Colorado Pols

Monday Open Thread

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 06:21:34 +0200

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”

–Warren Buffett

Colorado Week in Review for September 19, 2021

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:55:49 +0200

awesome + uniting

awesome + controversy

awful + uniting

Aurora Police Department has pattern of racial bias and excessive force, …
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Congressional Redistricting: how it ends

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:13:22 +0200

Caveat: I have only followed the Congressional Commission, so I have no idea how the Legislative Commission is doing.

I suspect the 3rd staff drawn map that will be revealed on Thursday (Sept. 23rd) will be THE map, and this is why:

If the Commission is unable to pass a map with 8 out of 12 votes, the 3rd Staff Map is then submitted to the Colo. Supreme Court for approval. There seems to be some fundamental divides in the Commission that I don’t know they will be able to get past to get to 8 votes. One biggie is …

Why Not Get Your Friends Involved in Online Gaming

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:17:15 +0200

Nothing — nada. Nothing… you should simply to connect to your own games site also you can play nothing for the first 14 days, at the point you need to just move $10 or something like that to your site, and you would then have the ability to keep on playing free of charge perpetually on the off chance that you want. Brain youpersonally, with exorbitant price ticket contests (in overabundance of $10,000) that you need to stall in and h-get se challenges in a hurry. An expression of warning however, make certain you receive a lot of focus on …

Weekend Open Thread

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 06:36:43 +0200

“The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.”

–Luc de Clapiers

Play fun racing game

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:34:58 +0200

If you want to show off your driving skills or test your reflexes, Drift Boss Game is sure to be a great game that will keep you glued to the screen for hours on end.

The Drift Boss game is a casual game where you will have the objective of driving through an endless road full of twists and turns. Vehicle handling in the Boss game is somewhat different from the usual in other games. similar games. In this case, when the game starts, the car will automatically move in a straight line. As such a complex road, you …

Get More Smarter on Friday (Sept. 17)

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:07:39 +0200

On this day in 1985, hockey player Alexander Ovechkin was born. Please celebrate responsibly. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter.

CORONAVIRUS INFO…

*Colorado Coronavirus info:
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"Second Amendment Remedies,” Lauren Boebert Style

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 18:34:32 +0200

As readers know, Republican freshman outrage superspreader Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado has been on a speaking tour in recent weeks, making eyebrow-raising stops this month in such far-flung locations as Staten Island, New York–and just yesterday, as the Midland, Texas Reporter-Telegram reports, an appearance to benefit fellow freshman firebreather Rep. August Pfluger:

Pfluger said in an interview that he wanted to host a rally with Boebert because she’s a gun-rights activist and they’ve both signed on to pieces of legislation regarding Second Amendment rights.

“She’s a champion for that issue and I want to make sure that …
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Clerk Tina Peters Comes Home–Perp Walk Countdown Begins?

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:47:33 +0200

As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Tom Hesse reports–embattled Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who has been in hiding since mid-August as a criminal investigation began into the breach of election system security in her office that resulted in proprietary Dominion Voting Systems data being leaked to far-right conspiracy theorists, made a triumphant (at least for now) return to Grand Junction last night at an event in her honor:

“I’m so happy to be home. This is where my heart is and this is where we’re going to take back America,” Peters told a crowd gathered at Appleton Christian …
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Friday Open Thread

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:42:25 +0200

“If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.”

–W. Edwards Deming

Republican Wars Have Consequences

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:52:59 +0200

No matter what side they’re on in their internal war over whether to dump open primaries, Republicans are telling the world — and each other — how weak they are in Colorado, how much swing voters hate them, how deep blue the state is turning, and how depressed they are about it.

That’s the most amusing collateral damage for Republicans in the lead-up to Saturday’s vote on the open-primary question. And they are inflicting it on themselves.

