U.S. Senate
See Full Big Line
(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
Governor
See Full Big Line
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
60%
60%
40%↓
Att. General
See Full Big Line
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
40%
30%
Sec. of State
See Full Big Line
(D) George Stern
(D) A. Gonzalez
(R) Sheri Davis
40%
40%
30%
State Treasurer
See Full Big Line
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%
30%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
See Full Big Line
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
See Full Big Line
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
See Full Big Line
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
See Full Big Line
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
See Full Big Line
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
See Full Big Line
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
See Full Big Line
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
See Full Big Line
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
50%
40%
40%
State Senate Majority
See Full Big Line
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
See Full Big Line
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
March 30, 2007 05:22 PM UTC
35 Comments
Nonetheless, this GSA scandal fits Marilyn Musgrave’s profile of using the taxpayer-funded “Congressional Field Hearing” device every election cycle to get positive press. Funny how the press keeps falling for it too.
I think she held eight or nine of them in the summer and fall of 2006. No class. No shame. The Pride of Eaton!
Marilyn Musgrave is a conservative hero to millions of Americans, and they will be there for her again against whatever loony lefty fascist runs against her.
The wobbly RINOs are the real problem. We need to unite behind a principled conservative who is an example to the AMERICAN NATION of what a REAL REPUBLICAN ought to be!!!
Well, the meaning of the word “fascist” is pretty hard to pin down, but I think you just stretched it into new stratospheres of imaginative reinterpretation!
You can be Corporatist and still be Left on other scales.
But in this case, you’re probably right. Rizzo throws the phrase around, but he probably doesn’t know what he’s really saying.
are fairly twisted, creating the possibility of all sorts of wierd combinations (or designations), but “fascism” is normally used to designate the extreme right: Ultra-nationalism, in particular. In some ways, I suppose you can call Stalinism “leftist fascism,” but that’s more a tribute to the lack of specificity of the terms than to anything else.
But your point is well taken.
He’s a rare poster these days, but click on his link and read through his comments and you’ll get an idea about him. He’s such a Musgrave shill that I believe he must work for her staff.
What are the principles MM stands behind and defends?
What are her values?
Please describe what American Nation means.
Waiting…..
See? Her little buddy in her back pocket, Rizzo, just can’t get off his high horse and dream anything up… Oh wait a minute! Isn’t it God, Guns and Gays? Or was that God, Guns and Greed? Will somebody call short Mr. Guy and ask?
As her COS you defend her with great spirit. Now can we hear from someone who dosen’t work for her?
Her principles were a perfect example of how an election shouldn’t be run. You are certainly entitled to like and want her to win, but please spare us the histrionics. You’re starting to sound like our Dr. Dobby.
Uh huh. She’s a “real Republican” all right – just like all the others who got slammed out of office last cycle. She and her chief of staff Mr. Shorty practice “real Republican” values by getting caught a couple of weeks ago asking for gifts which are illegal. Mr. Shorty apparently asked a well known conservative Morton Blackwell for a free place to stay for his staff while probably spending thousands of taxpayers dollars in D.C. on their little staff outing. Sort of falls in line with why so many GOPers got ousted last cycle, doesn’t it? Certainly follows why she isn’t popular in what should be a heavily leaning GOP district. Yes, folks. Its called corruption. Uh huh. She’s a real Republican all right. Follow the money. Follow the corruption.
The problem isn’t the RINOS, Rizzo. The problem is the lack of ethical GOP leaders who have the spine not to succumb to power, greed and corruption. Same is true with Dems. They all go to DC to “take care of the problem” and become part of the problem because their egos become bigger than their desire to do what’s right.
of knowing how to balance the reasonable commitment to stay in office (motivated as easily, though perhaps not as heavily, by a desire to do good as a desire to gratify one’s own ego) with the necessity of making unpopular decisions if, indeed, “doing good” (by whatever definition) is a primary motivation. There’s such pressure to do what it takes to get re-elected that “becoming part of the problem” is harder to avoid than just keeping your ego in check.
and seemed to never even consider if true conservative values were being impinged by such pandering to Big Money, Big Power and really Big Baiting of a nations Moral agenda. If the cynical Eastern plains rancher believes that letting the big multi-national Oil Lobby run the country is a good trade for squashing a few gay rights then they must not fuel their own tractors.
As far as I can tell, she has no redeeming qualities (as a politician) whatsoever. (I’ll maintain a discrete silence over the question of whether she has any redeeming qualities as a human being).
You’re right on, CBS — it isn’t RINO’s or DINO’s that are the problem — it’s those that sell out. Follow the money — it’ll tell you a lot. Now, about that weekend in the Virginia cabin…
Musgrave cuts check amid ethics question
By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News
March 14, 2007
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s office wrote a $480 check on Wednesday to avoid a possible violation of congressional ethics rules for free use of a vacation cabin during a recent staff retreat.
Musgrave took the action after the Rocky Mountain News questioned her staff’s free use of a cabin near rural Culpepper, Va., for two nights in late January.
The cabin has a rich political history. Owned by well-known conservative activist Morton C. Blackwell, it’s where Republican leaders signed the “Contract with America” that helped the party seize control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
Musgrave chief of staff, Guy Short, said he has known Blackwell for 15 years since they worked together at The Leadership Institute, an organization whose web site talks about its mission of “developing Christian leaders who listen to God, embody His character and extend His kingdom.”
Short said he contacted Blackwell about using the cabin when he was making arrangements for the retreat Jan. 24 and 25. Short said they did not discuss a payment because he and Blackwell were friends.
