Dems court Colorado on heels of GOP pursuit By Leigh E. Rich Stumping from the very spot as Dick Cheney three weeks earlier, America’s other vice presidential candidate wooed Colorado voters in a town hall-style gathering last Thursday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Last week’s stopover was John Edwards’ third visit to Colorado in the […]

Colorado’s GOP weighs in before Garden event By Leigh E. Rich Intra-party squabbling continues to dog Colorado Republicans, even as Gov. Bill Owens serves as a co-chair of the national party’s platform committee the week before the Republican National Convention in New York. Owens left for the Big Apple early this week to head the […]

Nephew George P. Bush talks up his uncle By Leigh E. Rich George Bush isn’t new to politics. George P. Bush, that is. The nephew of President George W. Bush, grandson of former President George H.W. Bush and son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has proudly pinned the family appellation to his political lapel during […]

Greens pledge independence from greenbacks By Leigh E. Rich It really isn’t that easy being Green. If you’re not being mistaken for Ralph Nader or swallowed like a pesky fly by the bullfrogs that are the two mainstream political parties, you’re being accused of handing the state of Florida and, in essence, the 2000 presidential […]

With outliers out, Senate race could loiter in margin of error By Leigh E. Rich Easily cleaving the ideological outliers from both camps, what was predicted to be a close-call primary has metamorphosed into a battle of the moderates. Tuesday’s primary—though promising a tight match between Republicans Bob Schaffer and Pete Coors and a Democratic […]

Salazar skids into driver’s seat for Senate By Leigh E. Rich It was practically a political roll call of the former and the future Tuesday night, as Colorado Democrats gathered to support and congratulate their U.S. Senate candidates for a primary well run. Bearing no resemblance to the bitter four-month battle on the Republican side, […]

A boot-kicking, and Kerry-kicking, good time By Leigh E. Rich Tax breaks, the war on terror, and taking to task Sen. John Kerry topped Vice President Dick Cheney’s rally cries this week at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Like Kerry’s recent courting of Colorado, it could be said that Wednesday’s visit by the veep was a […]

Secretary of State hoping for higher than usual vote participation By Leigh E. Rich “We count every ballot. Every ballot counts,” Colorado Secretary of State Donetta Davidson promised at a press conference Tuesday, held with the intention of reminding voters of the federal and state election laws that will take effect in next week’s primary […]