Monday, September 18, 2006

Green conservatives New West: "For a variety of reasons, many people assume support for legal hunting and fishing, especially hunting, have declined in recent years. But as they say, assumptions are the mothers of all mistakes. A recent scientific survey shows quite the opposite." Category: 2008 Presidential Election 7:19:44 PM

Best lines of the day so far: "You would think that a group of wise guys who go to the trouble of setting up a 527 political group with the Internal Revenue Service would be smart enough to also get a license from the Secretary of State where they are executing their handiwork. "Especially if such an outfit - let's call them The Trailhead Group, just for grins - is also meeting with the above-mentioned Secretary of State to hash out new election rules that benefit their political party. "You'd think that said Secretary of State, Gigi Dennis, would check to make sure that her advisors and confidants were indeed legitimately licensed as the limited liability company they claimed to be, with her office. "Let's put it another way, nice and clean. The Republican 527, one of the country's richest with more than $1.8 million in contributions, which organized nearly a year and a half ago, did not register, as required by law, with the Colorado Secretary of State's office. "So I did." - Cara DeGette, Colorado Confidential Category: Denver November 2006 Election 7:18:29 PM

Referendum J and Amendment 39 CBS4Denver has a forum on Amendment 39/Referendum J up on their website. Thanks to Colorado Pols for the link. Category: Denver November 2006 Election 7:12:31 PM

Amendment 40 The Cherry Creek News: "For the first time in history, Govs. Owens, Romer, Lamm and Vanderhoof joined forces to defeat an initiative harmful to Colorado. Their goal: defeat Amendment 40, a measure that forces nearly half of Colorado's appellate judges off the bench at the same time." Category: Denver November 2006 Election 7:08:34 PM

Ludwig for Regent At-Large? Dislosure: We've talked to Stephen Ludwig about using the Web in his campaign. Stephen Ludwig has uploaded his ads, jump and field, to YouTube. Coyote Gulch thinks that this a great way to reach voters. It's very low budget but we're pretty sure that a candidate for Regent At-Large has to watch every penny. If they have the dough to go on TV (or radio) they can screen their ads, with the faithful, to see what works. Voters are increasingly Web savvy and YouTube is inclusive. YouTubes can be watched on any computer platform. Macintosh, Linux and UNIX users hate to see that they have to install software from Microsoft to view candidate video. Meanwhile Colorado Lib thinks that Mr. Ludwig is surprising the incumbent in the race. He writes, "In an unusual move, a Republican regent and the current Republican nominee asked the Libertarian candidate to quit the C.U. regent's race, according to The Longmont Daily Times-Call." More Coyote Gulch coverage of the race here. Category: Denver November 2006 Election 6:19:14 PM

Colorado voter poll Here's the second part of the Rocky Mountain News' analysis of their recent Colorado voter poll. From the article, "Nearly two of every three Colorado voters think illegal immigrants should be allowed to become U.S. citizens if they pay taxes, learn English and meet other requirements, according to a new Rocky Mountain News/CBS 4 poll. Only 15 percent of those polled favor mass deportations... "Still, the poll found that illegal immigration remains a top concern among the state's voters and will be a key issue in the governor's race. The poll respondents cited illegal immigration and the economy as their biggest concerns. And those most worried about immigration heavily favor Republican candidate Bob Beauprez over Democrat Bill Ritter, by a margin of 36 percentage points. Based on the poll results, Beauprez will clearly want to focus his campaign on immigration, said political consultant David Kenney... "While a wide range of voters want government to take more action on the immigration problem, they are not impressed with the laws passed by the legislature during the July special session. Three of four voters polled said they believe the laws will have little or no impact on the illegal immigration problem a year from now." Category: Denver November 2006 Election 7:01:26 AM

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