Brightonator Real Name: Teri G. Sanchez; Occupation: Empire Builder; Suburb of Operations: Brighton; Hair: Electric; Eyes: Bright Suburban superhero skills: Brightonator is a mutant with the superhuman ability to brighten the lives of all the people she coordinates at the Small Business Assistance Center of the Brighton Learning and Resource…
Ken Buck’s looking more and more like your likely Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, and the national media establishment is starting to notice. No less a magazine of record than Time is wondering if he’s the latest Tea Party star — and if onetime frontrunner Jane Norton will wind…
The blogosphere has been abuzz of late about the news that gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis picked up a $300,000 paycheck as a two-year fellow at the Hasan Family Foundation, mainly for writing a series of eye-glazing articles about Colorado water issues. Political junkies everywhere want to know what the Hasans…
Rep. Steve King appeared at a 9.12 Project event over the weekend — but not at a planned fundraiser for Cory Gardner, who canceled after King played the race card in comments about Barack Obama. What’s Gardner’s campaign got to say about the accusations of political correctness and timidity that…
Taking a cue from the Rambo fantasies of Gary Brooks Faulkner, U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton has revamped her website to suggest she’s ready to bring us the head of Osama bin Laden. And that of Barack Obama. And all those liberal milquetoasts in Washington who’ve sold us down the…
Note: This story cartoon will appear in this week’s issue of Westword. Politicians and tarot decks are amazingly similar. Both were created for trick-taking games, and both are largely used by the foolhardy to foretell the future. The personalities of Colorado’s most widely known politicians correspond remarkably well to the…
The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama’s lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petroleum “pay” for the oil-slick disaster in the Gulf, suggests the administration is finally starting to look at poor regulation of oil-and-gas drilling in…
On Sunday, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank weighed in on his “prickly” former editor at the Yale Daily News: one Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff, who’s challenging incumbent Michael Bennet for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, may have left journalism behind, but he still knows how to edit an upstart…
Andrew Romanoff is taking flak from all sides these days, with barbs coming from Republicans and Democrats alike regarding the Obama administration’s various “job offers” (some would say “bribes”) to persuade him not to run against Michael Bennet. Now there’s another job opportunity waiting in the wings: The Honorable Mary…
After a costly effort to unmask the creators of an anonymous website backing three controversial tax-relief issues, an administrative law judge has fined three of the listed proponents of the measures for violating state campaign finance laws — and concluded that tax crusader Douglas Bruce was deeply involved in behind-the-scenes…
To protest an ordinance that might have criminalized women who publicly bare their nipples, Boulder’s Seth Brigham stripped to his boxers at a February city council meeting — and was promptly arrested. Four months later, David Lane, fresh from winning a $5.9 million settlement for Tim Masters, has taken up…
Last month, a representative from Americans For Legal Immigration blasted ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo for pledging to participate in a June 5 rally in Phoenix whose organizer allegedly had ties to neo-Nazi groups. Tancredo refuted these accusations, and he says his opinions were borne out by the rally, where no white…
According to Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams, there’s a very simple reason why Republicans like Jane Norton have concentrated more on Michael Bennet and less on Andrew Romanoff in relation to the White House job offer scandal. Wadhams sees no scenario in which Romanoff can defeat Bennet in the Democratic…
Andrew Romanoff’s confirmation that the White House floated three jobs past him after he announced his intention to challenge Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 Democratic primary isn’t his favorite subject, and he admits that he tried to avoid talking about it for as long as possible. “I declined to…
Although Andrew Romanoff has been getting loads of attention for revealing details about the White House allegedly offering him a job if he stayed out of the Democratic senatorial primary, Republican senate hopeful Jane Norton still can’t take him seriously. Instead of focusing on Romanoff in her release on the…
During yesterday’s announcement about her intention to retire in November, Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey said a vigorous campaign against her and three other justices had nothing to do with her decision. That’s Mullarkey malarkey, counters Matt Arnold of ClearTheBenchColorado.org, the organization spearheading the Supreme crusade. “Any claim…
In recent weeks, senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff has been under increasing pressure to talk about alleged job offers from the White House if he wouldn’t challenge Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in November, especially in light of similar claims made by Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak. Now, at last, Romanoff’s come clean –…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there’s increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the faltering Coloradoan out of the spotlight and find other, less compromised figures…
The idea that a White House job offer to Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak — one allegedly designed to convince him not to challenge Senator Arlen Specter — might be an impeachable defense has been popular in Republican circles of late. So it’s no surprise that controversial ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo would pile…
It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-hatted bureaucrat who blusters about keeping his foot on the neck of British…
While many of America’s celebrities announce their Arizona boycott plans, Colorado’s most famous performer is preparing a big show of support. Inspired by the new immigration law passed by the Arizona state legislature, Tom Tancredo is getting the band back together…
Across the country, major party candidates who’ve been associated with the so-called establishment have had a far tougher time than anticipated. No wonder Republican Scott McInnis asked Margo Knutson, a member of a grassroots Douglas County 9.12 Project group, to place his name in nomination for governor at the party’s…
