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Back in April, the folks at North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling released a series of automated telephone poll results that raised methodological and common-sense eyeballs around the state. One of the biggest red flags was a polled name ID for Sen. Michael Bennet of almost 75%, which was an absurdly high number for a freshly-appointed […]

From the Colorado Statesman: Months before Scott McInnis announced his campaign to unseat Gov. Bill Ritter in 2010, the former congressman spent more than $13,000 of the donations made to his federal leadership Political Action Committee to solicit support for the Colorado Republican Party, according to an analysis by The Colorado Statesman of campaign finance […]

Thursday night, Rep. Jared Polis hosted a phone-in townhall meeting that we understand was attended by a decent number of CD-2 voters. We weren’t on the call, but we’re told by liberals who have been alarmed of late by Polis’ controversial demands to reduce spending and taxes in the health care reform proposal that he […]

From The New York Times: Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll found that most Americans would be willing […]

As Colorado braces today for another bad budget projection, it’s at least a little comforting to know that the rest of the country is suffering — and in some cases, even worse than we are. As The New York Times reports: In Hawaii, state employees are bracing for furloughs of three days a month over […]

Eager political types who woke up this morning hoping for lots of press coverage of the new challenger to nationally infamous Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams, former Eagle County Commissioner Thomas C. Stone, were rewarded mostly with crickets. Actually, it’s winter so there weren’t even crickets. We’ve only got one newspaper in town now, after […]

The swift deterioration of Colorado’s budget outlook is emerging as the most dire situation our elected leadership has faced in many, many years. Colorado certainly isn’t alone in facing major shortfalls, though, and the massive new federal economic stimulus package being put together in Congress is focused on the stabilization of state budgets. It’s the […]

UPDATE: And this is pretty interesting: although the lobbyist accused of acting as Rep. Dave Balmer’s “emissary,” and two other persons implicated in the ethics complaint have offered sworn affidavits denying coordination with Balmer, it appears Balmer himself has made all responses to the ethics inquiry through legal counsel, which is not technically a response […]

Marilyn Musgrave’s next couple of weeks, seen through the eyes of someone who’s been there–Bob Beauprez. From the latest Mother Jones: In Capitol Hill official-speak, it’s called the “transitional suite.” In reality, the harshly lit warren of numbered cubicles in the bowels of the Rayburn House Office Building is the private purgatory of members of […]