Author: Dick Wadhams

Dick Wadhams Does anyone seriously believe Gov. Jared Polis and his massive Democratic legislative majorities would have created the fiscal monstrosity known as Proposition HH if they didn’t think Colorado is a permanently solid-blue state? Absolute power corrupts absolutely and rather than a thoughtful debate during the 2023 legislative session on how to deal with…

Dick Wadhams The recent passing of Ellen Armstrong, the wife of the late, great U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong, marks the end of an era that seems so lacking in Colorado today on both sides of the political spectrum. There was no ambiguity about the public role she was about to play in her life when…

Dick Wadhams If at first you don’t succeed, just ignore Colorado law. “Comrade Dave” Williams, whose Soviet-inspired scheme to steal votes from members of the Colorado Republican State Central Committee (CRC) was soundly rejected in August, is at it again.    Comrade Dave tried to change the state party bylaws to say any CRC members who…

Dick Wadhams Colorado Republicans have been ravaged into irrelevance by a defeated, deeply unpopular former president and his supplicants who blindly parrot every crackpot stolen-election conspiracy theory he spews. Until recently, it seemed many Republican leaders had largely been on the sidelines rather than directly confronting these lies and conspiracies. But the tide is turning.…

Dick Wadhams Coloradans breathlessly waited for U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper’s cataclysmic announcement he would seek reelection in 2026.  Actually, no one lost their breath. It was comparable to the response when he ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2019. Thinking Iowa Democrats would swoon over the banjo-playing former brewpub owner, he was out…

Dick Wadhams Comrade Dave Williams and the Soviet-inspired wing of the Colorado Republican Party had a very bad day. During a nine-hour marathon of mismanagement and chaos, the Colorado Republican State Central Committee (CRC) rejected Comrade Dave’s scheme to steal votes from members and cancel the 2024 Republican primary election.  And along the way he…

Dick Wadhams One can envision a grandstand full of Democrats laughing and munching on popcorn while watching the Great Purge of the Colorado Republican Party led by “Comrade Dave” Williams and his merry gang of Soviet-style purists. Deep anti-Trump sentiment drove hundreds of thousands of new, younger, unaffiliated voters to annihilate Colorado Republican candidates during…

Dick Wadhams Colorado Republican “leadership” continues to drive the party toward political impotence and irrelevance with its obsession to ban unaffiliated voters from voting in so-called “open primary” elections. Stolen-election conspiracist Dave Williams, the new state chairman, has announced the Colorado Republican State Central Committee (CRC) will vote on Aug. 5 on whether to cancel…

Dick Wadhams Just weeks before the hard-fought, historically close 1998 election for governor, the Colorado Republican state chairman, Steve Curtis, declared he would not vote for Republican nominee Bill Owens because Owens was “not conservative enough.”  Owens was seeking to defy history and become the first Republican governor to be elected since 1970 after Democrats…

Dick Wadhams One of the bigger Republican disappointments of the 2022 election was losing the newly created 8th Congressional District despite an outstanding candidate. State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer was a longtime Weld County Commissioner and is now a state senator.  She won a tough Republican primary and then doggedly campaigned in virtually every neighborhood in…