Author: Dick Wadhams

Dick Wadhams I often patronized the McDonald’s fast food restaurant on the 16th Street Mall during the seven years I had an office across the street in what was then known as the World Trade Center. You could always find a unique mix of downtown professionals and, yes, homeless people who came and went on…

Dick Wadhams Forty years ago this week, an American hero who was elected to Congress, but tragically never served, was laid to rest at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Jack Swigert was born and raised in Denver and graduated from Denver East High School. He played football at the University of Colorado before graduating in 1953. He…

Dick Wadhams Multibillionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk used to be a liberal icon but now he is a right-wing villain as the new free speech owner of Twitter. During Musk’s leftist hero days he became a personal friend of Democratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper who was so close to the Musk family that while he…

Dick Wadhams Just when it appeared Colorado Republicans could not go any lower after another round of devastating defeats in 2022, an understandably frustrated but terribly misguided group of activists could make the party permanently irrelevant. Driven by the deep antipathy unaffiliated voters have for Donald Trump, Republicans lost every statewide race for governor, U.S.…

Dick Wadhams The most important question going into election 2022 was whether Republicans could rebound after devastating defeats in 2018 and 2020 when opposition to President Donald Trump propelled Democrats to their most dominant position since the 1930s. Opportunities abounded in races for governor, U.S. senator, attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer, and redrawn…

Dick Wadhams An insidious strain of behavior seems to be running through Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Attorney General Phil Weiser and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and it isn’t a physical disease. Even beyond their failed public policies that have left us with rising violent crime, rampant homelessness, soaring inflation and fentanyl pouring across an…

Dick Wadhams Sixty years ago this week, the United States and the rest of the world trembled as the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union loomed during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. It is no exaggeration that Llewellyn Thompson, Jr., the son of a southeastern Colorado sheep rancher who served as…

Dick Wadhams Crime is rampant. Inflation is raging. Energy shortages are looming. The border is a porous, dangerous and tragic mess.  This is the sorry legacy of fewer than two years under President Joe Biden, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Gov. Jared Polis and total Democratic control of Congress and of Colorado state government. But the…

Dick Wadhams Poor Michael Bennet. It’s no wonder he thinks he needs a shill to hide behind before he will agree to a televised debate. Bennet joined the doddering President Joe Biden for a political rally at the White House to promote their laughably named “Inflation Reducation Act” on a day when inflation went up…

Dick Wadhams State Sen. Kevin Priola finally became a Democrat after voting that way for years. Senate Democrats ostensibly welcomed him with open arms as they seek to fend off a strong Republican effort to elect a Senate majority. Democrats now control the Senate by a margin of 21 to 14 with Priola’s switch. But…