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2022 SESSION: Quirkiest Moments

May 20, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

The 2022 session did not lack for bizarre moments – thanks to quirky behavior by lawmakers and others. The most delicious – or stomach-turning – moment, depending on your taste: The Rocky Mountain oyster-eating contest, part of the Colorado Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus Day, occurred on April 21. For Easterners or other Colorado newbies, Rocky Mountain oyster is what…
SLOAN | Will Colorado’s centrist Democrats join national lurch to the left?

Sep 21, 2018

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Kelly Sloan

The Democratic Party, like most political parties that feel themselves on the verge of some sweeping victory, is having an uneasy conversation with itself, to say the least. The radicals, intoxicated on revolutionary fervor and smelling blood in the water, seem to be convinced that the new age has finally dawned, and the time is…
Two Denver Democrats launch primary challenges against state Rep. Paul Rosenthal

Jan 27, 2018

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Ernest Luning

State Rep. Paul Rosenthal, the Denver Democrat hit with an allegation of sexual harassment that was dismissed earlier this month, is facing primary challenges from two Democrats in the southeast Denver House District 9 seat he’s represented for three terms – social worker and educator Emily Sirota and veteran policy advocate Ashley Wheeland. “It’s time…
Sirota calls out Democrat Donna Lynne’s healthcare ties, ignores Polis’ fracktivism

Aug 5, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Liberal journalist David Sirota is calling out one of the Colorado left’s own in an article Friday in the International Business Times. He says the insurance industry could run “one of its own” for governor next year in Donna Lynne, the Kaiser Permanente executive Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed lieutenant governor just last year. The far…
Davida Sirota gets a look at Senate Republicans’ e-mails on energy

Jul 24, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy CommitteeLiberal journalist extraordinaire David Sirota did what he told Colorado Politics he would do back in May. He got his eyeballs on Colorado Senate Republicans’ e-mails from a period when a bill to move oil and gas wells farther from schools was pending in the legislature. You can bet Dave would…
Sirota finds $40,000 donation to Colorado Republicans as oil-and-gas bill was going down

May 9, 2017

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Joey Bunch

We told you Monday David Sirota was raising money to finance a public records request to get a look at oil-and-gas-loving legislators’ e-mails. (Update: He got the cash, next he gets the e-mails.) Colorado Republicans shouldn’t think the high-profile liberal journalist is bluffing. He popped a story with co-writer Josh Keefe on the International Business…
Denver Democrats stoke enthusiasm, lay groundwork for ‘the resistance’

Feb 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

It’s a quote attributed to Pericles, and it resonated in the halls at Denver’s South High School on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 11: “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Three months after Democrats were stunned by the results of the presidential election…
Would-be helmsman at new ‘Breitbart of the left’ now says he’s a won’t-be

Feb 7, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

It turns out Denver-based media personality David Sirota’s new gig, announced amid some fanfare last month, won’t happen. Evidently, the venture he was about to join doesn’t have enough cash. As we reported on Inauguration Day, the politically leftward, unflinchingly outspoken columnist, onetime radio talker, activist and all-round rabble rouser had been tabbed to take the reins of a new left-of-center…