Tag: Melat Kiros
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EDITORIAL: Calling Dems to account for the DSA
Kudos to 5th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado Springs for pressing an essential question: Just how comfortable are Democrats with their party’s growing embrace of socialism? As Gazette news affiliate Colorado Politics reported, Crank passed a resolution Tuesday condemning socialism, largely along party lines, in the U.S. House. HR 1490 cleared the…
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House adopts Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s resolution condemning socialism, mostly along party lines
The U.S. House on Tuesday approved a resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank to condemn socialism in a largely party-line vote that the Colorado Republican characterized as a chance for lawmakers to “stand firm” against an ideology making inroads among Democrats. The nonbinding resolution, HR 1490, also included a call for the “enactment” of…
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House adopts Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s resolution condemning socialism, mostly along party lines
The U.S. House on Sept. 1 approved a resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank to condemn socialism in a largely party-line vote that the Colorado Republican characterized as a chance for lawmakers to “stand firm” against an ideology making inroads among Democrats. The nonbinding resolution, HR 1490, also included a call for the “enactment”…
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House adopts Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s resolution condemning socialism, mostly along party lines
The U.S. House on Tuesday approved a resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank to condemn socialism in a largely party-line vote that the Colorado Republican characterized as a chance for lawmakers to “stand firm” against an ideology making inroads among Democrats. The nonbinding resolution, HR 1490, also included a call for the “enactment” of…
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EDITORIAL: The word is out on Colorado, and it’s not good
Colorado’s Democratic establishment can be expected to wave off a Fox News Digital mini-documentary this past weekend thumb-nailing Colorado’s lurch to the hard left. Consider the source, they’ll scoff, dismissing it as alarmist rhetoric by the usual suspects. But it’s that establishment that’s in denial — and is whistling past the graveyard. The word is…
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EDITORIAL: Hope for rescuing Colorado’s CD 1?
Colorado’s four Democratic and four Republican members of the U.S. House, by and large, represent their respective districts effectively. That is to say, credibly, thoughtfully and diligently, regardless of their party affiliation. In other words, they’re more or less a good fit for their districts. Last June’s Democratic primary election, however, could send someone to…
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EDITORIAL: Denver pushes back at socialist antisemitism
Socialist upstart and outspoken Israel antagonist Melat Kiros could face a second challenger next fall following her June 30 Democratic primary upset victory over 15-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette in Denver. Kiros will square off with Denver Republican Christy Peterson on Nov. 3 in vying to represent Colorado’s heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District. Now,…
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Latecomer candidate says he has signatures to join race against Melat Kiros in Colorado’s CD1
Supporters of latecomer congressional candidate Shimon Blau said Thursday that they had managed to collect well over the required 1,500 signatures to enable Blau to join Colorado’s Congressional District 1 race and face off against Democratic primary winner Melat Kiros this fall. That race is now drawing national attention, as Kiros’ win over 15-term veteran…
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Q&A: From grassroots underdog to national spotlight — Colorado democratic socialist Melat Kiros on her path to Congress
Melat Kiros, the 29-year-old Democratic Socialist who unseated a 15-term incumbent in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District primary on June 30, frames her victory as a mandate for structural political reform rather than a rejection of her predecessor, Diana DeGette. In this extensive Q&A with Colorado Politics, Kiros outlines a campaign rooted in confronting corruption, rejecting…
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EDITORIAL: ‘Big tent’ — or circus big top — for Colorado’s Dems?
You could hear the strain in Colorado U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper’s voice last week as he sought to assure CNN’s Jake Tapper the Democratic Party was just fine, thank you. It was even “united,” Hickenlooper claimed, in its quest to end Republican rule in Washington. “I don’t agree with everything that’s, that, that, uh, Ms.…