REGIONAL SNAPSHOT | The Western Slope
An irrigation ditch runs through vineyards in Palisade, near Grand Junction. (iStock/Getty Images)
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Counties: Moffat, Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa, Delta, Montrose, Routt
2019 estimated population: 327,112
Delta (31,162), Garfield (60,061), Mesa (154,210), Moffat (13,283), Montrose (42,758), Routt (25,638)
Major municipalities: Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs, Craig, Meeker, Rangely, Steamboat Springs, Delta, Montrose
State legislators: House District 57: Republican Perry Will, Castle Rock; House District 56, Marc Catlin, Montrose; House District 55, Republican Janice Rich, Grand Junction; House District 54, Republican Matt Soper, Delta; House District 26, Democrat Dylan Roberts, Eagle; Senate District 6, Republican Don Coram, Montrose; Senate District 8, Republican Bob Rankin, Carbondale; Senate District 7, Republican Ray Scott, Grand Junction.
Congressional member: Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, Congressional District 3
Has the GOP lost Colorado for a ‘generation’?
Luige Del Puerto
luige.delpuerto+co@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
The prevailing sentiment following the thumping Republicans suffered on Tuesday in Colorado argues that a combination of factors contributed to their sweeping defeat, chiefly that Donald Trump remains a drag on the GOP among state voters and the U.S. Supreme...
Bennet, Hickenlooper team up on legislation aiming to protect election workers
Marianne Goodland
marianne_goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined a team of Democratic lawmakers in sponsoring legislation to address threats made against election workers. The bill arises from several efforts: A year ago, the U.S. Justice Department, responding to a rising...
El Paso’s voting machines pass accuracy test, contradicting Tina Peters’ claim of high error rate
HUGH JOHNSON
hugh_johnson@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
El Paso County election officials began tabulating tens of thousands of ballots over the weekend after the voting machines passed an accuracy test, contradicting claims of a high error rate by Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, who, along with three...
Following election security ‘breaches,’ Griswold limits access to voting equipment, copying of hard drives
Luige Del Puerto
luige.delpuerto+co@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
The Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday adopted temporary election rules, including limiting access by elected officials to rooms with voting equipment and prohibiting the copying of hard drive images without prior approval by the Department of State. In a statement,...
Elbert County Clerk and Recorder admits copying election hard drives, says it’s his duty to ‘preserve’ 2020 records
Marianne Goodland
marianne_goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
Dallas Schroeder, the Republican Clerk and Recorder for Elbert County, made copies of two hard drives of the county’s Dominion Voting Systems equipment, received instructions from two non-election staffers on how to do so, and admitted giving a copy to...
Colorado state Republicans say Jan. 6 protesters who didn’t storm U.S. Capitol should be commended, not vilified
Luige Del Puerto
luige.delpuerto+co@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
In a move that restoked the controversy over the 2020 election results and the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans on Tuesday pushed – and Democrats rejected – language thanking those who protested at the Capitol on Jan. 6 last...
BEST OF INSIGHTS | Polis answers questions about his reelection weaknesses
JOEY BUNCH
joey_bunch@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
Editor’s note: Welcome to the Best of Insights feature, highlighting senior writer Joey Bunch’s best work. This extended version of Insights originally ran in September 2021 and includes as much as possible from the governor’s responses about issues bound to be...
Federal judge tells lawyers to pay up in Dominion voter fraud case
JOEY BUNCH
joey_bunch@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
A federal judge in Denver on Monday afternoon ordered lawyers who filed a sprawling lawsuit to raise doubt about the 2020 presidential election to pay the attorneys’ fees for those they accused. Denver attorney Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John...
INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
JOEY BUNCH
joey_bunch@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency...
Colorado Secretary of State sues Mesa County clerk Tina Peters over campaign finance violations
Marianne Goodland
marianne_goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
The Elections Division of the Secretary of State filed a lawsuit Friday against Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters. The lawsuit, filed with the Office of Administrative Courts, alleged Peters failed to file campaign finance reports, failed to register...
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