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You really have to listen to this to believe it, folks. Yesterday afternoon, gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis appeared on the Caplis and Silverman show on KHOW talk radio. The subject of the day was, of course, yesterday’s Denver Post story about McInnis’ 2004 promise to donate his leftover federal campaign funds to charity–as you know […]

Our point from the beginning as the recent “townhaller” movement began to build steam, and unleash its ugly self upon congressional recess events around the country, was the disconnect we noticed between media coverage of the protests and the truth of what these people were actually displaying on their placards. A certain legitimacy was being […]

Somebody must have tattled on Janet Rowland (or beet-red Mesa County in general)  to flag@whitehouse.gov, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Health care reform has been a priority of President Obama during his first year in office and a hot topic in recent weeks in Congress. Whether it will be a topic of conversation at […]

An issue near and dear to the hearts of every Colorado Democrat (not to the mention the Republicans looking to take them out next year), the New York Times reports: Even as the Obama administration braces for another grim report about job losses on Friday, economists say that the president’s $787 billion stimulus package has […]

As most of you know, the federal health care reform debate has made less progress in the Senate than in the House, where bills incorporating at least some version of a “public option” insurance entity that would compete with private insurers have passed the requisite committees. Not so in the Senate, where the last major […]

We’ve spent quite a bit of time talking about how the health care debate has been mishandled lately by a certain Colorado congressional representative. For an example of how to do it right, the AP turns, with help from the Denver Post’s Michael Riley, to the dean of Colorado’s congressional delegation, Rep. Diana DeGette. In […]

Thursday night, Rep. Jared Polis hosted a phone-in townhall meeting that we understand was attended by a decent number of CD-2 voters. We weren’t on the call, but we’re told by liberals who have been alarmed of late by Polis’ controversial demands to reduce spending and taxes in the health care reform proposal that he […]

Something like that, as the Denver Post reports: In 2006, then-state Rep. Josh Penry signed a pledge offered up by his Democratic state Senate opponent vowing not to seek higher office while holding the seat. Or perhaps it was a pledge to serve out his four-year term. The pledge, signed during a Club 20 debate […]