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Posts Tagged Dave Schultheis

Hitchens dies, leaves craven people in power to sigh with relief

By | 12.16.11 | 10:58 am

Christopher Hitchens died yesterday of cancer. He was a learned and caustic cultural critic who wrote for the popular press and who was at his best when eviscerating the hypocrisy and pretense of people in power. He famously hated organized religion. It’s easy to imagine that, had Hitchens ever trained his talents on Colorado politics, he might have reserved his best stuff for the small-town Christian moralizing and persecutorial grandstanding that erupts in regular intervals from certain corners of the state capitol.

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Colorado House Majority Leader Stephens under siege from the right

By | 08.03.11 | 7:47 am

Colorado House Majority Leader Amy Stephens is feeling the heat – not from sweltering summer temperatures but instead from the sizzling tempers of Republican “anarchists” who think the Monument legislator has violated conservative and constitutional values. They seem bent on anointing a warrior to defeat Stephens in 2012 – the frontrunner is Kanda Calef.

RSCC exodus continues with Conti calling it quits

By | 03.31.11 | 12:40 pm

The Republican Study Committee of Colorado lost another member today — state Rep. Kathleen Conti, who joined 10 House legislators who quit the ultra conservative club earlier this week. The exodus followed a House Republican Caucus meeting on Monday night when legislators rebelled against the RSCC for having characterized House Speaker Frank McNulty, Majority Leader Amy Stephens and other GOP lawmakers as RINOs (Republicans in name only).

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Ten legislators abandon controversial Republican Study Committee

By | 03.29.11 | 8:09 pm

Former Colorado Springs Senator Dave Schultheis is no longer holding forth on bills on the Senate floor in Denver, but he has continued to exert influence this year as the powerful force behind the conservative Republican Study Committee of Colorado. Now that influence may be waning. This week, a third of the RSCC flock quit the committee, rejecting the would-be radical-right revival.

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Dave Schultheis pulls Brandy Williams endorsement

By | 03.11.11 | 9:01 am

On his website, former state senator Dave Schultheis announced Thursday he was pulling his endorsement of Colorado Springs city council candidate Brandy Williams.

Blockbuster Arizona immigration law exposé sure to fuel anti-NPR campaign

By | 10.28.10 | 11:55 am

NPR’s blockbuster investigative report exposing the private prison industry’s role in writing and bankrolling the “lock ‘em up” Arizona immigration law that passed earlier this year is sure to fuel cries rising against NPR on the right led nationally…

Judge orders Pinnacol to comply with CORA on golf trip

By | 08.20.10 | 2:25 pm

After suing KMGH Channel 7 to block a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) inquiry into expenses related to an “extravagant” golf trip to Pebble Beach, Calif., Pinnacol Assurance was told Thursday by a Denver District Court judge that the state…

Colorado lawmakers, left and right, look to lead on immigration reform

By | 08.19.10 | 10:22 am

Liberal Boulder Democratic Congressman Jared Polis and a small group of Colorado’s most conservative state lawmakers share a focus: They’re all pushing immigration policy reform and they all believe that now is the time to act.

State auditors blast Pinnacol for luxe spending

By | 06.08.10 | 10:13 am

In presenting its findings Monday, a state audit committee all but confirmed news reports that Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s quasi-government health insurance company, lavished executives with suspect bonuses and paid for high-flying executive travel and entertainment expenses.

Schultheis to Polis on Arizona law: Give the people what they want

By | 06.02.10 | 4:57 pm

Anti-illegal immigration firebrand and state senator Dave Schultheis blogged on Arizona SB 1070 over the Memorial Day weekend, delivering a partisan stinger that was picked up as an op-ed by his hometown newspaper, the Colorado Springs Gazette. The…

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