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It’s over, folks, your new congressional battlegrounds for the next decade: UPDATE #4: AP’s Ivan Moreno Tweets initial reaction from newly-vulnerable Rep. Mike Coffman: Presumably, a whole new Mike Coffman cometh. —– UPDATE #3: AP via the Fort Collins Coloradoan: Democratic attorney Mark Grueskin said he hoped the court’s decision sent a message to other […]

As reported by Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent yesterday: Reps. Chip Cravaack, Michele Bachmann and John Kline lent their names to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that the Supreme Court should rule the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional. The brief was filed by the American Center for Law […]

A quick wrap-up as parties in the court case to sort out Colorado’s congressional redistricting begin the two-week process of telling it to the judge–as the Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reports: In addition to the top Democratic and Republican lawyers in the state, attorneys for two Denver-area governments, Hispanic groups and the Pueblo district attorney […]

If you haven’t seen them yet, here’s a wrap-up of responses from Colorado’s congressional delegation to last night’s presidential address–notable for an unusual lack of partisan bile compared to what we’re used to…well, any time President Barack Obama gives a speech about anything. Have poll numbers showing universal disgust with political grandstanding and obstruction in […]

FOX 21’s Alia Wilson reports: Supporters of embattled Republican Representative Doug Lamborn are coming to his defense, rallying for the congressman outside of his Colorado Springs office Friday afternoon. Lamborn has apologized to President Barack Obama after using the term “tar baby” in reference to the president on a radio show last month… Backers of […]

The Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams reports: Democrat Diana DeGette joined Republicans Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton in voting no on the measure, while Democrats Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter voted for the deal along with Republicans Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner. “Here we are at the 11th hour, with a gun to our head, […]

And not squarely down party lines, either–on the key vote, debated as an amendment to a 2002 education reform bill so as not to (technically, anyway) violate Speaker John Boehner’s pledge to allow 72 hours of public viewing of bills before a vote, here is how your Colorado House delegation voted on the final debt-ceiling […]