Hickenlooper Decision Next Week
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has spent the last week on vacation, and it sounds like he’s returning with a decision on a potential run for governor. A decision is expected to be announced sometime next week.
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Hickenlooper Story No Idle Talk
The Denver Post reports today on what has been a not-entirely-secret rumor in the last week or two: that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is indeed considering a run for governor. We’ve heard this talk for about two weeks now, but we have avoided posting on it because Hick for governor rumors are a little like […]
Littwin on Hickenlooper, Beauprez
Mike Littwin of the Rocky Mountain News takes a page out of the Colorado Pols book today in speculating on whether Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper might run for governor. If there’s a model for Democrats, it’s a businessman who has actually run things, a liberal who doesn’t go out of his way to mention he’s […]
Full Court Press on Hickenlooper to Run for Governor
The full-court press is being placed on Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to run for governor, despite Hicks earlier claim that he was not interested in running for the top job in the state. Some of the biggest players in Democratic politics are actively courting Hickenlooper to run, but will he agree? Two things might make […]
Hickenlooper Wins Top Public Official Award
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is one of eight winners of the “Public Official of the Year” for 2005, as chosen by Governing magazine. Our initial reaction: What the hell is Governing magazine?
Hickenlooper Not Running
According to this morning’s Rocky Mountain News, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper has ruled out a run for Governor in 2006. Hickenlooper’s decision will change the Big Line yet again, moving Joan Fitz-Gerald up (pending her decision to run, which she says won’t be made until after the November 1st election). Hickenlooper was the 800-pound gorilla […]
Salazar, Hickenlooper Speak Quietly on Governor Race
The Denver Post reports today that a poll commissioned by Democrats shows that U.S. Senator Ken Salazar would be a strong contender for governor. Well, yeah. But would he run? Less than a year since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Ken Salazar said Tuesday he is being pushed to run for governor in 2006 […]
“Lapdog Gabe”–Janak Joshi’s Parting Gift To Gabe Evans?
Colorado’s hottest congressional race in 2024 once again will be the fight for Democrats to defend the evenly-divided CO-08 seat held by incumbent Rep. Yadira Caraveo from who is expected to be the winner of the Republican primary, freshman state Rep. Gabe Evans. Although Rep. Evans is expected to win the primary election one week […]
Don’t Look at Us; We Have No Idea What Republicans are Doing Now
We noted earlier this week that Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Denver) was predicting another big vote on women’s rights issues, and today it happened. As The Washington Post reports: Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked consideration of a bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization, the latest Democratic effort to put the GOP on the […]
Okay, But…Republican Talking Points Falling Apart in Face of Reality
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: The good news (for Biden) and bad news (for Republicans) keeps on rolling in. The latest: Inflation in May was ZERO. Nada. Nil. From The Washington Post: Fresh data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday showed slight improvement from April, when prices rose at an annual rate of 3.4 percent. […]