Category Archives: Local politics

Push to abolish death penalty moves forward

By | February 9, 2007

There’s a continued push here in Colorado to abolish the death penalty: The bill to abolish the death penalty in Colorado and create a cold case unit is moving forward in the state legislature.In a 7-4 vote, the House Judiciary Committee approved the measure Wednesday. State Representative Paul Weissman, a Democrat from Louisville, says abolishing… Read More »

More racist ideas from possibly-racist Tancredo

By | January 26, 2007

Now as I’ve said before, I don’t know this for certain, but I am fairly certain that Tom Tancredo is a racist. How else can you explain most of his anti-immigrant stances, or his racist-tending ideas? For example, 9NEWS reports that Tancredo wants to have the black and Hispanic congressional caucuses abolished. Apparently, Tancredo believes… Read More »

My Colorado voting guide (Redux)

By | November 2, 2006

I am going to repeat this post for everyone coming to my blog after this series of posts: Every election year, I spend a lot of time researching the local ballot issues. But I almost never share that research with anyone except for my wife. I figured that I need to start sharing my hard… Read More »

My Colorado voting guide: Candidates for office

By | November 2, 2006

This probably won’t be a surprise, but I’ll be voting (and recommend everyone votes) a straight Democratic ticket: Governor: Bill Ritter Congress (CD6): Bill Winter Secretary of State: Ken Gordon State Treasurer: Cary Kennedy Attorney General: Fern O’Brien CU Regent: Stephen Ludwig State Senate: Shelly Tokerud State Representative: Allen Dreher Douglas Co. Commisioner: Jerri Hill… Read More »