California Gubernatorial Recall Election Night Open Thread
UPDATE 9:40PM MDT: Multiple outlets including CNN and NBC call the California gubernatorial recall election: NO by 67.5%. —– We weren’t around for Gray Davis. Watch this space for updates.
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Boebert Calls Her Own Bluff on 2022
When we wrote in this space on Tuesday about the new proposed Congressional maps in Colorado, we noted that for all of Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert’s tough talk about taking on Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Boulderish) in 2022, the truth was that Boebert wanted nothing to do with this potential matchup. As we noted at […]
Polis/Griswold Recall 2021 Still Allegedly Happening! For Reals!
When we last checked in back in July on what’s being billed as the third attempt to recall Gov. Jared Polis in as many years–now having tacked on Secretary of State Jena Griswold for good measure–the countdown to kickoff of the latest campaign’s 60-day window to collect over 630,000 valid voter signatures had counted down […]
Enter the Money Badger: Green Mountain Water District Recall
(Where there’s a recall, there’s a Gessler — Promoted by Colorado Pols) It’s a basic maxim of plumbers that “Shit flows downhill.” An epic battle over whose shit will flow downhill from the foothills of western Jefferson County, through the scenic Rooney Valley area, to the Denver Water Treatment plant, and where and when said […]
At Least They Didn’t Call It The “Contract On Colorado”
TUESDAY UPDATE #2: From fail to flail: .@KyleClark clearly you don’t care about the average working family in CO who’s paying $1.50 more *per gallon* since November. We do. And remind us again who’s in charge of Denver & CO w/ the current worst air quality in the world? Oh yeah…the Democrats.#copolitics https://t.co/icPiSjV3HV — Kristi […]
“Reprehensible”–Liz Cheney Calls Out GOP Colleagues In Aspen
As the Aspen Times’ Rick Carroll reports, yesterday the Aspen Insitute hosted a conversation with Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming about her role on the select committee investigating the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by dead-ender supporters of ex-President Donald Trump on January 6th in an attempt to disrupt the certification of Joe […]
Endgame: Colorado’s GOP Reps Call For Overturning Roe v. Wade
MSNBC’s Steve Benen writes today: Last fall, in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, and as Republicans scrambled to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the high court, Democrats told voters the future of reproductive rights was on the line in the 2020 elections. And Republicans, realizing that they’re on the wrong side of […]
Lauren Boebert, Call The Mesa County Health Department
An email went out yesterday notifying Mesa County residents of their chance to win big bucks with the only requirement being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, something as we’ve unfortunately been witnessing recently is not happening in great enough numbers to ward off spread of the deadly Delta variant: In conjunction with the Grand Junction Daily […]
Westminster Recall Crashes And Burns, Gessler Still Makes Bank
As Liam Adams of the Colorado Community Newspapers affiliate Westminster Window reports–the latest thinly-veiled partisan power play by Republicans hoping to rebuild their bench and base in municipal races, an attempted recall of a single Westminster city councilman nominally over water rates, failed yesterday by a lopsided margin: Jon Voelz will keep his seat on […]
Recall Polis-Griswold 2021 Deep-Sixed By The Zuckster?
Checking in on the website for what would be the third attempt since 2019 to recall Gov. Jared Polis with Secretary of State Jena Griswold thrown in this time because it’s all fantasy and why the hell not, we see that the countdown clock for starting their 60-day petition circulation campaign has ticked down to […]