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From The Denver Post: Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar is sponsoring a Senate amendment urging the Bush administration to launch a phased redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of this year. Salazar, who voted against setting a fixed deadline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq last week, joined three other Senate Democrats as sponsors […]

First Attorney General John Suthers said he’d petition the Colorado Supreme Court to allow the illegal immigration measure on the ballot, and now Governor Bill Owens says he’ll call a special session on illegal immigration if the courts don’t overturn the ruling. From The Denver Channel:

Here’s a curious tidbit from a Denver Post editorial yesterday: The 3rd Congressional District race must be heating up. Supporters of incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep. John Salazar are privately dissing the competition – not over the issues but over his flashy wheels. Republican businessman Scott Tipton of Cortez is challenging Salazar, who is seeking a […]

UPDATE: Here are some excerpts?from President Bush’s address this evening, as released by the White House: On the President?s vision for comprehensive immigration reform:? ??We are a Nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws.? We are also a Nation of immigrants, and we must uphold that tradition, which has strengthened our country in […]

…because Rep. Jim Welker is KILLING the Republicans. You can follow the chain of the foibles of Rep. Welker here, but things just get worse and worse for Colorado’s Dumbest Legislator. According to the Rocky Mountain News: State Rep. Jim Welker acknowledged Tuesday that his Loveland telecommunications company has been selling personal cell-phone records but […]

SoapBlox Colorado, a liberal blog that has gained some notoriety in the press lately, has taken an interesting approach to opposing the Trailhead Group for robocalls they have been making into the district of several Democratic legislators. Rather than incessantly demand an investigation from Attorney General John Suthers, which he is never going to do, […]

George in Denver has a good post calling for civility in the Comments section here at Colorado Pols, and we agree: Richard Dreyfuss (I know: Lefty, Commie, Pinko-fairy, Hollywood harpie), who addressed the Washington Press Corps recently, said something that caught my attention and got me to thinking about a couple of things, notably ColoradoPols. […]

From CNN: Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen will replace Michael Brown, the embattled FEMA director, as the on-site head of hurricane relief operations in the Gulf Coast, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced at a news conference in Baton Rouge Friday afternoon. Brown will head back to Washington from Louisiana to oversee the big […]

The Rocky Mountain News discusses today whether the announcement of a split in the National AFL-CIO, with the Teamsters and Service Employees (SEIU) pulling out of the labor organization, will have repurcussions here in Colorado. The Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union may be getting a divorce from the AFL-CIO. But the two aren’t […]