Wow! Judge: “If a store’s windows must be broken to prevent a protestor’s facial bones from being broken or eye being permanently damaged, that is more than a fair trade. If a building must be graffiti-ed to prevent the suppression of free speech, that is a fair trade.”
NEW: Federal judge issues a restraining order blocking
@DenverPolice
from using "chemical weapons or projectiles of any kind against persons engaging in peaceful protests or demonstrations."
#9NEWS
Here are the 10 King Soopers victims:
Denny Stong, 20
Neven Stanisic, 23
Rikki Olds, 25
Tralona Bartkowiak, 49
Teri Leiker, 51
Officer Eric Talley, 51
Suzanne Fountain, 59
Kevin Mahoney, 61
Lynn Murray, 62
Jody Waters, 65
We'll tell their stories as their families allow.
WOW! This is terrifying! Just got this video from the view of a car going eastbound on I-70 yesterday around 5 p.m. Thankfully, no cars were buried. No one was hurt.
#cowx
Presenting Pippa Helene Zelinger. Born Friday night after an incredible 42-hour labor by her mom!? That is not a typo!
Named after her great-grandfather, whose nickname was "Pip."
We are already taking way too many Piptures and are in love with her little Pippa squeaks. 👶🏼❤️
🚨 THE LAST POLITICAL AD HAS AIRED ON 9NEWS. I REPEAT, THE LAST POLITICAL AD HAS AIRED ON 9NEWS.🚨
Metro area lawyers are back in full rotation.
#copolitics
NEW VIDEO: When
@MayorHancock
went to DIA yesterday to fly out for Thanksgiving, he wasn't hiding out. Security video shows him sitting in Concourse C for 16 minutes before boarding his flight. He was also sitting at 8:43a, when his account tweeted to "Avoid travel, if you can."
With so many people freaking out about In-N-Out opening in Aurora and Colorado Springs tomorrow, just remember that restaurants in 15 counties have to close their dining rooms tomorrow. Support the Double-Double, but don't forget the restaurants that have always been here.
I'm coming home! I am ditching my tie clip 👓 for a glasses onesie. I'm now on paternity leave for the rest of the year. I may dabble here while she's sleeping. Otherwise, see you here next year. If there's a here to see you.
More from the judge: “Citizens should never have to fear peaceful protest on the basis of police retaliation, especially not when protesting that very same police violence.”
Daddy daughter duties. Unpopular opinion. I love grocery shopping. It's relaxing to me. I love it even more when I can combine it with daddy-daughter time and the eventual 30-min chest nap.
"If Jared Polis beats Heidi Ganahl in Douglas County, I will take you to the Castle Rock Outlets and buy you a new suit."-
@KyleClark
#copolitics
#drip
During the early hours of our election coverage, I brought up that
@GovofCO
was leading
@heidiganahl
in her home county. The margin is shrinking, but I've got my eyes on a new suit c/o
@KyleClark
.
#copolitics
CONGRATULATIONS! WE'RE ALL WINNERS! NO MORE POLITICAL ADS! Our last political ad aired on
@9NEWS
at 10:38 a.m. Welcome back Frank Azar and Jake Jabs!
#copolitics
BREAKING: Colorado Supreme Court rules 2013 large-capacity magazine ban is Constitutional. Colorado law prohibits sale and transfer of gun magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition. This ruling ends the 7-year challenge by
@RMGunOwners
.
#copolitics
#9News
BREAKING: Multiple sources, inclulding family members of victims, tell me that
@GovofCO
to announce he's granting clemency to I-70 driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos. They tell me the 110-year sentence to be reduced to 10.
#9News
At least one good thing happened at Mile High this weekend. The use of her dream car was temporary, the question I asked Janna was forever.
#JZandFianc
é
There’s so much more in this federal judge’s order preventing Denver Police from using chemical weapons on protesters, like the part that ends “the Denver Police Depart has failed in its duty to police its own.”
Flashback Nov. 2014. All mail-in voting:
Cory Gardner wins Senate
Wayne Williams wins Secretary of State
Walker Stapleton wins Treasurer
Cynthia Coffman wins Attorney General
Republicans win 4 of 7 Congressional seats
State Senate = Red
Your problem isn't all mail-in voting.
I've raced for 15 years. I haven't raced since Feb. 2020. It's the last weekend for me to race at age 40. I found a 5k at Wash Park. Hoped for an age group top 3 finish. I didn't get it.
Because I won. 😲 Granted, my usual speedy competition wasn't there, but I don't care!
This is an observation, not a political statement.
