Author: Dick Wadhams

Dick Wadhams More than 128 million tax returns will be filed by April 15, and thanks to a 1981 amendment by Colorado’s late U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong, taxpayers will be protected from President Joe Biden’s inflationary policies. Armstrong unseated a Democratic incumbent senator in 1978, and he immediately made indexing federal income tax brackets to…

Dick Wadhams Why would a Republican candidate for Congress deliberately try to conceal their private sector experience from voters? If there is one thing that unites virtually all Republicans, it is the strong belief that the private sector is the main driver of economic prosperity, not government regulations and spending.  Private sector experience is a…

Dick Wadhams “Unaffiliated voters claim the majority.” It wasn’t that many years ago when this March 5, 2024 headline in the Colorado Springs Gazette would have been unthinkable. Unaffiliated voters are now in the majority in El Paso County. For decades, El Paso County was the massive Republican bulwark that fueled statewide election victories. El…

Dick Wadhams I voted for former President Donald Trump instead of corrupt Hillary Clinton in 2016 and against doddering Joe Biden in 2020. I strongly supported Trump’s successful agenda to cut taxes, appoint conservative judges, get control of the southern border and eliminate burdensome federal regulations. He deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for driving the…

Dick Wadhams After three devastating elections that rendered Colorado Republicans irrelevant throughout state government, three congressional primaries can begin to turn that tide – or dig the hole even deeper in 2024. All three congressional seats held by Republicans will have competitive primaries after two longtime incumbents, U.S. Reps. Doug Lamborn of El Paso County…

Dick Wadhams Like so many other members of Congress who rode the Tea Party or MAGA waves into office promising they would never be part of the dreaded Washington, D.C., “swamp” dominated by “unprincipled establishment RINOs,” it only took U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert three years to be motivated first and foremost by political self-preservation over…

Dick Wadhams No wonder the rural-urban divide keeps getting broader and deeper. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is preparing to release the first of 200 gray wolves in northwestern Colorado in the face of strong opposition by ranchers and communities in the region. Self-proclaimed “environmental” groups that drove the 2020 statewide ballot measure that requires this…

Dick Wadhams Just when it appears that Colorado voters might be growing tired of far-left Democratic policies, the current “leadership” of the Colorado Republican Party is intent on proving it is a bunch of conspiracy-obsessed clowns and buffoons. Coloradans spoke loudly and clearly in overwhelmingly defeating Proposition HH, the TABOR-killing, tax-raising scheme conjured up by…

Dick Wadhams Sixty years ago this week on the morning of Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, Republican leaders from across the state were making their way to downtown Denver for an afternoon state committee meeting followed by a dinner that evening.  Colorado Republicans were still basking in the glow of huge victories in the 1962 midterm…

Dick Wadhams My family was devastated to learn last week a beloved deceased member is among the nearly 200 bodies found improperly and grotesquely stored at the Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose. My niece was notified by federal authorities the remains of her mother, my sister, who died in 2020, were not cremated…