Rep. Lauren Boebert survived a primary challenge from state Sen. Don Coram in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District Tuesday night, The Associated Press reported.
Boebert has generated attention over battles to carry handguns in Washington, D.C., public clashes with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and erupting during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to remind him about the 13 Americans killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
BREAKING: Lauren Boebert wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 7:36 p.m. MDT. https://t.co/2nlgpji7ac
Rep. Lauren Boebert survived a primary challenge from state Sen. Don Coram in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District Tuesday night, The Associated Press reported.
Boebert has generated attention over battles to carry handguns in Washington, D.C., public clashes with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and erupting during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to remind him about the 13 Americans killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
BREAKING: Lauren Boebert wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 7: 36 p.m. MDT. https://t.co/2nlgpji7ac
Some Coram supporters had held out hope for an upset, noting that an unusually large number of Democrats had switched their party registration to “unaffiliated,” potentially being able to vote against Boebert due to the state’s election laws, CPR News reported.
But Boebert’s star power proved the more powerful force, also securing an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.
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The most important thing to know about Election Day, is that it marks the end of political ads on TV, radio, and your social media pages.
Can we get an amen from the choir?
And while we’re in church, here’s the first item of business:
9News can’t be bothered to ask a Democrat in Colorado if they condemn hate crimes against Christians, but boy do they have the Republican election night watch party scene on lockdown 😂 #copolitics#CantMakeThisStuffUphttps://t.co/jr0Ci4niLO
The media will be circling over Republican watch parties like the vultures they are. Expect the largest horde at Tina Peters HQ, where every reporter will be prompting her to blame a rigged election whether she wins or loses.
Update ….
As to whether Gerald Wood’s story in recent days about Peters and his involvement in the whole voter machine fiasco doomed her campaign, we’ll know in the next few hours.
Update: Now we now.
Tina Peters accused this man of committing perjury.
TAMPA, Fla. — Nathan MacKinnon raised the Stanley Cup over his head and then lowered it to his lips.
The Colorado Avalanche, a team he dreamed of playing for as a child, were champions for the first time since 2001. MacKinnon, their 26-year-old superstar, had a goal and an assist in their 2-1 Game 6 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning to earn that championship.
As he raised the Cup again, there was something peculiar about MacKinnon’s face. Something that hadn’t been there at the end of any of his previous playoff series: a beaming grin.
“He doesn’t smile too often. He’s all business. But you could just see how excited he was to lift it,” Colorado general manager Joe Sakic said. “I’m so excited for him. Maybe now he can relax and enjoy the summer a little bit.”
MacKinnon scored 13 goals and 24 points in the playoffs, doing all he could to secure a title for Colorado and lock down his own legacy as an NHL star. Even if the latter didn’t matter much to MacKinnon before the Stanley Cup Final.
“Legacy for who? You guys?” he said on media day. “I’m just having fun day by day. Doing the best I can for my team. That’s all I’m thinking about.”
To begin his own legacy, he ended another, eliminating the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions.
“It’s crazy how they went back-to-back,” MacKinnon said. “I might get fat as s— right now, so I don’t know if we’re going back-to-back. But I’m going to enjoy it for sure.”
The Lightning have said they needed to lose before they could learn to win. So did MacKinnon. Those anguishing disappointments in the regular season and postseason that had come to define his nine-year NHL career were, in the span of one victory, undoubtedly worth it. Those years of demanding nothing short of excellence from teammates to the point of behind-the-scenes rigidity. That personal journey for MacKinnon in which he learned, from mentors such as Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby, the mindset to unlock playoff achievement.
It all became worth it, because Nathan MacKinnon could finally relish in the unbridled elation of bringing a Stanley Cup to the Avalanche.
On the ice, he has been a star. Off the ice, MacKinnon was “the battery of our team, he makes everything go,” as defenseman Erik Johnson put it. The guy who would say or do anything to ensure that his team finally reached its potential.
“I think what makes him this good is hypercompetitiveness,” said former Avalanche defenseman Ian Cole, now a member of the Carolina Hurricanes. “Even in practice. He’ll do whatever it takes to win. Even if that means calling out his own teammates.”
