Udall call for non-partisan State of the Union seating draws ‘birther’ attack

Colorado Senator Mark Udall’s proposal that Democratic and Republican members of the House and Senate abandon the segregated State of the Union seating of years past and sit together Tuesday night has caught on. Udall plans to sit with GOP members of the Colorado delegation. South Carolina GOP Rep. Joe Wilson, who heckled the president last year, is sitting with Democratic colleagues from the House Armed Services Committee. Former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down a seating invitation from GOP majority leader Eric Cantor, but she plans to sit with GOP Maryland Rep. Roscoe Bartlett.

Buck campaign: He’ll discuss retracting Meet the Press statements if he wins election

Gay rights group One Colorado hand delivered a petition to GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck’s Denver office Tuesday bearing 1,500 signatures requesting he retract his statement that homosexuality is mostly a lifestyle choice. On Meet the Press two…

Colbert dices Buck on the gays: ‘He can’t help it; he was born that way’

The U.S. media has largely embraced homosexuality as a naturally occurring healthy variation of human sexuality, which makes Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck fodder for television comedy. Buck’s now infamous Meet the Press comments– in which he said…

Buck campaign to gay teen’s mom: ‘Ken may have mis-spoke’

U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck made national news for a week after saying on Meet the Press that he believed same-sex attraction was a lifestyle choice and comparing homosexuality to alcoholism. He later stood by the statement even in…

Amid Meet the Press backlash, Buck embraces Inhofe anti-science politics

“On behalf of the medical community, I denounce Ken Buck’s comments. We feel he should retract his statements. Science does not support his view…. I feel strongly that we should not be giving fodder for extremist ideology with statements contrary…

Bennet gets boost from Buck in courting key moderate voters

Polling now puts the U.S. Senate race in Colorado pitting Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet against GOP Weld County DA Ken Buck as a dead heat, with the momentum swinging toward Bennet. Rasmussen, which has put Buck ahead for months,…

Buck’s Meet the Press takes on rape, homosexuality draw steady fire

When U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck agreed to meet with host David Gregory on Meet The Press Sunday, you knew it might be interesting.

Most people probably had no idea it would be this interesting, though.…

Colin Powell says GOP moving too far to the right — needs to support immigration rights

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday said the Republican Party needs to support policies that would enable illegal Mexican immigrants to achieve legal status in the United States.

He made his comments on NBC’s Meet the Press.…

Shriver Report documents advances but also persisting gender inequalities

In a clear-eyed reading of the Shriver Report on U.S. work and family life released this week, former Colorado Independent editor Wendy Norris says the glaring gender inequalities it documents speak at least as loudly as the advances…

Schaffer vs. Udall: Mud in your eye, beer in your face

There was maybe one good thing to come from an otherwise embarrassing display on national television by the two candidates running for one of the most hotly contested U.S. Senate races in the country: Bob Schaffer has found something new besides gas prices to blame Mark Udall for: the crash of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.