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With Proposition 103 headed for November’s ballot, the opposition to Sen. Rollie Heath’s initiative to restore 1999 sales and income tax rates–3% and 5% respectively, up from 2.9% and 4.63%–is heating up. Through most of the spring and summer, opposition to this initiative generally consisted of laughing it off, scoffing at its (formerly) small base […]

The Colorado Statesman’s Ellen Miller reports from Grand Junction on freshman Rep. Scott Tipton’s growing incoherence trying to explain his votes in the debt-ceiling debate: More than 200 people, most of them Republicans and many who identified with the Tea Party, packed the City Council chambers Friday night for an hour-long question-and-answer session with 3rd […]

With friends like these, reports The Hill: The group [American Action Network] is spending roughly $1 million on the total campaign, which already included 22 other freshman House Republicans. Many on the list are in senior-heavy districts where Medicare is a top issue. The more recently added GOP incumbents: Reps. Allen West (Fla.), Chip Cravaack […]

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 […]

Back in June, we had some fun with the…unusual defense of freshman Rep. Cory Gardner’s vote in favor of the GOP 2012 budget proposal (known as the “Ryan Plan”) offered by Gardner’s spokesperson Rachel Boxer. Despite the undisputed agreement that the 2012 GOP budget would result in large reductions in coverage for Medicare beneficiaries starting […]

Washington Post: The House on Friday narrowly approved Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) debt-ceiling framework, one day after leaders postponed the vote and revamped the measure to secure support from conservatives and four days before the deadline for Congress to raise the federal borrowing limit or else send the country into default. The new Boehner debt […]