Lakewood’s successful growth limitation ballot initiative faced $570K in opposition
Lakewood voters have decided to limit their city’s growth despite significant funding against the idea.
The opposition to ballot question 200 raised $573,686, with the largest contribution of $200,000 from the National Association of Realtors. The proponents raised $15,071, reports the Denver Post.
The housing cap limits new residential construction to 1% annually.
Lakewood’s City Council has been debating how to establish the measure since it was enacted in July. The cap will become effective in January of 2020.
Colorado Politics Calendar June 29-July 5
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Gov. Lamm’s GOP challenger gives insights into his campaign | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 days ago
Forty-five years ago this week: “I see Gov. (Richard) Lamm is fairly popular in general,” said gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Bill Hughes, R-Colorado Springs. “ … And he’ll be hard to beat.” Hughes was on a whirlwind campaign trail...
Giving credit to Polis where credit is due | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
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Updated 3 days ago
It is an understatement to suggest that Gov. Jared Polis has had a tough couple of months. The bloom was already off the rose and Coloradans were paying far more attention to the choice of his replacement than they were...
Bennet, Hickenlooper to vote against Trump’s 10th Circuit nominee from Colorado
Michael Karlik
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Updated 16 hours ago
Colorado’s two Democratic senators will not vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to a vacancy on the Denver-based federal appeals court. Trump has selected U.S. District Court Chief Judge Daniel D. Domenico, who he appointed as a federal trial...
Who’s spending in Colorado to get your vote?
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 minutes ago
Groups that raise unlimited amounts of money have spent about $20 million in May and June to try and influence Colorado voters’ choices in the upcoming June 30 primaries. By law, these groups cannot coordinate with the candidates they support....
U.S. government declines to oppose multiple challenges to immigration detention in Colorado
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 15 hours ago
Multiple federal judges in Colorado granted petitions from people challenging the lawfulness of their immigration detention this week after the government took the unusual step of declining to submit arguments in opposition. Colorado’s federal trial court is facing a flood of...
Tina Peters tells supporters to ‘stand up and fight back’ at Castle Rock event
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 15 hours ago
Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk recently released from prison, warned supporters that what happened to her could happen to them, too, if they did not “stand up and fight back” at an event at the Douglas County Fairgrounds....
Iran strikes cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz, endangering Trump’s peace
Christian Datoc
christian-datoc@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 21 hours ago
Iran attacked a cargo ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, possibly upending President Donald Trump‘s diplomatic end to the war with Iran. A U.S. official confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “struck...
Senate GOP tries to mend fences with Trump after heated lunch
David Sivak
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Updated 19 hours ago
Senate Republicans are trying to turn the page on a heated lunch with President Donald Trump that brought weeks of tensions to a new high-water mark. In a symbolic gesture, Senate Republicans took another vote on the Iran war Wednesday...
Colorado justices discuss solution to confusion from prior criminal ruling
Michael Karlik
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Updated 13 hours ago
The Colorado Supreme Court pondered the fallout on Tuesday from its nearly six-year-old decision interpreting the state’s impaired driving laws, with the justices now addressing how defendants affected by the legal change must seek postconviction relief. In contrast to other...
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders won’t endorse former Gov. John Hickenlooper or any other candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Colorado Republican Cory Gardner, Sanders told a Colorado media outlet Friday. Sanders spoke with The Denver Post before his planned campaign stop Monday at Denver’s Civic Center. “I will do whatever I can to make […]
Colorado joins investigation into possible Facebook anti-trust violations
Colorado’s attorney general will help investigate whether a popular social media site endangered consumer data. “Colorado is on the leadership team of a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a Friday news release. “This investigation is focused on whether Facebook has engaged in anticompetitive […]