Author: Kelly Sloan
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The Colorado state GOP is unhinged | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan It is increasingly evident the Colorado Republican Party under the current chairman, Dave Williams is intent on relegating itself into obscurity. It’s doing so far more effectively than the Democratic Party ever could, and is about the only thing the official state party does manage to do effectively. It’s not because of any…
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Up-and-coming politicians should emulate the late Joe Lieberman | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan I admit I have been a little preoccupied at the State Capitol of late so I may have missed it, but there does not seem to have been quite the preponderance of accolades and fond remembrances for Joe Lieberman gracing the editorial pages of the nation’s papers of record as one would expect…
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Energy distortions — left and right | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan The revival of the legislative inquisition against oil and gas production in the state was simultaneously unpredicted (most observers felt other issues would overtake, given there was not much of an oil and gas industry left to persecute), and predictable (the Inquisitors can’t help themselves until the last vestige of fossil fuel development…
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A new low for Colorado politics | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan A great deal has been made this legislative session about “decorum” in the Capitol, a catch-all phrase speaking to class, civility and respect for institutional customs and conventions – or more pointedly the lack thereof – displayed in the political area. Indeed, things had gotten so bad Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, felt compelled to…
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Buck’s early exit sets up strange electoral situation in CD4 | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan We learned this week what we have known for months, but it is now official: Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the official nominees, again, for president of the United States. The news is received in rather the same manner in which one might accept confirmation from a doctor your test results indicate…
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With Haley out, it’s Hobson’s choice time for GOP | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan Last Tuesday marked the completion of probably the most boring and inconsequential Super Tuesday since Americans began making the mistake of selecting presidential nominees that way. As widely predicted, former President Donald Trump swept the primary field, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley winning only Vermont. Haley, who also previously served as…
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The border crisis hits Colorado — now what can we do? | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan The border crisis – as after several years even President Biden is calling it – is not, we are made acutely aware, confined to the border, nor to frontier cities within 100 miles or so of it. Since the end of Title 42 pandemic-related border controls last year, Denver has absorbed nearly 40,000 migrants, most…
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Hoping for Haley’s comet in the GOP primary | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan Most of the relevant headlines this week have been some form of what might be called a journalistic coronation, declaring former President Donald Trump’s 11-point victory in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night all but solidified his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. This is a forgivable analysis, inasmuch as the polls have…
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The rot on campus | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan Back in the early 1960s, William F. Buckley famously quipped he “would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.” That statement has sprung to mind often, and taken on rather special meaning, as the drama involving…
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Election consequences near and far | SLOAN
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Kelly Sloan Colorado’s Republican primaries are shaping up to be pretty interesting affairs this year, with all three GOP-held U.S. House seats in the state suddenly open and up for grabs. Well before that plays out later this spring, there are a pair of elections coming up in the next few days which are probably…
