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Kavanaugh Vote, Scheduled for Thursday, Is Officially Cancelled
As CNN reports, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has officially cancelled a planned hearing on Thursday that was expected to result in a vote on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. So what happens now? Amber Phillips of the Washington Post outlined three possible outcomes this morning, but the first one — the Senate […]
George Brauchler Whiffs Two More Cases
Republican Attorney General George Brauchler has always talked a big game when it comes to his skills as a prosecutor, but as we’ve recounted in this space a number of times in recent years, the talk hasn’t always been matched by a record of courtroom victories–particularly in recent high profile cases involving fellow Republicans and […]
Walker Stapleton on PERA Reform: Eight Years of Zilch
Long periods of inactivity occasionally interrupted by pointless platitudes. If you were going to summarize Republican Walker Stapleton’s history with his self-professed signature issue of PERA reform, this is about where you’d end up. As Brian Eason writes for the Colorado Sun, Stapleton has spent the last eight years as State Treasurer talking about the […]
Weird And Creepy In SD-15
Saja Hindi and Nick Coltrain of the Fort Collins Coloradoan report on what we sincerely hope was a random incident in which a Democratic Colorado Senate candidate’s car was apparently shot at last week–with the candidate inside: It’s not clear if Rebecca Cranston, a Democrat running for a district that largely covers Larimer County outside Fort […]
Kavanaugh Confirmation Process Upended
UPDATE #2: President Trump voices his support for another hearing. From the Washington Post: “We want to go through a full process,” Trump told reporters at an event on workforce development. He added that the Senate will “go through a process and hear everybody out.” —– UPDATE: Chris Cillizza of CNN explains how everything changed this […]
Jason Crow’s Big Lead Kicks Off The Week’s News
We wrote last week about a poll underway in Colorado’s red-hot CD-6 race by the New York Times and Siena College, which showed Democratic candidate Jason Crow opening a double-digit lead over incumbent Rep. Mike Coffman. This poll was especially interesting because the results were released in real time–and after the early results excited Democrats, […]
Seriously, Did Republicans Fire All Their Editors?
We took note Friday of a TV spot targeting rep. Brittany Pettersen of Lakewood from the Republican Senate Majority Fund–an expensive production and ad buy that couldn’t even spell the targeted candidate’s name right. If it’s worth producing and distributing before the eyeballs of thousands of voters, it should go without saying that it’s worth the […]
Tailhook Scandal Resurfaces for Stapleton Running Mate Lang Sias
As John Frank reports today for the The Colorado Sun, Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate Lang Sias played a not-insignificant role in the infamous Tailhook scandal of the early nineties. We’d encourage you to read the entire story for yourself, but we’ll try to summarize the key points here as best we can. For those of you […]
The Great Colorado (Pay)Backfire
For most of the last eight years, State Treasurer Walker Stapleton — the Republican nominee for Governor in 2018 — has used “The Great Colorado Payback” as an excuse to get his goofy mug on television for a few weeks every spring. It’s a nice little perk for a politician looking to run for higher office; you […]