Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has become a punch line. I witnessed this recently in a local restaurant.

I heard "Scott Gessler" across the room, followed by peals of laughter. No joke.

I follow the secretary of state closely because of his self-described attempts to "further...

Newly-elected Mayor Michael Hancock has chosen well in picking former Colorado Treasurer Cary Kennedy to be Denver's chief financial officer.

During swing elections -- where one party or the other is "swept" into office by a change in public opinion -- good public officials in lesser-known positions can be...

Conspiracy theories are odd things. They typically involve byzantine logic, wild leaps of faith and holding discussions with people who have some type of extreme agenda. A large dose of skepticism is called for around conspiracy theories.

So when our new Secretary of State Scott Gessler cooked up some...

Colorado's legislative session has lacked the drama of Wisconsin's governor-union standoff. There's plenty of serious business going on under the golden dome, most notably balancing a budget that means chopping education and other critical services. But there are many people who lose their perspective and say silly things or do...

A few months ago, American voters elected a new crop of U.S. House members that said they were dedicated to creating jobs, cutting debt and strengthening the economy. Apparently, there were a few wolves in sheep's clothing in the flock, waiting to impose their extreme philosophy on women's access to...

In June 1999, GOP candidate state Treasurer Walker Stapleton was charged with DUI and leaving the scene of the accident in San Francisco where two women were injured. This would not be a story in this election, except for Stapleton's mishandling of both the accident and its aftermath.

Stapleton brushed...

Ken Buck's spokesman must be thinking that it would have been easier to work for the Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle of Nevada. Angle is also prone to gaffes and nutty conspiracy theories, but she has the good sense to run away from reporters. Buck's campaign hobby is to make...

This year's crop of GOP legislative candidates looks like the Colorado's Most Wanted. I would say that this is not a quality crop of people, but that would be an insult to quality. GOP chief Dick Wadhams owes some apologies to the regular rank-and-file Republicans for what could be the...

Gender politics are a kissing cousin to racial politics. Just scratch the surface on this topic and emotions and anger burst forth. U.S. Senate candidates Ken Buck and Jane Norton are engaged in a battle of the sexes that has not exactly focused on intellectual issues.

Norton fired the opening...

Maybe I'm beating a dead horse, but since Scott McInnis has performed CPR on his gubernatorial campaign with comments like he's "ready for a fight," "taken responsibility" for his plagiarism and his "boots are made for walking," it seems fair game to pile on the carcass.

Note to the McInnis...

Let's talk about the pink elephant in the room. Sarah Palin recently dubbed Colorado GOP Senate candidate Jane Norton as one of the "stampede of pink elephants" heading toward Washington, D.C.

Let's ignore for the moment that this is another bad Palin animal analogy (pit bulls with lipstick, mamma grizzlies)...