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The Elephant In The Room – Part 1

Talk about a jarring GOP wake-up call. In a free-ranging analysis to gay Republicans recently gathered in Denver, national Republican strategist and pollster Tony Fabrizio...

GOP Email Squabble Belies the Real High-Stakes Game

If only it was as easy as a virtual "mano a mano" spat between two old Republican warhorses. Chamber of the Americas chairman Gil...

Mitt Romney, Flip-Flops And The JFK Moment

Tongues have been wagging for months. Mitt Romney is handsome, charismatic, has only had one wife. He's generated a heap of support, including from...

GOP Political Group Violated Campaign Law

A Republican political committee financed by the Colorado Association of Home Builders was smacked down today by a state administrative judge for violating campaign finance law.

In today's ruling [PDF] described as precedent-setting by the complainant, Colorado Citizens for Ethics in Government (CCEG), the Committee for the American Dream was found to have broken the law regarding electioneering communications for a series of attack ads it helped to sponsor last fall.

It’s Okay If You’re a Republican

Double standards are a tricky business. And Fort Collins-based Republican political consultant Andrew Boucher is about to learn a hard "do as I say,...

The Wild and Wacky Larimer GOP

Über political operative Dick Wadhams may want to consider deferring his presumptive chairmanship of the Colorado Republican Party while he hires a British supernanny to tame the terrors in Larimer. Often over-shadowed in sheer partisan temerity by their kissin' cousins down south in El Paso County, the Larimer GOP leadership is an entertaining lot all their own.

Here Comes Wadhams

Dick Wadhams is coming home. Those five words are enough to strike terror in the hearts of Democrats across Colorado. Wadhams is credited with...

GOP Fearmongering in CD-7

Attention citizens of CD-7: Round up your children and lock your doors. Ed Perlmutter is practically inviting pedophiles into your neighborhood! Or so says...

GOP Women Endangered

The Rocky today picks up on the theme, which we reported last week here, of the disappearing Republican woman legislator in Colorado, which many...

It’s the Rule, Not the Exception

The pattern of raising large contributions from individuals is not specific to Colorado gubernatorial candidates Bob Beauprez (R) and Bill Ritter (D). It's one...
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