Author: Jimmy Sengenberger

Jimmy Sengenberger Colorado’s partisan secretary of state, Jena Griswold, has gone postal on the Postal Service with her second lawsuit in a month.  This time, she’s challenging postcards USPS distributed to mailboxes nationwide that presented incomplete information for Colorado.  Her complaint asserts the mailers are an “attempt at voter suppression (that) violates the United States Constitution and federal statutes and…

Jimmy Sengenberger When I was a kid, one of my favorite games to play with friends was “War.”  Akin in some ways to cops and robbers, we would run around the neighborhood with toy guns and — gasp! — pretend to fire at each other.  We were far from the first kids to play with toy guns.…

Jimmy Sengenberger When he signed Senate Bill 19-181 into law, Gov. Jared Polis claimed the “oil and gas wars” were “over.”  Yet they really began that very day. Yesterday, Colorado Politics published a cover story on “new ground rules” being developed by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) as it continues revamping Colorado’s regulatory makeup following…

Jimmy Sengenberger For months, Democrats have shouted that President Trump wants to “destroy the Post Office” and/or privatize it. Congressional Democrats first pushed for a USPS bailout in April; as Republicans and the Trump administration resisted, the Democrats started crying more about this supposed anti-USPS agenda. Now, as we get closer to November, they’ve ramped up…

Jimmy Sengenberger Today, Gov. Polis, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Secretary of State Jenna Griswold, Attorney General Phil Weiser and Denver Clerk and Recorder Paul López will hold a press conference about Colorado’s vote-by-mail (VBM) experience to “push back on President Trump’s false attacks against” mail-ballots.  It’s obviously a coincidence the event is being held on day one…

Jimmy Sengenberger Colorado’s Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has accomplished a lot, often in ways that don’t get much attention.  Aug. 4 marked two such achievements: one on environmental conservation and another on Olympics abuse reforms.  Both will have widescale impacts.  Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed Gardner’s Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) into law.  The Senate, in an effort…

Jimmy Sengenberger Joey Bunch reported Saturday in Colorado Politics that the Colorado Business Roundtable is hosting a July 8 “online discussion on women’s rights around the world with a panel of women in the state’s government, academia, business and philanthropy …”  Importantly, this teleconference panel will feature special guest Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, serving as…

Jimmy Sengenberger Colorado’s legislative session began last week.  The longest 120 days of the year are upon us — and it took no time for three members to introduce misguided legislation to help student loan debtors “get on your feet” with a “Student Loan Repayment Assistance Program.” SB20-004 was introduced by Democratic Sen. Fenberg — Senate majority leader and…

Jimmy Sengenberger Last week, the AP reported on an election security training for election officials.  It was held by the Defending Digital Democracy Project (DDDP) at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.  DDDP “has been working actively with former and current military, national security, political and communications experts — many of whom…

Jimmy Sengenberger The data is in — and the conclusion is inescapable. America faces a student loan burden that has unquestionably reached “crisis levels.” At an eye-popping $1.6 trillion, student debt is the second-highest household debt (mortgage debt is #1) and it’s the only kind of consumer debt that has risen dramatically since and even during the recession.…