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April 8, 2016
Entries by Jason Salzman
Woods, Neville Are Against Preventing Teen Pregnancies
In a vote Thursday, Colorado Senate rejected an amendment, sponsored by Sen. Tim Neville (R-Littleton) and Laura Woods (R-Westminster) that would have deleted funding for a state-run program credited with decreasing the teen pregnancies and abortions by over 35 percent.
It was a watershed moment for backers of the program,...
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Should a Woman Who Has an Abortion Be Punished?
(0) Comments | Posted April 5, 2016 | 2:59 PM
KNUS 710-AM's Craig Silverman has been doing us all a favor by interviewing Colorado's Republican U.S. Senate candidates, but his interview with El Paso Country Commissioner Peggy Littleton Saturday stood out, because he dug in with follow-up questions.
Silverman: If Roe vs. Wade is overturned then states will have the right...
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Exit interview: Greg Moore Leaves The Denver Post After 14 Years As Editor
(0) Comments | Posted March 31, 2016 | 6:08 PM
Greg Moore leaves The Denver Post today after 14 years as editor. Under his leadership, the newspaper won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting. More impressive to me is the fact that The Post continued to produce a stream of high quality journalism in...
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Cut the Budget by Trimming Healthcare for Poor People
(0) Comments | Posted March 24, 2016 | 11:13 AM
If you follow my blog, you know I've been pointing out how Republicans are falsely blaming Colorado budget problems on healthcare costs for the elderly, disabled, and other poor people.
What's worse, after scapegoating Medicaid spending on healthcare for the poor, Republicans haven't said how they'd...
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Colorado Republicans Post Names of Possible Delegates Who Could Pick Presidential Nominee
(2) Comments | Posted March 22, 2016 | 2:18 PM
The Colorado Republican Party posted a list on its website Thursday of the names of candidates running to be Colorado delegates at July's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
The list also includes the presidential candidates each potential delegate is supporting, if any.
The public list could set off...
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Fascism's Fertile Ground in Colorado?
(0) Comments | Posted March 18, 2016 | 11:00 AM
Caller "David" told the world Friday, or at least the universe listening to Denver's KLZ 560-AM, that "the only way that America can survive long term is to not have Islam within our borders."
If you have any amount of Islam, even if it's 1 million or 2 million or...
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Colorado Republicans Join Trump in Attacking Immigrants
(0) Comments | Posted March 17, 2016 | 2:25 PM
In a Facebook post last week, State Sen. Laura Woods (R-Westminster) came out against birthright citizenship, the U.S. policy granting citizenship to people born on American soil, even if their parents are not citizens.
The debate about birthright citizen was largely confined to hard-right conservative circles, until Donald Trump came out...
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Pot Brings Vagrants, GOP Senate Candidate Falsely States
(0) Comments | Posted March 16, 2016 | 5:04 PM
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jack Graham, who's the former Athletic Director at Colorado State University, appeared on KNUS 710-AM Saturday, spreading uncorrected falsehoods about marijuana and Islam.
During a segment on policy issues, KNUS host Craig Silverman asked Graham about Amendment 64, which legalized pot in Colorado.
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TrumpWatch: Where Colorado Republicans Stand on Trump
(0) Comments | Posted March 16, 2016 | 10:58 AM
With Trump's wins continuing, the question of whether Colorado Republicans will vote for the mogul, if he's the nominee, becomes even more relevant, as we inch toward the Republican Party's July 18 national convention in Cleveland.
Here's an update of my handy TrumpWatch guide for reporters tracking Colorado's GOP response...
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Which Poor People Do the Republicans Want to Cut from the Health Care Rolls?
(0) Comments | Posted March 11, 2016 | 12:44 PM
If you're a journalist or even a blogger, you love to point out evolving explanations by politicians for taking a political stance.
They're usually an indicator that politicians have ulterior motives, which they're struggling to hide by trying to come up with a false explanation that makes sense.
