Over the past couple days the editors of the Denver Post have issued their endorsements for 10 key state house and 5 key state senate races. If we presumed these were the only races to change hands and that all went the way favored by the Post, we'd end up with a deadlocked state house (32-32-1) and a preserved Democrat majority in the state senate (19-16). In summary, here is what the Denver Post supports as the state legislature's new Republican freshman class: Libby Szabo (HD 27) Robert Ramirez (HD 29) Karen Cullen (HD 18) Mark Barker (HD 17) Keith Swerdfeger (HD 47) Ellen Roberts (SD 6) Bob Rankin (SD 5) From the races they weighed in on, here are a few other Republican freshman state legislators we very well could see, … [Read more...]
Bob Beauprez Endorses 7th CD’s Ryan Frazier, Calls Out Ed Perlmutter
This is a great piece of news to read today from my next Congressman Ryan Frazier, and it comes not a moment too soon:Former 7th CD Rep. Bob Beauprez Backs Ryan Frazier, Declares Perlmutter Corrupt More evidence Washington has changed Ed Perlmutter Aurora, CO – Ryan Frazier, candidate for the 7th Congressional District, today announced the endorsement of former 7th Congressional District Rep. Bob Beauprez. Beauprez honorably served in the seat for 4 years before running for governor. Incumbent Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s (D-Golden) desperate campaign has consistently tried to use Beauprez’s comments in the primary election against Frazier, rather than defend a 98.3% voting record with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Those who live in glass … [Read more...]
Rep. Lois Court to constituents: “…unfortunately it is a First Amendment right for political free speech…”
Public forums for political candidates can provide some elucidating moments. Take yesterday's Windsor Gardens event with House District 6 rivals: incumbent Democrat Rep. Lois Court and Republican challenger Joshua Sharf. Joshua recounts some of the event on his blog:...what struck me most was my opponent’s claim that she votes how her constituents would vote on a given issue. In fact, her priorities seem to be far more arcane and abstruse than the concerns I’ve heard people talking about, and had she held more than three town hall meetings in the last two years, Rep. Court might have known that. When I knock on people’s doors, we talk about the budget, the economy, jobs, and education. Rep. Court’s priorities are public financing of … [Read more...]
From Mothers Against Debt: Educational Programming Not Available on PBS
Yesterday it was the 30-second Amendment 63 animation of Obamacare-inspired jailhouse fear. Today, one of my Independence Institute colleagues did it again. Compliments of Mothers Against Debt, sit back and enjoy two minutes worth of educational programming you won't see on PBS: Not on PBS, but it does have a little bit of that Schoolhouse Rock flavor -- minus the funky 70s music. Regardless, the important message is one we all need to latch onto. … [Read more...]
Michael Bennet’s Election-Season Epiphany on Big Labor’s Card-Check
Update, 10/13: I know I gave Bennet too much credit for his mealy-mouthed opposition to "the language in that bill," but couldn't resist the opportunit for snark. Writing at Denver Business Journal, Ed Sealover expounds further. While it may be true that all good things must come to an end, that's not necessarily the case for things that have been trapped in a state of crystallized indecision for many, many months. In the case of Michael Bennet and card-check, though, it was. On February 10, 2009, I first wrote about the appointed Colorado Senator's Big Labor-sponsored legislative dilemma. Lo, these more than 600 days later, the Denver Post reports Bennet had an epiphany:After more than a year of equivocating on the Employee Free Choice … [Read more...]
Treasurer Candidate Walker Stapleton Unveils “Bounce The Bureaucrat”
Republican state treasurer candidate Walker Stapleton, fresh off an endorsement from the Colorado Springs Gazette, has unveiled a clever gimmick to drive his message home as we reach the closing weeks of election season. Called Bounce The Bureaucrat, it highlights the campaign's primary message of Stapleton's private sector experience versus incumbent Democrat Cary Kennedy's career in government jobs. The cute bouncing graphic of Cary Kennedy -- who once famously declared her support for a ballot measure to "drive a stake in the heart of" your constitutional taxpayer protections -- not surprisingly leads users to Stapleton's fundraising page. The race could be a close one. As of last week's campaign financial reports, Kennedy had raised … [Read more...]
Healthcare Reform and Amendment 63: Felon Fame in a 30-Second Video
With so much going on in the final weeks of election season, you don't want to miss the point of why Colorado needs to adopt Amendment 63 on our statewide ballot. Watch this terrific 30-second healthcare reform video (and I'm not just saying that because my voice plays the all-important role of Felon #1), and pass it on to all your eligible Colorado voting friends and loved ones: If you need the serious in-depth arguments for Amendment 63, read this Denver Post op-ed or visit the informative Patient Power blog. Or just remember... if you hate Obama Care, you'll love Amendment 63! … [Read more...]
GOP Candidate Libby Szabo Combats Lefty Accountability for Colorado Lies
A few weeks ago I brought your attention to the devious and deceitful work of the poorly-named Democratic 527 group Accountability for Colorado. The group is heavily funded by teachers unions and the ultra-liberal billionaire tag team of Pat Stryker and Tim Gill, among others. Accountability for Colorado's dishonest attack fliers, radio ads and robo-calls against Republican state house candidates -- using some of the same recycled outlandish arguments regardless of the candidate -- have prompted inquiries to local District Attorney offices, specifically from Karen Cullen (HD 18) and Tom Janich (HD 31). The latest candidate I'm aware of to have the local D.A. investigate the use of bizarre slanders from Accountability for Colorado is … [Read more...]
Douglas County GOP Leaders Stress Unity, Two-Thirds Back Tom Tancredo
My sources inside the Douglas County Republican Party report that they held a Central Committee meeting today to help resolve some of the issues surrounding the controversy over party volunteer leadership supporting third-party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo. About 180 of 350 eligible Central Committee members (including elected officials, Executive Board, District Captains and Precinct Committee People) participated. According to sources, two bits of news to share: In a straw poll to measure support for governor, the 180 respondents voted 27 percent for Republican Dan Maes and 67 percent for Tom Tancredo, with 1 percent going to Democrat John Hickenlooper and 5 percent still undecided. An attempt to remove voting privileges of … [Read more...]
Democratic AG Candidate Stan Garnett Should Hold to His Own Standard
Colorado Democratic Attorney General candidate Stan Garnett has unleashed campaign broadsides at incumbent Republican John Suthers for accepting campaign contributions from members of the payday lending industry while fulfilling his legal duty to help write new industry regulations. Certainly not illegal, but Garnett contended that Suthers should avoid the appearance of impropriety and return the contributions. But should the same standard apply, of all campaigns, to Stan Garnett? What about accepting campaign contributions from attorneys with pending cases before the state, cases the Attorney General will have to defend. Should Garnett return these contributions? … [Read more...]
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