In a devastating opinion posted today, Republican Mark Hillman expertly outlines the irrefutable math on how much unaffiliated voters, who are essential in …
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Heidi Ganahl Learns Cory Gardner’s Lesson The Hard Way

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:34:33 +0200

The launch this week of Republican Heidi Ganahl’s campaign for governor, which she herself has described as an improbable “moonshot” of an undertaking, was hobbled from the outset by a string of unforced and entirely preventable errors. After running a thinly-veiled “podcast tour” to build name ID ahead of a formal launch, Ganahl’s campaign bumbled the rollout week by prematurely filing papers for her candidacy on the Friday before the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

After turning her …
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Damning Aurora Report Prompts Call For Mayor Mike To Resign

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:15:22 +0200

As the Aurora Sentinel’s Quincy Snowdon reports, a comprehensive investigation by Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office into the “patterns and practices” of the city of Aurora’s police and fire departments has uncovered what local activists have long insisted–grossly disproportionate use of force against the city’s Black population. It’s an investigation that would not have taken place but for the landmark police accountability law Senate Bill 20-217 passed at the height of public outrage over the death of George Floyd in June of 2020:

Attorney General Phil Weiser on Wednesday released a wide-ranging review of the Aurora police and …
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Get More Smarter on Thursday (Sept. 16)

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:51:34 +0200

Happy Mexican Independence Day. Please celebrate responsibly. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter.

CORONAVIRUS INFO…

*Colorado Coronavirus info:
CDPHE Coronavirus website

*Daily …
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VIDEO: ‘Redistricting 2021’ Presentation by Colorado State Rep Matt Soper

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:42:26 +0200

(The quiet part, except out loud – Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Last month, Colorado Politics’ Evan Wyloge broke the story of Rep. Matt Soper’s redistricting presentation, in which the legislator provided local Republican party officers and activists with alternate maps and testimony intended to keep him and at least one of his Western Slope colleagues in their current districts. Wyloge’s story and subsequent reporting covered Soper’s request to his audience that they never mention that he was the one providing their talking points, as well as his frustration with the consultants running the Colorado Neighborhood Coalition, …
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Thursday Open Thread

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:50:16 +0200

“The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.”

–Charles Dickens

Wadhams Wouldn’t Be ‘Surprised’ if Majority of CO GOP Governing Body Votes To Exit Open Primaries

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 04:04:06 +0200

Former Colorado Republican leader Dick Wadhams “would not be surprised” if over 50% of the governing body of the Colorado Republican Party votes Saturday not to participate in open primaries anymore, falling short of the 75% that’s legally required to dump open primaries but setting the table for GOP activists to file a lawsuit that could overturn the 75% threshold and allow Republicans to eschew primaries as early as next year.

Wadhams made the comments on KHOW’s Peter Boyles show this morning in an interview in which he also cast a decidedly sour view on …
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California Experts Debunk Local "Hickerbilly” Conspiracy Theories

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:49:49 +0200

With the California gubernatorial recall election having ended in a blowout well beyond any reasonable disputation, we took note of this report in the San Francisco Examiner yesterday about how the recent election system security breach in Mesa County, Colorado was impacting the use of Dominion Voting Systems elections hardware in the California special election.

It’s a tale that has a little bit of everything. But the twists and turns do not include a real threat to the security of the Gavin Newsom recall vote, experts say. Despite the bizarre episode, city and state voting is secure, they insist.
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Republican Redistricting Lobbyists Investigated by State SOS

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:43:30 +0200

As the redistricting process in Colorado lumbers along toward a theoretical conclusion early next month, we’ve been following in this space the story of some well-known Republican operatives who can’t seem to figure out how to lobby staff and members of Colorado’s two independent redistricting commissions without breaking the law.

Former House Speaker Frank McNulty, former State Sen. Greg Brophy, and longtime Republican consultant Alan Philp have made a number of very obvious mistakes in their ham-handed efforts to tilt the drawing of new legislative and congressional maps toward GOP interests. As Evan Wyloge reports for The Colorado Springs …
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Has The Fever Of Recallpalooza Finally Broken?

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:24:59 +0200

UPDATE: Here’s how the Recall Polis ringleader was pre-coping with yesterday’s loss Monday afternoon:

We haven’t seen any word since. Perhaps we won’t.

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The Los Angeles Times’ political unit recaps last night’s failure to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, rejecting the recall question by a slightly greater margin than Newsom enjoyed in his 2018 election win–an historic victory over far-right activists abusing the recall process meant to resolve serious cases of malfeasance …
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