There’s an old truism in political campaigns that when you are explaining, you are losing. The phrase usually refers to a candidate or campaign trying to talk their way out of a mistake or scandal, but it can also apply to the legal side of things. Readers of Colorado Pols are familiar with the story […]
Last week, the Colorado Times Recorder reported on a heated exchange between Colorado GOP chairman Craig Steiner and Hugo Chavez-Rey, the vice-chairman of the Denver Republicans, over the latter’s reluctance to support homicidally controversial Republican nominee for governor Victor Marx. Specifically, Steiner called out Chavez-Rey for stating that third-party candidate Greg Lopez “has more…
Photo by Colorado Pols As CBS News reports, the Mile High City is in the final round to host the 2028 Democratic National Convention, 20 years exactly following the historic 2008 convention that Democrats who bicker about everything else basically all remember fondly: Denver has moved forward in the running to host the 2028 Democratic […]
Colorado’s last Republican U.S. Senator Cory Gardner, who lost his seat in 2020 after a six-year-long goodbye of declining popularity accelerated by Donald Trump’s calamitous first term in office, fancied himself as a big foreign policy player, despite having little real-world experience as an Eastern Plains farm boy who served in the Colorado state legislature. […]