President Obama is not a popular politician in Colorado but, according to a recent Public Policy Polling survey, Obama would defeat in a landslide Republican Newt Gingrich, whose star has risen of late but who boasts laughable negative numbers with voters here and is despised by the state’s enormous percentage of independent voters.
In the wake of Dick Wadhams’ exit from GOP leadership, a shootout is erupting over the soul of the state Republican Party. Wadhams this week said he is done with the political sniping – particularly from Tea Party and 9-12 sectors – and is not seeking a third term as party chair.
The country’s self-styled “toughest sheriff” made more news in Arizona the week after the midterm elections. As Stateline reports, Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio conducted a well-choreographed raid on Nunez Creative Landscaping in Phoenix and hauled off 17 undocumented…
The Republican Party calls itself a big tent. In Colorado, every square inch of tattered canvas is needed. Even then, there seem to be a few people who feel like they’ve been left out in the rain. The Colorado Independent last week called all 64 county GOP chairs in Colorado. A lot of them are not happy. At least as it relates the governor’s race; most of those we talked to think the train has run off the tracks.
Lang Sias is a Republican candidate running for U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s 7th District seat. Today Sen. John McCain sent out an email in support of Sias. It’s the kind of move you might imagine a flyboy Airforce guy would…
Poor Wayne Allard. The recently retired Republican senator from Colorado seems to have gone down the memory hole at The Washington Times, like an out-of-favor Politburo member erased from history by Pravda.
Another Republican lawmaker has stepped forward to complain that threats of 2010 primary challenges were wielded to muscle the results of House leadership elections last week. “I got a phone call, and it was suggested that if I would back out (of the caucus chair race), things could be easier or things could be harder,” state Rep. Ellen Roberts told PolitickerCO. The Durango Republican lost a bid for caucus chair on Thursday to the more conservative Amy Stephens of Monument.
The entire Colorado Republican congressional delegation earned failing grades in the just released League of Conservation Voters 2006 National Environmental Scorecard. Ironically, two lawmakers who sit on the House Resources Committee – which is charged with oversight on…
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