Which MacKinnon would do, with frequency. In finally earning a twirl with Lord Stanley, one of the best players on the planet had molded himself and his teammates into champions — even if it meant crushing some egos along the way.
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An emotional Nathan MacKinnon goes through all of his emotions with Emily Kaplan after the Avalanche clinch the Stanley Cup.
WHEN DEFENSEMAN JOSH MANSON was traded by the Anaheim Ducks to the Avalanche ahead of the deadline, he knew about MacKinnon’s intensity as an opponent on the ice. He didn’t know that intensity paled in comparison to what players experienced with MacKinnon away from the games — in practice, in the locker room and in life.
“Well, he is intense. Scary? I guess that depends on the player. But he is very intense,” Manson said. “But that’s why he’s different. He drives everybody else around him to be better, and that is what’s so special. He’s in your face. He says, ‘I expect this from you. I’m here to win.'”
Many who played with MacKinnon have seen or experienced first-hand how those expectations manifest. There is yelling. There are blunt critiques and unfiltered advice. There is a standard of excellence applied to everything from a practice drill to a fitness decision.
“For one of the best players in the league, who dedicates so much of himself to the organization, if he’s a little intense when someone doesn’t act the right way? I don’t see that as a problem,” said Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, who played with MacKinnon for two seasons before leaving for the Lightning last summer.
Cole spent parts of three seasons with the Avalanche and considers MacKinnon a friend.
“I don’t necessarily think that competitiveness is a bad thing. Yes, it is abrasive. But I think that competitiveness and that abrasiveness and ability to just call anyone out at any given time, about anything, whether he’s right or wrong, it makes guys step up to the plate and makes guys play better,” he said. “They’re either scared to be called out or they don’t want to look foolish and they’re stoked to play better.”
That goes for NHL veterans on the Avalanche as well as the newbies.
“A lot of young guys are like, ‘I just don’t want to f— up and get screamed at,'” Cole said.
Cale Makar was one of those young players. He famously joined the Avalanche in the 2020 playoffs, straight from the NCAA. He had six points in 10 playoff games and then won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year the following regular season. It was obvious he was going to be a special player.
That wasn’t good enough for MacKinnon.
“Cale had all the talent in the world,” Cole said. “But Nate was still pushing him. Telling him it wasn’t good enough. Asking him what he was doing on the ice. Telling him, ‘You gotta be better than this’ on the power play or whatever. And now Cale is one of the best players in the NHL. When you surround yourself with people who make you better, then you have to automatically elevate yourself. That’s the culture that Nate was building there.”
That culture is something that Makar has embraced, and the Norris Trophy winner credits MacKinnon for driving him in practices.
“He’s obviously a touchstone, a very intense guy,” Makar said. “And I think, for me, I’m a very competitive guy. So it’s fun, especially practicing with him. He’s a guy that pushes other people to become better, and I’m a guy that likes to think I’m trying to make people around me better as well.”
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Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon and the Avalanche hoist the Stanley Cup after their win over the Lightning in Game 6.
Logan O’Connor has been that young player, too. This was his first full campaign with the Avalanche after playing parts of the past three seasons with the team.
“[MacKinnon is] a great role model for a lot of young guys,” he said. “He’s at the peak of his game, in the conversation for one of the best players in the world. He’s always out there before practice and after practice, pushing guys. Someone messes up a rep …”
O’Connor paused.
“You need someone to push everyone. When guys aren’t sharp or they’re sleepy, because it’s a long season, he’s always there to refocus people and keep them accountable,” he continued. “I think that’s the biggest thing with our team. The accountability throughout the lineup. Everyone has high standards for each other, and he’s one of the guys who keeps those standards up.”
Even if those standards mean you don’t dare, for example, eat junk food in his presence.
“I’m not a candy guy,” O’Connor said. “Luckily had nothing to do with that.”
CANONICALLY, THE GREATEST example of MacKinnon’s abrasive intensity was provided by former Avalanche defenseman Nikita Zadorov last summer. He did a Russian-language interview in which he shared some of MacKinnon’s dietary standards, which he said were pushed on his teammates.
