The Colorado Independent

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

Immigration

Obama taps energized Boulder supporters for crucial last-stretch turn-out-the-vote drive

By | 11.02.12 | 12:10 pm

BOULDER– In a speech that alternated between conversational asides and full-throat exhortations, President Obama rallied roughly 11,000 supporters at the packed Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus here Thursday. It was the latest but not the last scheduled event in the high-intensity swing-state get-out-the-vote effort his campaign here has orchestrated for the final short stretch to Election Day next week.

In new centrist district, Coffman’s hard right views face scrutiny

By | 10.22.12 | 11:52 am

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman won 65.7 percent of the vote in his first Colorado Congressional District Six reelection campaign two years ago. It’s likely to be quite a bit closer this time.

Gessler accuses left of ‘organized’ voter fraud

By | 10.05.12 | 5:01 pm

DENVER– Speaking at a conservative conference here Thursday, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler claimed voter fraud had affected the outcomes of elections, that there is evidence of “organized” voter fraud, that Democrats are intentionally registering noncitizens to vote, and that his critics willfully ignore evidence that these crimes are being committed.

Obama in Golden seeks to rev up swing-state campaign

By | 09.13.12 | 4:17 pm

GOLDEN– On his eighth trip to swing-state Colorado this election year, President Obama came to this scenic town in battleground Jefferson County to energize and recruit ground troops to help his campaign win the state’s nine electoral college votes, just as he did in 2008.

As Colorado Democrats focus on regaining the House, HD 29 is again key

By | 09.05.12 | 7:15 am

In November 2010, political junkies in Colorado anxiously awaited results of the nail-biter race for House District 29, waiting days before election workers could confidently announce that Republican Robert Ramirez beat incumbent Democrat Debbie Benefield by 197 votes, giving the GOP a one-seat majority and control of the House.

Supreme Court ruling against SB 1070 draws praise from Latinos, Dems

By | 06.25.12 | 4:26 pm

The United States Supreme Court today ruled several key parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, SB-1070, unconstitutional. The Court did uphold Arizona’s right to require law enforcement officers to ask for proof of a person’s legal status whenever they have stopped someone for a legitimate purpose and have reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.

Swing-state Latinos rally to Obama after immigration announcement

By | 06.19.12 | 12:27 pm

Latino voters have responded with enthusiasm to President Obama’s decision Friday to limit deportation proceedings against and extend green card eligibility to roughly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants. But the head of a conservative Latino group in Colorado cautioned that the administration’s track record on immigration demands at best only a cautious optimism.

Transcript: Obama shakes up stalled immigration policy

By | 06.15.12 | 5:23 pm

President Obama’s announcement in the White House Rose Garden today that he was shifting U.S. immigration policy through executive order effective immediately brought howls from anti-illegal immigration Republicans, who suggested Obama was trampling the power of Congress to make laws. Iowa U.S. Rep. Steve King said he planned to sue the president. The transcript of the announcement released by the White House includes interruptions made by an attendee at the event determined to voice the view that Obama was “importing” immigrants who would take jobs from American citizens.

Vast number of unregistered eligible Latino voters could decide election in Colorado

By | 06.13.12 | 2:37 pm

In 2008 Barack Obama defeated John McCain in Colorado by roughly 215,000 votes. A new Center for American Progress study demonstrates that the number of unregistered but eligible Latino voters in the state is greater than the number of votes that decided the presidential contest– and that that is the case in most of the battleground states in the country.

Session notes: Colorado moved ahead or stayed even on education, gay rights, abortion

By | 05.22.12 | 3:53 pm

Colorado legislative debate this year on education, gay rights and women’s health policies reflected larger well-worn national political back-and-forths, where showy speeches on immigration “illegals,” “traditional marriage” and religious freedom often sidetrack efforts to serve the public good.

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