In the real-time Schitt’s Creek we call 2020, Colorado’s Proposition 113 barely registers on the wacko-meter. But its peculiarities carry echoes of a time when political parties mattered more to our democracy than cable news gasbags. The most obvious oddity of Prop 113 is it asks voters to approve something — Colorado’s participation in the […]
Dave Krieger
Special to The Colorado Sun
Twitter: @DaveKrieger
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Krieger: John Hickenlooper has left himself open to attacks on oil and gas
In an act of remarkable if not surprising hypocrisy, the climate change-denying Republican Party is attacking former Gov. John Hickenlooper for not being tough enough on the oil and gas industry. Unfortunately for Hickenlooper, the criticism is accurate. The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s latest ad targets Hickenlooper for the 2017 home explosion in Firestone that […]
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Krieger: Romanoff has some questions planned for Hick this week
By now, the pattern is familiar. A progressive candidate captures the imagination of Colorado’s Democratic Party activists, dominates the caucuses and emerges from the state assembly with top billing on the primary ballot. Then a better-funded establishment candidate takes over the airwaves, wins the party primary and goes on to be elected. It happened in […]
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Krieger: Will Colorado Democrats choose another 1 percenter for the Senate?
Please join me in welcoming the billionaire former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, to our fair state. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Bloomberg bought a 4,600-acre ranch in northwest Colorado for $44.79 million. The property includes a helipad, helicopter hangar, tennis court, four-hole golf course, two guest cabins, a […]
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Krieger: A baffling mistake as Denver tries to stem the coronavirus pandemic
My ex was hanging out at her home in southeast Denver on Monday afternoon, the way we’re all supposed to these days, when the law of unintended consequences rolled through town like high tide. But let her tell it: So I was practicing a prescribed anxiety-reducing activity during the pandemic: immersing myself in a creative […]
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Krieger: Grumpy Old Men II — fear and loathing in Colorado’s presidential primary
We watched the season of televised debates with hope, my son and I. At least, in the beginning. Adding Colorado to the list of Super Tuesday states offered us a chance to cast votes that might matter, albeit in a Rube Goldberg-inspired candidate selection process that seems more outdated with each passing election cycle. Still, […]
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Krieger: Boulder-style progressivism is on the ballot again
Boulder is one of the most progressive cities in America. If you don’t believe it, just ask any member of its city council. Boulder is also a lily-white country club with a 45,000-acre open-space moat that pushes real estate prices up and many local employees out. Having taken three-quarters of its land out of circulation, […]
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Krieger: From Colorado progressives, the sound of silence when it comes to Hick
A funny thing happened after I suggested in this space a month ago that John Hickenlooper’s enthusiasm for fracking as Colorado governor might pose a problem for his U.S. Senate campaign among progressive Democrats. I got an email from Aaron Johnson, vice president of public affairs for the Western Energy Alliance. He wanted me to […]
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Krieger: Fracking legacy dogs Hick among progressives
KC Becker of Boulder, speaker of the Colorado House, “liked” a tweet the other day proclaiming John Hickenlooper’s entry into the race for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Cory Gardner. In the absence of public commentary — and reticence is now fashionable among state Democratic Party officeholders in the suddenly sensitive matter of the […]
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Krieger: Will Hick take advice from a (former) Republican?
Two lapsed Republicans walk into a bar. (Actually, it’s a TV studio.) “Republicans will never do anything on gun control,” says one, former Florida Congressman David Jolly. “Nothing. Ever. They won’t. “Think about Las Vegas. They did nothing when 500 people were injured. The Pulse nightclub, 50 killed, the question for the nation was, do […]