CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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September 30, 2013 03:03 PM UTC
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Yeah, but he's got the GREATEST penis augmentation device in this race…
I can't wait until Tanc, Scott and [probably] Kopp shows us what they're hiding in their pockets. The first guy in a game like this never wins.
Brophy is way to much of a wingnut even for the majority of today's Colorado wignuts. Nope, Dudley just stepped on his . . . er, weapon . . . again . . . by siding with the most certain of eventual primary losers.
(Not saying, however, that the same group of ususal suspect caucusers that gave us Dan Maes's brilliant GOP victory last cycle won't be swayed by this piece of good news . . . )
I don't think so.
cf, Rafael Cruz.
The only Republican I can think of that might be a contender is too busy running a football team at present….and now that I have made it a political post…how bout' them Broncos…woooeeyy!
Pretty amazing. Funny, I haven't heard anybody whining about how we only got rid of Tebow because the Broncos hate Christians lately. What happened to all those folks?
The irony is just too, delicious.
They were mad because the Broncos traded a guy they thought walked on water…
and settled on a guy who wades through defenses.
sweet.
Anyway, back to politics. I was only half-kidding about Elway. I know some people who would love to see him run for office.
Of course they'd like to see Elway run. He's the only visible Republican who could win a statewide election.
I'll be using that line Duke
BC, you've probably seen the pics of the "tebow plane" flying over the Jacksonville stadium.
Priceless, if only because it's a case of "deja vu all over again".
I remember the billboard here, financed, as it turned out, by a front group in Alabama. The tebow corporation's doing the same thing down in JAX now. Never mind he can't play, "he's a good guy". Pressure.
To me the irony's in the part where when tebow was traded, he had his choice between JAX and the Jets My hunch is tebow refused the Jags because his dad was very troubled by the prospect of the activist christian tebow playing for a Muslim. bob tebow's got history with Muslims in the Phillipine Islands.
Now, with the old "beggars can't be choosers" thing going, tebow suddenly doesn't see playing for Khan as such a bad thing, but Shad Khan hasn't forgotten the snub 2 years ago.
That and the fact both his quarterbacks are better than tebow.
Larry Liston was a clown and absolutely deserved to lose his race.
Glenn Vaad, not so much.
Confirmed. There is a God…
Brophy will just turn himself to a trophy for Frackenlooper….
All GOP will be extinct. Even you, n3b.
Eventually we all go extinct.
True but some of us actually want to do something positive to help our fellow man before then. Republicans not so much. Their behavior over funding our government and paying our national debts is a perfect example of their cluelessness and hatred for compromise and cooperation.
Love their new attempt to make it all about those mean Dems. After refusing to 18 requests for conference on the budget going back to early spring, Boehner proposes going to conference hours before the shut down and after making it all about stopping Obamacare and whines that the Dems turned him down.
What all the talking heads are talking about is that the threat to shut down the government was all about stopping Obamacare. Now they've managed to shut down the government but the ACA sign up roll out is going forward tomorrow as planned. So why are they so damned pleased with themselves, now? Oh and apparently Putin polls better than Congress.
House voted to fund what you are talking about. Dems in Senate refused when their precious Obamacare was not included.
It's OUR precious Obamacare, Fladen.
It is the law, passed by OUR congress. Signed by our president. Reinforced by OUR supreme court.
You are a scofflaw.
And which Congress has a constitutional right not to fund. Guess you forgot about that whole checks and balances thing from high school government class 😉
This is why people lose patience with you.
Duke shouldn't have to hold your hand and walk you through the process. The childish "high school government" snipe aside, the primary function of the HOR is to fund the Government. It's a routine procedure, and typically it's done via vote after both Houses meet in "conference". You see, the Senate has thier Bill. The House has thiers. The final is a compromise between the two, BUT not funding previously passed legislation is not within the parameters of the conference.
The Bill is not intended to be a relitigation of any Laws passed by both Houses, signed by the POTUS, and reaffirmed by SCOTUS.
The republicans refused to appoint a committe through the House on no less than 18 occasions.
Last night, in a cynical finger in the eye jesture, boehner and paul said they'd now appoint a committee. After weeks of refusing to do so. After the government shut down. For the specific purpose of not funding previously PASSED legislation.
Two things. You should know this. No one should have to walk you through this. And once again, this is why people lose patience with you.
My apologies, should have been CR, not Bill.
He got the high school snipe because of he scofflaw snipe. Tit for tat.
On substance. Convress gets to decide the procedures to fund the government. It is called the power of the purse. Their decision not to fund a Obamacare through this mechanism is one that has both a solid constitutional and policy foundation. Whether it has a solid political foundation will be seen.
No. There is no precedence.
If I'm wrong, plwase dite it.
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time." U.S Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 9, Cl. 7
This power has been used by both parties. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_purse#United_States
It is interstate commerce, and a tax. The COngress has every right to fund it. Read the law, instead of spouting moronic crap.
