betsy devos

ALEC puts Colorado label on business-friendly policies for lawmakers

Jul 19, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The American Legislative Exchange Council kicks off its three-day annual gathering in Denver Wednesday to tilt state legislators from across the country toward the industry-friendly principles of free markets and limited government. Moreover, the business-supported nonprofit best known by its acronym, ALEC, helps them draft pro-business legislation to fight a ground war of sorts in…
Guess who’s NOT invited to the protest against Betsy DeVos: Colorado’s former No. 2

Jul 18, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Her name is almost synonymous with “liberal” in Colorado political circles. The indelibly Democratic Barbara O’Brien has served in many capacities over the years, including as Colorado’s 47 lieutenant governor with Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter, 2007-2011. The onetime calling with which she is still most identified, of course, is as longtime director of the Colorado…
Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos will encounter ‘Resistance’ in Denver

Jul 14, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

To (very) loosely paraphrase von Clausewitz in advance of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos’s anticipated visit to Denver next week: Just about everything nowadays is the continuation of politics by other means. At least, as far as “The Resistance” to the Trump administration is concerned. OK, so the von Clausewitz reference was a bit clunky,…
ALEC will reel in the political right at its annual meeting in Denver

Jul 6, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Lawmakers who lean right – and hope to reinvent government accordingly – have had a friend named ALEC for 44 years. The conservative, pro-free market American Legislative Exchange Council has been an advocate of limited government and a resource for model legislation to generations of (mostly Republican) state legislators in Colorado and across the country.…
#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action

Jun 8, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
ICYMI: Hemp definition murky, Bennet visits DPS school, Bundy photos unlocked and more

Apr 17, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

● While the state and federal governments have different definitions regarding the legality of marijuana, it’s an even murkier picture when it come to marijuana’s far less potent cousin, industrial hemp. And, as the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported, the differences surfaced over a water issue in southeastern Colorado. The Bureau of Reclamation denied a…
Bennet goes public with events in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Alamosa

Mar 15, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

With all the talk of U.S. senators dodging protesters, you can mark Michael Bennet off that list. The senior senator from Denver has three completely public events in Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Alamosa Thursday. As pressure has intensified on various Washington issues, some lawmakers have focused on controlled groups of constituents and teleconferences with voters. Nobody…
Congressional delegation deals with comment deluge

Feb 13, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Congressional offices in Colorado and across the nation have been flooded with emails, social media messages and calls that jammed phone lines. Hundreds of protesters flocked to town halls and congressional offices, some in strongly Republican districts, to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, plans to change or repeal Obamacare and refugee…
Bennet, Gardner split votes predictably on DeVos

Feb 8, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Colorado’s two U.S. Senators stood with their fellow party members in the historic Tuesday, Feb. 7, tie vote on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education. All 48 Democratic senators voted against DeVos, along with two Republicans, U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. The remaining 50…
U.S. Sen. Gardner on his vote for DeVos: ‘Will fight for public schools’

Feb 7, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Tuesday quickly explained his vote to confirm Betsy DeVos secretary of the Department of Education, claiming she will “fight for public schools.” “As a product of public schools myself, and a father with one child – soon to be three – in the public school system, I believe it is important…