There are a couple of ways to read the news that U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff sold his Denver home to help fuel his grassroots, take-no-PAC-money campaign. At first glance, unloading his house in one of the worst real-estate markets in history, for almost twice what he paid for it…
This morning, we caught up with candidate for governor Tom Tancredo doing something that should prepare him for the campaign to come — picking up trash in his backyard. There’ll be more rubbish in his future, no doubt. But he takes a moment to discuss his formal entry into the…
Despite a federal judge’s decision halting a roundup last year, the Bureau of Land Management is once again seeking to “zero out” a small herd of wild horses in Western Colorado, triggering fresh protests. The West Douglas Herd, located south of Rangely, is comprised of approximately 100 horses distinct from…
In April, Senator Mark Udall marked the anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide with a strongly worded statement. But these words didn’t satisfy Rocky Mountain Hye Advocates, an organization trying to get all members of the Colorado congressional delegation to support a national Aremenian genocide resolution…
In recent days, Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams has been eager to chat about Tom Tancredo. On Friday in this space, Wadhams blasted Tancredo’s planned run for governor, and he gave Tancredo an earful on a radio talk show yesterday. But now that Tancredo is in the race, Wadhams…
Even before alleged plagiarist Scott McInnis released a statement refusing to kowtow to Tom Tancredo’s high noon ultimatum to drop out of the governor’s race, Tancredo had already told the Denver Post that he would launch his own gubernatorial bid. And although it’s not official, the American Constitution Party’s Doug…
Some of you may think Scott McInnis is a plagiarist — but he can sure as hell tell time. Just after noon , when Tom Tancredo demanded that McInnis and Maes promise to quit the governor’s race if they’re trailing in the polls after winning the August primary or else…
The major GOP races in Colorado don’t want for drama this year — or comedy, depending on your perspective. Tom Tancredo’s high noon ultimatum to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes was followed by Ken Buck’s “Weld County bullshit” statement and another comment in which he called Tea Party birthers “dumbasses.”…
Out in the real world, “there ain’t so such thing as a free lunch,” but don’t tell that to Denver City Council. Mayor Hickenlooper has asked every department in city government to reduce their budgets by ten percent. City Council has only been able to find a 4 percent savings…
Shocking news: Dan Maes isn’t accepting Tom Tancredo’s ultimatum that he and embattled candidate Scott McInnis pledge to drop out of the governor’s race if they’re not ahead in the polls after the August 10 Republican primary. His statement describes the plan as “arrogant and absurd” — Dick Wadhams uses…
There’s a lot of bullshit in Colorado politics lately. Mere days after senatorial candidate Ken Buck boasted that he wears cowboy boots “with Weld County bullshit, not D.C. bullshit,” Tom Tancredo uses the same word to characterize Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams’ criticism of Tancredo’s ultimatum to severely damaged Republican…
Dick Wadhams, head of Colorado’s Republican Party, doesn’t mince words when it comes to Tom Tancredo’s ultimatum to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes. Instead, he slices, dices and purées the very notion of a Tancredo candidacy in stronger language than he usually deploys against Democrats…
This past weekend, Tom Tancredo told Patricia Calhoun that with a few days, he’d make some kind of announcement about the governor’s race, which is a mess on the Republican side thanks to Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems and Dan Maes’s assorted challenges. And that’s one campaign promise he’s kept. He…
A few days ago we told you that members of the Hasan family, grantors of a $300,000 fellowship for “water musings” by (or allegedly by) Scott McInnis, are also the largest reported donors to three tax-cutting initiatives on the November ballot. But their $10,000 is a pretty modest gesture compared…
Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems sent his campaign into a tailspin — and with competitor Dan Maes mired in troubles of his own, Colorado Republicans like Senator Greg Brophy are scrambling for a fix. Still, Republican consultant Katy Atkinson believes McInnis isn’t necessarily doomed — although he’s got a big mountain…
After what his critics characterize as a long delay, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has released his tax returns — and they show per annum income as low as $11,000 in recent years. The data prompted the Denver Post, which has never been a big Maes backer, to editorialize against…
There’s no politics like Boulder politics. At last night’s Boulder City Council meeting, Seth Brigham, who’d previously protested a possible nudity ban by stripping to his boxers, ridiculed proposed new decorum rules already facing the ACLU’s wrath by wearing a Zorro mask while speaking. (The rules would nix mask-wearing –…
Who wants to be a coroner? More people than you think, now that CSI and its ilk have made death investigation seem like a hip and even lively career choice. In Colorado practically anyone can apply for the job, which has made for some intriguing races this year. Especially in…
Yesterday, Scott McInnis made his first public appearance — at Adams State College in Alamosa — since word of his plagiarism problems broke. But according to Channel 7’s John Ferrugia, who was there, McInnis treated a subsequent interview like a game of dodge ball, repeatedly declining to answer direct questions…
Musings on Plagiarism If Republican Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis can plagiarize water experts and make the big bucks, then I should be allowed to plagiarize daily cartoonists for a few cheap laughs. Instead of The Simpsons, Dennis the Menace and Pearls Before Swine, I give you The Shamsons, McInnis the…
Earlier today, Patricia Calhoun shared a chat with Tom Tancredo at the Independence Institute’s ATF event this past weekend. But I caught up with him yesterday when he was at an even more unusual place — a fast-moving line at the DMV (and “fast-moving” isn’t a misprint). But he still…
Is Bill Ritter guilty of plagiarizing? That’s what investigative website Face the State seems to be suggesting, having dug up a 2008 Veterans Day commentary bylined by Ritter in 2008 that has more than a passing resemblance to a Veterans Day speech given by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski four years…
