HOUSE OF CALLS: We know you want to contact your D.C. lawmakers, Colorado....
If Congress were a frat house and phone-answering staffers were the pledges, the past seven days would have basically been Hell Week. The start of Donald Trump’s presidency showed Americans want...
View ArticleLit fuse: First lawsuit this election cycle drops over petitions in Colorado....
A lawsuit that challenges the petition-gathering tactics of a candidate for Congress in Colorado might have lit the fuse for another ballot-access bomb in the race for governor. This week, five voters...
View ArticleLittwin: It’s a new election cycle, but with Stapleton’s blunder, it looks...
As Jimmy Breslin wrote of the stumbling 1962 Mets, I write of the blundering 2018 Colorado Republican Party: Can’t anyone here play this game? Walker Stapleton, the so-called frontrunner in the GOP...
View ArticleFederal judge rules six-term GOP congressman Doug Lamborn should be on the...
UPDATE: A week later, a federal judge weighed in and ruled Lamborn should be placed on the June 26 GOP primary ballot for Congress. Lamborn argued the residency requirements for signature gatherers are...
View ArticleColorado’s Congressional incumbents easily hold on to their seats
Veteran Congresswoman Diana DeGette easily fended off progressive insurgent Saira Rao in the Democratic primary for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, claiming about 72 percent of the vote....
View ArticleBoth parties seek political leverage from Mueller report Congressional...
WASHINGTON – The conclusions of the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller have many Republicans in Congress declaring victory for President Trump. But the four Republicans in...
View ArticleColorado’s DeGette and Neguse: ‘It is time’ for impeachment inquiry The two...
WASHINGTON — Colorado representatives are among U.S. House lawmakers pushing for an inquiry into impeaching President Donald Trump as congressional Democrats grow increasingly frustrated by his refusal...
View ArticleMove BLM headquarters to Colorado? Environmental groups pan proposal
WASHINGTON — A majority of Colorado’s Congress members support a plan to move the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to Colorado or another western state, but many...
View ArticleMassive Colorado wilderness bill advances in U.S. House
WASHINGTON — Sweeping legislation that would preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado advanced in the U.S. House on Wednesday. The House Natural Resources Committee approved...
View ArticleLittwin: Cory Gardner makes his declaration of complete and utter dependence
These are words I rarely use in this order, but Cory Gardner’s latest political move has really surprised me. If you haven’t heard, Gardner has caved as one of the last seven or eight Senate Republican...
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