All posts tagged "Michael Bennet"

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is getting love from an election denier, and the internet can't help but roll its eyes at the merry display.

"If you needed proof that Tina Peters lacks remorse, read the post below," wrote Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who's running for governor. "Commuting her sentence was a historic mistake."

The aforementioned posts were by Tina Peters, the election-denying former clerk whose criminal conviction was shortened by Polis last week. She denounced the Colorado Democratic Party's censure of Polis and thanked him "for being willing to stand up in the middle of this persecution and do what he believed was right." ...

A Democratic senator from Colorado felt compelled to make the obvious more so to Fox News viewers Wednesday as he explained his problem with Republicans' economic policies.

"I'm not a Bolshevik," Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said, referring to a 1900s-era radical communist faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. The group promoted the ideas of Karl Marx.

Bennet fielded questions from anchor Neil Cavuto about a preliminary jobs review from the Bureau of Statistics that found 818,000 fewer jobs created this year than initially reported, as CNN reported Wednesday....

Democratic Sens. Tom Udall of New Mexico said Thursday that a constitutional amendment was necessary give Congress and the states the authority to legislate on campaign finance reform.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday night slammed the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United decision and supported legislation to overturn it.

Colorado's Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck said the United States should seek to make Afghanistan as safe a country for terrorists as countries like Somalia and Yemen.