Last week, Denver Business Journal reported that Colorado oil and gas companies raked in billions of dollars in profits in 2022. Despite this, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) says that energy companies are overregulated, and these regulations are clamping down on rural communities’ livelihoods.
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‘Let’s Make People Choose a Side:’ GOP Chair Candidates Vow to Close Primary
The future of the Colorado Republican Party appears to be focused on restricting voting and perpetuating the unfounded claim of widespread election conspiracy. The six candidates vying to head the state’s GOP spoke last Wednesday night at a forum held in Parker on the direction they would take the party–all of whom vowed to close primaries to unaffiliated voters and investigate voter fraud within the state.
Boebert Co-Sponsors Resolution to End U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is among a group of nearly a dozen far-right Republicans who have co-sponsored a House resolution that calls for an end of all U.S. military and financial aid to Ukraine.
Colo GOP Prepares For 2nd Try at Closing Its Primary, This Time With Leaders’ Support
Colorado Republicans’ first attempt to overturn the state’s voter-approved open primary process in court ended with a judge’s dismissal last April, but it appears another legal challenge, this time backed by the party’s leaders, is inevitable.
Anti-Abortion Activists Attend Annual Bill Killing
Three anti-abortion bills were killed in the House and Insurance Committee on Friday. The bills, introduced by Rep. Stephanie Luck (R-Penrose) and Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-CO Springs), were part of the annual tradition where Republican legislators introduce anti-abortion legislation that fails to move forward in the Democrat controlled legislature. Last year, testimony in support of bills aimed at ending abortion and collecting additional medical data on abortion patients died after a 12-hour session. This year, bills to end abortion in Colorado, provide pain medication to fetuses during abortions, and provide information about abortion pill reversal were voted down, eight to three, during nearly seven hours of testimony.
Arizona’s Conspiracist Gov Candidate Kari Lake Endorses Tina Peters for CO GOP Chair
Election fraud conspiracist Kari Lake, who very nearly became Arizona’s governor last fall, has endorsed another election denier in a nearby state: Colorado’s notorious former county clerk, Tina Peters, who is running to lead her state’s Republican Party despite facing multiple felony charges.
Aurora Councilman Zvonek Says He’s a ‘Lifelong Republican,’ Then Later States, ‘I Never Said I’m a Lifelong Republican’
Zvonek “I’m a lifelong Republican, and I vote for Republicans,” Aurora Councilman Dustin Zvonek said on a right-wing radio show last month.
Tina Peters & Two Other Election Deniers Join Race For Colorado GOP Chair
The race to be the next leader of the Colorado Republican Party just got a lot more crowded and no less conspiratorial.
Boebert Challenger Frisch Raises $500k in 3 Days After Announcing 2nd Run
Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within 546 votes of making Lauren Boebert a one-term Congresswoman, announced an eye-popping fundraising haul of over half a million dollars… since Tuesday, when he announced his intent to run again next year.
The Shomer: Jews Attacked on DU Campus; Ye’s Antisemitism Sparks More Jew-hatred
Earlier this week I woke up to news about a spate of antisemitic incidents on campus at the University of Denver, where some cowardly individual or group targeted three Jewish students over the last week. According to a report from Jewish rights organization StandWithUs: “The incidents, which occurred between February 9 – 12, included pork left on the doorstep and smeared on the dorm room door of one Jewish student and mezuzahs ripped off the doorways of the rooms of two other Jewish students. The sacred scrolls in the Mezuzahs were tampered with, one of which was destroyed. The students are all identifiable Jews or Jewish leaders on campus.”