2014 elections
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Christie throws full weight behind Beauprez
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the Republican Governors Association is throwing its full weight behind Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez during a visit to the state this week, but he also stood by comments he made in April disparaging Colorado’s “quality of life” in the wake of marijuana legalization. “We don’t pay for…
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Western Conservative Summit offers sizzle
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If the sizzle of red meat was in the downtown Denver air last weekend, it was by design. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin invokes FDR’s “Forgotten Man” during her address to the Western Conservative Summit on July 19. Palin placed second in a 2016 presidential straw poll of summit delegates held over the weekend. The…
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Impeach Obama, Palin advises conservatives
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin rallied the faithful on July 19 at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver with a call for Republicans to find the courage to impeach President Barack Obama, termed a “lawless, imperial president” by the one-time GOP vice presidential candidate. Introduced by radio host Dan Caplis as “the most influential woman…
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Cruz warns of urgency in politics at Summit
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz brought a crowd of conservatives to its feet delivering a rousing speech on the night of July 19 at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas jokes that Congress should abolish the IRS and station its 110,000 agents on the southern border during a speech at…
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America Hasn’t Peaked Yet
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“Contrition is BS.” Press secretary Ronald Ziegler’s acid tone shocked me — and he didn’t use the initials. It was 1973, a bad year in a bad decade for America. I was a young speechwriter in the Nixon White House, assigned to gather input from Ziegler and national security advisor Henry Kissinger for a TV…
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Coalition rallies to defeat personhood amendment
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A broad-based coalition opposing Amendment 67 kicked off its statewide campaign this week, hopng that Colorado voters will once again defeat the controversial ballot measure. Opponents of the amendment view it as another attempt to ban all abortions in Colorado, including in cases of rape and incest and when the health of a woman is…
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Women’s reproductive rights at issue in Senate race
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Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Mark Udall to nullify the recent Supreme Court decision — the Hobby Lobby case — that lets certain corporations refuse to cover some contraception methods in group health insurance plans based on religious objections. The bill had zero chance of being signed into law…
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Beauprez clarifies controversial comments on immigration; SEIU, Latino leaders stage mock funeral
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Republicans are being increasingly attacked by Latino leaders and Democrats over a failure to push immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship, something they feel could come back to haunt the party in the November elections. GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez is the latest of local Colorado Republicans to face criticism following controversial remarks…
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What really caused Tancredo to lose the GOP primary — in his own words
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Editor’s Note: The following commentary was written by former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, who lost the June 24 primary to Bob Beauprez. It was first published at WorldNetDaily.com Inc. on July 11, 2014 and reprinted in The Colorado Statesman with the expressed permission of Tom Tancredo. The contemptible tactics of the Mississippi Republican Party…
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Former legislator seeks senate seat lost in recall
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Following a bitter recall election in which former Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs was ousted from office over his support for gun control, Democrats are eager to take back the Senate District 11 seat. They have chosen former Rep. Mike Merrifield of Manitou Springs to lead them to victory. But Sen. Bernie Herpin,…