Author: Dick Wadhams

Don’t bother seeking the “endorsement” of the corrupt regime running the Colorado Republican Party if you actually spent your life living and working in the district where you’re running for Congress. Conversely, personally profiting off a company that imported millions of pounds of cheap Chinese goods into the United States guarantees an “endorsement” from the…

Despite being grossly outnumbered by Democrats in the state legislature, two Republican women played major roles in crafting the property tax reform bill passed on the last day of the legislative session. Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer of Weld County and Rep. Lisa Frizell of Douglas County were Republican sponsors of the bill along with their Democratic…

Dave Williams was born about a thousand years too late. The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party has launched a crusade to purge and purify the party of candidates who are not loyal and subservient to the narrow ideological agenda he has decided every Republican must swear fealty to. Dave Williams might have reveled in…

Only a political party intent on becoming even more irrelevant and politically impotent could continue to pursue an irresponsible lawsuit doomed to fail. During the recent Colorado Republican state convention in Pueblo, where only 2,100 of 3,500 delegates actually showed up, speakers continued to claim the 2020 election was stolen from defeated former President Donald…

More than 128 million tax returns will be filed by April 15 next week, and thanks to a 1981 amendment by Colorado’s late U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong, taxpayers will be protected from President Joe Biden’s inflationary policies. Armstrong unseated a Democratic incumbent senator in 1978, and he immediately made indexing federal income tax brackets to…

Why would a Republican candidate for Congress deliberately try to conceal their private sector experience from voters? If there is one thing that unites virtually all Republicans, it is the strong belief that the private sector is the main driver of economic prosperity, not government regulations and spending. Private sector experience is a huge asset…

“Unaffiliated voters claim the majority.” It wasn’t that many years ago when this March 5, 2024 headline in The Colorado Springs Gazette would have been unthinkable. Unaffiliated voters are now in the majority in El Paso County. For decades, El Paso County was the massive Republican bulwark that fueled statewide election victories. El Paso County…