U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) is continuing to soften his threat to block Justice Department nominees if U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions won’t reverse his decision to undermine pot legalization in Colorado and elsewhere.
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Gubernatorial candidate Robinson to petition onto GOP primary ballot
Colorado businessman Doug Robinson announced Tuesday that he’s aiming to petition onto the GOP gubernatorial primary ballot, joining fellow Republican candidate-for-governor Victor Mitchell in trying to secure 1,500 Republican signatures from each of Colorado’s seven Congressional districts.
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Be prepared for GOP “smears” against Tancredo, say conservatives
“This election, I promise you, establishment Republicans will be digging up any dirt on Tom,” said KNUS radio host Chuck Bonniwell during a show last month, referring to Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo.
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Is fake news in the eye of the beholder?
In a blog post about Colorado’s 2017 Fake News Awards, which I bestowed last month to a group of Democratic and Republican officials, ColoradoPolitics reporter Dan Njegomir wrote that fake is “in the eye of the beholder.”
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Slamming the media, Coffman says stock market would have crashed if not for GOP tax cuts
In an appearance on KNUS 710-AM’s Jimmy Sengenberger Show Saturday, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman said recent U.S. economic growth came “in anticipation of tax cuts,” and without passage of the Republican tax bill, “the market would have tanked” and the U.S economy “wouldn’t be at 3.2 percent growth.”
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How do reporters deal with Cynthia Coffman’s abortion stance?
Republican gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Coffman told Peter Jones of the South Metro Villager last month that she backs abortion rights. Jones reported:
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State Senator who falsely accused a Boy Scout of misquoting her now claims media “panders to its liberal base”
Colorado State Sen. Vicki Marble (R-Fort Collins), who falsely claimed last month that she was misquoted by a Boy Scout, stepped up her complaints about the “liberal media” in a Facebook post last month.
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Tancredo will try to qualify for GOP primary ballot via the state assembly, not the petition, process
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo told KNUS talk-radio host Craig Silverman last week that he will not try to qualify for the Republican primary ballot via a petition drive. Instead, he said, he will rely on a vote of Republican Party faithfuls gathered at the GOP state convention, which will likely occur in April.
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Another year later, and threats that predatory lender will exit Colorado look even hollower
Another year is slipping by and it’s worth noting that One Main, the company that offers most of Colorado’s “personal loans,” seems to still have a thriving business here.
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Colorado Fake News Awards 2017
Maybe we can’t stop Trump from promoting fake news, but we can at least try to stop our own leaders from spreading it. That’s the BigMedia Blog’s goal in bestowing Colorado’s first annual Fake News Awards to lawmakers and public figures.