So...
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Is "Efficiencies" a Euphemism for Heathcare Cuts?
(0) Comments | Posted March 11, 2016 | 12:01 PM
The latest Republican to stand in front of a camera and complain about state spending on health care for the elderly, disabled, and other poor people, without offering any alternatives, is former state Sen. Greg Brophy, who's freshly back from a job with Rep. Ken Buck in Washington DC.
Brophy
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Here's Perhaps the Only Elected Official in Colorado Who Likes Trump
(2) Comments | Posted March 10, 2016 | 1:24 PM
On Facebook this week, Republican State Sen. Laura Woods of Westminster signaled that she will vote for Donald Trump, if he is the GOP nominee.
Woods "liked" a Facebook post by The Conservative Update, which stated:
'Like' if you would vote for Donald Trump if he were...
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US Sen. Gardner Slams HuffPo Article On Secretive GOP Meeting to Stop Trump
(0) Comments | Posted March 9, 2016 | 10:12 PM
In a radio interview this morning, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner denied that he traveled to a meeting at a swanky Georgia resort over the weekend in a last ditch effort to stop Donald Trump from becoming the GOP presidential nominee.
"These conspiracy theories about what took place there...
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Whose Gold Spoon Is Feeding Nonsense to The Denver Post?
(0) Comments | Posted March 9, 2016 | 4:08 PM
The Denver Post is an outfit that likes to think of itself as standing up for everyday people, who rightfully worry about the ways the rich take advantage of tax loopholes to get richer, while most people are left treading water and wishing politicians would stand up for them.
Yet,...
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Colorado Republican Sees Possible End of the GOP
(0) Comments | Posted March 4, 2016 | 10:03 AM
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, who lost to Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2014, has a message for his fellow Republicans who might be nervous about the future of their party:
Beauprez: "At the end of all this, tough as it's going to be, family squabbles can be pretty messy...
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Colorado Republicans Mostly Won't Say What They Think of Trump
(0) Comments | Posted March 2, 2016 | 9:38 AM
At last night's caucuses, local Republicans generally didn't hold preference polls on the presidential race but there were exceptions, like Adams Country, a swing district north of Denver that might possibly serve as a barometer of how Colorado would have gone on the red side.
Thanks to
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Is Coffman Sorry He Called Obama a "Recruiting Tool" for Terrorists?
(0) Comments | Posted March 1, 2016 | 11:35 AM
Last month, Rep. Mike Coffman wrote on Facebook that Obama is the "real recruiting tool" for terrorists.
The Republican Congressman from Aurora made the comment in response to Obama's claim that the U.S. military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, known as GITMO, is cited by extremists in recruiting...
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Presidential Voting at Caucuses Could Cause Problems for Republicans
(0) Comments | Posted March 1, 2016 | 10:46 AM
Last year, Colorado Republicans eliminated their nonbinding caucus votes on presidential candidates, but the voting will go on anyway, "for fun," in Adams County, according to Adams Country GOP chair Anil Mathai.
Two Denver caucuses, in state house districts two and six, will also hold informal votes, according...
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Trump Benefits from the GOP's Embrace of "Leftist, Racist Political Correctness," Says Colorado Republican Leader
(0) Comments | Posted February 29, 2016 | 10:21 AM
Billionaire Donald Trump won in South Carolina because GOP primary voters were angry at establishment Republicans for "submitting to the leftist, racist political correctness and removing the confederate flag without discussion," according to Anil Mathai, the chair of the Adams County Republican Party.
Mathai: "People are totally missing what...
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State Senator Says Trump No Longer One of Her Favorite Candidates
(0) Comments | Posted February 25, 2016 | 3:09 PM
We're not seeing much support for Donald Trump from local politicians, but there's one Colorado Republican who was openly saying Trump was one of her two favorite presidential candidates.
State Sen. Laura Woods (R-Westminster), named Trump last month, along with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, as her two favorite...
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