Tag: Douglas Bruce
2009 Legislature: Social calendar filling up, pomp and circumstance to come
With two days before kickoff, the Webmasters in charge of announcing the upcoming pomp and circumstance on Colorado’s official legislative session will hopefully soon update the page of events so we’re not still stuck back in 2008. But in the meantime, the deadline schedule for this year’s 120-day schedule for bill filing and such is ready to review. And, the legislative social calendar is filling up — though not so briskly as in the past.
2008: The year Colorado finally de-Bruced
This year will go down for many things, but one connecting string of stories stand out: Face it, if you ask most Coloradans what they remember most about the four-month long legislative session, their response is, sadly, predictable. Douglas Bruce kicked a photographer in the knee. And, as columnist Al Lewis noted, Douglas Bruce kicks like a little girl. That was just the beginning.
Mike May misses chance for a Douglas Bruce-free final term
Doubtless Mike May would have appreciated serving out his final term as Colorado House Minority Leader free of the travails of Douglas Bruce. Alas, that was not meant to be.
It’s time to ask the perennial question: What of Douglas Bruce?
With all the GOP naval-gazing and talk of reform, it’s time now to ask that perennial question: Will Douglas Bruce, the soon-to-be-erstwhile state lawmaker helping to oversee a government he wants to dismantle, successfully shape-shift his way back on top? Or is it time to stick a fork in him? Not surprisingly, it depends on who is asked.
‘O’ say can this save Colorado’s constitutional mayhem?
Of all the items on Colorado's leviathan ballot this year, Referendum O is the only one that seeks to save the state's voters from contending with similarly massive ballots in the future.
On the ballot: Romanoff’s SAFE reroutes TABOR money to education
The battle to undo one of Colorado’s most famous and controversial citizen-led constitutional amendments — 1992's Taxpayer Bill of Rights — is underway and it’s gaining bipartisan support. Known as the “Savings Account for Education,” or SAFE, the ballot initiative would do away with tax refunds created under TABOR and instead reroute the money toward public education.
In the Matter of The Rocky, Douglas Bruce and Anonymous Sources
No criminal charges. No witnesses. A classic "he said, she said." Leadership would not corroborate. What is the difference between The Rocky Mountain News'...
What Happened Under Doug Bruce’s Golden Dome Yesterday?
Let's review. What happened besides Rep. Douglas Bruce leveling his latest effrontery at Mexican migrant workers as "illiterate peasants?" Well, there was that mob...
Colorado Political Corruption Report Names Rogues’ Gallery
Perennial media favorite State Rep. Douglas Bruce and Secretary of State Mike Coffman vie for "Miss December" honors in Colorado Ethics Watch's 2008 round...
Former Douglas Bruce Supporter: ‘We Were Wrong’
Dan Lanotte is one of the 44 El Paso County Republicans who picked Douglas Bruce to fill an open seat in the State House...