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( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Politics. Where highly complicated national and global issues are boiled down into black and white talking points. Where things that should be relatively clear are spun into something that is “controversial” or “confusing.” For example, take Dick Wadhams’ interview in The Hill Newspaper yesterday. Dick is discussing the fact […]

With Democrat Senate candidate Mark Udall having announced a resounding $1.1 million in Q2 fundraising, all eyes are now on GOP opponent Bob Schaffer, whose failure to join the rush of triumphant fundraising press releases this week has got more than a few Republicans worried. So worried, as a trustworthy Republican source explains, that there […]

Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall will report $1.1 million in raised funds for the second quarter, and a total of $2.5 million in ready cash. Needless to say, it’s a major success for Udall, though we’re waiting to see opponent Bob Schaffer’s results before we get too congratulatory. Our sources predicted $500,000, which we thought […]

As the Boulder Daily Camera reported Saturday: “We fully intend to have our 2008 state Republican convention at the Broomfield Event Center,” said party Chairman Dick Wadhams. “It’s just a matter of locking in the right date with them.” The news comes three weeks after Broomfield Democrats learned they lost a bid to host their […]

So Colorado Rep. Doug Lamborn is to Ed Perlmutter–sort of. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: It’s not easy being a freshman in Washington. Especially when your party has fallen out of power for the first time in 12 years. With the war in Iraq growing politically more precarious by the day and such hot-button […]

As the Greeley Tribune reports: U.S. Reps. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Fort Morgan, and Mark Udall, D-Eldorado Springs, met with six agricultural leaders in Windsor on Monday to talk about Congress’ work on the farm bill. The lawmakers mostly nodded their heads in empathy and said they would take the concerns back to Washington… On the one […]