The hot race for the Colorado Senate has a GREAT profile today in
the Daily Camera.
John Straayer, a political science professor at Colorado State University, said Democrats have a good chance to take the Senate this year because of growing voter frustration over lack of action by Republicans on a plan to untie the state's fiscal knot.
MORE AFTER BREAK
There is also
a great story from Aimee Heckel, a solid political journalist on the Camera Staff, on the 4th CD Race between Stan Matsunaka and Marilynn MadCow Musgrave. Particularly the role of Longmont on the race:
Longmont is only a tiny corner of the 4th Congressional District, which encompasses nearly a third of Colorado, touches the borders of five other states and covers one of the largest geographical areas of any district in the nation.
But with a voting population greater than 13 of the district's 18 counties combined, the city has become a focal point in a combative race that's drawing widespread attention.
Somebody on John Salazar's staff used a naughty word--why is this a story?
And John Caldera gives George Bush the most tepid handjob of an endorsement I've ever seen--and remember, Caldera is Goebels to Bush's Fourth Reich. "Greg, honey, is it supposed to be this soft?"
W., like his old man, forgot that the GOP is the party that stands for fiscal restraint. In four years Bush has yet to veto one spending bill. Spending on non-defense items have gone out of control, and the deficit has soared.
Bush has also forgotten the Republican charge to return power back to the states. Starting with the No Child Left Behind Act, continuing through pork-packed farm and transportation bills and culminating with one of the largest increases in the welfare state, the Medicare bill, the president has gone against the principles of Goldwater, Reagan and the founders by increasing Washington's role in our lives.
The Daily Camera...drumroll...endorses Kerry.
But more shocking, the Denver Post endorses EVERY CONTESTING DEMOCRAT...except Dave Thomas. (That gives a clear prelude to a Bush endorsement, as Beauprez is a Bush mouthpiece in Congress. Hard to argue against Joel Heffley at this point. Hell, the way he gigged DeLay this week I might vote for him. The Post endorsement means a clean sweep for Ken Salazar.
We urge Salazar's election. He has a vigorous and impressive background in public service and has proved his effectiveness in office time and again. He personifies Colorado characteristics of independence, common sense and fiscal moderation, and has the temperament to bridge the partisan divide that has led the current Congress to one impasse after another.
And for Joanne Conti:
By his own admission, no one except Tom Tancredo himself could make his race for re-election a competitive one. He is an engaging pol, but his misguided, one-note approach to his congressional post often puts teeth on edge.
And last, but not least, Jennifer Mello, at-large candidate for Regent, thumps the CU administration for its hypocitical stand selling the CU logo to the Coors Corporation.
"I understand the need for money, but when students are bingeing and even dying from alcohol, the money is irrelevant," Jennifer Mello said.