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(“He is up for retention in a year” – promoted by Colorado Pols) If Secretary of State Scott Gessler loses a lawsuit claiming he overstepped his legal authority by increasing the amount of money a group of people can raise before being subject to state campaign finace regulations, he will appeal the case, Gessler said […]

(This merits a “just…wow” – promoted by Colorado Pols) My search for an explanation from Scott Gessler about why he’s been telling the media there’s actual “fraud” in Colorado elections bore fruit last night, when I asked him directly about his allegations. I respect Gessler for answering my question, even though a crowd of people […]

(Gessler doesn’t need to show you any stinking “evidence” – promoted by Colorado Pols) In an an article in the Pueblo Chieftain Thurs, Secretary of State Scott Gessler was quoted as saying, as he has in the past, that some mail-in ballots are fraudulent. The Chieftain reported: Verifying the validity of voters’ signatures on mail-in […]

(Delegitimizing the press makes everything else easy – promoted by Colorado Pols) When a public figure attacks journalism, reporters should see it as an opportunity to help people understand what reporters do and why they should continue to exist. I mean, if journalists don’t defend themselves, who will? Academics? Maybe, but who cares? And if only the […]

(Gessler prefers softball, naturally – promoted by Colorado Pols) Part of the reason Denver Post columnist Vincent Carroll is effective at getting under the skin of liberals is that he’s so good at mixing his opinion with interviews and other types of original reporting. In my lowly way as a progressive blogger, I try to write […]

That would be, according to this report from Lynn Bartels of the Denver paper’s blog this weekend, straight-up, bare-knuckles, in-your-face partisan objectives. And control of the elections. Bartels has a lengthy excerpt of Scott Gessler’s remarks at the GOP Capitol Club’s luncheon last week in her blog post–here are just a couple of nuggets that […]

(“We just don’t reach out to ColoradoPols bloggers” – promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: Bob Moore, former Executive Editor of the Ft. Collins Coloradoan, emailed me about the treatment he got from Rich Coolidge of Gessler’s press office. Moore wrote: Coolidge stopped responding to me on Larimer GOP questions several weeks before I left. It […]

UPDATE: Add Conejos, but more importantly Eagle County to the list–just in from sources. —– As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reports: Boulder and Pitkin counties have reversed course and will send election ballots to inactive voters this month, the Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office confirmed Monday. That turnaround comes only two days […]