(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
Responding directly to claims made by our readers, Politics West reports: House Bill 1274, which would repeal the death penalty, awaits a hearing in a Senate committee. The former prosecutor, however, denied assertions made on a Democratic blog site that he had committed to signing such a death penalty repeal bill during his 2006 campaign. […]
It’s been a little while since we last discussed Senate Bill 228, the much-debated repeal of the Arveschoug-Bird general fund limit statutorily enacted in 1991 in a misguided (and ultimately futile) attempt to forestall passage of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. After some instructive spectacle from unserious Senate Republicans, not to mention an encouraging related […]
Your “Conservadem” Senators in action, folks–this is going to be a little tougher for Rachel Maddow, et al. to explain, isn’t it? Why is the Pueblo Chieftain the only paper that reports the local connection to these national headline stories? President Barack Obama’s decision last week to declassify secret Justice Department memos authorizing the CIA […]
Another hot issue has emerged in the legislature late in the session, this one over a Senate bill that would re-evaluate minimum sentences, public defender qualifications, and “good time” sentence reductions for certain offenders. There’s a lot in this bill (worth a read here), but the over-arching intention seems to be spending reductions–with corrections emerging […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain reports: The death penalty may be dead in Colorado if a preliminary vote in the House to repeal it on Wednesday holds up. Five Democrats – including Rep. Ed Vigil, D-Fort Garland – joined Republicans voting against the measure, but it wasn’t enough to kill the bill that would repeal the […]
We hearing that there is likely to be a little counter-protest activity for today’s “Tea Party” at the state capitol. Not a lot of details yet, of course, but there is an opposition press conference scheduled for 10AM (advisory follows), and some talk of “creative” countermessaging at the event itself. You’ll recall that last time […]
We’ve been talking about this for years, coincident with the Republican Party’s massive losing streak that began in 2004 in our state, and continues to this very day as Republicans in the Colorado Assembly continue to offer up laughable, over the top, relentless objections to…well, basically everything. And keep losing. Expressed no better (that we’ve […]
The Denver Post reported today: Gov. Bill Ritter said Monday that a potential $300 million cut to Colorado colleges is off the table, though he offered no guidance on how to solve the state’s shortfall as the Senate moved forward with a plan that taps money from a workers’ compensation insurer…. Senate Minority Leader Josh […]
Yesterday’s unprecedented move by (outgoing) Senate President Peter Groff to reject and send the budget back to the Joint Budget Committee, in hopes of finding alternatives to nasty proposed cuts…didn’t work out the way he planned, as Politics West reports: Several JBC members…said they believed they were being made scapegoats for this year’s budget. Sen. […]
We’ve been following for several days the reaction to major cuts to higher education funding proposed by the Joint Budget Committee. As most of you know, the proposed cuts have shaken the higher education community pretty hard, and yesterday student government organizations from around the state protested at the Capitol against them. The JBC points […]
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