Tag: Senate
Bennet and Gardner vote party lines on failed bill to defund...
Planned Parenthood just survived the most recent attempt at its defunding in the U.S. Senate, with Colorado's Michael Bennet joining other Democrats to block a...
Littwin: Ellen Roberts’ abortion fib grenades Senate run
So now, thanks to Ellen Roberts, we know the answer to the question of how you run for U.S. Senate as a pro-choice Republican.
Coffman’s departure opens up Colorado’s U.S. Senate race
The announcement Monday that Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman would not seek the 2016 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate opens up possibilities for Republicans statewide.
Among...
Littwin: GOP needs another Gardner; Coffman wasn’t it
I'm not sure why Mike Coffman decided not to run against Michael Bennet for what looks like a vulnerable U.S. Senate seat, but I...
GOP loses Coffman as obvious 2016 Senate candidate
Colorado's Republican Party had been banking on Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, to run against Michael Bennet in 2016 for Senate. But the GOP got bad...
Q&A: Klingenschmitt’s 72 hours of prayer, fasting and being ‘called of...
Colorado Springs Republican Representative Gordon Klingenschmitt's televangelist alter ego Dr. Chaps has made headlines for blending politics and scripture, most notably suggesting that President Obama is possessed by demons...
Wiretap: Colorado Senate kills ban on gay conversion therapy
Kill Bill
A Senate kill committee stopped a bill banning gay conversion therapy, reports The Grand Junction Sentinel, which quotes sponsor Pat Steadman:
“'People are free...
ICMYI: Koch-millennials’ group tries to school Udall about good Internet policy
Jonathan Lockwood, state director for the Koch-funded millennials' political group Generation Opportunity, wrote an interesting op-ed for the Greeley Tribune the other day entitled...
Team Udall goes meta
After weeks of increasingly high-pitched campaign ad volleying in the Colorado senate race between incumbent Mark Udall and Congressman Cory Gardner, Team Udall this...
In gun-bill flap, freshman Rivera, leader Cadman equally muddled
What happened? Rivera is a former policeman with no legislative experience, a fact he readily admits. So he asked his experienced colleague, Minority Leader Bill Cadman.