Will Shafroth

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday afternoon that fourth-generation Colorado resident Will Shafroth, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last summer, will be the department’s deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks. A few weeks ago Salazar nominated another Colorado politician as Shafroth’s boss, naming former Senate candidate and one-time U.S. Attorney Tom Strickland as [...]

Both Congressional District 2 Democratic candidates Joan Fitz-Gerald and Jared Polis got what they wanted over the weekend at the CD2 assembly in Westminster, landing on the Aug. 12 primary ballot, but don’t expect their campaigns to agree on the implications.

Joan Fitz-Gerald, second congressional district candidate and former Colorado Senate President, talked live with Colorado Confidential readers this morning.

Read more to see her responses to your questions about her campaign and other issues of national importance to Coloradans.

Join Joan Fitz-Gerald, second congressional district candidate and former Colorado Senate President, for a live 30 minute Q&A on Monday, March 31 at 10 a.m. MDT. Fitz-Gerald will take your questions on her campaign and other issues of national importance to Coloradans.

In the meantime, read Colorado Confidential’s continuing coverage of the three-way CD-2 primary race [...]

Coming on the heels of the president’s State of the Union speech Monday night, the intersection of political rhetoric and reality becomes even more acute as the 2008 campaign season heats up.

Nowhere is the heat and light more evident than the contentious 2nd congressional district race to succeed Rep. Mark Udall (D-Eldorado Springs) who is [...]

Will Shafroth, candidate for Colorado’s 2nd congressional district, talked live with Colorado Confidential readers this morning.

Read more to see what he had to say on health care, water rights, global warming and where campaign fundraising lands in Dante’s “Rings of Hell.”

Join Will Shafroth, candidate for Colorado’s 2nd congressional district, for a live 30 minute Q&A on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 10 a.m. MST. Shafroth will take your questions on his campaign and other issues of national importance to Coloradans.

In the meantime, read Colorado Confidential’s continuing coverage of the three-way CD-2 primary race to succeed Rep. [...]

CD-2 candidate had raised $825,000 at the end of the last quarter, so going over a million might not be a sign of strength.

2nd Congressional District candidate maintains fund-raising pace in one of the nation’s most expensive primaries.

Will Shafroth is relying on a lifetime of work for environmental causes to get him elected to Congress in Colorado’s heavily Democratic 2nd District. But Shafroth also plans to use his nice-guy reputation to set himself apart from a pair of more strident opponents in a multi-million-dollar primary that will effectively determine who goes to [...]