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UPDATE: Press release from Ken Buck, “full steam ahead.” Ken Buck confirmed today that it’s full steam ahead for his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Buck said, “While other candidates may still jump in the Senate race, one thing is clear – our party’s nominee will be chosen by Colorado’s grassroots Republicans, not by political […]

Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis was once, though just briefly, a U.S. Senate candidate. And as we think he’s amply demonstrated in the last couple of months, McInnis is a pretty scrappy guy–he doesn’t take well to being pushed around. Everybody remembers what happened to McInnis’ Senate candidacy, right? “I would have beat Udall, that wasn’t […]

(Added bolds, link – promoted by Colorado Pols) This morning the Loveland Reporter-Herald reports that yesterday at Bob Schaffer’s Monday Morning Republican Club meeting, State Senator and Republican gubenatorial candidate Josh Penry received and accepted two “major” endorsements from former Representative Jim Welker and state Senator Kevin Lundberg. Welker and Lundberg don’t endorse candidates unless […]

We just got this from the Our Country Deserves Better PAC via Townhall Spotlight (a paid advertisement service of Townhall.com)–apparently it’s the ad that’s “making liberals berzerk”–and it was too heavens-to-Betsy scandalous not to post now now now, by God! You’re probably thinking we just posted this to terrify you on general principles, but there […]

(We’ve updated this diary to include some press links generated by Pols users uncovering the McInnis mountain problem – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE TUESDAY: Grand Junction Sentinel: Schaffer was embarrassed last year when a photo of Denali National Park appeared in a televised ad that was supposed to feature Pikes Peak in his […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The bizarre tale of Dan Tang, a Chinese restaurant owner who has been accused of laundering money for a large-scale marijuana-growing ring (24,000 plants netted in a slew of raids) involving his brothers, has been making quite a bit of news lately. Tang allegedly profited from the sales of […]

The Denver Post’s Dan Haley takes note of all the spontaneous loving going on: Consider the ad in last week’s Post by a trade group, praising Ritter for supporting biotech industries and thus creating high-wage jobs. It had a huge photo of the guv under the heading “Bill Ritter understands Colorado’s economy.” First, let me […]

One of the biggest obstacles in front of gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ future political viability is his attack last October, just days before the election, on ‘insiders’ who engineered his removal from the 2008 Senate race–in favor of eventual loser Bob Schaffer. Even if he was right, as we believe he was at least partly, […]