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• Inside the "Tea Party Express"

  Forwarded video, a little under three minutes of last night's "Tea Party Express" protest in downtown Denver. Apparently beginning with the approach of a comparatively small group of pro-health care reform demonstrators, the encounter becomes progressively angrier until Tea Party organizers step in and beg attendees, "don't give us a" [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:03pm EST
  

• Where are they now, CD-05 edition.

  In the CD-05 race a year ago, two of the candidates on the ballot were determined to get that pointless Iraq War ended as quickly as possible.  Of course, those were the two losers, the Democrat and the Constitution Party candidates.  The Republican incumbent who won said he wanted to [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:39pm EST
  

• Sen. Shawn Mitchell: The Wonder Years

  The thing about the modern, socially networked, Google-preserved Internet is that sometimes things pop up in it that you'd just as soon leave in the land of undocumented youthful indiscretions--and once there, they never really go away. A particularly sharp example of this was last year's controversy over Senate candidate [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  

• Scozzafava's First Casualty: Jane Norton?

  Interesting press release just came across from the Colorado Democratic Party:

  SENATE REPUBLICANS DROP SUPPORT FOR JANE NORTON
  GOP Can't Count on DC Money

  DENVER - Speaking about the upcoming 2010 Senate elections, National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Senator John Cornyn pledged that the committee would not spend a cent in' [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:25pm EST
  

• Polis Finally Gets Out of Health Reform's Way

  In a press release sent a few minutes ago, Rep. Jared Polis announced that he will support the House's current health reform bill, H.R. 3962. Full release follows--says Rep. Polis, "Although I found enough fault with the initial version to justify a no vote in committee, my strong" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:29pm EST
  

• Call for Penry to Answer for Hypocrisy

  As Colorado Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry hypocritically attacked the state government and Governor Bill Ritter during Colorado's ongoing budget crisis, ProgressNow Colorado, the state's largest online progressive advocacy organization demanded Wednesday that Penry come clean about immediate family members both recently hired and currently employed by Mesa State College.

  "It [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  

• The Governor's Energy Office: Mr. Penry gets it wrong again

  In today's Denver Post, Lynn Bartels reports that Mr. Penry was asked to name those who are part of the political silo of patronage in the governor's Energy office. He named two, Alice Madden and GEO executive director, Tom Plant. Unfortunately for Mr. Penry, Alice Madden's position is not funded [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

• Election Day After Open Thread

  Lots of interesting and unexpected races in Colorado. Which outcomes surprised you the most?

  
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:44am EST
  

• TABOR's Failure Speaks Volumes

  Yesterday, two versions of Colorado's controversial Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) went before the voters in Washington state and Maine.

  Where, in both states, TABOR was roundly defeated by bigger-than-expected margins, educated by Colorado's painful experience--as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:

  Tim Eyman, the backer of Initiative 1033, admitted Tuesday night that [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:34am EST
  

• Wednesday Open Thread

  "Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

  --Edwin Markham
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:42am EST