Update: Incumbent Democratic state treasurer Cary Kennedy raised $70,000 in the last quarter and has $173,674 on hand -- which puts her squarely between Stapleton and Ament. With state campaign finance reports due today, GOP state treasurer candidate Walker Stapleton boasts another strong fundraising quarter:DENVER—Republican businessman Walker Stapleton announced today that he has now raised more than $310,000 for his 2010 campaign to unseat Democrat incumbent State Treasurer Cary Kennedy. That figure includes over $65,000 raised in the last quarter of 2009. Stapleton's efforts leave him with more than $270,000 cash on hand.... A quick glance on the Secretary of State's new campaign finance reporting site shows that Stapleton's … [Read more...]
Jan. 2010 Survey of Colorado’s Political Temperature: Highlights on PPC
The 2010 survey of Colorado's political temperature is in the books. A formal rollout of the top-line results is coming on Monday. But you can get a first glance throughout the evening as El Presidente highlights the raw results on People's Press Collective. Thanks to everyone who participated. With 714 participants, this is the most popular edition yet. Come back and make your voice heard again in February ... Onward and upward for 2010! … [Read more...]
Senator Mark Udall Making His Case to be Added to “Dirty Politician Filter”
Way to keep it classy, Mark Udall! From a 9News report (H/T Complete Colorado):Sen. Mark Udall is wading into a hotly contested special election on behalf of a fellow Democrat, and it's his use of the word "tea-baggers" that has upset some conservatives. The fundraising e-mail is on behalf of Martha Coakley, a Democrat, who is facing Republican Scott Brown in a tight race to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. Udall's e-mail reads, in part, "Martha's opponent is receiving millions of dollars in support from far-right tea-baggers across the country, claiming him as one of their own."... A campaign representative for Udall, who is not up for re-election until 2014, issued a statement in response to an inquiry by … [Read more...]
Lang Sias & Doug Lamborn First from Colorado to Pledge Obama Care Repeal
Update, 1/22: Two other Republican candidates -- U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Buck and 7th CD contender Ryan Frazier -- also have signed the "Repeal It" pledge. The Club for Growth has created a "Repeal It" pledge for candidates running for Congress in 2010. It reads:I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state upon my election to the U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Senate, to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government. There's a cause the majority of Coloradans (and indeed, Americans) can rally around. Kudos to Republican 7th CD candidate Lang Sias for being the first non-incumbent from our … [Read more...]
Sen. Udall and Bennet, Even the Denver Post Is Telling You to Stop Obama Care
Today's editorial from the liberal- leaning Denver Post urges Colorado Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet to vote against the "bad medicine" of Obama Care. If that doesn't tell you how blindly out of touch the national Democratic Party has become, and the political dangers awaiting them on the near horizon, I'm not sure what will: Maybe a "Massachusetts Miracle" by Republican Scott Brown? … [Read more...]
State Rep Sara Gagliardi (D-Arvada) Stands For Government Health Care
A couple days ago I told you about my friend Libby Szabo running for House District 27. Well, you also ought to know a bit more about the incumbent Democrat who she is trying to unseat: Rep. Sara Gagliardi. Check this out from a recent Colorado News Agency story about Tuesday's health care freedom rally at the State Capitol:“We need to do something in this country, and I am in favor of single-payer national health care reform—so I would not support this initiative at all,” said Rep. Sara Gagliardi, D-Arvada, who is vice chair of the House Health and Human Services Committee. Yes, that's right. My state representative thinks the current Obama Care proposals rejected by a majority of Americans -- and most recently, Massachusetts … [Read more...]
Government Workers Now the Majority Among U.S. Union Members
A startling statistical development emerged last Friday, that you may have missed if you weren't paying attention too closely. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that for the first time in U.S. history there are more union members working in government than working in the private sector. I sat down yesterday for a 9-minute iVoices podcast conversation with Brian Johnson, executive director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom, to explore the effects of the changing labor movement on the fight for liberty and limited government. Follow the link here or click on the play button below to listen: … [Read more...]
Tax on a Fee? Thank Bill Ritter, Diane Primavera and Colorado Democrats
Thanks to the Democrats in the state legislature, a new tire-waste disposal fee isn't good enough: You're also getting taxed on the fee! Yes, that's right. Check out the new report created by my Independence Institute colleague Todd Shepherd:Imagine paying for your new car tags, and the person behind the counter also assesses a sales tax on your total tag price. Or imagine paying a government toll on a highway, and sales tax is assessed to the toll as well. It may sound far-fetched, but when you purchase new tires, it's happening. … [Read more...]
Brilliant! Poli Sci Profs Find One Creative Way to Make Obama Care Math Add Up
Yesterday two political science professors -- one from Yale and one from Georgetown -- had a column published in the Washington Post titled "After Massachusetts, why the Democrats should still pass health-care reform." Here is the argument they make (apparently) with a straight face:The bills in Congress hardly enjoy runaway popularity. But the problem isn't that health-care reform itself is unpopular. It is that people are turned off by the current debate about it. And those repelled by what is happening in Washington include a lot of liberals as well as conservatives. In a recent nationwide CNN poll, for example, 10 percent of respondents opposed reform from the left because they felt it was not liberal enough. Another 40 percent … [Read more...]
Dem Legislator Edward Vigil on Party’s Likely Nominee: “What the Hick?”
Some Right-leaning bloggers have raised concerns that the likely new Democratic nominee for Colorado governor -- Denver mayor John Hickenlooper -- may be too liberal to win a statewide election. But it took fellow Democrat state lawmaker Edward Vigil to question Hickenlooper's familiarity with rural Colorado and ask: "What the Hick is going for governor? Does he know there is a rural Colorado? Has he been past Colorado Springs?" I'm not exactly taking notes here. It's not like the thought hadn't crossed anyone else's mind. But sometimes discerning observations speak more loudly when you consider the source. … [Read more...]
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