Tag: Michael Bennet
CSU board member Blake lobbies Bennet for his ‘community’ against unions
Influential CSU board member Joe Blake went to Washington this week to lobby Sen. Bennett to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. Blake purports to be speaking for the state's "business community," of course, whatever that means. Do a majority of businesses belong to this community and endorse its lobbying efforts? Does the community include investors, owners, managers, workers? Who are the members of this community, exactly?
Hate-crimes prosecution could yield ‘mixed bag’ for Senate candidate Buck
Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck's landmark hate-crime prosecution of a man accused of murdering a transgender Greeley teen could prove "very much a mixed bag" for the Republican, who emerged Tuesday as a candidate in the 2010 U.S. Senate election, political observers say.
Buck makes it official: Weld County DA joins Senate race against...
Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck became the first official Republican candidate aiming to unseat U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, the Democrat appointed to the seat in January after Ken Salazar stepped down to become secretary of Interior. Buck, who has been making noise about running for months, made the announcement on his BuckforColorado.com Web site Tuesday morning.
Buck poised to enter Senate race astride two controversial prosecutions
The day after Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck appeared before a roaring crowd on the steps of the State Capitol at a Tea Party protest, the veteran prosecutor was back in court, leading the charge on two of the more contentious prosecutions Colorado has seen in the last year.
Weld County DA Buck raises statewide profile ahead of U.S. Senate...
On April 15, the day federal taxes were due, Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck stood shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow GOP office-holders on the steps of the State Capitol in Denver and gave full-throated voice to the populist anger on display at conservative tea parties across the nation.
Health care reform plans come out of the woodwork
Political watchers speculate that Colorado's freshman U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is playing hardball with unions and business to push for labor and health care reforms. A fellow Democrat, Colorado congressional delegation veteran Rep. Diana DeGette, says that she too will be pushing a plan, but the popular single-payer system isn't politically possible.
Today TMC MediaWire Healthcare Blogger Lindsay Beyerstein points to a new negotiating tactic advanced by Ezra Klein at the American Prospect.
Udall spokeswoman says he’ll vote to bring EFCA to Senate floor
Chalk up another vote to bring the controversial Employee Free Choice Act, known as EFCA, to the full U.S. Senate for consideration. Ending plenty of speculation, a spokeswoman for Colorado Sen. Mark Udall on Wednesday morning told The Plum Line's Greg Sargent the Boulder Democrat will cast a key vote to bring the sweeping labor-backed legislation to a vote.
That brings backers one step closer to the necessary 60 votes required for the Senate to hear the legislation, which would then only need a simple majority vote to pass.
Is Bennet using EFCA as wedge for health care reform?
It appears Colorado's newest U.S. Senator has been hitting the books on the black arts of political negotiation to use a wedge issue to his advantage.
The Atlantic's Mark Ambinder writes today on his theory on Sen. Michael Bennet's maddeningly mute stance on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). It's a strong-arm tactic to bring labor and business together to negotiate on two causes close to the hearts of progressive activists and entrepreneurs alike: union-organizing and health care reform.
Bennet on the record: Supports DREAM Act for immigration reform
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is voicing his approval of federal legislation that would give undocumented high school students in the United States a legal avenue to attend college. The proposal -- introduced in Congress two weeks ago as the DREAM Act -- would permit undocumented individuals who entered the United States before turning 15 years old to obtain conditional permanent residency in order to attend college or a trade school or to serve in the military.
ProgressNow hires Wadhams, Bennet to run for governor — must be...
It's always a good idea to take the news on April 1 with a shaker of salt and a glance at the calendar.
On the morning of April Fool's Day, 2009, for instance, readers learned that Google is unveiling a new 3-D browser -- complete with red-blue glasses you can print at home. The venerable Guardian announced it would become the first newspaper in the world to publish entirely via Twitter, under the headline, "Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters." And Obama Attorney General Eric Holder is dropping the prosecution of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens for failing to disclose $250,000 in gifts from an oil tycoon to renovate his chalet, after obtaining a conviction. (It turns out all the salt in the world doesn't help with that last one -- Holder's not fooling.)