Yes on 72 radio advertisement needs context

Oct. 23, 2016

On Tuesday, Colorado residents will vote on Amendment 72, a ballot initiative supporting a $1.75 tax increase on cigarettes and a 22 percent increase of the manufacturer’s list price on tobacco products. The Campaign for a Healthy Colorado , which supports the amendment, recently released a radio ad making various...

CU News Corps survey finds voters to be receptive to fact checking, but debate over merits continues

Jan. 16, 2015

Aiming to make sense of a relentless surge of political advertisements, journalistic fact-checking projects in Colorado reached large numbers of Front Range voters, who found those endeavors to be generally effective in this year’s midterm election season, a CU News Corps/Aspen Research survey found. Despite a one-sided ad-to-fact check ratio,...

Personhood USA makes a series of false and deceptive claims about previous legislation

Nov. 4, 2014

One of the main supporters of the personhood legislation on Colorado ballots this November is Personhood USA. The group’s website hosts pages about Amendment 67 in Colorado and North Dakota’s Measure 1, another personhood issue up for vote. The Personhood USA page about Amendment 67 makes the following statement: “Last...

Gardner at odds with scientific consensus on Ebola travel ban

Nov. 2, 2014

In his campaign to unseat Senator Mark Udall, Republican challenger Cory Gardner has called for a travel ban from the West African countries hit hardest by the recent Ebola outbreak. In doing so, he’s ignoring a strong consensus among public health experts on how best to deal with outbreaks of...

Gardner’s misleading attack on equal pay illustrates bi-partisan hypocrisy

Oct. 24, 2014

Paying male and female employers the same salary has been a central campaign issue for Democrats up and down the ticket across the country in past years. Sure enough, that discourse also made its appearance in one of the closest Senate races this fall – the contest between Sen. Mark...

VoteNo67 falsely claims that Amendment 67 would ban all abortions

Oct. 23, 2014

The personhood issue in the upcoming midterms in Colorado is Amendment 67, also referred to as the “Brady Amendment.” This year it is centered on the premise that pregnant mothers and their unborn children need greater protection from violence than Colorado law already provides. The VoteNo67 campaign, backed by Planned...

Prop 105 misleads on health, safety of genetically modified food

Oct. 14, 2014

While both supporters and opponents of Proposition 105 have centered their campaigns on the question of whether labeling genetically modified food would impose unnecessary burdens on consumers, regulators, and farmers, little attention has been paid to the motivation behind the measure. Prop 105 misleads on health, safety of genetically modified...

Hickenlooper campaign polishes business-creation rankings

Oct. 10, 2014

Colorado incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper insists his leadership has helped Colorado’s economy bounce back from the latest recession that hit the state hard. On the campaign trail this fall, Hickenlooper faces a fierce challenge from former Republican Rep. Bob Beauprez, who continuously questions the governor’s policy contributions to the state’s...

Voice for Brady ad deceives and misstates facts

Oct. 10, 2014

Amendment 67, another personhood issue on the Colorado ballot (Coloradans rejected two similar amendments in 2008 and 2010), continues to produce many deceptive and emotionally charged claims on both sides. The “Voice for Brady” campaign is the primary supporter of the proposed amendment to the state constitution and the group...

Colorado Republicans misrepresent the science on climate change

Oct. 7, 2014

In recent debates hosted by the Denver Post , candidates were asked a series of yes-or-no questions by the moderators. One of those questions was, “Do you believe humans are contributing significantly to climate change?” Republican gubernatorial challenger Bob Beauprez and sixth district incumbent Republican Congressman Mike Coffman both answered...

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