The McInnis campaign and other Republican leaders have been working to unify the party in order to take back Colorado from Democrat control. Mike Rosen writes about this in the Denver Post.
The agenda, modeled on the winning reform recipes of Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell in their New Jersey [...]
Worth watching if you plan to wade into the neverending caucus/assembly/primary process beginning in a few short months.
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The Obama Administration continues its campaign of transparency and competence with their wonderfully transparent web [...]
Adam Schrager reports at 9News that Josh Penry has been carrying on a number of high-level discussion with Scott McInnis and Tom Tancredo in an effort to defuse a potentially destructive gubernatorial battle.
Within the last few days, Penry has attended two meetings with McInnis and potential challenger Tom Tancredo [...]
Immediately after the special elections earlier this month, a nationwide conference call of conservative activists across the country was held. The call was put on by RedState.com founder Erick Erickson and Sen. Jim DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund. Thousands of activists participated and the main agenda was getting feedback on' [...]
State Representative Scott Tipton is entering the race for the 3rd Congressional District joining Martin Beeson and Bob McConnell in the primary to unseat incumbent John Salazar. Rep. Tipton told the Pueblo Chieftain Salazar's support of the health care bill pushed him into the race.
Tipton said [...]
Rep. Scott Tipton has just announced that he intends to run against John Salazar in CD-3. Republicans now have top-tier challengers in CD-4, CD-7, and CD-3 with a clear possibility of taking back all three. The Montrose Daily Press reports:
Tipton, R-Cortez, said he had initially ruled out running against [...]
ABC 7 ran an interesting report on transparency in congressional offices. The news station went around to members of Colorado's congressional delegation and made the seemingly simple request to see detailed expenditure reports. These offices spend quite a bit of taxpayer money and it seems reasonable to see where [...]
As was first reported here, Tom Tancredo is moving forward with plans to run for governor. An exploratory committee is being filed and it appears that Tancredo is actually getting into the race this time.
[...]As Josh Penry prepares to suspend his campaign for Governor, former Congressman Tom Tancredo may be preparing to deny Scott McInnis a clear path to the nomination.
This would not be a move without precedent. Tom Tancredo's gubernatorial intentions were made clear in the months following the 2008 elections when [...]
Josh Penry is set to exit the race for Governor. This will leave Dan Maes and Scott McInnis as the sole remaining GOP candidates. The Washington Post was the first to break the story:
Colorado state Sen. Josh Penry (R) plans to end his gubernatorial campaign and endorse former Rep. [...]
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As I wrote earlier this year, after Californians approved the definition of marriage being between a man and a woman, reporters felt the need to show Focus on the Family’s contributions to the effort. However, all reporters failed to include the Tim Gill [...]
Sen. Dave Schultheis recently announced that he would not be seeking re-election to SD-9 in 2010. As Ben DeGrow reports, conservative Rep. Kent Lambert may be announcing his candidacy for the seat later today.
Lambert will be the de facto nominee if he declares his candidacy. While Schultheis was facing [...]
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There is a saying, “give the people what they want, and they'll come out for it.” It appears the citizens of Douglas County, CO wanted to see Big Labor’s hand' [...]
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Election Day Winners and Losers
What a night! Does anyone else feel excited to be a conservative right now?! Last night’s results mean a lot both here and across the nation, and there were a lot of winners and losers last night. I wanted to take [...]
The good news in local races in Colorado continues to pour in. As of this writing, Katie Witt appears to be poised to win a seat on the Longmont city council.
Right-leaning candidates are faring extremely well tonight in Colorado.
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The New Jersey governor race can now be called for Republican Chris Christie who defeats incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine. Christie has a 6-point lead at this time with the cast majority of votes counted.
The last Republican to win this seat was in 1993 and was a [...]
The Republican Party backed slate of candidates for the Douglas County School Board have taken an early lead and will likely win barring a massive turnaround for their opponents.
John Carson, Dan Gerken, Doug Benevento, and Meghann Silverthorn are all leading in their respective races.
[...]Initial returns from Denver indicate that charter school proponent Mary Seawall is on track to crush union-backed candidate Christopher Scott by at least a 2-1 margin in the Denver Public Schools board at-large race.
Initiative 300, a proposal to increase penalties for driving without a license, appears [...]
Barack Obama made a number of trips to Virginia and New Jersey to help out Democratic gov. candidates Creigh Deeds and Jon Corzine, but exit polling of the races out tonight shows that Obama's trips were a wash with voters in deep-blue New Jersey and may [...]
While polls have only been closed for 25 minutes in Virginia, the margin of Republican Bob McDonnell's lead among early returns and exit polls has already prompted several media outlets to declare him the winner.
Early results show that incumbent Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and the [...]
Two Republican challengers have announced for State Senate District 5. The district is nearly evenly divided between Republican and Democrat voters and is currently held by Gail Schwartz (D).
The challengers announced so far are are former CD-3 candidate Wayne Wolf and Bob Rankin (who has a website compete with an [...]
Election Day Coverage: Tune into RMR this evening for live coverage of local elections in Colorado and the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.
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The McInnis for Governor campaign launched a new version of their website late last night complete with a new layout and a nice count down to Ritter's last day in office. This site's graphics and functionality is much better than the original version [...]
The Chris Christie for Governor campaign in New Jersey needs help making GOTV phone calls in the final 24 hours of the campaign. Sign up at their website, you don't need to be in New Jersey to help this campaign.
