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Colorado: Ron Paul

February 23, 2009 - 06:55 pm
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

Lamborn, Tancredo and Allard flunk poverty scorecard

By Wendy Norris

Gentlemen, go to the back of the class, says the Sargent Shriver National Center for Poverty Law.

Rep. Doug Lamborn, recently retired Rep. Tom Tancredo and Sen. Wayne Allard all earned failing grades on the center’s new poverty scorecard. The Republican trio ranked dead last in the 110th Congress for their votes on bills legislating fair pay, housing, college financial aid, unemployment and other measures designed to lift working class folk out of poverty.

Tancredo, in fact, bought an abysmal F-minus rate for voting against every bill in the survey despite Colorado’s 12 percent poverty and creeping unemployment rate.

Lamborn narrowly missed the minus designation by voting for a bill to prevent homelessness among veterans and to expand protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Wed, 06/25/2008 - 11:31

Powerful or Pitiful: The Rocky Mountain News archives

By Wally Edge

The Rocky is pulling out the coverage of Denver's last Democratic National Convention, dusting it off because it's from July 1908, and putting it online for all to see day by day.

At time when 24 hours can take up a whole TV season just to explain, it's interesting to see that while there was a certain "quaintness" to coverage back then, that issues haven't changed that much over 100 years.

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Fri, 06/13/2008 - 12:35

Weekly Winners & Losers

By Wally Edge

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In this edition of Weekly Winners & Losers, we get some losers who finally come to terms with that fact that they are, well, losers. Also some losers get to be winners by simply being allowed to play the game.  So check in with Wally Edge for this week's Weekly Winners and Losers. When you're done it will make lovely wrapping paper for Dad this weekend! Cuz Dad's a winner every day of the week.| CLICK HERE

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Wed, 06/11/2008 - 16:28

Jared Polis: Powerful or Pitiful?

By Wally Edge

Regular readers of the Inside Edge realize that we mention CO-2 candidate Jared Polis occasionally. Usually it's in reference to something embarrassing he's done, his campaign's done or about to do.

But we want to make this clear: it's not that we have anything against the guy. In fact, we kind of like him because he provides us with such great copy.

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Fri, 06/06/2008 - 12:46

This Week's Winners & Losers

By Wally Edge

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In this edition of Winners & Losers, a bunch of congressional candidates have a good week, while we get a view of Mr. TABOR that we would have rather not had. Also some losers come out of the GOP assembly and the 2nd District Court. So check in with Wally Edge for this week's Winners & Losers and get your Friday off to the best start possible. | CLICK HERE

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Mon, 06/02/2008 - 12:14

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Ron Paul fall flat

By Wally Edge

In a GOP state assembly notable for its spectacular competence there were two exceptions to that rule.

The Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO) and the Ron Paul campaign teamed up on Saturday to field a slate of national delegate candidates that failed to gain any traction amongst the Republican state delegates.

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Tue, 01/29/2008 - 17:58

Ron Paul To Visit Colorado Springs, Denver On Friday

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold candidate forums in Colorado Springs and Denver this Friday, said Carl Bruning, Paul's state campaign co-chair.

The events will mark Paul's first campaign stops in Colorado during the 2008 campaign, Bruning said.

Specific details for the forums, including times and locations, will be released Wednesday, he said.

At each forum, Paul will speak for about 40 minutes, then take questions from the audience, Bruning said.

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Sun, 01/27/2008 - 16:07

Poll finds Romney leading GOP field, Democrats Clinton and Obama in close fight

By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

A Mason Dixon/Denver Post poll of likely Colorado caucus voters finds Mitt Romney leading the GOP field by a wide margin and Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a close fight.

On the Republican side, Romney picks up 43%, with John McCain at 24%, Mike Huckabee at 17%, Ron Paul at 5%, and Rudy Giuliani at 4%.

On the Democratic side, Obama picks up 34% and Clinton receives 32%. John Edwards trails with 17%.

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Tue, 01/22/2008 - 14:27

Caucus Carnival starts Feb 5th

By Wally Edge

Yesterday we wrote about Time Magazine’s muck up of the outcome of Colorado caucus. In reply we got some suggestions, some tips, and some sermons.

In one of the replies, the Inside Edge was reminded via email last night that the caucuses to be held on February 5th could bring some very interesting developments or at least unintended consequences.

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