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PRIMARY 2018: Colorado’s winners and losers
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Winners Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton: Presumed frontrunners from the beginning lived up to their billing, turning back the largest field of primary challengers in either party since at least World War II. And they both played to their bases, the hard left and hard right. Both survived runs at their integrity in negative ads,…
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Colorado business group decries veto of aircraft tax break
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The Colorado Aviation Business Association spoke up Thursday about Gov. John Hickenlooper’s veto of a tax break for charter aircraft carriers. The legislation exempting the aircraft owners from paying sales and use taxes could have cost the state budget up to $223,500 a year, according to legislative analysts. Supporters said it would have created jobs…
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INSIGHTS: Red flag bill shows need for a white flag in partisan litmus tests
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Close to midnight on one of the final days of the legislative session, Colorado House of Representatives Republicans met in a caucus to discuss removing one of their rising stars, Cole Wist, from his leadership position as assistant minority leader. His offense was sponsoring a bill to disarm people authorities deem to be a threat…
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Brianna Titone seeks to become first transgender member of the legislature
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Colorado House candidate Brianna Titone is leading the charge to convince Wheat Ridge to become the first municipality in Colorado to ban conversion therapy for gay minors. The council could vote on the issue as soon as its next regular meeting on March 12 LGBTQ advocates say it is a discredited psychiatric practice that harms…
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PHOTOS: Colorado Politics hosts party to celebrate launch of legislative session
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More than 150 politicos of all stripes packed the historic Carriage House at the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion in Denver Wednesday night for a session-opening shindig thrown by Colorado Politics. Republicans rubbed shoulders with Democrats, toasting the young political news website and the nearly 120-year-old publication it incorporated last year. Vince Bzdek, editor of…
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Colorado NFIB giddy over latest economic news, but legislature could do more
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Yeah, that’s good, but … That was the reaction of the rarely satisfied Tony Gagliardi, Colorado state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, after his national organization released a report Tuesday heralding economic optimism of its members. Just think of how happy they could be if the legislature would cut them some slack…
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Far more lawmakers get F’s than A’s on AFP-Colorado’s right-leaning report card
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Remember that high school teacher or college prof who was known as “an easy A”? The one you didn’t have to worry about too much around finals? No such luck for the 100 members of Colorado’s General Assembly – at least, not when it comes to the report card just issued on the lawmakers…
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Getting punchy: Vote on Salazar parole bill fuels fleeting end-of-session levity
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In the end, state House Speaker Crisanta Duran was fully taken with laughter. It started with some smiling and chuckling and then it was full-throated as she reported the vote count on House Bill 1308. It was another sign — a light-hearted sign this time — that the legislative session is hurtling toward its end.…
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Dave Williams, colleagues return with Senate bill to battle sanctuary politicians, policies
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Republican lawmakers have revived and revamped controversial legislation targeting so-called sanctuary jurisdictions and the politicians who support the policies behind them, although the new bill would only subject elected officials to lawsuits, not criminal prosecution. State Rep. Dave Williams, R-Colorado Springs, vowed in February that he would return with a measure in the GOP-controlled Senate…