President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(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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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
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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
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48%↓
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
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State House Majority
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April 01, 2014 12:53 PM UTC
31 Comments
Perhaps he could propose a duel? Loser gets Dumphuckistan? I wish my Congressman would stop bringing butter knives to these gun fights.
I think I may honestly be a little surprised by what a bald-faced liar Gardner is turning out to be. Very shameless indeed.
I love the part, WHILE LYING HIS ASS OFF, where Gardner claims " Senator Udall cannot look Coloradans in the eye and tell them that he honestly cares about creating jobs".
What a fucking pompous little prick.
There's nothing that turns Cory's crank like creating jobs. In Alaska.
I like the bottom of the press release:
Congressman Gardner is a member in the U.S. House of Representatives serving
Colorado's 4th Congressional District.the interests of Koch Industries, Inc..It needed some editing though, in the interest of full disclosure.
For some geographical perspective from Clean Slate
Cory can look you in the eye and tell you ANYTHING his oil and gas patrons tell him to say. It was O&G where he was trained in the art of deception. This is politics and money…money and politics…all the time….everywhere.
People who have ever worked around the O&G lobby know of which, and whom, I speak. I won't name names, but there is a cadre of O&G boys (and a handful of their hand maidens) who have built a culture of immense influence at the Capitol and in the private meeting places in the very expensive parts of Denver. Governor Ritter got away from them because he spent too much time on the western slope, talking to the people who actually lived in the gaspatch when the assault on Garfield county took place, and, additionally, he wasn't one of them, like Frackenlooper, Owens, and so many more.
If you want to ascend in the Colorado Republican party, you WILL make these people happy…
Cory is their boy. It could have been one of the other Three Amigos, Penry or McNulty, but we all know what happened there….
and I should say, in view of the experiences of both Hick and Ritter, though different…the Democratic party, too.
Shouldn't this be a governor issue and not a senator issue?
In this case, it's more of a bullshit issue.
According to righties it's OK to say something is happening because you think it might result via slippery slope. That's why it's OK to say gun legislation that calls for background checks is talking away your guns.
Righties assume that those who object to fracking in residential areas of their communities really want to see a blanket statewide ban. Therefore it's OK to say that they are proposing a statewide ban. Why stop there? It would be equally correct by their standards to say they are proposing nationwide and worldwide bans. If a rightie fears A might lead to B then it's OK to say B is already happening.
No matter how many IQ points they may possess, they don't choose to us any of them learning intellectual discipline based on the rules of logic. It's so much easier to just create your own facts. It's the classic Rove strategy that has been universally accepted on the right. Simply gnore the reality based world create your own reality. That way you don't ever have to defend anything based on facts which we all know are inherently liberal biased.
Death panels.
I was bummed out when the Republican Talking Points [Bullshit] Generator was no longer operational – it gave me at least one good belly laugh per day. But alas, I can now look forward to the Congressman's tweets.
Good stuff and funny because it's so true.
This is just an extention of the 1% doctrine espoused by Cheney and crew. Ron Suskind wrote an excellent book on the subject. I always relate it to schoolyard behavior. What was said of a bully, in that culture and in that era was, " he would knock you down for "looking sideways" at him". This is a bit more passive aggressive…but no less bullshit. "My fear justifies a pre-emptive strike"…and like that.
Of course I meant taking away your guns.The just talking about it is what righties do.
Not to mention gnore and all the other mistakes. I'm getting sloppier as I get more impatient with editing without a preview.
Ummm…fracking should be tightly controlled or banned, period…we don't know the true extent of the chemicals they are injecting into our water supply…and they are not going to tell us…the kochs and others are using their wealth and influence to pollute and kill our environment to ship OUR gas off shore…big bidness will get what it wants no matter the price…that we, the little people, pay…privatize the profits and socialize the costs…
There were some people, the protectourcolorado coalition, proposing a statewide fracking ban back in 2013. They met in January, but that effort has been abandoned, and the energy redirected to a more realistic proposal, the ballot initiative of "Local Control Colorado". ProtectourColorado never came up with a ballot initiative, legislation, or any way forward.
