Author: Dick Wadhams

For most of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s 18-year tenure as the Senate Republican Leader, he was vilified as an “establishment” do-nothing by Tea Party and MAGA activists. Throughout that time, whether he was the minority leader or the majority leader, he was the master of Senate rules who did seek compromise with Democrats when he…

Despite leaving nothing but political wreckage after two disastrous years as Colorado Republican state chairman, Dave Williams is finding new ways to destroy a once great party. His Soviet-style attempt in 2023 to steal votes from members of the Colorado Republican State Central Committee (CRC) and forcibly cast those votes without the members’ consent now…

The livelihoods of ranchers and communities in rural Colorado are being threatened due to the overwhelming votes of just two urban counties. A slim statewide majority approved Proposition 114 in 2020 that requires the reintroduction of wolves in northwestern Colorado. That vote is often characterized as being driven by the more populous Front Range versus…

Colorado is a de facto one-party state where Democrats, such as the arrogant, elitist Gov. Jared Polis and the discredited, incompetent Secretary of State Jena Griswold, consider themselves beyond scrutiny and criticism. As the old saying goes, absolute power does corrupt absolutely and these two lame duck statewide elected officials are leaving office in 2027…

Poor Joe Biden. If you happen to be in Washington, D.C., and are going by the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, try to avert your eyes. Some of Colorado’s Democratic leaders are driving the bus running over President Joe Biden after he pardoned his son, the brilliant businessman and renowned artist Hunter Biden. It is…

While Democrats largely maintained their historic stranglehold on Colorado, Republicans won some key victories even in the face of a destructive and incompetent state GOP leadership that tried to defeat those Republican winners. U.S. Rep.-elect Gabe Evans ran an impressive campaign in the 8th Congressional District that unseated U.S. Rep. Yadira Caravejo in one of…

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…