Caucus Night Colorado. Tonight is Caucus night in Colorado. Thousands of political junkies and activists will turn out to elect delegates to represent candidates at the party state assemblies in May. Key races to watch include the Democratic and Republican U.S. Senate contests. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet faces a primary challenge from popular former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff. GOP front-runner Jane Norton is battling to put distance between herself and Weld County D.A. GOP candidate for governor Scott McInnis has struggled for months to win solid grassroots activist support. In the swing Fourth Congressional district, four Republicans have been jockeying for the chance to run against Democratic Rep. Apart from the informal straw polls taken at candidate rallies over the past half year, the caucuses will be the first real test of candidate electoral strength.
In 2008, roughly 120,000 Democrats and 70,000 Republicans turned out to caucus. Join Our Live Colorado Caucus Coverage How to contribute. Independence Caucus on Justin. Resource Library, Action Center. The 9.12 Project Network. Independent Caucus. The Independence Caucus and The912project.us - The “Big Lie” of the Government Bailouts. Cordially invite you to our joint Internet video-presentation: Our documented research which exposes the campaign money trails behind the Bailouts When: THURSDAY, MAY 7th at: 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain, 6pm Pacific. Where: What: The “Big Lie” began when Congress insisted they had to approve the government bailouts or the entire national system, of over 8,500 financial institutions, would collapse. If this were true, how did only 25 of these institutions manage to end up with more than 93% of all bailout money?
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Naturally the members are all Democrats. Names connected with the caucus so far include Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Reps. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), John Oliver (D-Mass.), Corrine Brown (D-Fla.), David Price (D-N.C.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Tim Walz (D-Minn.), according to The Hill Transportation blog. All are from states that have had to one degree or another a horse in the race, so to speak.
But this isn't the first bicameral caucus to push high-speed rail. Durbin regularly pitches DoT for the cast-off funds of states like Ohio and Florida for planned speed rail between Chicago and St. In maybe not the most stirring of defensive imagery, Rep. Something beyond the horse-and-buggy era? Independence Caucus: Citizens taking our Government back... one candidate at a time. Colorado Political Institute.