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Politico’s Mike Soraghan reports: Democratic leadership staffers scolded freshman chiefs of staff Monday for blindsiding House leaders with a letter protesting the tax on the wealthy designed to pay for President Obama’s healthcare overhaul. “They said that letters like this don’t help anybody,” said a freshman Democratic aide. [Pols emphasis] A bare majority of the […]

As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports, Senate candidate Ken Buck and all-but-announced gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry are throwing a party. A tea party, actually. A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat will speak on Independence Day to a Grand Junction tea party. Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck will speak at the 7 p.m. […]

A story in this morning’s Denver Post seems too creepy to ignore, even though it’s not directly related to politics–at least not yet. The lawyer representing the family of a man shot by Aurora police last month says police have retaliated against him by towing his legally parked vehicle from in front of his office […]

Ousted congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, following a rather bizarre period of bad-mannered seclusion, eventually came up with a laundry list of reasons she lost her seat last year–mostly related to a “smear campaign” mounted against her by vengeful independent groups like the League of Conservation Voters and Progress Now. And while it’s true that Musgrave had […]

From time to time (usually on slow news days), we like to take a look at the stats tracker for Colorado Pols to see what people are searching for that leads them to our humble blog here on the internet tubes. Below are the top search terms for the month of May that directed people […]

On MSNBC yesterday, where a regrettably large number of people witnessed former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s typically bizarre histrionics over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Partial transcript: Tancredo: Unfortunately for her and fortunately for us there are plenty of things that we’ve even talked about her already. I’m telling you, […]

That would be an uncomfortable level of frankness with their peers, as the Denver Post reports: A state senator vented on her blog after a committee killed her prescription drug bill. That’s not unusual. But lawmakers tend to go after the other party, not their own colleagues, and Sen. Morgan Carroll of Aurora ripped fellow […]

A revealing little exchange between GOP Senators today, courtesy the Rocky’s Live from the Legislature blog: It was a war of words Monday morning between Republican Sens. Shawn Mitchell of Broomfield and Nancy Spence of Centennial. Mitchell asked for an explanation of a bill that expanded the list of students who qualify to receive free […]