President of the Independence Institute Jon Caldara submitted roughly 130,500 signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office Friday in an effort to land an initiative on the November ballot that would block federal health care reform legislation from…
U.S. GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck mockingly told a crowd at an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms party this past weekend to vote for him and not primary rival Jane Norton because he doesn’t “wear high heels.” The blogosphere is…
Republicans running for office still talk stridently about opposing “Obamacare” health reform legislation, even though the heat around the new law among the general public has faded and the political gains to be made from the position are far from…
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.…
U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton is feeling heat again on the right Monday. Although health care reform legislation passed Sunday, the battle against it continues around the country and in Colorado. Attorney General John Suthers today joined a…
DENVER–Members of Colorado Tea Party and 912 groups and the libertarian think tank Independence Institute attended a “grassroots session” and rally sponsored by Americans For Prosperity at the Capitol Wednesday. The activists met with GOP lawmakers for a strategy session in the Old Senate chambers and then gathered on the capitol steps. The rally lured a familiar group of Republican lawmakers, led this time by Yuma state Rep. Cory Gardner, who is also running to represent the Fourth Congressional district in Washington.
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…
In a four to one vote, the Colorado Supreme Court this morning declared that so-called clean elections Amendment 54 unconstitutionally tramped on the right to free speech. The Court barred authorities from enacting its provisions.
“[W]e find the…
DENVER– More than a hundred people gathered at a rally convened on the west steps of the capitol today to urge Colorado lawmakers to oppose federal health reform and to launch a state ballot initiative that aims to exempt Colorado from any version of the health legislation set to pass through Congress in the coming weeks. The move here reflects related efforts in states across the country.
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