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Thursday, October 12, 2006
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ToTheRight.org: "We've been trying to leave the Beauprez campaign alone, hoping and praying that bunch would get it together. Now absentee ballots are hitting, and it's clear nothing at 555 Denver Tech Center Parkway has changed for the better. For example, the campaign doesn[base ']t seem to know or care where it sends its lieutenant governor candidate when she comes out of hiding."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:23:07 PM 
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Political Wire: "A new Cato Institute report says libertarians -- people who historically tend to agree with Republicans on fiscal issues and Democrats on personal freedom -- are the new swing voters. The authors estimate approximately 13% of voters fall into this category."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
6:05:45 PM
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Andrew Oh-Willeke has a nice roundup of candidate endorsements up on Colorado Confidential, including links.
However, he missed the Ritter endorsement from the Wet Mountain Tribune. From their editorial, "It's hard to deny the overall progress and advancement that took place in Colorado under the leadership of former governors Stephen McNichols, John Love and Roy Romer. Issues of importance to everyone - education, transportation, the economy and the environment - all improved thanks to the leadership skills and the non-partisanship demonstrated by those three visionaries. When Coloradoans go to the polls in the coming weeks, they[base ']ll have an opportunity to restore progress, advancement and visionary thinking to the political process by voting for Bill Ritter for Governor."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
5:38:35 PM
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Many voters have already received their absentee ballots across Colorado. Here's the link to the Colorado Legislative Council Blue Book 2006. You can also search the Coyote Gulch archives by using the handy Google search on our weblog.
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:56:24 AM
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Elevated Voices: "John Walters, the Bush Administration's drug czar, came to Southern Colorado today to try and defeat Amendment 44, the ballot initiative that would legalize adult possession of up to one ounce of marijuna."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:50:56 AM
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Western Democrat: "The greater our Democratic majority in state legislatures and the more Gubernatorial seats we pick up, the greater the opportunity for Democrats to gain organizational and structural control of our democracy. That's why the work that Democratic Governors Association Chairman, Governor Bill Richardson, is doing is so important. This year, Governor Richardson has been traveling far and wide across our country, stumping for Democratic candidates for governor and incumbent Democratic governors. These steps are necessary to ensure that the next Democratic nominee for President of the United States has the infrastructure in place to not only make a run, but to win the Presidency."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
6:49:39 AM
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Here are the Rocky Mountain News' picks for the state house. From the article, "House District 1 (southwest Denver, Arapahoe, Jefferson): Republican Aimee Rathburn, a community activist with extensive experience in fund-raising for nonprofits, gets our nod in this open seat for her sensible ideas on expanding water supplies on the Front Range, education reform and fiscal responsibility. Her opponent is Democratic attorney Jeanne Labuda, a former liaison to southwest Denver in Mayor Wellington Webb's administration...
"HD 4 (northwest Denver): Democrat Jerry Frangas is an effective lawmaker who is running for the third time against Republican Rick Nevin. Among his accomplishments, Frangas co-authored the law that doubled traffic fines in construction zones...
"HD 6: (Denver, Arapahoe): House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, who faces Republican Jeffrey Hecht, clearly deserves another term. As speaker, he helped push fiscal reform onto the state ballot and then saw to it that the resources from Referendum C were allocated according to what voters were promised."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:26:42 AM
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Here's a background piece about U.S. Congressman Bob Beauprez from the Rocky Mountain News. They write, "Some people on Capitol Hill are as predictable as the sunrise - and Rep. Bob Beauprez is one of them.
Each morning in Congress, politicians make big speeches, lobbyists prowl the hallways and reporters scurry after the latest new scandals. And each day, many times more often than not, Beauprez casts a few more votes in lockstep with his Republican Party leadership. In 3 1/2 years leading up to his run for Colorado governor, Beauprez has rarely strayed from the mainstream party line as he has racked up a clear pro-business, socially conservative voting record, an analysis by the Rocky Mountain News finds. The second-term congressman has joined fiscal conservatives on a series of mostly symbolic protest votes when he thought his party's leadership was spending too much money. Still, in a delegation known for renegades like Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, and others who take pride in crossing the party aisle, it's hard to find occasions when Beauprez has broken ranks on a major piece of legislation or close votes that came down to the wire...
"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which scores lawmakers based on a few dozen key votes each year, gave Beauprez perfect scores in 2003, 2004 and most of 2005. He was marked down only when he joined Tancredo and a majority of other Republicans and supported a hard-line immigration reform bill, which the chamber opposed in favor of a proposed guest-worker plan. On immigration, Beauprez's position has evolved - and toughened - during his time in Congress...
"He has supported the Republican majority on its conservative values agenda. He opposed expanded federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. He supported a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. And he played an outspoken role advocating for Congress to get involved in the fight over whether to remove a feeding tube from Florida hospice patient Terri Schiavo. Overall, Beauprez built a conservative, solidly Republican voting record even though he was fighting to hold the closely divided 7th District, where the equal split among Democrats, Republicans and independents would suggest that an aisle-crossing centrist might do well."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:22:34 AM
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Bill Ritter and U.S. Representative Bob Beauprez have similar views about Colorado's water issues, according to the Pueblo Chieftain. From the article, "Republican Bob Beauprez and Democrat Bill Ritter largely agree on the broader issues of water development and protection, although they differ on some of the finer points. Both say the state needs to increase conservation and reuse programs to augment the state's water supplies, and they agree that additional water storage facilities are needed. Both agree that the Colorado Interbasin Compact Committee, which is trying to bring together water users from across the state to come up with long-term solutions for all, needs to finish its work. And both acknowledge that the state's growing cities are drying up agricultural land at alarming rates...
"While both candidates talk about urging agricultural and metropolitan users in the state to conserve and reuse the water they do have, Beauprez said the state needs to store more water by dredging existing facilities and building new ones. Ritter said while he agrees additional storage is needed, it cannot be done at the expense of other parts of the state...
"Ritter said climate change, also known as global warming, is a fact that the state must consider in determining future water policy. Beauprez said there is an estimated 1 million acre-feet of water leaving the state that should be captured. Like Ritter, the congressman said conservation is important but cannot be relied on alone to solve the state's water needs."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:15:45 AM
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