Author: Dean Toda
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Carson soldiers remembered for selflessness
Two Fort Carson soldiers killed in Iraq were praised during a memorial Thursday at the Army post for selflessly answering the call long after the patriotism inspired by the 9/11 attacks had worn off for others. Spc. Christopher T. Fox, 21, a Tennesseean with three years’ service in the Army, died Sept. 29 after his…
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Democrats say state isn’t blue yet
Barack Obama carried Colorado on Tuesday with ease. So did Mark Udall, the Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retirement of a Republican.The state’s senior senator, Ken Salazar, is a Democrat, as is Gov. Bill Ritter.A Democrat, Betsy Markey, ousted a Republican incumbent in the 4th Congressional District, giving Colorado’s…
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GOP majorities not as dramatic as in the past
When a blue tsunami covered the country on Tuesday, El Paso County stayed high and dry, reliably Republican. But the county did not deliver the same huge GOP majorities it has delivered in past elections. Make no mistake: The Democrats at the top of the El Paso County ballot – Barack Obama for president, Mark…
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U.S. SENATE: Democrat Udall wins Colorado open Senate seat
DENVER – Riding the Democratic wave that swept the nation, Rep. Mark Udall advanced to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Republican Bob Schaffer after a bitter contest for Colorado’s open seat. With 78 percent of the statewide vote counted, Udall led Schaffer, a former three-term congressman from Fort Collins, 53-43 percent. In El Paso…
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AMENDMENT 59: Move to rescind TABOR voted down
Colorado voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would end a major feature of Colorado’s tax-capping law. Amendment 59 would have allowed the state to establish an education fund with taxes that would have been rebated to citizens under the Taxpayers Bill of Rights. El Paso County results, with 99.5% of precincts reporting, YES 68,012…
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Colorado’s voters key till the very end
On one of the last stops in a campaign that vaulted her onto the A-list of American politics, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, urged a vocal crowd in Colorado Springs on Monday to help her running mate, Sen. John McCain, win Colorado’s nine electoral votes. “Colorado, are you ready to help us…
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Palin returns to Springs
Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin will appear at a campaign rally today at the Colorado Springs Airport, joined by Hank Williams, Jr. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. and the event begins at 5:15 p.m. The Gazette will be live-blogging from the event. On the eve of the election Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin…
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Referendum could shrink number of ballot questions
Buried in the middle of this year’s general election ballot, several minutes of perusal past the big names like John McCain and Barack Obama, is a measure that, if approved by Colorado voters, promises relief from tablecloth-sized ballots in the future.It’s called Referendum O, and it would make voting easier. Some say it would also…
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Obama to Pueblo: ‘We have a righteous wind at our backs’
PUEBLO – Sen. Barack Obama added Colorado to his furious final tour of battleground states on Saturday, telling a crowd of at least 15,000 supporters that with only three days until Election Day, “we have a righteous wind at our backs.” “We’re going to have to work like our future depends on it in these…
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Shoe leather still the best sales tool for candidates
It was late-season T-shirt weather – “Pete Lee for State Senate” T-shirts, in this case. Lee and a couple of volunteers were ringing doorbells in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood, north of Old Colorado City and south of Kissing Camels. The volunteers were reporting in. “Will not vote for a Democrat,” said Steve Cook, pointing to…