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Oh boy, as the Colorado Independent reports: U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman minced no words in a bizarre, Cheney-esque attack on Gov. Bill Ritter as a “terrorist sympathizer” for signing a new state law that stymies future expansion of the Army’s contentious Piñon Canyon training site proposal. The accusation of Ritter’s treason can be found in […]

As the Denver Post reports: U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman on Monday unveiled a proposal to give tax breaks to people who buy water-saving toilets, sprinkler systems and other items for their houses. Coffman said he hopes the proposed credit, which was formally introduced earlier this month and has bipartisan support in Congress, will spur a […]

UPDATE: The Denver Post picks up where the Independent left off: U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman says an ethics group waged a two-year “partisan attack” against him while he served as Colorado’s secretary of state… “It was essentially a two-year jihad so they could go back to their donors and say they were doing a good […]

That’s the word from Denver District Court today, as Politics West reports: Congressman Mike Coffman has a date with the state’s Independent Ethics Commission this week, after a Denver District Court judge denied his request to delay a hearing in a complaint against him. “Having fully considered the jurisdictional arguments of Coffman advanced to the […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reports–bet you’d forgotten, hadn’t you? A complaint filed a year ago against former Secretary of State Mike Coffman should continue to a public hearing, the new state Independent Ethics Commission has ruled. The hearing, scheduled for March 6, would be the first of its kind by the panel, which was […]

As the Denver Post reports: Secretary of State Mike Coffman said today that a published report was “way off” in asserting that Colorado had purged almost 37,000 people from voter registration rolls. At a press conference today to respond to a New York Times article which said that Colorado is one of six battleground states […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Already measuring the drapes? At least hiring the interns. An e-mail seeking General Election campaign interns sent out Monday by the confident Mike Coffman campaign drew fire from his Republican opponents today. In an apparent snafu, the e-mail referred to “Mike’s Congressional office,” forgetting to mention two elections stand […]

As the Denver Post reports: With less than three weeks to go before the primary election, the campaign among four Republicans vying to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has veered toward the personal. This week, the two leaders in the race in terms of fundraising traded the most public blows of the campaign so […]