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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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State Senate Majority
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April 17, 2013 12:12 PM UTC
14 Comments
pretty simple. He is scared
pretty simple. He is scared. Expect him to next say "I've never liked labels. I was elected to solve problems"
What's up? Well it's what's always been up with Mike Coffman. The man has no principles, no guiding light, nothing that tells him to stick to his principles. For Mike Coffman, the only principle is getting elected to his next office. He did this when he was challenged from the right and went to the right to get elected to office. Now that this appears inconvenient with a real challenge on the left, well, he changes again. Nothing surprising here. Just walk by. Don't stare at the accident. Don't ask the media to cover it. They won't because it's not in their interest to do so. They want a close race and only by moving to the middle does Coffman give them this.
My guess is that he's "evolving" on gay marriage. He's also probably "evolving" for a second time on abortion since as I know for a fact, he was pro-choice at one time and then "evolved" when it wasn't convenient.
His new name, The Ever Evolving, Ever Revolving Mike Coffman. Too long, I know, but that's the truth.
Craig is correct. Congressman Coffman saw what happened in the last election cycle and he is now tacking hard left, from a hard right position, to get back to the middle. He'll stay just far enough to the right through the 6th District Assembly to fend off any primary opponent but then he will "evolve" even more (moving to the left) to try and stop Speaker Romanoff's challenge. He is whatever he has to be to win.
He had a fundraiser at the Brown Palace a few weeks ago with Majority Leader Eric Cantor as the guest speaker. I have a friend who attended and he said it was like watching the death spiral of the Colorado Republican Party. Most of the contributors were in their mid-60's or older and there were no Hispanics or African Americans and only two women contributors. It was the same contributors who were the mainstay of Republican campaigns in the late 70's and early 80's. No one is on the bench or evern in the game from the younger generations.
In Mike Coffman's zeal to morph into the majority, next up: wearing a dress and high heels.
One of the characteristics officials like Coffman have in common is a view of their service as a legislator or executive as a great financial opportunity on a personal level. Around here, we call that " the Steve King Strategy" after the man who showed everyone else in Mesa County how it's done. You can count on such officials to make keeping the paycheck number one priority…and about those values thingies? Well…can we talk?
Bipartisanship is good, except when a Republican does it, and then it's bad.
Round and round the hypocrisy goes…
If you recall, Craig above, has known Mike since high school.
but those are just the old guys. Your kind of republican doesn't ever compromise, remember? The definition of bi-partisanship cannot be written with out compromise. Tell that to the Pauls.
You're babbling. What s Coffman DOING that is displeasing you? Isn't he trying to work with Democrats? Shouldn't you be praising that?
Does that clear it up for you?
Arapa, yes, I like a politician who does good things even if he hasn't done them previously. But… He needs to 1) say he'll do something differently than in the past 2) actually do it 3) explain why he didn't do it before 4) explain why he's doing it now. It's up to us (and the media) to track policians like this.
Give yourself ( and this site ) a little more credit, Jason.
With a few ace reporters like you and several astute and articulate commentators on board, I think this blog fits into that media”ccategorysomewhere…don’t you think? 🙂
I grew up hearing this called "being anybody's dog that'll hunt with him". He's come too far left to please the Tea-partisans in the core of the old CD 6 and the people in the former CD 7 will never vote for him (they miss Perlmutter.). I'd say he's firmly 'twixt a rock and a hard spot. But it's hard to feel sorry for him. He's gotten himself where he is. and he's compromised too much to please anybody.