Colorado Independent contributor Jason Salzman has been hunting down veteran Denver journalists no longer reporting regularly to talk about Colorado journalism in the era of the Great Transition. This week he talked to Bill Menezes, a longtime AP…
Independence Institute President Jon Caldara’s “anti-Obamacare ” initiative, which aims to exempt Coloradans from the paying into the plan, is limping along, with only 10,000 signatures. He has sued the state because he says new laws governing how to…
The libertarian GOP-supporting Independence Institute‘s Jon Caldara interviewed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff for this week’s edition of Caldara’s politics talk show “Independent Thinking.” Romanoff admits he wanted the Senate appointment that went to Michael Bennet in 2008.…
It was an easy hook but it garbled Jessica Fender’s Denver Post story. Fender was reporting the fact that the Colorado Supreme Court found Amendment 54 unconstitutional, striking down in Dallman v Ritter the restrictions on campaign donations put…
The libertarian-leaning Independence Institute is already at work on a state constitutional amendment that would block some of the proposed federal health care reforms, reports Jessica Fender at the The Denver Post.
Monday, Governor Ritter issued an executive order requiring his cabinet members and senior staff to submit conflict of interest disclosure reports by 25 October. The new order replaces a similar standing order issued a decade ago by the governor’s…
Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann Monday afternoon spoke on government fiscal restraint, the growing deficit and health-care reform at a libertarian-leaning conservative Independence Institute event in Denver. Speaking mostly without notes in her distinct Minnesota accent, she railed against…
DENVER — In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals “have the strength to destroy this country forever.”
“This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”
Colorado played host over the weekend to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who Sean Hannity of Fox News recently called “the second-most hated Republican woman,” ranking her as a compliment directly behind former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
On Saturday, Bachmann spoke at the Steamboat Institute’s inaugural “Freedom Conference” in Steamboat Springs. And on Monday afternoon, the libertarian-leaning Independence Institute is hosting a Bachmann talk in Denver at the Athletic Club.
Prominent conservative blogger Ben DeGrow writes Monday afternoon that former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez won’t be taking on Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet next year.
But that doesn’t mean the crowded field of GOP challengers won’t be growing.
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