Author: Jody Hope Strogoff and Ernest Luning
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Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy on the color purple
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Colorado College political science professors Thomas Cronin and Robert Loevy are so confident that Colorado is a solidly “purple” state — decidedly up for grabs despite big wins by Democrats this year and by Republicans in the last election — that they went to the mat when it came time to design their most recent…
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InnerView: Amy Stephens
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Stephens, Looper engaged in brutal battle A Statesman InnerView with the GOP candidates in Colorado Springs’ contentious HD 19 primaryWhen Democrats drew legislative reapportionment maps that threw a number of incumbent Republican lawmakers into the same districts late last year, the House District 19 primary between Majority Leader Amy Stephens, R-Monument, and state Rep. Marsha…
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InnerView: Marsha Looper
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Colorado Statesman (CS:) How are things going? Marsha Looper (ML): I believe, in spite of all of the challenges that we’ve had to deal with this year, I think the session’s going well. We’re passionate about our issues and that’s why we’re all here, is to represent the issues that are important to our district.…
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InnerView with Colorado Democratic Party chair candidates Baca, Bowen and Palacio
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All three candidates got into the race last month after Pat Waak announced she wouldn’t seek an unprecedented fourth term as party chair. Democrats pick party officers on March 5 during a biennial reorganization meeting of the party central committee at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. (That night, the party holds its annual…