The Colorado Independent

Posts Tagged Karl Rove

Time profiles independent expenditure groups pouring money into US elections

By | 09.17.10 | 7:58 am

Time’s Michael Crowley has published a good overview of the current independent expenditure landscape heading into midterm elections. It covers mostly trodden ground, but in a supremely readable style that discloses a few nuggets of wisdom as well.

Rove groups run anti-Bennet ad in Denver, Colorado Springs

By | 08.17.10 | 10:17 am

Correction: This article has been amended to reflect that Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie formed, and continue to have ties to, American Crossroads GPS. They do not run the organization as originally stated.

American Crossroads GPS, a 501…

‘Shadow GOP’ hiding in plain sight

By | 08.06.10 | 2:05 pm

Holly Bailey adds detail today to the picture coming into focus about a “shadow GOP”, which she says is centered on the 12th floor of a nondescript New York Avenue office complex in Washington DC. She calls it “ground…

WATCH: Controversial Karl Rove-Code Pink book tour coming to Colorado

By | 04.12.10 | 1:56 pm

Former Bush Adviser and GOP top strategy man Karl Rove’s book tour is coming to Littleton and Colorado Springs this weekend. Will he be citizen-arrested by members of Code Pink? Rove ditched a signing event in Beverly…

Rove on the Bush years: It’s everybody else’s fault

By | 03.10.10 | 8:24 am

Washington memoirs are all about settling scores. Karl Rove’s “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight” takes that tradition to new and self-parodying heights. To read Rove’s recollections of George W. Bush’s White House is to believe that, for eight years, men of “courage and moral clarity” governed the United States and were beset by critics who refused to give them any credit. On page after page, Rove names the naysayers and picks apart their claims. He’s most at ease — his delight jumps right off of the page — when he’s able to recount times he shoved the criticisms back in their faces.

At CU, Terri Schiavo’s brother ties Obama to rising ‘culture of death’

By | 09.22.09 | 1:26 pm

Bobby Schindler

BOULDER — A powerful precursor to the national shouting match over “death panel” health-reform this summer was the Terri Schiavo case, where a woman with severe brain damage was taken off her feeding tube and starved to death over…

Penry’s health-reform distortions mock Grand Junction Sentinel readers

By | 08.18.09 | 1:34 pm

Sen. Minority Leader and candidate for governor Josh Penry wrote an editorial for the Grand Junction Sentinel last Thursday in advance of the health-care town hall held there Saturday by Pres. Obama. The Penry editorial was marked by two…

News Nuggets, 14 Augut 2009: Penry’s Karl Rove

By | 08.14.09 | 8:01 pm

prospector
Dug up fresh, daily.

MINI KARL: Senate Minority Leader and gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry has pitched himself as a new kind of Republican, one seeking a return to true conservativism. He has tried to distance himself from the…

Bush appointees politicked for Musgrave on taxpayer dime

By | 10.17.08 | 1:21 pm

When Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave was running a close reelection bid against Democrat Angie Paccione in 2006 all of the big guns from Washington, D.C. came to help her. President Bush made an October campaign appearance with Musgrave in Greeley and the National Republican Congressional Committee helped with television ads blasting Paccione.