Tag: Mike Coffman
Coffman spokesman responds on rationale for voting against stimulus
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman's spokesman, Tyler Q. Houlton, issued the following statement to the Colorado Independent on Thursday afternoon in response to the story "Coffman cites nonexistent CBO study as reason to vote against stimulus."
"Regardless of how the Congressional Budget Office estimates have been changed or suppressed over the past few days, it does not alleviate the problems of the spending package. The fact is Congressional Democrats and President Obama have increased spending by $604 billion over the next 10 years with very little of it being spent this fiscal year. It is hard to fathom how appropriating spending packages for 2019 will help our economic crisis of today.”
Coffman cites nonexistent CBO study as reason to vote against stimulus
Just after Rep. Mike Coffman voted, along with all the other House Republicans, against the $816 billion stimulus package -- the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, by its proper name -- the Aurora lawmaker blasted a statement to the press explaining his reasoning.
"The American people deserve better than this pork-laden spending frenzy masquerading as a ‘stimulus package’," Coffman said. He drew on no less an authority than a Congressional Budget Office report to make the point that the spending would reach the economy too slowly to do the job. Problem is, the CBO report doesn't exist, and another, actual CBO report comes to very different conclusions.
House passes $819 billion stimulus bill, state splits on partisan lines
The Colorado congressional delegation split along partisan lines, with all five Democrats voting in favor of the $819 billion stimulus bill and both Republicans voting against it Wednesday evening. The House passed the measure 244-188, with not a single Republican voting for the massive spending and tax-cut bill the Obama administration pushed to propel the economy out of the worst recession since World War II.
NIMBY cries greet prospects Gitmo detainees could be moved to Colorado
While civil libertarians and former CIA agents cheered news President Barack Obama plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, some Colorado politicians are crying foul at the prospect detainees could be shipped to the federal Supermax prison in Florence.
Watchdog group names Colorado’s top 10 public ethical scandals of 2008
The watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch (CEW) this week unveiled its annual list of the top 10 ethics scandals involving public officials throughout the state in 2008. There was no shortage of civic shenanigans this year.
Signed, sealed, felonious? Republican statehouse hopeful affixes seal to site
From the Department of Wait, Seriously, Are They Kidding, johne of Square State notices the House District 49 Republican vacancy committee plans to convene at the Allnutt Funeral Home in Fort Collins to pick a successor for Rep. Kevin Lundberg, who was elevated to the Colorado State Senate last weekend. That's right, they'll be naming Lundberg's replacement at a funeral home.
Dusting off the classic videos while Colorado waits
While we’re waiting for confirmation about whether Sen. Ken Salazar is really going to be Secretary of the Interior, and who will be the next senator from Colorado, and who will then maybe be the next U.S. Representative from Colorado, and also who will be the next Colorado Secretary of State and the next state House minority leader and possibly the next assistant minority leader, let’s all relax and amuse ourselves for a few minutes watching Ken Gordon swimming with sharks.
UPDATED: Colorado secretary of state: The most exciting thing ever
UPDATE: The governor's office announced Tuesday afternoon that state Sen. Ken Gordon and Reps. Andrew Romanoff and Bernie Buescher have made the final cut. According to Ritter spokesman Wil Alston, the governor hopes to have a final decision in early January.
UPDATE 3: ProgressNow’s Secretary of State preference poll holds surprises
In an effort to oh-so-helpfully whittle down the 20 candidates vying for Colorado’s open secretary of state position, ProgressNow has launched a poll urging...
More than 300 voters purged by Coffman cast provisional ballots
Remember all those voters purged from the rolls by Secretary of State Mike Coffman, many in defiance of a federal court order? Coffman maintained he was well within the law, merely removing voters who had died, moved or filed duplicate registrations, but U.S. District Court Judge John Kane blasted the "obdurate" Coffman at an emergency hearing called four days before the election when reports surfaced that voters were still being purged after an earlier settlement ordered a halt.