In addition to taking the primary election away from his Republican challenger, gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes would be wise to grab on to the remaining “Scott McInnis for Governor” billboards that are still up around town and reuse them for a cost-efficient campaign. The cornball message of the Scott McInnis…
The first segment of a massive reconstruction project along the South Broadway Corridor was officially completed today, a four-block stretch from Arizona to Iowa avenues. Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, city council president Chris Nevitt and Denver Department of Public Works manager Bill Vidal were there, as was Westword photographer Johnny…
Now that Dan Maes has rejected Tom Tancredo’s final offer that they both withdraw and let the Republican Party pick a new gubernatorial candidate, the race is really on — and Tancredo has confirmed that he may be looking for a new running mate. The most intriguing name to surface?…
Earlier today, we told you that Dan Maes had rejected a suggestion from Tom Tancredo that both of them drop out of the governor’s race to allow the state GOP to choose a fresh candidate. Tancredo says this offer shouldn’t be interpreted as proof he’s not wholly committed to beating…
At this writing, a delegation of Colorado lawmakers, including Representative Kent Lambert, is in Arizona to discuss how best to launch a version of the state’s controversial immigration law here. To Julie Gonzales, political coordinator for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, this quest is understandable but wrongheaded in the extreme…
Tom Tancredo’s latest suggestion for Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes: If Maes drops out of the race, Tancredo will, too, allowing the state GOP to choose a new candidate more likely to beat Democratic pick John Hickenlooper in November. To paraphrase Maes’s response: Fat chance…
At a press conference today, Dan Maes announced Tambor Williams as his lieutenant governor choice — and according to Westword’s Johnny Molfetta, who attended the event and took the photos here and below, the tone was much more somber than at John Hickenlooper’s introduction of running mate Joseph Garcia. While…
Update below:Dan Maes will announce his lieutenant governor pick at noon today — and the choice will reportedly be Tambor Williams. In some respects, Williams fits the lieutenant governor wish list of Northern Colorado Tea Party director Lesley Hollywood, given her experience as a four-term state representative from Greeley. But…
While other Republicans are starting to cozy up to Dan Maes, there’s no love lost between the Republican gubernatorial candidate and Tom Tancredo, now running for governor on the American Constitution ticket. Tancredo, who’s on KHOW right now, just gave his tax returns to Peter Boyles — authorizing him to…
Update below: This just in — Dan Maes will announce his choice for lieutenant governor during an event at noon today. Will his pick be the sort of person Northern Colorado Tea Party director Lesley Hollywood outlined earlier this morning? Or a person with more standard establishment credentials? We’ll let…
Update below: It’s deadline day for Dan Maes to announce his choice for lieutenant governor, and speculation continues among his followers about who’ll get the nod. But you can cross one buzzed-about name off the list: Lesley Hollywood, director of the Northern Colorado Tea Party. Hollywood says Maes hasn’t talked…
Dick Morris, the former Bill Clinton hire-turned-Hillary Clinton loather, is the featured attraction at an August 17 fundraiser for Scott Tipton, who’s running for Congress against incumbent John Salazar. But while Salazar has lately gotten some recent bad press over accusations of his involvement in a land swap that allegedly…
Another day, another Denver Post story that treats Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes like an empty-walleted joke. It’s no surprise, then, that Maes, who earlier threatened to limit the Post’s access if the paper didn’t start treating him fairly, has scheduled a meeting with representatives of the broadsheet to air…
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Lawyer and former Colorado Young Democrats president Crisanta Duran defeated Denver Health doctor Mark Thrun yesterday in the Democratic State House primary in Denver’s District 5. The race wasn’t always pretty, with both sides accusing the other of playing dirty. But Duran’s been in that situation before — when she…
With Colorado’s GOP boss saying Republican guv nominee Dan Maes has no chance to win in a three-way race, and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton suggesting that Maes probably isn’t even competent to be dog catcher, it’s no surprise that old-school conservatives are casting around for another option. Right now,…
In late July, after a Denver Post editorial argued that he wasn’t qualified to be governor due to his poor business record, Dan Maes suggested that he might limit the Post’s access if it didn’t begin to cover his campaign more evenhandedly. But Post publisher and MediaNews Group head Dean…
Last night, most of us knew that plagiarism-troubled Scott McInnis had narrowly lost the Republican governor’s nomination to Liberty Movement favorite Dan Maes — but he put off conceding. Now, however, he’s finally grasped reality after several hours of folks like GOP boss Dick Wadhams referring to his campaign in…
No doubt about it: Tea Party and 9.12 Project groups played a huge part in last night’s primary wins by Ken Buck and Dan Maes. But as 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition chair Lu Busse basks in victory, she envisions a scenario in which Maes and Tom Tancredo could work together…
On Monday, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy insisted his guy wasn’t a dead fish. But at this writing, he’s flopping on the dock, refusing to admit that he doesn’t have lungs — or that he lost last night’s primary to Dan Maes. But while Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams…
Scott McInnis looked to have a clear path to the Republican gubernatorial nomination before word broke about plagiarism problems resulting from “musings on water” for which the Hasan Family Foundation paid him $300,000. Now, on the day of what looks to be a very close primary against Dan Maes, McInnis…
While Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been enduring a summer of media broiling over everything from the BP oil spill to federal wild-horse roundups, his brother John has been coolly and quietly toodling toward re-election and a fourth term in Congress. But now, the Other Salazar is facing…
