John Andrews

The Denver Post will no longer host its “Gang of Four” Politics West commentary blog. The gang included self-styled libertarian Ross Kaminsky, former Colorado senate president John Andrews, progressive pundit and writer David Sirota and progressive activist, campaign worker and self-described “muckraker” Nancy Watzman.

Conservative “Backbone Radio” talk show host John Andrews wrote an end-of-the-year Denver Post column Sunday nominating Archbishop Charles Chaput as his Coloradan of the Year. “The good archbishop models self-government and self-giving,” Andrews wrote. But how can it be a good idea to be lauding any member of the Catholic hierarchy for doing anything remotely [...]

The Colorado Personhood ballot initiative would be something altogether new. The initiative is about more than merely outlawing abortion. According to Crystal Clinkbeard, communications director for the No on “Personhood” initiative, in the history of the United States, a fetus has never been afforded full rights, “not even before Roe v. Wade.”
Clinkenbeard was responding [...]

Lolita Hanks, Colorado Right to Life board member and a spokesperson for the 2010 Colorado Personhood ballot initiative, told 710 KNUS talk-radio host John Andrews today that stories detailing the legal threats personhood laws might pose to pregnant women were just fabrications designed to scare voters.

“But what about all the hypotheticals where attorneys would be retained on behalf of an unborn child, perhaps to litigate against the mother of that child?” asked Andrews.

“Well I just think that’s just scare tactics,” Hanks said

In case no one heard about it, blogger Republican Joshua Sharf is running again for Colorado House District 6. The past co-host of Backbone Radio and occasional blogger for John Andrews’ Backbone American is picking himself up off the electoral mat to fight again with veteran legislator Democratic Rep. Lois Court.
It won’t be easy, conceded [...]

Yglesias thinks it’s time to trash the Monday holiday tradition and switch to three-day weekends that start on a Friday. “I think it’s the difference between a weekend that psychologically feels like it has two Saturdays and a weekend that psychologically feels like it has two Sundays,” he writes. Early Bird Special tends to agree.
Nonetheless, [...]

Colorado Independent readers, your citizen journalism moment has arrived.

Rocky Mountain PBS talk show host Aaron Harber is requesting questions for his two-part series on the future of the Colorado Republican Party. But hurry, your deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

With all the GOP naval-gazing and talk of reform, it’s time now to ask that perennial question: Will Douglas Bruce, the soon-to-be-erstwhile state lawmaker helping to oversee a government he wants to dismantle, successfully shape-shift his way back on top? Or is it time to stick a fork in him? Not surprisingly, it depends on who is asked.

UPDATE: Friday, 11:30 p.m. Rep. Bruce has been booted off the  State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, effective immediately. House Minority Leader Mike May’s statement appears below.

After getting himself appointed to the legislature late last year, Douglas Bruce’s soon-to-be colleagues and high-profile supporters gushingly predicted he would, among other things, “revive the constitution and save [...]

The online news site New West has a great story today about a robocall from former Sen. John Andrews about why Amendment 40 (term limits for judges) is an important ballot measure: