Who will run for Denver mayor next May should John Hickenlooper win the governor’s seat in November? The list of potential candidates is long– but not as long as the list would have been for the special election that would…
Last night 9 News talked to GOP gubernatorial frontrunner Scott McInnis about the fact that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper will now be his Democratic Party opponent. McInnis, who has been unpredictably “teeth and claws” in a few media…
DENVER– Gov. Bill Ritter, Senate President Brandon Shaffer and House Speaker Terrance Carroll told a crowd of mostly media gathered on the west steps of the Capitol this afternoon that the majority-party legislative agenda this session would focus on creating and maintaining jobs in the state and balancing the budget. The three men also underlined the value they placed on a bipartisan approach to achieving their priorities. A scheduled conference called by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper who would be announcing his candidacy for governor just hours later, however, hung over the event and suggested how difficult true bipartisanship might be to effect this election year.
Colorado Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak told the Colorado Independent yesterday that ten would-be candidates for governor had been testing the waters for a gubernatorial run in the wake of Gov. Bill Ritter’s announcement last week that he would…
Colorado Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak told the Colorado Independent today that ten “excellent” potential gubernatorial candidates have been weighing a run in the wake of the announcement by Gov. Bill Ritter last week that he would not seek…
DENVER– Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry has been out of the governor’s race for a month, but you couldn’t tell based on the back-and-forth on display at the press conference held by Colorado legislative leadership at the Denver Press Club Monday. Ostensibly a meeting called mainly to present legislative ideas on how to address the budget, Penry devoted his time there to making the same finger-wagging points he made for months on the campaign trail, calling Gov. Bill Ritter a bad manager and a big spender not yet fully chastened by the state’s budget crisis.
The leaders of the state legislature danced a kind of forward-back tango with the internet this month. The Senate at last found the money to fund live online broadcasting, but the leaders tried and failed to secure unfettered…
It appears at first as though an important political-cultural wall has crumbled. Provocative conservative talk-radio host Amy Oliver is offering testimony in an official capacity on state budget and funding priorities. She is a member of the legislature’s Interim Long-Term Fiscal Commission, the site this summer of what the Denver Post called a battle of philosophies.
Colorado voters are making too much law and the wrong kind of law at the ballot box, according to a growing list of elected officials, analysts and experts. Critics of the state’s famously loose ballot-initiative process agree it unnecessarily opens up the state constitution to improperly vetted amendments, which are extremely difficult to rework or repeal. The result: Bad laws that bog down government and generate extended and expensive lawsuits.
Laying to rest speculation he might ditch control of the Colorado House of Representatives to make a bid for a state Senate vacancy, House Speaker Terrance Carroll spelled out his intentions this weekend on his Facebook page:
Terrance Carroll says lots of folks have been asking if I will seek Peter Groff’s soon to be vacant state senate seat. The answer is no. I like being Speaker of the House.
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