@GovofCO
is (and has been) calm, detailed and patient with reporter questions. Questions that come from viewers/readers, delivered by reporters. Night & day compared to the news conference that aired just before this.
#copolitics
I've covered:
Platte Canyon HS 2006
New Life Church 2007
Deer Creek MS 2010
Aurora Theater 2012
Sandy Hook 2012
Arapahoe HS 2013
Planned Parenthood 2015
Dallas PD 2016
Thornton Walmart 2017
STEM School 2019
King Soopers 2021
This isn't the "new normal" because it's not new.
Where was your law enforcement officer on Jan 6?
@RepJasonCrow
has asked 6 police departments and 3 sheriff’s offices in his Colorado Congressional District to check and see if any employee participated in the insurrection in D.C.
#copolitics
If you're going to require a mask, why wait on the start date? Walmart/Sam's Club announce a mask mandate starting Monday. King Soopers (Kroger) starts one week from today. Why the lag time? You think customers need time to process and figure out where to find this rare object?
I did a quick search of Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley. Here is a 2013 Daily Camera story of the officer helping to rescue a family of ducks from a drainage ditch. He was killed today trying to rescue grocery shoppers from an active shooter.
Does
@RepJasonCrow
think
@RepBoebert
should be expelled from Congress?
"Her actions are disgraceful...It is possible that I want her to leave Congress. I don't think that there's a place for people of her immorality and depravity to be in the United States Congress."
#copolitics
The birth of my daughter and the Jewish Holidays have allowed me to be off for most of the last month. I'll be back to work nonstop (except weekends) until the week of Thanksgiving, when I'll be taking the rest of the year off with my paternity leave.
I hear there's an election.
BREAKING: Colorado moving to Phase 2 on FRIDAY. That means the general public will be eligible to be vaccinated starting April 2. Multiple sources confirm this will be the big news from Governor Jared Polis' 10:30a news conference.
#copolitics
I go to synagogue and don’t shoot people. I send items in the mail that don’t have bombs inside them. I report news based on truth and countless hours of research. And when I make a mistake, I correct it. Publicly. I am not the enemy.
There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame...
Now that Russell Wilson will be moving to Colorado, I want to let him in on some of the differences between Denver and Seattle. Hope you find this helpful
@DangeRussWilson
.
If every race holds in the State Senate and State House, here is the Colorado Balance of Power map for next year. 😲
Republicans felt like they had a great chance to get to 18 seats for control of the State Senate.
#copolitics
#coleg
The towns of Superior and Lousiville are on evacuation orders because of wildfires. This is just east of Boulder. The fires are so close to suburban neighborhoods. It is Dec. 30. This is not normal!
I was going to write something cute, but instead I'll keep it simple.
There was a time when I was worried if I could keep him alive one week. Today, Kosher is 17 freakin' years old!
Based on temporary restraining order, Denver Police can’t use chemical weapons/projectiles unless on-scene supervisor (Capt or above) authorizes such use of force in response to specific acts of violence or destruction of property that the command officer personally witnessed.
Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters appears to be testing a judge who gave her a second chance at avoiding jail following an apparent bond violation.
She sent a 2:44 a.m. email to Mesa County's election director, which may be a violation of her bond.
#copolitics
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Thank you to Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen for inevitably getting the NFL to change its OT rules. It's a shame we're cheated out of the rest of this game.
If you have video or audio or a quote from an important person saying something that you think we should all know, please let us know when it's said and not save it for when your book comes out.
The headliner is now at the mic. Mike Lindell spent about 20 minutes answering media questions (and fillibustering). He admitted to possibly giving Tina Peters more money than elected leaders are ethically allowed, then got served with a lawsuit.
#copolitics
Some professional news. I'm the new
@9NEWS
political reporter! I always admired & emulated Adam Schrager, who held this role before
@BrandonRittiman
took it over only to win every political reporting award multiple times! No pressure, right?
#copolitics
Matt Crane, County Clerks Assoc. Director tells me the GOP Secretary of State primary recount is done.
Pam Anderson gained 7 votes.
Tina Peters gained 4 votes.
Peters paid $255k to find out she lost by 88,581 instead of 88,578.
(First reported by
@BySajaHindi
)
#copolitics
Starting tomorrow,
@Safeway
in Colorado (and other nearby states) will open TUESDAYS/THURSDAYS from 7a-9a for "senior citizens and other at-risk populations, such as pregnant women or those with compromised immune systems."
During the early hours of our election coverage, I brought up that
@GovofCO
was leading
@heidiganahl
in her home county. The margin is shrinking, but I've got my eyes on a new suit c/o
@KyleClark
.