Now we have the more reasonable "Local Control Colorado" plan, which allows a community to actually decide for itself whether to go for the temporary boost to the economy and the long term pollution – or find other ways to support the economy and provide energy to live and work.
This will make the industry accountable to the residents, as well…currently, they just do whatever they want, and who's to stop them? If the industry knows that they can be "voted off the island", they have an incentive to use best practices for containing pollutants, even if the best practices are more expensive.
Gardner and Co. will conflate the modest proposal of local control with an extreme statewide anti-fracking ban, just the way they always do – so its important that people be very well informed on what's what.
That 100K is completely bogus.
This says there are only 61 fracking rigs operating in Colorado.
And, I understand the concept of downstream and general economy jobs.
The 68,000 is bogus…let alone 100,000. No statewide fracking ban that is being proposed anywhere in the range of proposed amendments and initiatives working their way through title hearing tomorrow and beyond toward the ballot. The industry seems to get it won't be easy fighting against giving local jurisdictions the same authorities they have with every other industry in the state (and which–I note–still function). So they choose to be deceptive. As Duke notes, it’s not an unfamiliar response. Get used to it, its "100,000" now…what inflated bullshit do you think the tens of million$$ industry is getting ready to put into defeating this effort will soon spawn?
Gardner should be ashamed for his lies. It’s not surprising but it’s still troubling that elected officials would debase themselves like this.
The state O&G industry counts the clerks at every gas station in Colorado in their numbers – as if they didn't extract that resource right here in the state those souls would lose their jobs and we'd be back to riding horses.
Just to be clear, dave, those are drilling rigs. The ones with the tall derrick just drill holes. Hydraulic fracturing is a process that happens after the holes are drilled. They use lots and lots of trucks, but to my knowledge, the drilling rig is not involved in fracking, though, on multiple well pads, fracking can be done while the drilling rig is still on location. The two processes are commonly confused nowadays, so I am just trying to help keep it straight..
Facts? You're bringing facts to a fraCK-FIGHT? You bastard!
Was it you, Michael, who pointed out that O&G account for about 2.2% of our state economy? I am pretty confident in that number.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the O&G extraction industry employs 192, 650 nationwide, including all job classifications….Hard to believe over half of them are in Colorado…huh?
It was. "Mining" is 4%, and that number is inclusive of O&G, which is just over 2.2%. What's a rounding error amongst friends?
As I said, the 68,000 is on the high end already.
If Gardner and his industry buddies are conflating efforts to increase local control of industrial processes with a statewide ban, that doesn't bode well for the popularity of their industry.
Their industry is not popular, or it wouldn't need to be propped up with propaganda so much.
Five Colorado communities that have experienced the effects of unbounded, unaccountable oil and gas production have voted for no more of it within their borders.
Hence the O&G industry is terrified, and the only thing it knows how to do is to try to scare the crap out of voters, too.
"It will take all your jobs away, even the gas station clerks"."It will tank the economy"…bla bla. Same shit that was tried with the Affordable Care Act. As Ralphie said, it's "death panels" all over again.
You are all missing the point. Where's dwyer when we need him?
Of course no one is really seriously talking about a statewide ban.
There were no death panels.
No gun seizures.
No coddling of kidnappers.
He, and his backers, are defining the argument. Not only for his race (my opponent won't oppose xyz), but for the local control initiative and for the bigger o&g debates coming.
its a good plan.
We're not missing the point. We get it. Countering this narrative will take unfracked reserves of reasonableness, persistence, and patience that we have yet to develop. Not only for people who lack information but desperately want and need jobs, but for greenies who are somewhat informed, but so pure that only an all or nothing solution will do.
And usually when you demand all or nothing, you get nothing. Or rather, you get methane in your air, benzene and all kinds of other crap in your water, birth defects in your children, and a few people getting very rich and giving nothing back to the state. Links upon request.
dwyer reads this stuff. She would regretfully inform us that we're probably all doomed.
It's true that local control has to get out in front of this narrative ASAP. Working on it.