During U.S. senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff’s first official campaign event in Denver yesterday afternoon, he told a story related by Ken Gordon, the man he succeeded in the Colorado House. One of Gordon’s constituents thought he was retiring from politics instead of moving to the Senate — and when he…
Yesterday, Representative Jared Polis joined colleagues Jerrold Nadler and Tammy Baldwin, Dems from New York and Wisconsin, respectively, at a press conference boosting the Respect for Marriage Act. During his microphone time, viewable above, Plis referred derisively to the “thirteen-year-old, so-called Defense of Marriage Act,” which would be wiped off…
“Andrew Romanoff in the Starting Blocks,” published yesterday, pointed out that his long dormant personal website sported a one-line addition: “New Website Coming Soon.” Make that now. Even before the start of his scheduled 10 a.m. senatorial campaign announcement in Pueblo, the updated AndrewRomanoff.com was live. The picture on its…
The first specific cut listed by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper in a letter to the citizens of the city about his budget-cut proposal involves reducing the programming on Denver’s Channel 8 to “public-meeting coverage and select programming.” The latter apparently includes a newly posted video of Hickenlooper himself trying to…
The “send” key: It’s so easy to push — and so dangerous when it’s pressed prematurely. Witness the chain of events that followed an unwise forward inadvertently shared with assorted reporters by a member of Senator Michael Bennet’s staff as information about a Colorado connection to terrorism-related raids in Queens,…
How do you know that Jane Norton, who announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate yesterday, is the first Republican in the race feared by Democrats? Because she’s already under attack by ProgressNow Colorado, the most effective and aggressive liberal-oriented media strike force in these parts. This week, multiple mailings…
Earlier this week, ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo said former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, then on the cusp of formally announcing her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, wasn’t “ready for prime time” and was only running because she’d been urged to do so by Arizona Senator John McCain. Since the last…
Our daily slog through the local blogosphere. Polis: If the healthcare debate is a DeLorean, and universal health care is 1985, then Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst was just the plutonium we needed. (Colorado Independent) Also in the Polisphere, the congressman takes on detention reform for the new Huffington Post Denver…
Even as Andrew Romanoff readies for a 2010 run for the U.S. Senate, Michael Bennet, the Bill Ritter appointee he’ll be challenging, is upping his public profile. Hence, an appearance yesterday on KHOW for an extended conversation with host Craig Silverman and fill-in yakker Dan Haley, the editorial page editor…
As we pointed out in a blog last Thursday, former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff is on the cusp of announcing a challenge to Senate appointee Michael Bennet. To that end, he’s made one minor alteration at AndrewRomanoff.com, an address that hadn’t been updated for months. Now, there’s…
In an article by ace Denver Post reporter Lynn Bartels, former Congressman Tom Tancredo unloads on fellow Republican (and former Colorado Lieutenant Governor) Jane Norton, saying the only reason she’ll be announcing a Senate run later today is because she was talked into it by Arizona Senator and recent presidential…
Joe Wilson is a tool. Not so much because he yelled at the President — hey, if comics and umpires can take it, so can the leader of the free world — but because his heckling was so lame. So what should he have yelled? Here’s a list of ten…
Roxane White knows a little something about the power of prayer, having graduated with a degree in religious studies from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon back in 1985 — and she’ll need all the faith she can get in her new job, as Mayor John Hickenlooper’s new chief…
With ex-speaker of the Colorado House Andrew Romanoff’s entry into the U.S. Senate race merely a formality at this point, Michael Bennet, appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to fill the slot opened up by the departure (to the Department of the Interior) of Ken Salazar, needs to start playing offense…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Did Obama’s healthcare speech really change some Colorado minds? (Colorado Independent) Climate-legislation: The next empty promise for thousands of new jobs! (5280) What Josh McDaniels is saying about Sunday. (It’s not much, but at least he’s talking!) (Mile High Report)…
Over the weekend, Andrew Romanoff turned up at a union-sponsored Labor Day picnic where current U.S. Senator Michael Bennet was also glad-handing — one reason why a Tuesday blog about his appearance was headlined “Andrew Romanoff Sure Looking Like a Senatorial Candidate.” As a result, his decision today to file…
News outlets probably worked up a powerful thirst while looking for Denver naysayers to hate on President Barack Obama’s speech about healthcare reform before a joint session of Congress last night. Perhaps that’s why both National Public Radio and Channel 31 went to Darcy’s Irish Pub & Bistro in the…
“Time For Josh Penry to Make His Move in Republican Guv-Nomination Race,” a blog published about this time yesterday, noted that Penry seems to be filling the GOP vacuum that his principal rival, Scott McInnis, has left gaping thus far. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza apparently agrees, since he profiled…
Last night, Colorado’s representatives and senators actually paid attention during President Barack Obama’s healthcare address to a joint session of Congress — or at least they resisted posting their comments about it while the speech was taking place. Not all of the state’s federal officials have a Twitter account: Indeed,…
Our daily foraging for edible bloggage. Are the Democrats sabotaging Andrew Romanoff? (Daily Kos via Colroado Pols). Which Post is right about Josh Penry: Washington’s or Denver’s? (Colorado Independent) And just like that, hockey season is back. Which is funny, because I’m pretty sure last season is still going on…
Last month, we told you about KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles’ plan to put up a billboard questioning the native-born status of President Barack Obama. This notion had a major roadblock to overcome: In June, the outdoor advertising wing of Clear Channel, the Texas mega-corp that owns KHOW and seven…
The Colorado Union of Taxpayers’ acronym — CUT — indicates where its members stand on the question of taxation. While the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR) has been attacked by plenty of lawmakers, CUT president Marty Neilson credits it with “protecting Colorado from the real budget woes like those being…
