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Rock the Vote’s Electionland Colorado website will get folks to the polls

By | 09.23.10 | 12:00 pm

This week Rock the Vote launched ElectionLand Colorado, an “online roundtable” where Colorado voters can ask questions about voting and the elections and ballot initiatives and receive multiple answers from experts. Experts? Yes experts or “seasoned journalists and…

Hickenlooper can throw one hell of a party

By | 08.26.08 | 1:45 pm

Last night the Mayor returned to his old haunt the Wynkoop Brewery to throw a huge Convention bash featuring local band and rising national sensation the Flobots. While the crowd might have been a little, well, old for the hip-hop beats, the event drew a broad range of Colorado politicos, including Pueblo sensations Ken Lane and Sal Pace, former CO Dem Party Chair Chris Gates, former CO first lady for Dottie Lamm (the first candidate I ever worked for) and her daughter Heather, Host Committee COO Paul Lhevine, and a whole host of others that I’m just not important enough to know personally.

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Protesters police and bigots invade dnc
Thanks for turning my city into a fortress
‘Saturday Night Fever’ at the DNC
C-SPAN tricks its ride
I love me some Police State’n, yeah!

Get out from under the bus, check out Bush legacy

By | 08.22.08 | 12:30 pm

Unless you’re a defense contractor, oil executive or Dick Cheney, you’ve probably felt the last eight years have left you, figuratively, under the bus. An actual bus filled with exhibits commemorating the Bush Years is chugging its way to Denver with stops Friday and Saturday in Northern Colorado and Wyoming. The mobile museum, sponsored by Americans United for Change, joins a multitude of vehicles converging on the Democratic National Convention.