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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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(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(D) River Gassen
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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January 06, 2009 06:03 PM UTC
21 Comments
As Jeff Bridges pointed out in a recent diary, Salazar’s support among Hispanics in Pueblo made his re-election campaign that much easier, and anyone who wants to get re-elected must carry Pueblo by a wide margin if they want to go to bed early on election night 2010.
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
Sure, Bennet has the connections to be a mammoth fundraiser, but that’s only half of campaigning. The other half is connecting directly with constituents. Ken Salazar had an uncanny way of being able to connect one-on-one with voters–both white and Hispanic. Will Bennet be able to do that? Or will the lack of a latino name on the ballot cause many Puebloans to stay hopme that day?
If he wants to win in 2010, then the best way to do that would be to start visiting with the community leaders quoted in the article. Make the voters there realize that he’s looking out for them–not just on education, but on the other issues that matter to them. If he doesn’t reach out to them right away, there’s a real danger of those voters staying home–or worse, being lured by the as-yet-unknown Republican candidate.
Gil and Diane are Pueblo Union Labor Council Administrators. This sounds like the canned messaging from 815 16th St NW in D.C. when the preferred Union Boss candidate is not elevated.
The Western Slope dittos most of these comments that apply to Pueblo.
…Michael Bennet could point out Moffat County on a map
lol
when IIRC a DPO reporter asked her to point out Serbia (what was then Yugoslavia) on a map during the war in the Balkans, when she was attorney general of Colorado. She did so accurately and then went on to give the reporter a detailed explanation of the conflict in the region. Oops.
what was constitutional about Amendment 2 when she argued the case before the US Supreme Court:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R…
In all fairness to her, Gale Norton didn’t write Amendment 2’s crappy and constitutionally-limiting language. She only decided to go all out in defending it, all the way to the Supreme Court.
We get it – a lot of people don’t know who he is. Or at least didn’t know who he was a week ago.
blame Gilbert Ortiz. He asked the question. 🙂
Or at least, I don’t know anything about his policy positions.
Does Gov. Ritter not realize that there is more to the State of Colorado then just the city of Denver? The Democratic party has done a great job of spreading out the base in recent years and gaining independents nationwide. Ritter went away from this and might find himself out of a job a little sooner than planned.
Bennet is known for one thing, Merit pay for teachers and that idea while good in theory has proven not to work in reality.
Since doing an experiment that barely touches merit pay for 1 year is enough to determine if the idea works. Here’s the thing, actual merit pay is used throughout private industry for a very simple reason – it is very very effective.
Merit pay is a good change to schools, I think. People who perform exceptionally well at the jobs they’re assigned – and that doesn’t mean strictly “percentage of students passing the CSAPs” – deserve recognition, and merit pay is one of the few ways an employer can recognize their employee for that work.
I still hold out on keeping tenure, though (and I know a lot of people equate that with the merit pay idea…). Tenure exists to free teachers from political constraints; so long as the teacher is being effective, I think we have to give them the assurance that tenure provides. Perhaps some modifications to the tenure system are in order, but the basic principle should remain.
How about we set it that there must be valid criteria for firing a teacher? Most of us are fine with protecting teachers from political firings.
If “valid criteria” are decided solely by the administrators of the school, or effectively by the school administration, then I don’t think that’s sufficient.
You can’t compare schools to private industry. The goal in private industry is to make a profit. The goals of schools are different for each class and each student each year. You can’t compare apples to oranges. Merit pay is a buzz word that gets people with no knowledge of the subject to jump on board. Sure teachers must be held accountable but Bennets merit pay system was a joke.