Mike May

Doug Bruce has been vilified this term by both Democrats and Republicans. And with a new compromise measure that threatens to scrap much of TABOR in return for concessions on Amendment 23, some insiders are guessing much of the hostilty towards Bruce from the right side of the aisle was aimed at helping passage of the measure. Either way TABOR supporters are promising a fight to retain the TABOR spending restrictions.  

In the last 18 months, this self-described American “hero” has gone from state representative to state senator to congressional candidate. As the Sanjaya of the GOP lineup, however, his theatrics (or his hair) won’t be able to carry him where substance is required.

In a legislative session that has seen its share of humor (sometimes intentional), the House Republican staff  handed out a 2 1/2-page, double-sided sports glossary on Wednesday to reporters.

The entries range from the clever ("dead ball" is defined as "The period of time between 'conversations' about a policy direction when the conversation appears to be 'dormant'")  to the obvious (the Douglas Bruce reference in the "kick" entry).

Asked for a response, House Democratic spokesperson Katie Reinisch said, "We're too busy working on the people's business to go out and get them cheese and crackers to go with their whine."  

The full list, after the jump.

The majority and minority leaders from both legislative chambers will unveil legislation tomorrow calling for the use of paper ballots at polling places for the 2008 elections.

The bill would also provide for early or absentee voting, as well as federally mandated electronic voting machines for the disabled, a press release stated.  read more »

House Minority Leader Mike May (R-Parker) said Monday that the state Supreme Court "punted" on Monday's Amendment 41 ruling, adding that sending the case back to a lower court will only continue state employees' confusion about state gift laws.

House Majority Leader Andrew Romanoff (D-Denver), though, said the ruling would help preserve clean government and said the Supreme Court wasn't able to rule on the case today.

With Bill Owens’ financial surrogate Bruce Benson in line to possibly take the job as CU president, the Inside Edge has been looking over the leadership in the GOP to try to figure out who really runs the party.

If you’re a Democrat you have to be pretty happy with how it lines up.    read more »

Whipsers from Politickers around Colorado for the week of February 8th, 2008

With former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announcing today that he is suspending his presidential camapign, House Minority Leader Mike May (R-Parker) has to again find another candidate to back.

May endorsed Romney this past weekend; he previously supported former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who dropped out of the GOP race Jan. 30.  read more »

Being in the GOP in Douglas County has always been like being at war.

But the Party was hoping that with the replacement of former County Chair Mark Scheffel, peace would reign amongst the disparate pieces of the party in the southern metro county. And that would leave them free build up a professional party apparatus.  read more »

On Monday night Tom Tancredo took the opening steps in his drive to become US Senator in 2010 by hosting a “social” for various legislators at Strings, an Italian restaurant at 1700 Humbolt Street in Denver, along with lobbyist Steve Durham.

Durham apparently acted as a kind of a host and master of ceremonies.  read more »