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Newly-minted Rep. Doug Bruce could be the best thing to happen to statehouse Democrats since Joe “Per Diem” Stengel, as the Denver Post’s conservative columnist David Harsanyi writes: Surely, the best news Colorado Democrats have heard in a while was the reappearance of conservative über-villain Doug Bruce. Bruce recently won a party appointment – voters […]

The GOP will see Democrats’ ethics complaints and raise them one, the Rocky Mountain News reports: A Republican lawmaker filed an ethics complaint against an education lobbyist on Tuesday, saying she was “deceptive” in an e-mail urging support for the governor’s property tax plan. Rep. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, is the lone lawmaker involved, although […]

We’ve done it before, and it looks like we’ll do it again. Rocky Mountain News columnist Peter Blake has a habit of just regurgitating things written in the blogs, but he never bothers to offer any credit for it. Check out his column today… Blake opens with a story about Jim Nicholson possibly running for […]

At least three state representatives who resigned before New Year’s Eve to avoid being subject to the “revolving-door” provisions of Amendment 41 are back at the capitol as…(insert suspense here) lobbyists. Ex-GOP Reps. Joe Stengel and Laurie Clapp have reportedly started a lobbying firm with Democrat Fran Coleman, and aren’t suffering from a lack of […]

From the Rocky Mountain News: The election was held five weeks ago but Arapahoe County Republicans are still cutting each other up. They’re squabbling over the state Senate seat that Jim Dyer resigned in midterm after being elected as an Arapahoe County commissioner Nov. 7. The GOP vacancy committee election to fill the seat is […]

The Boulder Daily Camera has nothing nice to say about the recent spate of legislators’ resignations to squeak out from under Colorado’s new “ethics in government” law: Former lawmakers working as lobbyists can earn more money in fewer hours than they ever could in public service. And if that carrot dangles before them while they’re […]

Either it’s an important new curb on unethical money flowing from special interests to government decisionmakers, or the sky is falling. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: A sweeping ethics measure that voters approved this week will change life at the state Capitol, but whether that’s good or bad depends on the lawmaker looking at […]

With the state senate all but a lost cause in 2006 for Republicans, attention has turned in recent weeks toward trying to pick up house seats in Colorado. Incumbent Rep. Bernie Buescher (HD-55, Grand Junction) has emerged as one of the top Republican targets, with eight negative pieces of mail already having been sent out […]