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Will anyone have the guts to take on Wadhams?

By | 11.14.08 | 11:55 am

The blogs are having a field day this week, speculating as to which lucky Joe will emerge the winning plumber who will flush out the old and usher in a new winning majority for Colorado’s down-and-out GOP. And yes, current Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams is still in the mix.

Amid scandal, Colorado is at election storm central: Are we ready?

By | 10.06.08 | 7:29 am

In Colorado, the state with the longest ballot in the country, 215,000 new voters have signed up since January. The woman in charge of the state elections department, Holly Lowder, resigned just weeks ago, after her cozy personal relationship with the beneficiary of several state election-related contracts surfaced. Lowder’s boss, Secretary of State Mike Coffman, is himself the target of longstanding ethics complaints and is overseeing an election that he is also running in — to replace retiring Congressman Tom Tancredo. And, oh yeah, Colorado could be the deciding state for the presidential election.

Hold on tight. It could be a bumpy ride.

Coffman And Kopelman Try To Smoke Out The “Illegals”

By | 06.28.07 | 11:14 am

An e-mail exchange between Secretary of State Mike Coffman and his then-elections technology manager Dan Kopelman elevated the specter that hordes of illegal immigrants are attempting to vote in Colorado.

The communication, intercepted as part of an open records…

Timeline of Secretary of State Controversy

By | 06.19.07 | 11:42 am

The Colorado State Auditor’s office has launched an investigation into the secretary of state’s office and one of its employees, Dan Kopelman. Kopelman, who worked in the Elections Division until he was recently reassigned, was found to be operating a

UPDATED: Evidence Mounts Against Coffman, Kopelman

By | 06.15.07 | 3:46 pm

Troubling evidence surfaced today in the on-going scandal of alleged political activities and moonlighting in the Colorado Secretary of State’s office.

Secretary Mike Coffman’s repeated denials of prior knowledge that technology manager Dan Kopelman was engaged in partisan activities…

BREAKING: Ethics Group Catches Coffman in Lies?

By | 06.15.07 | 11:25 am

Colorado Citizens for Ethics in Government released a statement moments ago that new information has surfaced suggesting that Secretary of State Mike Coffman and his embattled technology manager Dan Kopelman may be criminally liable for embezzlement of public property, among…

Coffman Playing By Own Set of Rules

By | 05.21.07 | 1:14 pm

Just one day after issuing a stringent set of rules restricting political activities by employees of his office, Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman was the featured speaker at a Mesa County Republican Party event in Grand Junction.…

SOS Tightens Personnel Rules; Kopelman Still There

By | 05.18.07 | 11:03 am

Secretary of State Mike Coffman has released new employee rules concerning political activities as a response to charges that his appointee and former campaign consultant, Dan Kopelman, continued his partisan activities while working in the elections division at the…

Kopelman Cloud Hanging Over SOS Staff

By | 05.15.07 | 2:56 pm

The old saying, “closing the barn door after the horse has gone,” cannot be more appropriate in Mike Coffman’s Secretary of State’s office concerning the mishaps of one of Coffman’s political consultants and current $75,760/year SOS employee, Dan Kopelman. The…

SOS Fox in HAVA Henhouse

By | 05.11.07 | 9:06 am

No one can miss the irony that Secretary of State Mike Coffman appointed SOS IT manager Dan Kopelman to represent Colorado on the advisory board to the national Election Assistance Commission which oversees the implementation of the Help…