Yesterday, Dan Maes’s campaign sent out a release announcing that he and “supporters” would be waving to passers-by at Eighth Avenue and Speer beginning at 4 p.m. — a pledge he kinda exceeded, kinda didn’t. When I drove past the spot at five minutes before 4, he was already there,…
It may be the closest political contest of any consequence anywhere in the country. It’s certainly one of the most expensive. As the U.S. Senate battle between Ken Buck and incumbent Michael Bennet enters its final hours, expect to be slimed by nasty ads about the spineless Obama stooge and…
Matt Arnold of Clear the Bench Colorado, which aims to throw the bums off Colorado’s Supreme Court, calls himself an “Army of one” — and appropriately, he’s been in plenty of battles lately. After losing a round to Colorado Ethics Watch and being forced to identify as a political committee,…
Michael Bennet’s camp knows turnout will decide if he retains his Senate seat or loses it to Ken Buck — and so does Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele. In conjunction with the launch of NoMoreFrankens.com, a website using the SNL performer turned Minnesota senator as a cautionary tale, Steele…
While Tom Tancredo’s campaign thinks the Denver Post is trying to drag John Hickenlooper’s carcass over the finish line in the guv race, Tanc has honor rally organizer Glenn Beck in his corner. On his radio show, Beck recently declared that if Tancredo was elected, he might move to Colorado,…
This morning’s Denver Post suggests that Tom Tancredo has injected a racial element into the gubernatorial campaign by inaccurately quoting President Barack Obama as having denigrated “bitter white people.” Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge argues that the paper’s goal in publishing pieces like these is to “drag the carcass of…
Westword photog Johnny Molfetta gets around. On the same day he took snaps of a drug-free-pledging kids at the Chatfield corn maze, he captured a tribute to civic obedience by Colorado Progressive Coalition and other groups at the Webb Building. The idea: to encourage folks to vote against ballot measures…
Various polls show the U.S. Senate race between Michael Bennet and Ken Buck to be among the nation’s deader heats. That means turnout will likely determine the winner — a situation seemingly to Buck’s advantage, since Republicans are perceived to be more enthusiastic this year and estimates show more GOP…
President Barack Obama’s extended interview on last night’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had some unexpected Colorado flavor. Not only did he specifically mention Congresswoman Betsy Markey, who’s in a difficult fight against Cory Gardner, but he also referenced former FEMA boss turned Denver talk-show host Michael Brown,…
So you’re happily listening to your custom-made MGMT station on Pandora Radio when suddenly a dude starts talking to you about elections and stuff and a photo of an earnest-looking guy pops into your track listing. What gives? Welcome to the brave new world of political advertising. Secretary of State…
These days, Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes isn’t getting much love in Colorado, where one poll shows him with just 5 percent support, to the delight of Tom Tancredo. But the national press he’s getting of late may be even uglier, with one major source wondering if he’s the nation’s…
In an unusual court filing, state senator and prominent GOP campaigner Shawn Mitchell states that his battle with anxiety and depression has made it difficult to get work done in his law practice and political life, leading to blown deadlines and missed hearings and campaign events. The affidavit, filed in…
Update: Leslie Oliver, campaign spokeswoman for Ed Perlmutter, says a recent attack ad inaccurately claiming that the 7th District congressman supported supplying Viagra to convicted rapists isn’t the first time an outside group called the American Action Network has battered him with a false ad. She stops short of calling…
We can expect plenty of over-the-top negative ads and low blows in the next few days as this gruesome election cycle enters its final days. But a mailer sent out by Republican statehouse candidate Libby Szabo, trying to paint Rep. Sara Gagliardi as a typical tax-and-spend Dem, is just plain…
Ken Buck ran afoul of the GLBT community when he likened being gay to alcoholism on Meet the Press, prompting activists to demand a retraction. So is Buck prejudiced? He didn’t appear to be in April 2009 when, as Weld County DA, his office successfully prosecuted a case that advocates…
KOA’s Mike Rosen accused AM 760’s David Sirota of being humorless after Sirota circulated a Rosen line from a debate about crashing a plane into a thus-far-unbuilt mosque near Ground Zero — a joke, according to Rosen, but one that still led to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann branding him the worst…
After the election-day stress of choosing the least objectionable candidate and making sense of the Amendments, voters are asked to decide upon the retention of a mysterious list of unknown State, District and County judges. In an effort to help educate voters for the upcoming November 2, 2010 election, brief…
Vandals reportedly attacked the Denver County GOP headquarters twice over the weekend. Who’s to blame? Radical anarchists like Maurice “Ariel Attack” Schwenkler, charged with vandalizing Democratic HQ last year? Republican operatives? Drunk teens who randomly selected the building to test out some power tools? As they say, we report, you…
This weekend, the Denver Post shared polling data showing Democrat John Hickenlooper holding a “comfy” ten-point lead over main challenger Tom Tancredo in the governor’s race. But Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge rejects that, dismissing the Post’s survey as “totally inaccurate” and citing a different poll showing Tanc just three…
The placement of the two ‘Sidewalk Closed Ahead’ signs pictured above give pedestrians a scant three inches in which to make their crossover, presumably between the inwardly pointing directional arrows. This form-fitting placement is not due to Coloradans’ ranking as the least obese in the nation. In a state famous…
The website for Personhood USA, the organization pushing Amendment 62, which declares that the term “person” applies from one’s biological starting point, doesn’t come across as scary. At this writing, it sports the smiling face of Tim Tebow’s mom, who supports the measure. But a video from Personhood USA’s YouTube…
Over the past week or so, UFO sightings have been reported over Denver, New York City, El Paso and Richmond. Whether any of them are either connected or legitimate Jeff Peckman can’t say — but the man behind Initiative 300, which would establish an extraterrestrial affairs commission, feels that interest…
