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Focus on millennials sharpens as elections near
By Joey Bunch
House Democratic leader Crisanta Duran, top left, with, clockwise, Denver city attorney Scott Martinez; Christina Aguilar, executive director of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights; and Generation Latino executive director Maria Hadley at the Generation Latino kickoff last week. (Photo courtesy of Generation Latino)
Denver is the launching pad for a national effort to strengthen the link between two of the country's fastest-growing political demographics, Latinos and millennials.
Generation Latino bills itself as a national nonpartisan organization. A list of its donors was not available this weekend. The benefit to Democrats is obvious, however. Latinos tend to vote Democrat, and millennials, researchers say, could be the most liberal generation yet. According to the Census Bureau, 21.2 percent of Colorado's population identified as Hispanic or Latino as of 2014. Nationally the percentage is 17.3 percent. Latinos are by far Colorado and the nation's largest minority. In terms of voting population, millennials eclipsed Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers last year.
Categories: 2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Race, 2016 U.S. Senate Race, Colorado Government, Colorado History, Colorado Legislature, Elections, Immigration, Jobs, Local Governments, Minority/race issues, National Politics, News Media, Twitter, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, White House
March 4, 2015, 11:14 pm
DA George Brauchler makes case for felony DUI via social media
With 5 alcohol-related convictions and a BAC of .208, another menace kills a father and two sons. #coleg #FelonyDUI http://t.co/kRsugVr3Qw
— George Brauchler (@GeorgeBrauchler) March 5, 2015
George Brauchler, the district attorney for Arapahoe and surrounding counties, got riled up Wednesday night after he read a newspaper article about a fatal car crash in Weld County in January. Investigators say the driver had a blood-alcohol content of nearly three times the legal limit, along with five previous DUIs. But there he was behind the wheel.
House Bill 1043 would make a third DUI in seven years a felony if there were aggravating circumstances, such as a hit-and-run or a minor in the car, which likely means prison, a halfway house or a treatment facility. The bill advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee to the House Finance Committee on Feb. 5. It it gets an OK there, it goes to the House floor, and then possibly on to the Senate to start all over. If the two chambers disagree, even a little, and the Senate amends the bill, they have to work that out in a specially appointed joint committee, and then the House and Senate have to vote on the compromise. You start to get the picture of why Brauchler and fellow supporters — including Gov. John Hickenlooper, who named it a legislative priority before the session — could be getting antsy.
Categories: Budget, Colorado Government, Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics, Crime and Courts, Health Care, Social Policy, Twitter, Uncategorized
Bud Light posts first Whatever USA ad on YouTube
By Jesse Paul
After all of the controversy, the worries and then the fun, the first ad created from Bud Light's Whatever USA in Crested Butte was posted on YouTube Friday.
The ad then ran Sunday night during the Broncos game against the Kansas City Chiefs, one week from when the event was held.
"Let's hear it for Bud Light," the "mayor" of Whatever says in the ad sitting at a desk on Elk Avenue, the main thoroughfare in Crested Butte. "The perfect beer for when you take over a town, make me the mayor and call it Whatever USA."
Categories: Arts and Culture, Colorado Government, Colorado History, Colorado Politics, Local Governments, Twitter
On my Liberty Movement advice
By Chuck Plunkett
A top political and policy adviser to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, the chairman of the state's Democratic Party and others on Sunday dashed off some posts on Twitter linking to an old video clip to question whether The Denver Post's politics coverage is biased.
It's a serious question for The Post's politics editor, and I take it seriously. Given that the posters are such big deals in the political firmament, I thought I should try to answer them. But not in 140 characters.
The governor's adviser, Alan Salazar, and the party chairman, Rick Palacio, present a YouTube video shot nearly four years ago at a Denver watering hole where I spoke in public to folks from the local chapter of Liberty on the Rocks.
I hope Denver Post readers who worry that our politics coverage might be biased given Salazar and Palacio's statements on Twitter will watch the clip – and watch it in its entirety. I believe that an objective viewer of the clip will find it understandable that I stand behind my remarks and do not regret them.
If you watch the clip, you hardly need to read the rest of this post. But for those really interested, I will provide a bit more context and some thoughts.
Categories: Colorado Politics, National Politics, News Media, On the Spot, Twitter
Colorado governor's race going "Both Ways"
For weeks, Democrats and a good chunk of Bob Beauprez's GOP opponents have repeated his derisive nickname, "Both Ways Bob," which he couldn't shake eight years ago when he ran for governor.
Beauprez, who won the nomination for governor on Tuesday over three GOP rivals, is sure to hear the name on the campaign trail. But it looks like this year's incumbent, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, is about to get at least a sample of similar name-calling.
Both Ways Bob, meet Both Ways Bartender.
BothWaysBob? NoNoNo… Its #BothWaysBartender #Colorado #GunControl has #HickUps #CoPolitics #CoSen #Coleg #Cogov pic.twitter.com/WTfJ5p04IS
— Chris P. Bacon (@CPBacon4CO) June 26, 2014
The hashtag #BothWaysBartender was served up by a hard-right Twitter feed of someone allegedly named Chris P. Bacon (say it quickly). The author pens "her" bio this way "Working Momma, Suzie Home Maker Attitude & Sarcasm & Constitutional Rights, Conservative Values," with more than 1,000 followers and 13,100 tweets since February 2012.
Categories: 2014 Colorado Governor's Race, 2014 Election, Bob Beauprez, Colorado Government, Colorado Politics, Elections, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Gun Debate, Twitter