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Meanwhile in New York: Musgrave’s Susan B Anthony List campaign

By | 11.03.09 | 10:24 am

Social-conservative Marilyn Musgrave, who was ousted by fed-up moderate conservative Fourth District Colorado voters last year, is campaigning for third party New York Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman this week. She is there representing the Susan B Anthony List, the…

Marilyn Musgrave in New York rallies the conservative troops

By | 11.02.09 | 4:35 pm

What does it look like when the arch-conservatives come to town? They’re swarming places like Watertown in upstate New York, where semi-qualified Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is running for Congress and drawing national media attention along with…

Musgrave campaigning for Hoffman in New York

By | 10.30.09 | 3:53 pm

Marilyn Musgrave, the Republican 4th District U.S. Representative who lost to Rep. Betsy Markey last year, has joined the national right-wing effort to elect Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman to the House in New York’s special election Tuesday. Hoffman’s…

Political group that attacked Dems in GarCo goes after Longmont candidate

By | 10.09.09 | 9:41 am

An Astroturf group with ties to Colorado Republican political operative Scott Shires has apparently shifted its focus from oil and gas issues on the Western Slope to defending the religious right in a Longmont City Council race.

The Montana-based 501c4,…

Markey, Bennet land on FRC’s 2010 target list of ‘anti-family’ Democrats

By | 09.19.09 | 5:52 pm

U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, both freshman Colorado Democrats, found themselves on a list of more than a dozen potential 2010 targets for the Family Research Council’s FRC Action floated at this weekend’s Values

Bachmann: ‘Slit our wrists, be blood brothers’ to beat health care reform

By | 08.31.09 | 9:49 pm

DENVER — In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals “have the strength to destroy this country forever.”

“This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”

Gardner feeds the Obama citizenship beast at health-care town hall

By | 08.20.09 | 1:35 pm

State Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, in his bid to oust Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey next year and become former Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s arch-conservative heir apparent in the 4th Congressional District, poured gas on the smoldering Obama citizenship “debate”…

Ladies night: Musgrave, Bachmann, Foxx host pro-life anti-reform town hall

By | 08.19.09 | 1:26 pm

unborn trio

Former Colorado U.S. Representative and undead social conservative politician Marilyn Musgrave is jumping onto the health-care town hall bandwagon today. She’s hosting a national “teletownhall” titled “Keeping the Faith with the Unborn” and sponsored by the Susan B.…

Can Senator Schultheis be Musgraved?

By | 08.10.09 | 10:26 am

Not likely. But Republican Senate Candidate Tom McDowell is determined to try. He wants to move the dial in Colorado Springs away from a social politics that puts abortion, gay rights and illegal immigration front and center and toward a…

Penry, and his name recognition, MIA at Larimer GOP straw poll

By | 06.16.09 | 2:26 pm

Larimer County Republican insiders nibbled away at conventional wisdom regarding Colorado Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry’s prospects in the coming gubernatorial primary.