The Mandate is NOT interstate commerce. It WAS ruled a tax….which is irrelevant to Congress's power of the purse
It has been a while since I attended high school, that is true.
But I know a little about the government , and I know congress has no justification for refusing to fund a law that it passed.
its OK though, kid, I forgive your childish impertinence.
Different Congress passed it. This Congress is not obligated to fund it.
I don't believe that's true. Also, the examples you gave me were red herrings. Iran-
Contra was an illegal operation, and the guy with the mustache went to jail. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution wasn't meant to be funded into perpetuity.
I've never heard a Congress isn't responsible for funding legislation passed by a previous Congress before.
If I'm exposing my ignorance here, so be it. I'll chalk it up to an embarrassing lesson learned, and I'll be better for it.
I'm not sure where to reference it. Can you help me out?
There is no obligation to fund programs you pass in your own congress, but you'll probably risk looking stupid if you do it (because you passed it after all). Same idea here, without the risk.
Which is, of course, why you're a Brophy supporter ???
Really a top-notch defense there, counselor — makes me wonder what kind of hourly you're billing here??
Who said I was a Brophy supporter?
My hourly rate for posting here is three Dagny boogers. Paid up front.
Hell, I kinda' thought you might have noticed that this was actually a diary about Brophy?? You mean, all your repeated explosive diarehea here about the ACA wasn't just to pad your billings . . . WTF???
Have a booger on me, . . . gratis !!
One of the many excuses I've had from Elliot when he refuses to directly address a question or point is that I was off on a tangent (yeah right) and he's only obliged to address what its in the diary, not anything in my comment Of course this begs the question of why he chose to hit my personal comment box "reply" instead of the "reply" to the diary.
Here he demonstrates that he's perfectly fine with discussing things not directly stated in the thread heading diary. So never mind. That excuse was for that situation New excuses for new situations.
He's like a child who keeps trying to convince everyone to change the rules of whatever game is being played whenever he feels he might be in danger of losing.
Here's the latest results of an on-line poll "south of Monument Hill". The little guy is going to have to get a bigger gun:
What Republican challenger would have the best chance of unseating Gov. John Hickenlooper in the 2014 election?
When are caucuses?
Democrats have already made a mistake in underestimating the 2nd amendment supporters.
Brophy will have their passionate support, as well as that of all those lycra-clad cyclists he writes laws for.
Democrats should be very afraid.
I tend to agree with you. However, I thought that Tancredo would pick up that group..
I was being sarcastic. No way cyclists vote for Tancredo.
Eeyore is always quick to proclaim the doom and destruction of all things Democrat. We just can't compete with those oh so clever Republicans in his worldview. My guess is that by next year when all the hew and cry about gun regulations turn up nothing, moderates and Independents are going to remember how well HIckenlooper handled the flood recovery. I live in Gilpin County and you can't believe the convoys of dump trucks and rock haulers heading north everyday starting as early as 6 in the morning. He is doing a great job of marshalling resources to help people recover from the flood before the winter sets in. Sorry Eeyore/dwyer but you suck as a concern troll.
I had to look up Eeyore. Wikipedia says he was an "old grey donkey."
Proud to be that; although if I had a bugle I would blow it. It is not doom and gloom to point out that the repubs are pursuing an agressive strategy and I don't know what the dems are doing. I remember a time when dems were not passive, depending on the repubs to self-destruct, and then delighted to wait and hope to exploit a natural disaster. I remember 1960, 1968 and the come back in 1974…..through assassinations, etc, dems kept fighting. i was a donkey then, but not like now, old and gray. Back when it was a proud thing to be a democrat. I thought that mamajones55, certainly in that proud tradition, would be on the winning side. I sorry she was not.
Ironically, I was playing to the "we don't have to do anything because the repubs will self-destruct." I anticipated that Tancredo and Brophy might split the 2nd Amendment supporters and said so. As for DP's remark…Democrats have already made a mistake in underestimating the 2nd amendment supporters. – See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/50123/rocky-mountain-gun-owners-greg-brophy-for-governor#comments
That is what I was agreeing with…..
You didn't know who Eeyore is?
You know what the Republicans are doing?? Really?? Maybe you can let them in on your secret knowledge, because it's pretty clear they don't have an effing clue themselves. (Which Republican spokesmodel have you chosen this particular minute to be the voice of authority for that cat herd?).
OTOH you don't know at all what the Dems are doing . . . ???
It would seem that you're more than slightly inconsistent in picking and choosing what you know, what you think, what you think you know, and what you know you think … might have a little something to do with where you're sourcing your "facts," ya' think??
Usually you are not so subtle, DP. I totally missed the sarcasm.
Another mark by my name.
Brophy will ask an AR-15 to be his lieutenant governor.
Gotta love this...Greg's Gun Club.
Call me a pinko commie union thug, but I don't think that this helps qualify him for Governor.