Tag: Ryan Frazier
Colorado GOP strategery: Frazier runs at Perlmutter to defeat Markey
The surprise news that Republican Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier is planning to drop out of the race to unseat U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet...
Sources: Romanoff planning primary challenge to Bennet for Senate seat
Former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff is readying a primary challenge to incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet.
Supporters urged Romanoff to mount a primary challenge to Gov. Bill Ritter, whose surprise appointment of Bennet left some party activists angry, The Denver Post's Michael Riley and Christopher N. Osher report, but the 44-year-old Denver Democrat has instead decided to take on Bennet.
Undeclared U.S. Senate candidate Norton receives national nod, frustrating right bloggers
Raising ire among state conservative bloggers, the National Republican Senatorial Committee appears to have already chosen a favorite in the race to challenge U.S....
Beauprez makes it official on 2010 GOP Senate bid: ‘It won’t...
Putting to rest a recent round of speculation, former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez told radio listeners Monday evening he will not seek the Republican...
Conservative blogger says Beauprez out, Norton in for 2010 Senate race
Prominent conservative blogger Ben DeGrow writes Monday afternoon that former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez won't be taking on Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet next...
Polling guru says Colorado Senate seat more likely to switch parties
Tagging the contenders "an underwhelming field all around," FiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver lists the Colorado Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet as the seventh-most-likely...
Colorado conservative candidates come together in rarefied air of Beaver Creek
Beaver Creek, the anti-Aspen of Colorado ski resorts for its relentless cozying up to conservatives, once again hosts the ski-to-the-right set Saturday for the...
Early Bird Special: Andrews blows an Obama gasket, Senate crowd swells
Yglesias thinks it's time to trash the Monday holiday tradition and switch to three-day weekends that start on a Friday. "I think it’s the...
Early Bird Special: Coyote hunt on ice, Littleton family ‘Shanghaied’ in...
Here's our daily roundup of some of our favorite news from around Colorado.
• There will be no coyote hunting inside the Colorado Springs city limits, The Gazette reports. The city council "put a bullet between the eyes" of a proposal to issue permits to shoot the critters, citing more pressing concerns for the town government. Officials received an unusually high number of calls -- most in opposition -- about the plan, which would have restricted coyote season to certain times of day and required completion of a hunter safety course.
Fix blogger thinks — no, seriously — Beauprez most likely to...
The question must be asked: Is Chris Cillizza high? At the very least, the prominent Washington Post political blogger, whose The Fix column is a must-read inside the Beltway, is cruising along at such an altitude as to call into question whether he knows what's going on down here in fly-over country.
In Cillizza's Friday Senate Line, he accurately frames next year's Colorado Senate race, where appointed neophyte Michael Bennet is a virtual unknown who can't dodge major issues, like the Employee Free Choice Act, forever. But there's no sign of a credible Republican challenger, able to raise the big bucks and storm a state that's been trending increasingly Blue. But Cillizza so clumsily blurs the details, we wonder whether whoever has been feeding him his Colorado scoop has been on vacation.