Jerry Sandusky of the Republican Party?

    According to the NY Times, prosecutors have released details about former Speaker Denny Hastert's (R-IL) history of raping boys when he was a wreastling coach 40 years ago.

    I remember back to 2006 when Hastert was accused of going too soft on former GOP Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) who was hitting on House pages. Mystery solved…..

    Moddy, care to respond and defend the honor of your party?

     

    1. I'm sure Chappy Demonschmitt will be right on this ????

       "Beware Republican legislators — you don't want these kind of people using restrooms . . . And, please, remember to mail in your faith donation!"

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