However, House ethics rules explicitly ban private groups or individuals from providing anything of monetary value, such as food, materials or meeting space, to defray congressional offices’ costs for official events, including retreats, according to a 2001 advisory opinion ( http://www.house.gov/ethics/m_events.htm) from the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
“With very limited exceptions … such outside assistance may not be accepted for an event sponsored by a House office,” according to the 2001 opinion, which was signed by retired Rep. Joel Hefley of Colorado, the Republican who chaired the committee at the time.
The 2001 memo discussed staff retreats in detail and stated they “may not take place on private property unless the sponsoring office pays fair value for its use.”
The reason is to avoid a perception that private interests have undue influence.
None of the few exceptions cited in the memo appear to apply to Musgrave’s use of the privately owned cabin.
After consulting an attorney at the ethics committee, Musgrave’s office requested a bill for $240 per night of use and cut a check on Wednesday, Short said.
Staff retreats are common ways for congressional offices to build teamwork and strategies for the coming year. Musgrave’s four-day event consisted of two days at a hotel in suburban Washington, D.C., and two days at the three-bedroom cabin.
Musgrave did not attend the cabin sessions, but about 15 staff members did.
“We slept on the floor in sleeping bags,” Short said. “There were 15 of us. One of the major goals of our retreat was to learn to work together. We thought, what a great idea.”
“Musgrave chief of staff, Guy Short, said he has known Blackwell for 15 years since they worked together at The Leadership Institute, an organization whose web site talks about its mission of “developing Christian leaders who listen to God, embody His character and extend His kingdom.”
There ya have it folks – Musgrave’s COS was practicing that “godly Christian behavior” that people of real moral character like him do… when they’re trying to fleece the public. Like trying to get something for free when he had to know it was unethical and illegal. If he didn’t – as a chief of staff of a congressman, then he must be just plain stupid. My guess is, he knew exactly what he was doing by not asking his buddy Blackwell how much the cabin was gonna cost.
I just want to know who got the three beds in the house?
The sexes were seperated.
if they separated the sexes, you know where that could lead to…..
Parting seas? Smiting? Or is that smoting? Pettiness for not being worshipped? Infrequent hair and beard trims? Perfection? Oh, there’s that flood thing, oops.
would be to ban the likes of Shorty from the temple.
Don’t leave us hanging there…….do you know anything juicy you can share with us?
Shorty … in a cabin in the woods of Virginia….with 15 interns … sleeping on the floor…building “teamwork” .. the only thing missing is dueling banjos, Rizzo in his Captain America outfit and a guest appearance from Pastor Ted.
Musgrave will have to eventually get it that nobody is out to “defeat her”. She acts like she’s at war with half of Colorado’s population and people are just fighting back. She’s been very chummy with Bush and his group of partisan separatists and we have had enough of it. She’s proposing a new ammendment for unification of church and state. Too bad her boy, Ted Haggard got busted commiting the “sins” he was so avidly preaching against. Nobody is trying to defeat her but herself.
Of course people are out there trying to defeat her! And, why shouldn’t they? 54% of the population in CD4 can’t stand she and her co-congressman, short, Mr. Guy. She’s not around and when she is, she’s supporting stupid stuff that doesn’t help her constituency. Like someone said – having all those congressional hearing during election years to benefit who? Only her re-election effort. At least Udall has the tactfulness not to do them during election years. If she were a good, principled Republican as Rizzo says, she might just get a clue and step aside and allow the national GOP to put their money behind someone their people can tolerate… or at least get over 46% of the vote.
Thanks for the urgency. My point here is that her “Federal Marriage Protection Act” is an abomination of the first ammendment to our constitution. She is using Bush’s clout to create unification of church and state. How can anyone promote or defend that? I PRAY they get rid of the slimy traitor.
This is the first I’ve heard about this latest brain fart of an idea Musty has passed onto our nation. What exactly does this proposed amendment say? Do share……
She was filmed with W on a military aircraft discussing her proposal aimed at limiting marriage benefits to one man and one woman. This is a Biblical philosophy she picked up from Ted Haggard. It goes against every first ammendment theory I can think of. If she succeeds in adding a constitutional ammendment that nullifies the first ammendment, then she is the most Orwellian politician in D.C. Animal Farm anyone? She’s the pig.
Sorry, but when you talked about unification of church and state, I thought she was wheeling out something new. I should have known better……..
The Federal Marriage Amendment has been her pet project for several years now. It’s actually been her ONLY project.
It does indirectly blur the wall between church and state by taking the definition of marriage followed by some religions, and making it the govt.’s definition.
This may be news to some, but in this country there ceremonial (also known as religious) marriages, and civil marriages. Many times, they are performed simultaneously (the priest, minister or rabbi can officiate and conduct a ceremonial and civil marriage in one). Other times, they are not.
As for the fate of the Federal Marriage Amendment, it didn’t get very far when the inmates were running the asylum we call the U.S. House from 1994 to 2006. I cannot imagine that John Conyers, the new chairman of the Judiciary Committee, would waste any time even conducting hearing on this constitutional abomination!
Since this issue has caused enough national attention for many states to create “marriage protection” ammendments to their own constitutions and the Great Marilyn is the one who wants to bomb the first ammendment to the U.S. constitution, I’m just trying to create a different lens or perspective to examine her intentions. There are plenty of serious issues out there, but I sincerely believe that people who try to abolish the American Constitution are the only real terrorists.
Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Protection of Marriage Act, it’s all the same and equally unconstitutional. Spying, gunning us down and homophobia were never intended by the founding fathers. Argue with that!