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UPDATE #3: HB10-1351 passes Judiciary Committee 7-4. UPDATE #2:: Check out this list of likely NO votes. From what we hear, you can add Democrat Independent Rep. Kathleen Curry — a former co-sponsor of Payday Lending Reform — to the list of likely “NO” votes (Curry is not on the Judiciary Committee, but we’re keeping […]

Sen. Shawn Mitchell is reliable about casting Republican image and message problems in embarrassingly sharp relief, often with a Beavis and Butthead flair that nobody else can quite match. Yesterday, he served up another fine object lesson–the Denver Post reports: Democrats ripped state Sen. Shawn Mitchell on Thursday after he referred to a colleague as […]

Friday morning, Democratic Senate primary candidate Andrew Romanoff made a feature appearance on the Fox News Channel. It’s definitely worth watching, though you’ll notice right away the standard Fox News divergence from reality–starting with the failure to mention during the lead-in that GOP candidate Jane Norton has a primary of her own. As for Romanoff, […]

A great report from the Colorado Independent yesterday we didn’t want to escape mention: To hear Republicans in Congress tell it, the Grand Old Party is pretty much united against the deficit-spending approach to economic recovery. Don’t tell that to local GOP officials. Faced with the most severe budget crises in decades, state and local […]

The Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels writes for The Spot: Remedial bill reading, anyone? The suggestion [yesterday] raised the hackles of Rep. Amy Stephens. The exchange between Stephens, a Monument Republican, and Rep. Jack Pommer, a Boulder Democrat, came as the two tangled over House Bill 1193, which would repeal the tax exemption for out-of-state retailers. […]