At a virtual town hall Sunday, two Greenwood Village Democrats, state Rep. Meg Froelich and state Sen. Jeff Bridges, spoke to the importance of recycling and the value of legislative action to fight climate change.
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Dave Kopel on Two-Week Probation From TV Show After Calling NBA Players “Puppets of the Slave Masters”
Dave Kopel, a staffer at the conservative Independence Institute, will not return to his role as a panelist on KBDI-TV’s Colorado Inside Out for two weeks following comments he made on the program about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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CO Springs GOP Candidate Posts Racist Meme Comparing Black Protesters to Monkeys
Colorado Springs Republican Raymond Garcia, who’s run for multiple state house seats and is listed as an active candidate on state campaign-finance records, posted a meme on Facebook last month comparing a picture of a group of Black men and children standing on a police car with a photo of a group of monkeys climbing over a car.
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Homophobic Hate Group Only Listed Republicans in Their Colorado Primary Voter Guide
A voter guide founded by the American Family Association (AFA), a non-profit designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for its homophobic views on LGBTQ+ rights, only listed Republican candidates in the Colorado 2020 Primary.
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Song of Support for Unemployment Benefits Apparently Isn’t Music to Gardner’s Ears
The Non-Violins Marching Band (NVMB), a Colorado activist group whose name is a play on “nonviolence” and the fact that the group mostly plays violas rather than violins, asked U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) Monday afternoon to support a full extension of federal unemployment benefits.
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Gardner Draws Ire for Not Answering Questions About Sending Federal Troops Into Denver
In an appearance on The Steffan Tubbs show yesterday on 710 KNUS, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) avoided directly saying if he supported federal troops being deployed in Denver to address protests. Gardner maintained that he supported the police and was against violent protests but would only say that he would support a federal investigation if federal laws were broken.
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Disability Rights Law Shouldn’t Stop Mask-Wearing, Says Activist
As disability advocates in Colorado are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, they warn that the ADA should not necessarily be used as an excuse to not wear a mask.
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Shifting Blame Away From Trump, Gardner Argues Dems Had Same Info on Russian Bounties as President
Asked earlier this month about President Donald Trump’s handling of the Russian bounty scandal, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) launched into an attack on Russia, instead of criticizing the president, and shifted blame to the left, saying Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had the same U.S. intelligence showing Russia paid bounties to Taliban-linked mercenaries to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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Report Spotlights Poor Air Quality Along Front Range and Calls on Gardner to Act
Rocky Mountain Values (RMV), a progressive advocacy group, released a report today titled ‘Colorado’s Air Under Threat’ which detailed the dire state of Colorado’s air quality and called on Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) to help solve the problem by standing up to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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Gardner Says He’s an Ally of Immigrants and the Cannabis Industry. But What’s He Accomplished?
Even though U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) has painted himself as a defender of Colorado’s cannabis industry and a progressive Republican when it comes to immigration reform, he’s been unable to convince fellow Republicans to pass laws to help marijuana businesses or immigrants.