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A fascinating guest opinion piece from GOP Rep. Mike Coffman in stout defense of the 2012 GOP budget proposal authored by Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan–as published in the Lone Tree Voice this weekend, excerpts presented without additional comment. Thoughts? The Medicare Board of Trustees conservatively places 2024 as the date when the Medicare trust […]

UPDATE: In case you weren’t completely sure about the extent to which Colorado’s freshman Rep. Cory Gardner had committed himself in support of the Paul Ryan 2012 budget plan, here’s his floor speech–with Gardner’s introduction from Rep. Ryan himself: No denying it now, is there? —– As the Washington Post reports: Anxiety is rising among […]

There’s a lot of misinformation today about the status of Rep. Mike Coffman’s residence, and how his district may be affected by redistricting maps from both parties that were made public for the first time yesterday. AP misreported, just as one example: U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman said Friday he was upset after Democrats drew up […]

Westword’s Jonathan Shikes reports: Colorado food banks have seen “a staggering increase in need,” the Denver Post reported this week, and 12.2 percent of households “were categorized as food insecure in 2009.” The answer, according to Republican U.S. Representative Mike Coffman: cut off food stamps. “The current food-stamp program is a contributor to childhood obesity, […]

The reelection campaign for Governor Bill Ritter just sent a sharply-worded blast mail to supporters, asking them to contact Rep. Mike Coffman and tell him “to stop using taxpayer dollars to smear Governor Ritter.” We’re pretty sure this marks the first direct intervention by the Governor’s campaign so far, responding to Coffman’s remarks earlier this […]

Oh boy, as the Colorado Independent reports: U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman minced no words in a bizarre, Cheney-esque attack on Gov. Bill Ritter as a “terrorist sympathizer” for signing a new state law that stymies future expansion of the Army’s contentious Piñon Canyon training site proposal. The accusation of Ritter’s treason can be found in […]