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The Colorado Republican Party on Thursday named Denver County GOP Vice-Chairman Ryan Call as the state party's new political director and in-house legal counsel, ColoradoPols is reporting.

Call, who is also the state's party current deputy legal counsel, will be responsible for supporting county parties and statewide campaigns, coordinating the party's legal strategy and Election Day poll-watching operations, and handle the day-to-day legal business of the party, the state GOP said in a release.  

Call will start work at his new positions July 15; he will take a leave of absence from the Denver law firm of Zakhem Atherton LLC.

In today's Inside Edge, we take a look at Colorado's 11th Governor, who was both a Confederate solider and a Democrat. He was also another proppnent of bi-metallism. Wow! 

Retired GOP warhorse (or is that Democrat warhorse) is coming out of retirement from the US Senate to lobby for Native Hawaiian rights. Patton Boggs has retained Ben Nighthorse Campbell to lobby Republicans in the Senate on behalf of the Akaka Bill.

You know its Friday because you get the latest comments, emails and threats from Wally's World. In this supersized edition of Feedback, we talk about polls and endorsements. But we promise that because of the use chemical sweeteners in this column, it won't affect your weight loss plan. So read all you want! It's the weekend.     

Surprise! The Supreme Court picks some winners this week. We just hope they clean under the bench regularly. Wally anoints some whinners of the week too.  So check in with Wally Edge for Weekly Winners & Losers: it's your patriotic duty this whole week long.

The Colorado Democratic Party is strongly downplaying media reports Thursday that the decision by Barack Obama's presidential campaign not to join the state's Democratic Coordinated Campaign may lead to future problems between the Obama camp and the state party.

Democrats in Colorado are feeling increasingly confident that they can win and it's showing in the money commitment the national party is making here.

In today's Inside Edge, Wally takes up the, biased, slanted coverage of the Democratic National Convention held in Denver 100 years ago. Yes, Wally even has opinions on that.  

The Colorado Democratic Party just announced three ways to win two tickets for a visit to CDP Chair Pat Waak's Hospitality Suite at the Grand Hyatt during the Democratic National Convention.

In today's Inside Edge, Wally takes a look at some hypothetical political match-ups. Warning: we won't responsible for the nightmares you have after reading this column.