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New poll, same message: Coloradans strongly favor equal rights for gay couples

By | 08.12.11 | 3:57 pm

Survey results released by Public Policy Polling this week underline broad support in Colorado for some form of legislation that would grant gay couples equal partnership rights. Although Republican members of the House Judicial Committee last year quashed a popular civil unions bill, PPP found that even among Colorado Republican voters, support for civil unions-style legislation is now nearing 60 percent.

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With civil unions blog post, Mitchell points finger at lawmakers who killed the bill

By | 04.21.11 | 11:08 am

Conservative state Senator Shawn Mitchell voted against the same-sex civil unions bill introduced this legislative session in Colorado, and there was nothing surprising about that. He did surprise, however, with his silence on the chamber floor during debate and with his absence in the media coverage around the bill. Turns out Mitchell, a high-profile opponent of gay rights in the past but also a strong libertarian and no prude, was waffling.

Colbert tells Congress how he tried and failed to take an immigrant’s job

By | 09.24.10 | 8:11 am

Now that Senate Democrats have indicated that they will not vote on whether to extend the Bush tax cuts before midterm elections, the biggest news in Washington today might be that Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,”…

Polis questions Holder on immigration and marijuana

By | 05.14.10 | 12:58 pm

Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis (CD2) used his first hearing appearance as a member of the House Judiciary Committee Thursday to question U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about matters close to the heart of Coloradans. He asked about federal…