The Silver Lining

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 10:18 am, December 15, 2011

Fellow elephants, let me assure you: Things are not as bad as they seem. After a couple of very predictable losses at the State Supreme Court, suddenly people think that Colorado Republicans are headed back to the gallows of perpetual minority. It’s th…

"WE WANT THE DOG": Conservative Media Puts Occupy Denver In Its Place

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 12:43 pm, November 15, 2011

No one has ever accused the Occupy Denver squatter horde from being savvy or even possessing the remotest amount of intelligence. This past weekend they put their stupidity on display again. Only this time conservative bloggers from across Colorado and…

TEACHER UNIONS LOSING STREAK CONTINUES: 103, School Boards & Teacher Rating System Part Of Trend

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 5:11 pm, November 9, 2011

The teacher unions in Colorado, primarily the Colorado Education Association (CEA), have had an amazingly terrible track record in Colorado politics recently, picking one electoral loser after another and throwing good money after bad on failed policy …

PROP 103 POST-MORTEM: How A Rag-Tag Collection Of Conservatives Helped Kill The $3 Billion Tax Hike

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 8:14 am, November 8, 2011

It's been a whole week since the voters of Colorado told state Senator Rollie Heath (D-Boulder) and his tax hike team of liberal legislators to "occupy this," so we figured it was a good time to take a look back at the forces that helped …

WILL PROP 103 LOOM LARGE IN 2012? Ballot Measures Rarely Die Only At The Ballot Box

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 2:27 pm, November 4, 2011

Remember Ref C? Jane Norton does. Bob Beauprez does. What about Ref A? John Salazar thanks his lucky stars for the ballot initiative — he never would have been elected without his opponent's support of it. In fact, 2004's Ref A became a defini…

LIBERAL ACTIVISTS GO NUCLEAR ON CHICKENLOOPER; Rollie Heath Goes Off On Voters

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 10:42 am, November 2, 2011

The election results hadn't even been certified and already liberal activists were ripping Governor Chickenlooper Hickenlooper a new one, furious over his refusal to back their $3 Billion tax hike. Rollie Heath, the main backer of the initiative th…

PROP 103 GOES DOWN IN FLAMES: A Stinging Defeat For Liberal Legislators And The Teachers’ Unions

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 7:46 pm, November 1, 2011

In a stinging defeat for teachers' unions, Colorado's liberal political network, and a brazen group of Democrat legislators who dared to ask for higher taxes in a record-breaking recession, Proposition 103 was soundly rejected by the voters ton…

TURNOUT ANALYSIS: Where Are The Ballots Coming From?

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 11:47 am, November 1, 2011

We said last week that there was one way and one way only for the proposed $3 Billion tax increase known as Prop 103 to pass and that was conservative voter apathy. Luckily, GOP voters have turned out in far larger numbers than Democrats, which is not …

TRICK OR TREAT: The Many Masks Of John Hickenlooper

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 11:40 am, October 31, 2011

Governor John Hickenlooper loves to be all things to all people. It's a shape-shifting costume that has worked well for the popular governor for many months, but as we reach the first Halloween of his governorship, the makeup is beginning to run an…

SAL PACE SABOTAGE: Pushes Anti-Tax Message In Campaign Email During Dem Campaign To Hike Taxes

by ColoradoPeakPolitics | 4:21 pm, October 27, 2011

People who write political emails are aware that often times they aren't opened or if they are, people merely scan them, rather than reading them like they would a message from a friend or co-worker. Knowing that, it seems rather odd for Sal Pace&#…

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