This race is coming down to the wire. Incumbent Jon' [...]
The Red Dawn Project is a new initiative to help promote viable, conservative challengers seeking offices currently held by Democrats in Colorado. Candidates will automatically be added as they fulfill basic criteria of holding fiscally conservative views, raising enough funds to demonstrate they are capable of [...]
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The Obama Administration has put up a web site, recovery.gov, to show Colorado citizens what they did with the money spent in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. A walk down memory lane will show that our President claimed [...]
We see in today's Denver Post what Obama's economic recovery plan has funded, virtually nothing.
A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama's economic-recovery plan.
The real number: fewer than 1,000.
A child-care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the help of' [...]
Readers should keep in mind there is no direct evidence to prove the previously posted video was authored by the Penry campaign.
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The video is meant to make fun of McInnis and all it does is prove the juvenile mentality of the [...]
While this blog administrator supports debates I have to say this negative video is not a great direction for the primary to take so early. You commenters be the judge.
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While the state-wide press has put the full court press on McInnis [...]
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A press release from the Colorado Republican Party whacks Bill Ritter on the Villafuerte scandal.
DENVER - Colorado Republicans today called on Governor Bill Ritter's deputy chief of staff, Stephanie Villafuerte, to either answer questions regarding possible inappropriate conduct during the 2006 campaign or [...]
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From the screenplay of The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery:
Charles Martin Smith - l've found a financial disbursement pattern which shows some irregu...
Sean Connery - You carry a badge?
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In a campaign press release the Ament camapign touts the support of several Jefferson County leaders.
- State Senator Mike Kopp
- State Representative Jim Kerr
- State Representative Ken Summers
- County Commissioner Kevin McCaskey
- Former U.S. Attorney Troy Eid
- Former [...]
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I know I’m a bit late on this, but I was struck recently thinking about Senator Josh Penry and Governor Bill Ritter’s back and forth related to the hiring of state employees. In an article this past month, The Denver Post illustrated the [...]
If you live in Denver, you will be receiving your mail-in ballot soon if you have not already. The ballot in this off-year is sparse but offers some clear-cut choices.
All Denver voters will be choosing an at-large member for the Denver Public Schools board. One of the candidates, union-backed Christopher [...]
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Meghann and Jeff Silverthorn met and married while attending the University of Colorado. Jeff had always been fiercely patriotic and even today wears a POW/MIA bracelet with the name of an Air Force Captain shot down in Vietnam in [...]
After taking the term "stealth campaign" to a new level, Tom Wiens has popped back up and is very serious about running for the United States Senate. Wiens says he will announce his candidacy in early November. Furthermore, Wiens tells the Colorado Statesman that he will place $500,000 of [...]
Ken Buck reports in. The Greeley Tribune reports:
The Ken Buck for Colorado campaign raised $158,665 in the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, according to numbers the campaign released to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday.
“We still have a long way to go, but I am very [...]
The Republican candidates for state treasurer have released their fundraising numbers:
Walker Stapleton: $106,164
J.J. Ament: $86,000
Cary Kennedy's numbers have not been published yet, but will likely fall close to the Republicans' if she has a repeat of her last quarter. Cary Kennedy raised $103,000 placing her behind Stapleton again.
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Aurora, CO - October 15, 2009 - In an address to his supporters today at a family-owned business in Adams County, Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier officially announced his candidacy for the Unites States House of Representatives in Colorado’s 7th Congressional District.
Frazier’s message is one [...]
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The transportation discussion in Colorado continues to be a dominant debate followed by little action. RTD clearly has a spending problem. Its administration is a bloated mess of government mangers, overseeing other managers, overseeing contractors. It has a steady stream of taxpayer-approved, [...]
From The Denver Post:
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce has delivered a list of business tax breaks to the governor's office that it thinks should be preserved to prevent damaging the state's economic recovery.
The business organization also is asking Gov. Bill Ritter for more detail from his revenue [...]
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It looks more like an article from The Onion than real news. Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize! I don't even know what to think. The Nobel committee has stooped to a new low, not considering what someone has done,' [...]
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In the 1930's, labor unions got legitimacy. Under the Roosevelt administration, labor unions got protection and the ability to organize industrial laborers. The Unions then represented workers who made things. The United Auto Workers, Mineworkers, Steelworkers, etc. It was' [...]
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My scheduled interview with Scott McInnis yesterday fell through. By the time he got to Monte Vista, there wasn’t enough time to do a professional interview before his next meeting. So I called it off.
Here are the questions I had prepared for [...]
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El Paso County Leaders Endorse J. J. Ament For TreasurerLittleton - The J. J. Ament for State Treasurer campaign announced the support of several key leaders and elected officials in El Paso County today as it continues to build support for the Republican nomination [...]
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I have to admit, it struck me as odd to see Ritter’s Chief of Staff posting the governor’s latest fundraising numbers on the Dead Guv’s site. All I could think about was half of Ritter’s staff in one room poring over the [...]
In case you missed the ballyhooed Republican candidate forum in Keystone, the state Republican Party has uploaded video of all of the candidates who participated.
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Having not yet taken the hint that he was the candidate who lost to Barack Obama, John McCain is embarking on an effort to reshape the Republican Party in his image. Politico reports:
Fresh from a humbling loss in last year’s presidential election, Sen. John McCain is working behind-the-scenes to [...]
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