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CD3 candidate Casida fires back at GOP establishment

It seems like only yesterday that then-GOP Chair Dick Wadhams was scrapping with both the party's nominee for governor Dan Maes and third-party candidate for the job Tom Tancredo.

Tipton calls campaign violation an accident

Before a fireside chat with a youthful crowd of skiers and snowboarders here, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton downplayed his staff's recently disclosed violation of House rules.

Casida takes on Tipton: Conservative says West Slope congressman isn’t her...

Tisha Casida is a 29-year-old southern Colorado-bred conservative. The Keystone XL Pipeline, she suggests, is safer and probably better for the environment than sending oil tankers across the Atlantic. The country's conflict over carbon dioxide, she hints, may be as much a waste of time as the war on drugs. She makes no bones that she is disappointed in her congressman, Scott Tipton, because he hasn't demonstrated leadership on a few crucial issues, like speaking out against the Patriot Act.