Author: Dick Wadhams

It is often said that the most dangerous place to be in American politics is between a blindly ambitious candidate and a television camera. In contrast to decades of dedicated service by previous Colorado secretaries of state, incumbent Democrat Jena Griswold has made media exposure her first, foremost and only pursuit for the past six…

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel broke a very significant story on Oct. 11 that exposed how deeply the Colorado Republican Party has plunged into irrelevance. Sentinel political reporter Charles Ashby wrote how the Arizona Republican Party — not the Colorado Republican Party — was spending money on behalf of Jeff Hurd, Republican nominee for Congress…

Colorado Republicans are trying to claw back into relevancy after devastating defeats in the past three elections driven by deep anti-Trump sentiment by unaffiliated voters. Having former President Donald Trump visit Aurora to tout his massive deportation agenda will only undermine Republican candidates in competitive races. Aurora has been in the forefront of the presidential…

During the recent sham state meeting conducted by the deposed Republican state chairman, Dave Williams, one of his enthusiastic defenders declared he was the “best state chairman in 40 years.” If driving the Colorado Republican Party into a laughable pile of wreckage is the standard for such a grandiose claim, then yes, Williams is the…

The regime that runs the Colorado Republican Party is succeeding in making the party not only irrelevant but also, in the case of younger voters, repellant. The dramatic increase of unaffiliated voters over the past 10 years is well documented. After decades of the electorate being roughly divided into thirds, unaffiliated voters now represent 48…

As Republicans and Democrats move toward their extremes, Colorado’s electorate continues to be dominated by unaffiliated voters who are voting with their feet in rejecting both parties. The most recent affiliation figures released by the Colorado Secretary of State have unaffiliated voters at 1,862,600 or 48.5%, Democrats at 997,611 or 26%, and Republicans trailing in…

A recent sham meeting of the Colorado Republican State Central Committee (CRC) was held under a bridge in Bayfield in southwestern Colorado. How fitting and appropriate a place — for a meeting of the five individuals who showed up out of a total membership of 415. In fact, the “leadership” of the party urged members…

A presidential health crisis that ultimately resulted in the first lady of the United States wielding extraordinary power while covering up the president’s condition began in Pueblo more than a century ago. That crisis and the ensuing cover-up have similarities to today’s controversy over the physical and mental abilities of President Joe Biden. President Woodrow…

After 16 months of chaos, divisiveness, hate and financial abuse in the Colorado Republican Party, the regime of Dave Williams was emphatically rejected by the voters who know him best. It was Williams himself who made the Republican primary in the 5th Congressional District a referendum on the wreckage he has wrought on the state…

The raging dumpster fire otherwise known as the “leadership” of Colorado Republicans is facing a real challenge to its destructive mismanagement of a once great political party. Jefferson County Republican Chair Nancy Pallozzi is leading an insurrection within the 400-member Colorado Republican State Central Committee to remove Dave Williams as state chairman. She is seeking…