Colorado Senate News

Colorado Republican state Senator Greg Brophy tweets this past weekend that he was back in small town Wray where he lives far from the hustle and bustle of Denver. No stoplights! No traffic! He was also quoted at the Website Colorado Senate News on Monday repeating GOP talking points attacking Gov. Ritter– talking points that [...]

Building from reports last month on a possible breach of campaign-finance regulations, Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a Colorado Opens Record Act request to determine whether the government-funded Colorado Senate Minority Office provided the gubernatorial campaign of Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) with email contact lists. Colorado law prohibits state agencies from providing contributions to a campaign. Ethics Watch contends the email lists are valuable and would amount to a campaign contribution.

Colorado Senate News.com, that rich vein of “news and information from the Senate Minority Office,” has morphed from a public relations faux-news outlet to an Internet “attack site”!

Surfing to the Web address brings notices not to open the site because it may “try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others or damage your system.”

Gov. Bill Ritter’s office pulled no punches Tuesday morning responding to a report that the communication arm of the Colorado Senate Minority Office edited a radio interview to make it seem as though Ritter had changed his position on housing Guantanamo detainees in Colorado. “They’re just making stuff up,” Ritter spokesman Evan Dreyer wrote in an e-mail to the Colorado Independent. “Nothing new for them, though.”

A local watchdog group is accusing the Denver District Attorney’s Office of stonewalling a criminal investigation into whether a state senator broke the law.

The Denver District Attorney’s office is balking on a case that could land one of the state’s leading politicians in legal trouble.

The Republican Party may use the elephant as a logo, but it sure isn’t because it represents long memories, especially for the Republican Senate Caucus here in Colorado. Records dating back to 2001 have shown that the Republican legislators have “forgotten” how to use the official State Seal properly not once, or twice, but at [...]

As was reported by Colorado Confidential on Monday, Colorado Citizens for Ethics in Government (CCEG), a local non-profit and non-partisan watchdog group, submitted letters to Governor Bill Ritter and Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey calling for an investigation of the Senate Minority Office and the Web site ColoradoSenateNews.com, which has been called “the official communications [...]

Colorado Citizens for Ethics in Government (CCEG) submitted letters today to Governor Bill Ritter and District Attorney Mitch Morrissey to launch a full investigation of the Colorado Senate Minority Office for “using a gift of private partisan funds for official state functions and for using state time and property for political activities.”

CCEG, a non-partisan, non-profit [...]

The apparent pretext behind Colorado Senate News.com, the official communications hub for the Senate Minority Communications Office, is as important as recently discovered revelations of cover-ups between it and Republican political operatives.

A comparison of Colorado Senate News.com and Colorado House.org, the Web site maintained by the House Majority Communications Office, demonstrates stark differences between providing [...]