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Colorado: John Cornyn

March 13, 2009 - 01:58 pm
NEWS FEED: ColoradoPols.com

Dan Caplis For Senate?

By redstateblues

5280 reports:
Talk-radio hosts might be well-known political figures, but can they turn their popularity among listeners into a successful political campaign?

Dan Caplis might soon try to figure that out. The veteran conservative radio personality, who co-hosts an afternoon show weekdays with liberal counterpart Craig Silverman on KHOW-AM, says he'd like to decide by early May whether to run as a Republican for the U.S. Senate.

He's already met with John Cornyn, the Texas senator who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, about a potential run. [rsb emphasis] The main factor now, he says, is whether his kids (11-year-old Joe and 8-year-old Caroline) would be able to withstand the rigors of their dad running for Senate.

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March 10, 2009 - 02:08 pm
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

Udall: Point man in the Obama revolution

By John Tomasic

Colorado freshman Sen. and Deputy Whip Mark Udall is a pivotal figure in the intended Obama revolution, according to a profile fronting today’s Congressional Quarterly. Udall’s tall-order task is to help Obama succeed where Ronald Reagan failed by getting the record-breaking number of majority party newcomers in the senate to support the president’s agenda without alienating the moderate voters who elected them.

The list of newcomers Udall is tasked with wrangling includes two fellow Democrats — the other senator from Colorado, Michael Bennet, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s replacement; and Udall’s first cousin, Tom, from New Mexico.

Although Mark Begich of Alaska is the only freshman Democrat from a state that voted for Republican John McCain in November, five of the new Democratic senators were elected in states carried by George W.

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March 4, 2009 - 05:52 pm
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

Congress takes a crack at corruption

By John Tomasic

When it’s hard to convict a congressman who accepts a briefcase full of $100 bills from undercover FBI agents in a hotel lobby and then bundles them in tinfoil packets and stuffs $90,000 worth of them into his freezer, you know there’s just something plain broken about the laws governing political corruption in this country.

You know it. I know it. And Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter knows it.

Good news is that so do senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and John Cornyn, R-Texas. They reintroduced a well-designed, anti-corruption bill in January called the Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act, which is being heard before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday in D.

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January 19, 2009 - 07:10 pm
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

Bush frees two imprisoned border agents championed by Tancredo

By Ernest Luning

President George W. Bush in the Oval Office. (Photo/Eric Draper, WhiteHouse.gov)

In one of his final official acts as president, George W. Bush on Monday commuted the sentences of Texas Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting a fleeing drug smuggler in the buttocks and accused of covering it up. The pair’s conviction became a rallying point for the anti-immigration movement, including former Rep. Tom Tancredo. The Colorado Republican said earlier this month that their continued imprisonment was his “biggest regret” as he prepared to leave Congress. “I think about those guys in prison, and I’m just sick at heart,” Tancredo

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