Last week, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes previewed the “Defend the Republic” rally at the State Capitol — advertised as a gathering of folks from assorted tea parties and 9.12 organizations, among others, who weren’t ready to cede the Republican guv nomination to Scott McInnis. The event took place on…
The Stephanie Villafuerte story is moving at lightning speed. The latest development: Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, has sent a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the judiciary committee, asking that the consideration of her nomination be delayed because “the record currently available to the Committee” is “incomplete.”…
There continues to be plenty of sound and fury kicked up over that anti-Obama billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge — and the racket’s likely to grow louder tomorrow. Dealership owner Phil Wolf was initially thrilled by the response to the sign, which…
The surfacing of an internal Denver DA’s office memo attacking KHOW’s Peter Boyles and the Denver Post isn’t the only fresh development in the matter of Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination as U.S. Attorney. On Wednesday, Representative Mike Coffman wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking that “you initiate a…
Denver bloggin’ — on a Thursday afternoon. Kyle at Bronco Talk describes the Indianapolis Colts, the Broncos’ next opponent, as the perfect team. Let’s hope Peyton doesn’t make them pay. Western Citizen’s Wendy Norris offers up 25 ways to fix immigration. You missed the live chat, but you can still…
More evidence that the Democratic Party sees Representative Betsy Markey as among the more vulnerable freshmen in Congress — an attack on her opponent, Cory Gardner, by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which accuses him of “political opportunism” and “hypocrisy” regarding a bill he plans to introduce in January making…
ProgressNow Colorado is on the warpath against tea party organizations and other “far right extremists;” read the liberal outfit’s recent warning about them at the bottom of the blog linked here. But Lu Busse, chair of the 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition, scoffs at the notion that anyone, politicians or otherwise,…
In a Senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday, Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, quizzed Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano about the firing of ICE agent Cory Voorhis. (The exchange can be seen in the video above; it begins at approximately the six minute point.) But is Sessions, who tries a…
The debate over how to serve the state’s neediest citizens, including abused children, has come to a head in the weeks since a governor-appointed committee recommended that the state should take over county responsibilities for child welfare and services such as Medicaid and food stamps — an idea that the…
Local blogs: Get ’em while they’re hot. An inspired rant by Mile High Hockey’s David Driscoll-Carignan, who won’t be able to watch tonight’s Avs game at home despite buying a pricey hockey package because “the buffoons who run DirecTV and the pinheads who run Comcast still believe that the only…
In a blog yesterday, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy shrugged off suggestions that his candidate was masquerading as having won support from tea party groups — but he added that McInnis was actively courting members of such organizations. That wasn’t always true, says Lesley Hollywood, a spokeswoman for the Tea…
Yesterday, former Denver elections commissioner Jan Tyler, currently a blogger for Examiner.com, penned an item entitled “Is Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Having an Affair with Stephanie Villafuerte?” At this writing, and for well over an hour earlier, clicking on this link has brought up the following message: “Article Not Ready…
Yesterday, we noted with astonishment that Sarah Palin fans were waiting as long as twelve hours on a bitterly cold day to see their heroine at a Colorado Springs book-signing. Turns out a few diehards were even more devoted, spending the previous night in their car to be sure…
Yesterday in this space, we told you about tea party anger directed at gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, who Fox News anointed as a TP hopeful in a Neil Cavuto interview embedded below. But McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy swears McInnis is neither claiming to be the tea party’s choice (see this…
Crisanta Duran recently lost one election — a bid for secretary-treasurer of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7. But she’s got her eye on another office. The 29-year-old currently works there as personal counsel to her father, union boss Ernest Duran Jr., who also lost a bid for…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is upset about the effort by GOP heavyweights to make Scott McInnis the de facto party standard bearer months before the primary — and he says lots of tea party members will express the same sentiment at a December 12 “Defend the Republic Rally” inspired…
Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Colorado Senator Michael Bennet guaranteeing no Medicare benefit takeaways because of healthcare reform passed 100-0. Among those voting for it: Arizona’s John McCain, who’s featured in current Benet-targeting robocalls claiming that healthcare legislation would “[cut] vital Medicare coverage for our seniors.” Lauren Weiner, spokeswoman for…
Update, 12:14 p.m.: Just received an e-mail from Todd Shepherd, who now recalls Peter Boyles seeing a copy of a February 2008 letter described below around the time of its writing, after at first being uncertain if that was the case. Read on for details. Earlier today, we shared with…
A new twist in coverage of Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination as U.S. Attorney. KHOW radio host Peter Boyles has devoted a great deal of airtime to this tale (I’ve joined him to speak about the subject on numerous occasions), and as such, he’s become a hero to those who believe Villafuerte…
While talking with Dan Caplis about his life-saving Thanksgiving earlier this week, another subject arose: his current feelings about presumed Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis. Back in August, McInnis treated the GOP-minded Caplis like a hostile interrogator during an appearance on the latter’s KHOW talk show, earning plenty of brickbats…
Updates below: The appearance last month of an anti-Obama billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, prompted plenty of attention and even charges of racism for the way it linked the President (caricatured in a turban) to jihad and the murders at Fort Hood,…
The nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney wasn’t supposed to have been this complicated. But in recent weeks, implications that she may have improperly participated in accessing a criminal database (an act that led to the firing of former ICE agent Cory Voorhis) prompted her to write a letter…