#copolitics
This is one my favorite stories in quite some time.
You can search for miles looking for a lost item on a mountain. Or...you can let Miles search for you.
If he finds your expensive iPhone, give him more than $3.
Just talked with one of the attorneys repping former DougCo Schools Superintendent Corey Wise. They have filed an extensive open records request with the district, seeking communications from school board members from before the Nov. election through yesterday.
#copolitics
As of this morning, voter turnout in Colorado was 66%.
Just think what more participation would have meant for the close CD3, CD8 and State House and State Senate races.
Remember my mantra. You can't complain, if you don't vote.
#copolitcs
#coleg
It's official. Beginning Friday in Denver, masks/proof of vaccination are no longer required at businesses as part of a public health order.
Individual businesses are free to keep these requirements as a business decision.
On west steps of Colorado State Capitol,
@leslieherod
announces new legislation to “strip immunity” from law enforcement for “killing us” and prevent officers from transferring to another department after being fired.
#copolitics
#9News
Mike Lindell tells me he has personally contributed $800,000 to the legal defense of Tina Peters. He also said he just met her when he flew her to his symposium last year. State ethics laws limit gifts to elected leaders to ~$65 unless you're close friend/family.
#copolitics
The Colorado Sun will shine bright. Fish's reporting is factual & accurate. Her data work is based on filings submitted by the subjects she reports on.
At the CD4 assembly Friday, several campaigners warned that GOP leadership would kick me out if I showed up today.
#copolitics
At
@cologop
state assembly in Pueblo just now,
@ColoradoSun
reporter Sandra Fish
@fishnette
. ejected from arena by sheriff’s deputy after party’s event manager said GOP chairman “believes current reporting to be very unfair”
#copolitics
When I pace, I feel weird taking the medal. It just doesn't feel like I earned it. Maybe because I'm not giving it my full effort. Pacing today was just the second time I've lined up for a race in the last year-and-a-half. Damn straight I earned that medal.
So...CNN cut to Oprah campaigning for GA gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and then when it was time for Abrams to start talking, they dump out. What are we covering here in the first place?
After using the term “grandfathered” to explain exemptions in Colorado law, a viewer encouraged me to take a deeper look into the term as it relates to equity and social justice.
So I did.
And I will no longer be using the term.
#HeyNext
I just hit 20,000 followers today.
I couldn’t have done it without the hundreds of recent follows from accounts created in the last few months with no tweets. Thank you very real people!
Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup Champions parade will be THURSDAY at 10a.
Starting at Union Station, straight down 17th to Broadway, ending at Civic Center Park.
The party at Civic Center Park starts at 9a.
#GoAvsGo
NEW: Lawsuit to bar unaffiliated voters from participating in Colorado primaries (which voters approved in 2016) has been dismissed. Unaffiliated voters can still participate. As a reminder, the party primary you vote in becomes a public record.
#copolitics
We're tracking information that Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was detained at a bagel shop in Grand Junction.
Despite other tweets that imply this is election-related, based on our sources so far, it is not.
#copolitics
NOW: Colorado State Rep. Dave Williams CANNOT use "Let's Go Brandon" as a nickname on the Republican primary ballot for Congressional District 5.
Judge rules
@RepDaveWilliams
proved proper use of nickname, but
@COSecofState
used proper authority to disallow it.
#copolitics
I just stopped by the church to ask the Pastor if the church supports the message to hang
@JenaGriswold
. I also asked if he would have FEC United back. He said he was against a grant deadline, wanted to sit down and talk later and it’s not as simple as yes or no.
#copolitics
Last night, elected Republicans were on stage at a church where one speaker called for the hanging of
@JenaGriswold
and another speaker has urged the execution of
@GovofCO
. This seems newsworthy but we shall see. Ignoring radicalization does not make it go away.
#copolitics
NEW: Tina Peters campaign finance report shows she raised $519K AFTER losing her Republican primary for Secretary of State by 88,000 votes. She paid $255K for a recount happening now.
Peters raised $215K BEFORE she lost.
She raised ~2.5X as much AFTER she lost?!
#copolitics
Do you like the music your parents listened to? I haven't missed a Colorado
@davematthewsbnd
concert since college. It turns out tonight's Fiddler's concert is streamed on XM. So I'll be listening with Pippa since she's too young to tell me to turn off The Oldies.
As an Aurora native, I often found myself saying: "Suburb next to Denver" or "No, Wayne's World was Aurora, Illinois." That stopped on July 20, 2012.
I never met these 12, but I know their life stories. I've met their families. Remember them today.