By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 14, 2007
Will Shafroth is relying on a lifetime of work for environmental causes to get him elected to Congress in Colorado’s heavily Democratic 2nd District. But Shafroth also plans to use his nice-guy reputation to set himself apart from a pair of more strident opponents in a multi-million-dollar primary that will […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 13, 2007
Colorado Democratic chairwoman Pat Waak says she would prefer not to have a primary in the U.S. Senate race where state executive committee member Mark Benner has said he “intends” to challenge Rep. Mark Udall for the party’s nomination.
“If we know who our candidate is sooner, we can raise more […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 12, 2007
He is a subcontractor working on the new headquarters of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. He and his family are beseiged by anti-abortion fanatics in ways that are scary, disgusting and apparently legal.
On Monday, the lunatic fringe sent his home telephone number out in a blast email and encouraged […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 10, 2007
Two of Colorado’s top political analysts agree that without quick and proper responses, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall risks getting stereotyped the way Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry got tarred by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Udall’s camp has been remarkably quiet as the National Republican Senatorial Committee and […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com
December 8, 2007
A member of Colorado’s Democratic executive committee and state central committee said Friday night that he intends to run against Congressman Rep. Mark Udall for the U.S. Senate nomination.
Mark Benner said he intends to file paperwork with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Senate. Benner sent an […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 7, 2007
Discussion leader Bill Fulton asked participants at the governor’s school dropout prevention summit to “imagine a Colorado education system where no one drops out.”
At this point, a solution to the state’s scandalously low high school graduation rate remains just that – a dream.
The two-day dropout summit that concluded Thursday at […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 5, 2007
One of two attack ads being aired in Colorado against Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall beats up on the 2nd District Congressman for introducing a bill nearly identical to one that a number of Republicans – including Colorado’s 4th District Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave – introduced last year.
The ad’s content has […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 5, 2007
Getting politicians to talk about tax increases is like trying to turn cougars into house cats.
It just ain’t natural.
So as the costs for improvements in transportation, health care distribution and competitive universities grow by the billions, Colorado’s leaders still act coy about the kind of revenue-raising measure they might have […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 4, 2007
There is no question that Sgt. Darren Mischke is a wounded warrior. After two tours in Iraq, the 27-year-old Army vet suffers from nosebleeds, memory loss, mood swings, dizziness, blurred vision and severe headaches.
Only instead of treating him for what are classic symptoms of traumatic brain injury – or TBI […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 3, 2007
Colorado ACLU Director Cathryn Hazouri and immigration lawyer Ann Allott differ sharply on the effectiveness of the Social Security Administration’s identity check system in finding illegal immigrants. But they agree just as strongly about this:
Using the system to automatically fire workers whose numbers don’t match their names is a big […]

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