“Two years ago in Colorado, he got rid of all the pop, ice cream and desserts,” Zadorov said. “He got rid of them from the dressing room and pregame meals. He even got rid of the white sauce for pasta. He replaced the actual pasta itself with chickpea pasta. He says, ‘Guys, if you want to eat crap, you have the offseason for that. When you come here, there will be none of that because we’re winning the Cup.'”
He then compared MacKinnon’s behind-the-scenes intensity to that of Michael Jordan. Seeing it pop up on social media, MacKinnon reached out.
“I read the first paragraph of it on Instagram and I’m like, ‘I can’t read this.’ Like, he compared me to MJ. I’m like, “Dude, you’re such a donkey,'” MacKinnon said. “I texted him. I’m like, ‘Bro, can you stop talking about me in Russia?'”
MacKinnon didn’t deny that he eats healthy and encourages teammates to do the same.
“Maybe if I saw ‘Z’ eating a big chocolate bar I’d give him crap,” he said. “But I’m not a psycho eater or anything. I like to eat what everyone else does too.”
Makar said that, for the record, MacKinnon would not yell at him if he saw him eating a cupcake.
“I feel like all of that stuff was taken way out of proportion,” he said. “He can have some cheat meals, and he’s not crazy like that. But during the season, he’s obviously very dialed in, which you should be.”
Cole is gluten-free, dairy-free and watches his own diet, so he was never on MacKinnon’s culinary hit list while playing for the Avalanche. But he said the pressure from MacKinnon on his teammates to eat right was real.
“There were guys on our team where he did not pull any punches. He’s like, ‘You are fat. Stop eating s—,'” Cole said. “In his defense, he’s not wrong. He’s just so blunt and honest and doesn’t pull any punches. He’s like, ‘I’m not gonna give a s—. It’s true.’ And it is 99% of the time.”
MacKinnon is far from the only NHL player to place a high value on nutrition.
“He’s pretty strict. But I think nowadays, all the guys are so aware,” Crosby said. “I’d say we’re pretty close [in diet], though.”
Crosby and MacKinnon. Two NHL superstars from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. An idol who befriended a fan, and is now his offseason training partner.
“He and Sid are good buddies,” said Cole, who was also Crosby’s teammate with the Penguins, “and they’re both very similar in that sense — hyper, hyper competitive.”
THE TWO FIRST met when MacKinnon was 17, playing for the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. MacKinnon would go back to Cole Harbour in the summer and train there, as would Crosby.
The Penguins star and the Avalanche star spoke before the playoffs, but MacKinnon declined to share what they discussed. Crosby has said the two have had candid conversations about hockey, including the mental side of the game.
“I think it’s something he’s aware of and I think the big part of it is recognizing that. It’s always easy to sit there and say, you know, I wanna improve something. I think it’s just experience. He’ll go through different things than he has already that he’ll learn and figure out,” Crosby said. “You’re always learning. I’m still trying to figure it out, and I’m sure he is too.”
Crosby has matured into an even-tempered leader after coming into the league as an enfant terrible. But MacKinnon warned against mistaking that serenity for a lack of aggression.
“I wouldn’t say he’s chill. He’s the most competitive guy I know. I think earlier in his career, he kinda wore his emotions on his sleeve. And now he’s calmer,” MacKinnon said of Crosby. “I think it’s better to be like that. I think every year I’m getting a little bit [calmer]. But I definitely don’t think I’ll be there anytime soon, for sure.”
While MacKinnon learned from Crosby’s demeanor, he also adopted Sid’s total immersion into hockey. Cole thinks MacKinnon started to breathe the sport in 2016-17, which was Jared Bednar’s first season as head coach and the nadir of the franchise, as the Avalanche finished last in the league with a .293 points percentage.
“They are both extremely hockey-centric,” Cole said. “That’s how Sid’s always been wired. But to be honest, for Nate it was a conscious decision he made after that really bad losing season they had.
“He felt he needed to live and breathe and do everything he could to be successful because that sucked. I think he made a conscious decision: ‘That
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There’s some late-developing drama in Colorado’s Secretary of State race with Tina Peters and the man at the center of her alleged identity theft scheme.
