Search Results for: debate diary

Republicans staged an impressive showing of togetherness yesterday by attempting to filibuster HB-1072 (the Labor Peace Act) in the state Senate. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Democrats steamrolled a controversial pro-union bill through the Senate on Friday, but Republicans made them work overtime for it. For eight hours Republicans staged a filibuster, denouncing the […]

Republican Bob Beauprez clearly isn’t ready to go back to the dairy farm/bank quite yet, and he keeps floating the idea of another run for office. He told CBS4 last week that he wouldn’t rule out a run for the Senate, and in a Rocky Mountain News article, Beauprez sounds like someone who wants to […]

Rep. Tom Tancredo is considered a likely Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008, so he may want to think about not sounding so, um, crazy when he is being interviewed: “I know this is dramatic – or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic – but I’m telling you, that everything I see leads […]

The 2006 Election Winners are here, or click below to read about the other side… John Marshall, Shari Williams, Cinamon Watson These three Republican operatives have now been at the helm of two straight cycles of disastrous Republican defeats. Marshall and Williams directed Greg Walcher’s failed campaign for congress in CD-3 in 2004, and Williams […]

Reform Party candidate Eric Eidsness has been coming in near 10 percent in recent CD-4 polls, and as Colorado Confidential reports, he has picked up the endorsements of both the Fort Morgan Times and the Fort Collins Coloradoan. Combine those endorsements with all of the negative ads being run against Republican Marilyn Musgrave and Democrat […]

Colorado Confidential takes a look at some of the one-liners from last night’s CD-4 debate, and Reform Party candidate Eric Eidsness takes the cake in both creativity and strangeness. Take a look at a few examples: On water policy “I understand irrigated agriculture at the molecular level.” On privacy “I will lock and load to […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez has, by most estimates, successfully narrowed Democrat Bill Ritter’s lead in the polls in the last few weeks through a hard-hitting series of attacks on Ritter’s record as Denver District Attorney. These attacks have been carried out through Beauprez’s own campaign as well as […]

Today is the last day to vote on the winner of the Colorado Pols “Online Debate” between Republican candidates in CD-5. The winner receives a free small button ad for the week leading up to the primary. CLICK HERE to get your vote on.