Update: This billboard has now been removed. More info below. Last week, we told you about WhoSaidYouSaid putting up its 100th anti-Barack Obama billboard. But a different board is causing a considerably larger foofaraw in Grand Junction thanks to images of Obama as gay, a terrorist, a gangster and a…
No wonder Michael Bennet’s campaign is so excited for Michelle Obama’s campaign visit at noon today in Englewood: She’s currently much more popular than her husband. That may also explain why so many shots from the White House Flickr stream find Barack basking in the light of Michelle and his…
Each election season, plenty of political yard signs are stolen or defaced — look below to see a shot of a circle-and-slashed John Hickenlooper for Governor placard off I-76. But Aurora’s Rob McNealy says there’s a new twist on this vandalism when it comes to Amendments 60 and 61 and…
On Monday, we told you about Ken Buck’s decision not to prosecute an alleged 2005 rape, which liberal organizations view as evidence that he lacks compassion for women. Buck spokesman Owen Loftus sees something different — an unfair assault on Buck’s character that exploits the woman at the center of…
Is Ken Buck the poster child for Tea Party candidates who were never into witchcraft? Yes, judging by the appearance on last night’s edition of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report of Brendan Steinhauser, the director of state and federal campaigns for FreedomWorks, Dick Armey’s Liberty Movement-boosting organization. When it came…
In recent days, KHOW’s Peter Boyles has talked up photos by T.L. James of a December 2009 appearance at which gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes collected contributions in a burlap bag. If he did so without properly recording donor info, he may well have broken campaign laws. But did he? Maes…
Last night, Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck engaged in their most high-profile debate yet — and shockingly enough, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid believes his guy handily won the 9News-sponsored event on view below. Kincaid also talks up forthcoming appearances on Bennet’s behalf by Bill Clinton and Michelle…
The folks behind Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101, the three tax-slashing ballot proposals that a wide array of opponents are fighting with a multi-million-dollar ad blitz, are pretty upset with the media. So upset that campaign coordinator Natalie Menten fired off a letter to “media members” blasting them…
Update below: Late last month, Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams said Democrats’ decision to attack Ken Buck with ads on issues like abortion shows that they’re “intellectually bankrupt,” since the voting public is clearly more interested in “the economy and taxes and spending.” But Buck opponents aren’t letting up on…
The joy of living in a “melting pot” is to share in the wide variety of different cultural celebrations. The photograph above shows the curious call-and-response customs practiced by Native-American-Mexicans and Italian-Americans on their annual Columbus Day get-together…
A group of Daily Show lovers in Denver are organizing a local version of comedian Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30 at Civic Center Park. The Stewart event, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck’s Rally to Restore Honor in August, will take place…
For years, the Bureau of Land Management has been aiming to remove substantial numbers of northwest Colorado’s remaining wild horses — despite a federal judge’s ruling last year that the agency has failed to prove that the obscure herds are overpopulated. Now, a coalition of activist groups have filed two…
Think Hickenlooper is a bicycle-riding, illegal immigrant-loving, tax-happy left-wing radical elitist? Think again, pal. Turns out “Hick” is a conservative, big-government-hating Republican who opposes Communist conspiracies and civil rights laws…
Seen those “They Spend, You Pay!” billboards? The ones in which Barack Obama looks kinda drunk, John Hickenlooper appears homicidal, and Betsy Markey, Ed Perlmutter, John Salazar and Michael Bennet seem amused by your pain? According to Kelly Maher of WhoSaidYouSaid, the website behind the campaign, a hundred boards are…
Whether you love Tom Tancredo or loathe him, there’s no denying that he’s a highly unusual politician. Whereas many of his peers always seem to be speaking from a heavily lawyered script, he talks off the cuff with a lack of self-consciousness that’s startling and refreshing. He exhibited that quality…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is focusing on busting criminal aliens — like the 78 people recently rounded up statewide. And there’s more where they came from. ICE has just released statistics for fiscal 2010, which ended September 30. The arrestee total for the Denver area of responsibility, which includes…
Jorge Moromisato is running for Colorado Senate as an independent, and whatever you think of his policies, criticism that his platform is short on specifics is not an accusation that will stick. The Denver Plan details Moromisato’s ideas on how to end unemployment and fix the myriad problems facing the…
Last week, Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams said he wasn’t worried about Dan Maes falling beneath 10 percent support. But plenty of other folks seem to be, judging by today’s Denver Post, which outlines the prospect of the GOP winding up with minority party status if Maes doesn’t register…
The Tom Tancredo-Grizzly Rose fundraiser co-starring Dog the Bounty Hunter and Sheriff Joe Arpaio in late September helped prompt rising poll numbers and new momentum for his gubernatorial run, according to Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge — and the attendance at a Saturday town hall at DU sponsored by the…
It says something about the level of noise in this year’s gubernatorial race when the candidate with the lowest profile has perhaps the most intriguing back-story. Paul Fiorino didn’t advertise for his running mate on Craigslist, he doesn’t have Dog the Bounty Hunter campaigning on his behalf, and he hasn’t…
Polish your resume and bone-up on the issues; independent candidate for Governor Jason Clark went back to Craigslist today to replace his departed lieutenant governor. Clark set his sights a littler higher this time. Here’s the ad, written in the third person with exclamation points, nicknames and all:…
When Dan Maes’s footnote to Colorado history is written, his downfall will not be attributed to sloppy accounting or historical revisionism. Instead, he will forever be remembered as the candidate who failed to take complete advantage of the similarities between his last name and the Spanish word for corn. Imagine…
