President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
May 11, 2011 02:36 AM UTC
11 Comments
This just shows the Democrats had no intention of finding a rational compromise from the get go.
Either its that explanation or they realized just how ridiculous and hurtful their radical maps were for all Coloradans.
your comment never tickles the reader. Try harder.
I almost half agree with it. The part that ‘Tad fails to mention is that no one on either side had any intention of working toward finding a rational compromise. The whole process has been nothing but a circular firing squad. None of these children have any idea how to play nice; and leadership (Hell, what’s that?) has been completely AWOL or non-existant.
In all the conversations that these pampered brats have had about teachers, public employees, ad infinitum, over the past serveral years you always hear a greek chorus regarding “paying for performance.” Well, I can only conclude that Colorado taxpayers deserve all of our money back this year, and that includes the mileage and per diems too, from everyone of these childish fuckers.
Their original HB1319 was a very fair map. I doubt the courts will give the Dems so fair a map.
CD’s 4 and 6 would have been within Dem striking distance, CD3 was almost surely would have plipped back to Dem in 2012; CD7 was safe with Ed P.; CD’s 1, 2, and 5 were safe with their current parties.
And the community of interest that divided was Aurora, and it was divided on county lines (mostly). There were a couple of weird slivers of counties cut out of Adams, Jeffco and Arapahoe, but I was shopping an Amendment to fix those with the sponsors approval.
Dems blew it this time.
But the one that actually came out of the House after the amendment, the one that all of yesterday’s Senate monkeyshines were about, was NOT a fair map.
And the GOP did not mean for that ne to be and they so much as said so. It said it was their response to the Dems refusal to budge one inch from their pre-session decision to send this issue to the courtroom rather than the committeeroom.
The night that Sen. Heath refused to allow amendments to SB268 other than his own strike-below, that was when I realized the Dems never had any intention of passing a map.
I vented all my rage directly to those I hold responsible. I have none left to share here.
When you dump the puck back to the defense behind the red line with 22 seconds left in the game, when leading by 1 goal that is a way to control the game output.
In politics when you present a bill and then talk it for the last 22 seconds of the session that is tactics fulfilling the strategy.
When a person lacking the ability to comprehend strategy and tactics in the actions of one party with the inept actions of parsimony and hate of another party that person spends a lot of time in “time out”.
The legislature has very few required responsibilities. Among them is the requirement to pass a balanced budget every year and to draw new Congressional boundaries after each census.
That being said, I find it unacceptable that the Courts are allowed to draw these maps. It’s the sole responsibility of the legislature. I get to vote on my state representative and senator, but not on judges. I can hold my representatives responsible for how they draw the map, but there is little recourse for what the Court decides.
The Courts have other options than simply doing the work of the legislature. The state Supreme Court needs to order the legislature into a special session until a map is passed. Set a deadline and hold EVERY member of the legislature in contempt of court if a map is not approved.
Not being able to agree is not an acceptable excuse. I’m so tired of both sides putting their battle for power above the interests of the state. Both sides played politics and failed to fulfill their oath. There needs to be consequences for such disregard of the Constitution and disrespect for the people of Colorado!
should have (?) or could have (?) played in mediating the legislative debate about Congressional redistricting. Wouldn’t a well-brokered agreement have been much better for BOTH parties? Everyone could have gone home and bragged about what a great job they did in redrawing the boundaries.
There are LOTS of ways to come up with a new map that would have been acceptable to both sides — many options have been discussed here — so why has leadership (legislative and the Governor’s Office) failed so miserably on this?
legislative session, the public absence of our new Governor to do anything to lead, shape, or direct any of the non-outcomes this year.