Jason Salzman Posts

Activists in Colorado are using what they call the unpopularity of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in part, to rally support behind a single-payer health-care proposal that will be on next year’s election ballot.

In a new television ad, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) prominently displays the logo of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and cites praise from Planned Parenthood in 2013, even though Coffman, who’s long opposed a woman’s right to choose, has voted to halt federal funding for Planned Parenthood’s women’s health programs.

Questions remain as Colorado Senate candidate Cory Gardner withdraws support for anti-abortion "personhood" at the state level yet remains a co-sponsor of a similar bill at the federal level.

Laura Woods, a conservative candidate vying for the GOP Senate spot in Colorado, has asked 'unaffiliated' voters to come to the primary booths and cast their ballots for her. You may recall Mississippi's primary last month, where Thad Cochran used the same tactic to narrowly beat his tea party rival.

Here are eight reasons why Denver Post reporter Kurtis Lee's blog post, quoting Rep. Mike Coffman about personhood and abortion-for-rape-and-incest, was newsworthy and should not have been deleted from The Post's website. Prime among them: it was news!

The annual cost to deploy troops in Iraq is roughly $1 million per troop, according to former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag. (That's beyond the incalculable human cost.) Using this as a baseline, and assuming U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) would deploy between 5,000 and 50,000 troops, we're talking about spending between $5 billion and $50 billion per year on Iraq. Again. So why is no one talking about this?

Appearing on a Denver radio station Monday, Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck compared pregnancy with his recent battle with cancer.

Mike McAlpine, a prominent Colorado Republican involved in the effort to recall State Senator Evie Hudak over her gun control stance, registered in Hudak's precinct for the sole purpose of voting against her despite continuing to live in the Boulder area.

CO "shock pastor" Kevin Swanson claimed on his radio show and a subsequent TV interview that Girl Scout cookies are tied inextricably with lesbianism and 'individualism'. It remains unclear whether he is completely delusional, or just totally insane.

Denver media should pay more attention to the real possibility that yesterday's recall-election victories by Colorado Republicans will, ironically, lead directly to the indefinite demise of the state GOP, rather than ushering in the Republican resurgence that talk-radio hosts are hyping.

During an interview with The Denver Post Colorado Representative Mike Coffman affirmed his opposition to the longstanding U.S. law granting citizenship to people born on American soil, even if their parents are not citizens, more commonly referred to the policy of birthright citizenship.

Abortion issues have played a key role in recent campaigns at all levels in Colorado, on the campaign trail and in political advertising, and they are likely to take center stage in this race, as U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and challenger Andrew Romanoff fight for the critical votes of women in Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District.

Abortion issues have played a key role in recent campaigns at all levels in Colorado, on the campaign trail and in political advertising, and they are likely to take center stage in this race, as the two candidates fight for the critical votes of women in Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, which was re-drawn after the 2010 Census.

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In an editorial Monday, titled "Sour Grapes in the Colorado Legislature," The Denver Post wondered whether the GOP's hard feelings over gun legislation was spilling over, tantrum-like, into opposition to funding the entire state governement.

The Post spotlighted Sen. Kent Lambert's March 28 assertion that lawm

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You get the feeling that some Republicans are trying to sneak Hispanics into the GOP tent through the back tent flaps, for fear that welcoming them though the tent's front door will offend the dwindling number of Republicans already in the tent.

That's what I was thinking when KFKA morning show host Devon Lentz insulted the entire country of Mexico last week, and Rep. Cory Gardner, who was a gue

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Personhood activists are gathering Thursday night in Highlands Ranch to launch their petition drive to put a so-called fetal homicide measure on the 2014 election ballot.

The initiative would protect “unborn human beings” under the Colorado criminal code, thus allowing for the prosecution of those who commit crimes against “unborn human beings.”

The phrase “unborn human beings” is not defined, leaving open the possibility tha

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KOA’s Steffan Tubbs has become the leading media voice in Colorado for U.S. troops.

Other local media figures cover the military, including Denver Post photographer Craig Walker, who won a Pulitzer in 2012, but Tubbs gives military personnel regular coverage, in different media platforms, and he deserves more recognition for what he's doing.

For seven years and counting, Tubbs has closed his morning-drive show on KOA radio, with: “Remember our troops.”

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Former Rep. Tom Tancredo and Rep. Mike Coffman have a tight political history, each endorsing the other at various points along the way. (Tancredo endorses Coffman here and vice versa here.)

So I wondered how Tancredo, who's known for his hard-line stance against illegal immigration, felt about Coffman's recent announcement that Coffman favors giving "legal status" to millions of undocumen

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On Corky Kyle's "In the Lobby" show March 4, the Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Dudley Brown, said that he could care less about a regulation prohibiting lobbyists from threatening state lawmakers with political retribution for casting a vote.

Brown said "no rule" will stop his gun organization from threatening to throw lawmakers out of office if they don't vote

[POLS NOTE: We agree -- enough already]

In their story about the final passage of Colorado's gun-safety laws, The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels and Kurtis Lee referenced Colorado's alleged "Wild West" image, both in a headline ("3 new gun bills on the books in Colorado despite its Wild West image") and paragraph two, which noted that the bill signing took place 22 miles from the exact spot where "frontiersman Buf