A man under federal investigation for selling wild horses for slaughter worked on the Salazar family farm, according to a relative of Secretary Salazar. The Secretary denies any business connection.
WASHINGTON — The Colorado man under federal investigation for selling American wild horses to Mexican slaughter houses worked for the family farm of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, according to a Salazar family member. Read more »
Secretary Salazar threatened to punch a Colorado reporter after encountering questions he didn’t like.
WASHINGTON — After being questioned about a major wild horse buyer who is under federal investigation and with whom he has business ties, U.S. Secretary of the Department of Interior Ken Salazar threatened to punch a reporter allegedly. Read more »
Romney did 14 points worse among Colorado voters without a college education than Bush, according to exit polls
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost by double-digit margins among downscale voters in Colorado, the same bloc that gave a majority of its votes to President Bush in 2004, enabling him to carry the state.
Romney did 14 points worse among Colorado voters without a college education than Bush, according to exit polls that Edison Research of Somerville, N.J. conducted for the National Election Pool, a consortium of major media outlets. Read more »
Despite Democrats’ attempt to nationalize Coffman’s race, the incumbent’s local reputation helped him cruise to victory.
WASHINGTON — Withstanding a gloomy national mood, Colorado’s three vulnerable U.S. representatives were re-elected Tuesday night.
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Lone Tree) defeated Democratic state representative Joe Miklosi of Denver in the newly redrawn 6th Congressional district. With 79 percent of precincts reporting, Coffman received 149,179 votes (49 percent) to Miklosi’s 137,637 (45 percent).
OBAMA SPOILER? Johnson, a former NM governor, has drawn support from younger Colo. voters
WASHINGTON — On the Sunday evening before Election Day, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson arrived at Bus Boys and Poets, an upscale cafe in the U Street corridor. He showed up alone and largely unheralded. Except for two reporters, nobody else in the restaurant talked with the former two-term governor of New Mexico. Read more »
A watchdog group has accused Salazar of violating the Hatch Act during an October campaign trip to Colorado. The 1939 law bars executive branch officials from politicking in their official capacity
WASHINGTON — A nonprofit legal organization said it filed a formal complaint Monday against Secretary of the Department of Interior Kenneth Salazar for a possible violation of the Hatch Act, the federal law that bars government employees from politicking in their official duties.
Cause of Action, a Washington-based firm, said it asked to the Office of Special Counsel to evaluate Salazar’s activities and statements at a campaign event sponsored by the Montrose County Democratic Party on Oct. 5. Read more »
PAPER TRAIL: Email exchanges suggest that political advantage was an important reason that Abound Solar was the recipient of loan guarantees in 2010
WASHINGTON — For months, Obama administration officials suggested that politics was not the most important factor in awarding a $400 million loan guarantee to a Colorado solar panel maker two years ago.
In their testimony to Congress last summer, two Department of Energy employees did not deny that politics might have played a role in the decision to give a line of credit to Longmont-based Abound Solar, but said economic and fiscal reasons played larger roles. Read more »
While the Obama Administration and GOP leaders have sparred over the president’s handling of the Benghazi attacks in recent days, the Colorado congressional delegation has remained largely silent
WASHINGTON — Despite a vigorous debate between the Obama administration and Republican leaders over the Sept. 11 attack in Libya, Colorado’s congressional delegation has sat largely on the sidelines, deferring the issue to leadership.
Eight of the nine members of the delegation declined two separate requests to discuss the administration’s handling of the assault on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, which resulted in the deaths of four American service members, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Read more »
Some legal experts believe that Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar violated the law with a campaign swing through Colorado this month
WASHINGTON – A former White House legal expert said Secretary of the Department of Interior Ken Salazar violated the Hatch Act, the federal law that prohibits government employees from politicizing their office. Read more »
For political party volunteers and activists, significant events like the presidential debate serve as motivation to hand out yard signs, walk precincts, and make telephone calls to encourage voters to head to the polls (Donkey Hotey Image)
WASHINGTON — After the first presidential debate last Wednesday night, Colorado Republican Party officials expected extra volunteers to show up at the doors of their 14 offices in the state to help the party’s candidates this November. They did not expect twice as many volunteers to arrive and many of those to come in completely unsolicited. Read more »
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