Welcome to the home of The Get More Smarter Show, the (probably) world famous online talk show dedicated to making you smarter about Colorado politics. Watch the most recent episode of The Get More Smarter Show below: April 14, 2019 Today on the Get More Smarter Show: host Jason Bane sits down with Colorado Attorney General […]
This week on Get More Smarter: Jason Bane and Alan Franklin talk Donald Trump, followed by a deep dive on next week’s primary elections! Then stay tuned for more great discussion on the primary as we interview Ernest Luning–that’s LUH-ning for those of you pronouncing it wrong like we have for years–of the Colorado Statesman. […]
This week on Get More Smarter: Jason Bane and Alan Franklin discuss the presidential race, the Colorado GOP U.S. Senate primary, and some bizarre stuff happening in legislative races on both sides of the aisle. Now with this new concept we’re working on called “segments!” Somebody explained to us that segments are what TV shows do. Thanks […]
This week on Get More Smarter: now with fewer glaring technical problems! Jason Bane and Alan Franklin discuss the Republican U.S. Senate primary, Bachelor star Ben Higgins, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s veep speculation, and more! Then stay tuned for an interview with former Chief of Staff for House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst Ian Silverii, now the executive director […]
This week on Get More Smarter: in our technically-challenged first episode of the Get More Smarter Show, Jason Bane and Alan Franklin discuss the Jon Keyser petition fraud scandal and Colorado’s crazy GOP U.S. Senate primary. Then, stay tuned for Part 1 of GMS’s exclusive interview with Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado! Along with the Get More […]
UPDATE: As Denver7’s Marshall Zelinger reports: The woman who turned in petitions with some signatures that Denver7 has identified as being forged, would only respond “No comment” when we met up with her late Monday morning. In the last three weeks, Denver7 has exclusively reported a number of stories surrounding forged signatures on petitions that […]
UPDATE #6: The Colorado Democratic Party is collecting reaction from around the country: Elena Schneider – Politico – “Oh, wow.” Alex Roarty – Roll Call – “one of the more painful interviews you’ll see this year” Jack Fitzpatrick – Morning Consult – “Man, there is a lot going on in this #COsenvideo” John Frank – Denver Post – “must-see raw footage” […]
Embed from Getty Images We’ve had a few occasions to mention the name Tom Sullivan in recent years, long before he announced his candidacy for the Colorado Senate a few weeks ago. Sullivan is the father of a victim of the 2012 Aurora theater mass shooting that left 12 people dead and many dozens more […]
As another late bill, Senate Bill 16-185, to allow subprime personal lenders to charge higher interest rates on bigger loans makes its way through the Colorado Senate–debate of the whole chamber on the bill was scheduled for yesterday but punted to Monday–Colorado Ethics Watch released a detailed report on the influence of the subprime personal lending […]
Is this what we want for a President? A video posted by Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on Mar 16, 2016 at 9:15am PDT TIME reports on a new online ad from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, turning his bile toward the general election and his increasingly likely showdown with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: A new video […]