Author: Pam Zubeck
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POLITIGAB: YouTube recording stirs ‘audiogate’
“Audiogate” is afoot after someone posted a YouTube voice recording online Wednesday. The recording, at http://www.rockymountainright.com/?q=blog/8, contains Bentley Rayburn’s voice saying: “In a three-way race, Doug (Lamborn) wins. “We gotta come to the understanding that this needs to be a two-man match.” “I am not going to be the guy responsible for getting Doug Lamborn…
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Funds show a 3-way race in 5th
Voters can expect more television and radio ads in coming weeks as the three Republicans in the 5th Congressional District race steer their campaigns into the home stretch for the Aug. 12 primary election.Political experts called the face-off “a true three-way race,” based on Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports filed Tuesday for second-quarter fundraising.While…
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Area residents will face higher Utilities bills
Not only do Colorado Springs’ residents face an 18.6 percent bump in water rates in September, but Colorado Springs Utilities also proposes to increase the typical residential utility bill by another 18 percent on April 1.Increases are proposed for all four services: electric, gas, water and wastewater, according to a preliminary budget forecast outlined Wednesday…
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POLITIGAB: Pushing his message
A poll by the Jeff Crank campaign uses true, but uncomfortable, facts about his opponents.Crank is trying to unseat Doug Lamborn in the 5th Congressional District and also faces challenger Bentley Rayburn in the Aug. 12 Republican primary election.The poll is being done via telephone to every Republican who has an absentee ballot or a…
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Bruce’s enterprise proposals will be on ballot
Voters will decide in November whether to reshape Colorado Springs city enterprises, including the collection of a stormwater fee, after elections officials verified two Douglas Bruce proposals have enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.City Clerk Kathryn Young announced Monday the petitions turned in by Bruce have more than the required 11,470 valid signatures…
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City nuisance ordinance may target the Cheyenne Motel
The Cheyenne Motel, a 56-yearold brick building tucked off the west side of South Nevada Avenue, has seen better days. Neighbors complain it’s a magnet for crime, which discourages people from staying, eating and shopping in the area. Its seamy clientele – drug dealers and prostitutes, they say – scare off locals and out-of-towners. Police agree. They…
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Neighbors: Cheyenne Motel is drain on city’s resources
The Cheyenne Motel, a 56-year-old brick building tucked off the west side of South Nevada Avenue, has seen better days. Neighbors complain it’s a magnet for crime, which discourages people from staying, eating and shopping in the area. Its seamy clientele – drug dealers and prostitutes, they say – scare off locals and out-of-towners. Police…
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Republican debate fails to show candidates’ differences
Nearly 200 people showed up Wednesday night to see two of three Republican candidates in the 5th Congressional District square off in what was billed as the only formal debate before the Aug. 12 primary election. But only a handful hadn’t already made up their minds. Most who packed into a hot and stuffy Centennial…
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Mail-in ballots gain popularity
Interest is high in the Aug. 12 primary election, or people simply like voting from home.Today, the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office will mail 58,000 absentee ballots – a record number, according to election worker Liz Olson. In 2006, 30,000 were mailed, she said.Olson said one reason for the sharp increase could be…
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POLITIGAB: Everybody’s a winner?
Jeff Crank and Bentley Rayburn, trying to unseat Doug Lamborn in the 5th Congressional District, each has declared himself the winner of Wednesday night’s Republican candidate debate. Crank said in a release he “decisively won,” while Rayburn said his campaign is “riding a tide of momentum” following his victory.Lamborn, the only one not claiming victory,…