mike littwin

Money wins: the death of the grassroots and caucuses

Jul 11, 2018

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Gordon Klingenschmitt

It’s rare when the far left Bernie Sanders followers and the far right friends of Gordon Klingenschmitt share a common political cause, but the recent Colorado Republican and Democrat state-wide party primary votes are sadly cause for such new agreement. Grassroots activists are now terribly outspent by the establishment middle, worsened now that unaffiliateds voted…
#Retweet: Here are the best tweets this week in Colorado politics

Mar 17, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

– Jon Caldara (@JonCaldara) March 12, 2018
Can Denver Mayor Hancock weather sexual harassment allegations?

Mar 5, 2018

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

Last week, two-term Denver Mayor Michael Hancock admitted to sending inappropriate text messages to Denver Police Detective Leslie Branch-Wise when she was an officer serving on his security detail in 2012. Denver7’s Tony Kovaleski first broke the story , airing out the slew of text messages from Hancock to Branch-Wise, six years ago. “You look sexy in…
Littwin: Trump is right. This is a dark and frightening time in America

Jul 22, 2016

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Mike Littwin

Donald Trump is right. This is a dark and frightening time in America. How else to describe the moment in which thousands of Republican delegates were deliriously cheering the notion that Trump, alone, can solve all our nation’s problems, including those that exist only in an alternate cable-TV-news universe? Trump, the gold-plated salesman, used his…
Littwin: Cory Gardner opts out of Trump’s coronation

Jul 20, 2016

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Mike Littwin

I have to give Cory Gardner credit. When faced with a choice, he stood up – or actually ducked out, but still pretty much the same thing – for principle. OK, he wouldn’t say what the principle was exactly. And, being Cory Gardner, he didn’t feel the need to explain any of it to voters.…
Littwin: Are we a nation in the midst of crisis — or just an election year?

Jul 14, 2016

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Mike Littwin

The question after Dallas, after Baton Rouge, after Falcon Heights, is whether we are a nation in the midst of crisis or simply a nation in the midst of a presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton went to the Old State House in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln gave his “House Divided” speech, to talk about race and…
Littwin: The Elizabeth Warren v. Donald Trump Twitter wars

May 12, 2016

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Mike Littwin

Give the Donald credit. He not only has driven a deep divide within his own party, he has also done his best to heal the divisions in the opposing party. Quite the feat. Of course, it’s all in a day’s work for Trump, who is, I think we can safely say, a candidate like no…
Littwin: On the Colorado Springs open-carry killing

Nov 3, 2015

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Mike Littwin

What do you do if you see a neighbor walking down the street carrying a rifle, looking, well, distraught? You don’t know his name, but you’ve seen him more than a few times and he looks somehow different. Plus, he’s carrying a rifle in broad daylight and you think you ought to report that to…
Littwin: How many shootings will it take for us to stop gun violence?

Oct 4, 2015

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Mike Littwin

There is much to be said in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, of yet another mass school killing, of yet 10 more gun deaths, of yet another emotional Obama speech, of yet more charges of politicizing a tragedy, of yet more unserious hearings on the intersection of mental illness and gun violence, of…
Littwin: The Bernie Sanders pope praises and rebukes Congress

Sep 25, 2015

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Mike Littwin

Maybe the most telling moment of Pope Francis’s address to Congress came when he finally got to abortion. This would be, at last, the Republicans’ turn to glow in the papal light. Sure, the pope had come to chide them – if in the gentlest of tones – on immigration, on climate change, on poverty,…