Author: Jimmy Sengenberger

Jimmy Sengenberger These days, Hollywood seems to take every opportunity for throwbacks to all those “oldies but goodies,” playing into nostalgia. It’s super easy, maybe even lazy — but it works brilliantly. At Disney’s D23 Expo, the entertainment giant released a teaser bound to excite Peyton Manning fans: a Disney+ sequel to the 90’s Christmas classic…

Jimmy Sengenberger As national media — from CNN to The New York Times to The Washington Post — declare “Colorado’s sleeper Senate race just got real,” Michael Bennet is trying to hide from Joe Biden. Biden “doesn’t need to come here,” Bennet reportedly said last month, insisting his campaign will “do just fine” without him. Given Biden’s…

Jimmy Sengenberger When Pam Anderson won the Republican nomination for secretary of state, Jena Griswold was caught flat-footed. As soon as it became clear that Anderson had crushed Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters — whose name alone helped Griswold generate more than $2 million in campaign contributions — Griswold had no clue what to do. She wasn’t…

Jimmy Sengenberger “When you’re living in a glass schoolhouse,” I wrote in February, “you probably shouldn’t throw stones.” Sometimes, though, the stone-throwing temptation is simply irresistible. “I believe this is our opportunity to turn the page,” Denver Public Schools school board member Tay Anderson told Westword last week, “because our students deserve a school board…

Jimmy Sengenberger When Gov. Jared Polis and legislative Democrats unveiled our $750-per-person TABOR refund checks, they tried their best to pretend the voter-approved Taxpayer Bill of Rights doesn’t deserve credit. In a brazen attempt at language manipulation — designed for Democrats to take credit for the refund — they dubbed it “Colorado Cash Back.” I was the…

Jimmy Sengenberger Failed secretary of state candidate Tina Peters has either proven she doesn’t understand Colorado’s election process, or she’s brazenly attempting to deceive the public with her statewide recount stunt. When Republican Jono Scott lost his race for Aurora City Council Ward III last fall, Ruben Medina bested him by just 128 votes. Some…

Jimmy Sengenberger Last year, Democrats voted party-line to repeal Colorado’s preemption law that prohibited local governments from passing gun control laws that exceed state law. At the time, Republicans sounded the alarm. One Democrat, Rep. Don Valdez of La Jara, even crossed the aisle to vote no. A patchwork of gun laws — and the county-by-county,…

Jimmy Sengenberger On Monday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl announced she’d selected businessman Danny Moore as her lieutenant governor. Having a real choice this election ought to enthuse Colorado voters. Demographically, the GOP ticket symbolically reflects the kind of change we desperately need: If Republicans successfully defeat Gov. Jared Polis, Ganahl would be Colorado’s first…

Jimmy Sengenberger Remember back in April, when our Democratic Gov. Jared Polis publicly feuded with Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis? At the time, DeSantis had signed Florida’s parents’ rights bill into law — derided by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” — and publicly trashed Walt Disney World and Twitter, prompting Polis to offer both Disney…

Jimmy Sengenberger When the left-wing DougCo Collective released poll results concerning a potential recall of the Douglas County School Board’s four-member conservative majority, it just so happened to come after Colorado Republicans nominated a statewide slate of candidates who Democrats cannot easily malign or pigeonhole. First reported by Westword last week, the poll of 651…