(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
60%
60%
40%↓
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
40%
40%
30%
(D) George Stern
(D) A. Gonzalez
(R) Sheri Davis
40%
40%
30%
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%
30%
20%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
50%
40%
40%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
Over the weekend, the editorial board of the Denver Post weighed in on the Gubernatorial candidacy of Republican Tom Tancredo, who surprised many last week by throwing his hat in the ring for 2014. And what did the Post have to say? Well, they're about as excited for another Tancredo candidacy as a kid who […]
As The Hill's Jonathan Easley reports: The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) clashed Wednesday over a new RNC ad that the DNC says cruelly exploits the Newtown shootings. The ad, called "The First 100 Days," criticizes Obama on the failure of his legislative agenda, including gun control, so far in Congress. […]
In this article I have compiled an extensive (but, incomplete) chronology of events and statements surrounding the Colorado General Assembly's breach of Colorado PERA pension COLA contracts in 2010. Colorado PERA retirees have filed a lawsuit, Justus v. State, asking that Colorado courts protect the retiree's accrued, earned, contracted Colorado PERA public pension benefits. (More […]
January 2008 U.S. Government Accountability Office, “State and Local Government Retiree Benefits: Current Funded Status of Pension and Health Benefits,” (GAO-08-223.) The GAO report notes on p. 15, “Many experts and officials to whom we spoke consider a funded ratio of 80 percent to be sufficient for public plans for a couple of reasons. First, […]
Three years ago, the Colorado Legislature and its pension administrator Colorado PERA hit upon the idea of reducing state debt by taking back accrued public pension “COLA” (cost-of-living) benefits from retirees in the pension. They retroactively seized these accrued pension benefits in a bill, SB10-001. The members of the Colorado PERA pension whose COLA benefits […]
No longer will the Jefferson County Clerk’s Elections Division be tucked away at the far end of a long hallway on the Taj Mahal’s second floor. Instead, the ballot counters and administrative staff will tomorrow be opening the doors of their new digs a few blocks away at the Laramie building.
That means it’s time to update your rolodexes! From the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder:
(Golden) – The Elections Division of the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder will be moving to a new location beginning Feb. 27, 2012. The office will move from its current location on the second floor of the Administration and Courts Building to the Laramie Building on the Jefferson County government campus in Golden. The new Elections Division address is 3500 Illinois Street, Suite 1100, Golden 80401.
“This move will allow us to consolidate and improve our processes by having all election-related activities under the same roof,” said County Clerk and Recorder Pam Anderson. “The Elections Warehouse, Mail Ballot Processing Center and Ballot Counting Room are already located in the Laramie Building, so it will be nice to have our elections administrative staff headquartered there as well,” she added.
It certainly will be “nice” to have everything in one building, although Anderson (or whoever writes the press releases in the clerk’s office) probably should’ve included thrown in a few words about increased efficiency or transparency for good measure. Of course this move is nice – if it wasn’t “nice” or “good,” why would you send out a press release about it?
If you’re going to include quotes in a press release, you ostensibly want those quotes to be tossed into a newspaper article. But the fact that something’s “nice” isn’t newsworthy, so why not say something a little more worthwhile? Anderson should’ve either crafted a better quote or included no quote at all and plainly released the information on the move.
Regardless, the next time you walk into the Taj Mahal intent on paying the elections division a visit, hop back in your car and drive two blocks down the road to the new office in the Laramie building. It’ll be real “nice.”
“If not me, who? If not now, when?” ~ Rabbi Hillel For politicos like us, there are many times we find ourselves sitting in a room full of intelligent, thoughtful, passionate people arguing about politics. We rant, we rave, we get exasperated, and we bemoan. We complain, we beseech, we persuade, and we commiserate. But […]
(Hopefully the discussion can be on what works and not a flame-war – promoted by DavidThi808) On the thread talking about Douglas County parents finally finding a potential way around the unions’ destructive policies that have destroyed public education, Ardy had asked me for some evidence demonstrating my point that teacher’s unions had lost track […]
As the Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic summarized Friday, all this talk of a “Republican wave,” both nationally where conventional wisdom says it rolled strongly and in Colorado where it “hit a bump,” was more a question of whether or not Democrats had their hip boots on: In Colorado, Republicans won a one-seat House majority by […]
I just completed an interview of Ken Buck and technically I think it went better than any before. So I thought this would be a good time to list out what the process I use is and how it plays out. (And for any experienced journalists out there that laugh at parts of this – […]
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