Author: Dean Toda
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Conservative’s conservative bowing out of state Senate race
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save State Sen. Dave Schultheis, the Colorado Springs Republican generally regarded as the most conservative member of the legislature, announced Tuesday that he won’t run for re-election in 2010. Schultheis, 69, said he would finish his…
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Springs delegate joining revolution of 2009
We the People Congress is a grass-roots group that argues that the federal government is exercising powers not granted to it by the Constitution and has no intention of reining itself in. David Justice, the group’s Colorado coordinator, said Monday that the next step is “to bring together the states so that we could begin…
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Conservative’s conservative bowing out of state Senate race
State Sen. Dave Schultheis, the Colorado Springs Republican generally regarded as the most conservative member of the legislature, announced Tuesday that he won’t run for re-election in 2010. Schultheis, 69, said he would finish his term but wanted to spend more time with his family. He denied that he felt any pressure from other Republicans…
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Penry wants to duel GOP opponent
State Sen. Josh Penry is eager to go one-on-one with Scott McInnis, his fellow Grand Junction resident, former boss and rival for the GOP governor’s nomination.“We’re not going to win this race on the front porch, having an iced tea,” said Penry, who’s generally regarded as the underdog. “We’ve got to get out and sell…
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Ritter defends ‘compassionate’ budget cuts
Gov. Bill Ritter defended his latest budget-balancing plan Thursday as “surgical and yet compassionate,” and answered critics who said it relied too heavily on one-shot injections of money that won’t be available in years to come. In remarks at The Broadmoor hotel after addressing a statewide group of civic, business and education leaders, Ritter acknowledged…
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Jurors shown soldier accused in killings firing ‘his toy’
The first image jurors saw Thursday in the first-degree murder trial of a Fort Carson soldier was a video clip of Jomar Falu-Vives holding an assault rifle at a target range. The brief clip shows the 25-year-old Iraq war veteran wearing a blue bandana on his head as he slaps the back of the weapon,…
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Ritter goes to federal well to rebalance budget
Patching the latest $286 million hole in Colorado’s finances, Gov. Bill Ritter presented another interim budget-balancing plan Wednesday, using federal stimulus funds to offset $190 million of the total. “Just as families and businesses are making tough choices all across Colorado, so are we,” Ritter said as he presented his plan to the legislative Joint…
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Jobs impact of state’s stimulus spending unknown
Colorado has distributed more than $1.2 billion of the $5.7 billion it expects to receive in federal stimulus money, Gov. Bill Ritter’s office said Tuesday. But the number-crunchers are struggling to quantify the $787 billion bill’s success in achieving its main goal: creating and retaining jobs. In a briefing Tuesday, Myung Kim, who is tracking…
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GOP’s leading lights for governor colliding in Springs
Scott McInnis and Josh Penry have been touring the state for months in their quest of the GOP nod to run against Gov. Bill Ritter next year, but their paths have rarely crossed. That will change Saturday afternoon at a candidate forum in Colorado Springs hosted by the Colorado Federation of Republican Women. The group’s…
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History shows Constitution can’t be taken literally
At a state GOP banquet and candidates’ forum last month in Keystone, Luke Korkowski stood before 400 party stalwarts and claimed the Constitution is being trampled. Korkowski, a Crested Butte attorney seeking his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, said the federal budget deficit, and even the federal income tax, would vanish if the government…