Perlmutter Bows Out of 2018 Election
Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-Jefferson County) announced this morning that he would not seek elected office in 2018, essentially signaling his retirement from public office after decades of service in...
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Q2 Fundraising Lessons: The Wealthy Shall Inherit the Office
Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell The numbers are in for the first big fundraising quarter of the 2018 election cycle, and like any important fundraising period, the results have...
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Don’t Blink, Colorado Dems!
Peter Marcus, outgoing reporter for the Colorado Springs Gazette mashes the “scramble” button on Democratic politics in Colorado in a big way–with news that Rep. Ed Perlmutter may run again for his...
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BREAKING: Perlmutter Will Run for Re-Election in CD-7
UPDATE #3: Democrats Brittany Pettersen and Dominick Moreno have both “suspended” their campaigns and endorsed Perlmutter for re-election. —– UPDATE #2: The Colorado Springs Gazette has more response...
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Field Clears For Smooth Perlmutter Re-Entry*
Perlmutter for Congress yard signs. The Denver Post’s Jesse Paul reporting, a wild few weeks of uncertainty in Colorado Democratic politics is rapidly winding down as primary candidates for the...
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Get More Smarter on Tuesday (August 22)
If you didn’t blind yourself by staring at the eclipse on Monday, enjoy these words. It’s time to Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments...
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No Nibiru, just rural Democrats causing trouble.
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) So the world didn’t end today (yet). I bet a 6th grader a chocolate bar that we’d still have class Monday. His older brother had told him for sure that September 23 was...
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No More Faux-Hawk, but Still Very Weird
Mark Barrington has trimmed his “faux-hawk” for 2018 (“swing” image via Ernest Luning/Colorado Politics) We were a little sad to read of the official return to the political stage of Republican Mark...
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The Big Budget Deal, Guns, and Gardner
Trump sign bill, but Trump still mad! After briefly threatening a veto — and randomly asking Congress to give him line item veto powers (and eliminating the filibuster) — President Trump today signed a...
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State Assemblies End; The Big Line Updates
With both the Democratic and Republican state assemblies/conventions now behind us, we’ve made a multitude of updates to The Big Line. If you’re looking for information on who made the ballot and who...
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Colorado Democrats assembled at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield from Friday, April 13, to Saturday, April 14, 2018. The crowd of almost 4,000 Democrats were enthusiastic, engaged, yet civil (in...
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Report: BLM HQ Will Move West
As Erin Prater writes for the Colorado Springs Gazette: U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is prepared to move ahead on moving the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to the West,...
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Ed Perlmutter Gets Hard Concessions For Pelosi Support
Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reports on the deal struck yesterday between a group of dissident Democratic members of Congress and presumptive Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi–a deal that...
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Let’s Talk About the U.S. Senate Race!
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) is among the most endangered Republican incumbents in the country. We know this because hardly a week goes by without some news outlet mentioning his vulnerability...
View ArticleImpeachment: What You Want, What You Can Get, What Wins
The Denver Post’s Justin Wingerter has a good write-up today on the views of Colorado Democrats on impeaching President Donald Trump following the release of a redacted version of Special Counsel...
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