colorado peak politics
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$4.5 million, eh? So, what do they really want for all that money?
A $4.5 million grant announced this week to help Colorado study good government may have impressed Gov. John Hickenlooper and perhaps a host of others, but it doesn’t sit well with conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics. You’ll recall ColoradoPolitics.com’s Joey Bunch reported on the windfall Tuesday: The grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation will…
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Colorado Republican Kevin Lundberg says he’s considering a run for treasurer, not Polis’ seat
There’s been plenty of buzz about potential candidates of both persuasions for the open seat in the 2nd Congressional District next year now that five-term incumbent Democrat Jared Polis is running for governor. But state Sen. Kevin Lundberg, the Berthoud Republican who ran against Polis in 2012, wants to make it clear he isn’t one…
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So, which side is shamelessly exploiting the baseball shootings for political gain?
The correct answer is: The other side! Pro-GOP blog Colorado Peak Politics points a finger at “Safe Campus Colorado, founded by Congressional District Two candidate Ken Toltz,” who Peak says posted a tweet “politicizing the terrible shooting” of Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and three others at a congressional baseball practice near Washington, D.C. Peak…
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Two takes on Jared Polis — poles apart, but both enlightening
For his fellow Democrats, 2nd Congressional District U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder represents a political game-changer with his announcement over the weekend he intends to run for Colorado governor in 2018. He’s super-smart, super-rich and enough of a nonconformist to capture the imagination of voters. For Republicans, Polis is a game-changer, too, but of a…
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If the Colorado Film Office was playing fast and loose, just imagine …
… what other state agencies might have a similarly freewheeling approach with the public’s checkbook. So surmises conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics. ColoradoPolitics.com’s Peter Marcus reported earlier this week on a state audit that found none of the $1.9 million in incentives awarded to film projects shot in Colorado had met all the criteria for…
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Frackers train sights on ‘fake news,’ try to get Google on board
Conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics alerts us to a new foray by a Texas-based, gas-industry-backed group that seeks to take its fight against fracking’s foes to the Supreme Court of the Internet, aka Google. There’s probably grist here for both sides in Colorado’s perennial fracking debate in the wake of last month’s deadly explosion at home in Firestone.…