On the day Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) lost his gavel, former Congressman Bob Beauprez expressed his frustration with House Republicans, including Rep. Ken Buck who was one of eight GOP members who voted for the unprecedented removal, in no uncertain terms, calling it political suicide.
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Conservative School Board Candidates Join Parents Rights Speakers for Forum in Northern Colorado
As candidates and voters mingled at the start of last Thursday’s School Board Candidate Meet & Greet in Loveland at Citipointe Church, conversations were interrupted as every cell phone in the room beeped simultaneously: the Colorado Bureau of Investigation had issued a ‘Blue Alert.’ These go out to media — and cell phones — when “a peace officer has been killed or received a life-threatening injury and the suspect(s) have fled,” says CBI, much like the better-known ‘Amber Alerts’ for missing children.
Fact Check: D11’s Academic Performance
During a Sept. 16 town hall event, Colorado Springs School District 11 Board Vice President Jason Jorgenson touted the district’s academic improvement.
Buck: ‘No, I’m Not Trying To Get Hired by CNN’
On Saturday, Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) addressed a newspaper report — or allegations, in many conservative spheres — of him vying for a position at CNN.
Brief: Kaiser Healthcare Workers Set To Strike Tomorrow
Colorado’s Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 105, a workers union for Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest medical care companies in the United States, gave its 10-day notice of a strike on September 22 with the intent to strike tomorrow.
The Shomer: Laughably Small Club of White Supremacists Protests the Anti-Defamation League’s Denver Office
On Sept. 4, Elon Musk, the man whose family fortune was built largely on emerald mining in South Africa, which he parlayed into buying Twitter for $44 Billion and then tanking in remarkable fashion, amplified a Tweet from an Irish white supremacist to “#banTheADL,” before asking his followers if he should put the idea to a poll.
In Disputed Vote, CO GOP Now Lets Party Officers Endorse & Oppose Its Own Primary Candidates
The state Republican leadership’s failure to opt out of Colorado’s open primary at Saturday’s central committee meeting garnered the headlines, but another significant rule change did pass, with less fanfare if not less controversary. After a short debate and a “standing count” rule vote tally determined solely by Chair Dave Williams, the Colorado GOP changed its bylaws to allow leaders to both endorse and oppose their own candidates in primary elections, a likely unprecedented break from the longstanding party neutrality.
‘A Fair Slice of the Pie:’ Striking Chrysler Workers on the Picket Line in Denver
“It’s time for us to get our fair share,” said David Vogelsang, a local leader of the United Auto Workers, as he and about 50 of his fellow striking workers picketed Friday in front of a Chrysler parts distribution center on East 38th Avenue in Denver.
‘The Last Thing I Want Is a Shutdown,’ Boebert Says. Then She Voted Against the Bipartisan Bill to Fund the Gov’t
Less than 48 hours after Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert told a phone-in town hall that she was working tirelessly to prevent a government shutdown, she was one of 90 House Republicans who voted against a stop-gap bill Saturday to fund the government for another 45 days.
Boebert’s Libertarian Challenger Questions Her Values, Promises to ‘Pivot Hard to the Right’
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert recently took flack from the moderate wing of her party, when Mesa County Commissioner Cody Davis announced his decision to endorse her primary opponent. Now a prominent grassroots Republican, Lori Cutunilli, has used her group’s social media platform to interview another Boebert challenger, Libertarian candidate James Wiley.