After @CBS4Shaun‘s solid report last nite, the man whose identity was allegedly stolen & used to image Mesa County election hard drive – Gerald “Jerry” Wood – strikes back @710KNUS re: Tina Peters’ latest accusations on @CBSDenver.
“I think about the gentleman (Wood), he perjured himself on the stand, we know that, and he’s going to have to deal with that,” she told Sengenberger in an interview about her candidacy for the GOP nomination for secretary of state. “Think about how fearful he must have been because look at what they’ve done to me. They’ve thrown me in jail, they’ve handcuffed me, they accused me of things I didn’t commit.”
Testimony from Wood was central to the grand jury indictment accusing Peters of felony identity theft and a variety of other serious offenses.
The allegations of identity theft stem from the fact Wood’s badge was used to access secure election offices in Mesa County on two dates last year to capture “before and after” images of an election systems update.
But in the last month or so, the Colorado governor’s publicity people have been busy. Polis has written an op-ed in the Washington Postdefending charter schools. Libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie recorded a glowing podcast profile for Reason. There was a holiday weekend puff piece in The Hill. And recently, the Wall Street Journal praised Polis for standing up to the climate lobby.
All of these pieces have one aim: to make the progressive Democratic governor look as though he’s not all that progressive—indeed, maybe he’s a moderate or even a liberal with libertarian leanings, who’ll keep the government off your back. I frequently hear out-of-state conservatives, hopeful for someone to pull the Democrats back from their current woke insanity, offer this description as their impression of Polis.
Those of us who’ve seen his governance here in Colorado up close and personal know better.
Consider Polis’ support for charter schools. He comes by that honestly, and is featured on the Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) page as a champion of school reform. But the delegates who put Polis on the primary ballot for governor in 2018 told the state chapter of DFER to stop using the word “Democrats” in their name, effectively booting the organization out of the party.
Notice a double standard among many gun-restriction advocates. If a proposed gun restriction might conceivably stop someone from carrying out a crime, that’s good enough, even if it has no statistically detectable impact on crime and regardless of how it impacts peaceable gun owners. But if a “good guy (or gal) with a gun” ever fails to stop a crime, then that proves armed self-defense is worthless.
But a reasonable standard is not that something always works perfectly. Seatbelts are a good idea even though often they fail to prevent auto fatalities. Covid vaccines work spectacularly well even though they prevent death only in a small minority of cases, as most people would recover without them. Going to the hospital during a health emergency is prudent even though medical errors kill around a quarter-million Americans each year. I support well-written “red flag” laws to take guns from people who threaten violence, even though such laws prevent only a fraction of crimes.
Yet when it comes to guns many people’s capacity for weighing costs against benefits goes out the window. For example, one local columnist claims that the New York Times provides “data debunking the ‘good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns’ fallacy.” Such sentiments are widespread on Twitter.
What the article claims is that, of 433 active shooter attacks examined, someone shot the attacker 120 times. That combines 98 shootings by on-duty police, 10 by security guards or off-duty police,
Because Colorado doesn’t have enough societal ills, progressives want to legalize hallucinogenic drugs for medicinal purposes, wink, wink.
Supporters of magic mushrooms submitted a petition Monday with 222,648 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office to put Initiative 58, the Natural Medicine Health Act, on the November ballot.
Once it’s determined whether advocates submitted real or imagined signatures from actual people, bananas, or triangles, the proposal allowing those who suffer from anxiety to do so while high on hallucinogenics will flow forward into a sea of molten lava and polka dot porpoises.
While the measure restricts sales to designated “healing centers” that are licensed by the state — so you wouldn’t be allowed to walk into a store or dispensary and buy ‘shrooms over the counter — it also expands decriminalization for possession, use, and gifting statewide. Because it sets up a new framework for treatment centers, regulators would also define the qualifications, education and training requirements necessary for facilitators who administer the substances.
The phrase we’re missing here is, prescribed by a doctor.
Anyone who believes that shrooms offer the only relief for stress or dealing with a post-tramatuic experience is totally tripping.
If you think homelesss camps are a problem now, with Denver teetering on becoming the new San Fransisco, just wait till this new drug tourism hits Colorado.
It’s bad enough our children have to be wary of stepping on needles and drug vials on their way to school,
