2018 governor’s race
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Insights: Jared Polis’ wonky answer on cost of renewables begins to roar
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He has to dumb it down. Jared Polis promises if he’s elected governor Colorado will get all its power from renewable sources by 2040, a future my affection for fried foods suggests I will not see. Voters might have the same problem, chicken wings aside: This wind-and-solar future is lost in a smog of vague…
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Cynthia Coffman (still) doesn’t have much to say about abortion
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Cynthia Coffman – nor her staff – want to talk about abortion. Three months into her run for governor, Colorado’s Republican attorney general still isn’t clarifying where she stands on the divisive issue that’s a pretty big deal to a lot of bedrock conservatives in Colorado – at least some of whom she would need…
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CIRULI: Tancredo hits the paywall — and shakes up both parties
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Once again, the Republican establishment said “no” and Tom Tancredo surrendered to the reality of having no source of funding for his third campaign for governor. Tancredo’s decision to run always lacked believability beyond a primary challenge. It appeared mostly as a revenge tour for being denied the gubernatorial nomination in 2014. But, his withdrawal…
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Longshot congressional candidate Casper Stockham endorses longshot for governor
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Republican Casper Stockham wasn’t deterred from running for Congress this year by the fact he got less than 28 percent against Democratic incumbent Diana DeGette in 2016. The long odds that former Parker Mayor Greg Lopez faces in becoming governor, then, didn’t stop Stockham from throwing his endorsement to Lopez Tuesday. He said Lopez is…
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Libertarian candidate for Colorado governor Scott Helker has eye on future races
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Scott HelkerParty: LibertarianHometown: GoldenAge: 62Occupation: lawyerPolitical experience: Former Republican and bipartisan campaign volunteer, including for U.S. Rep. Ed PerlmutterFamily: Wife, Lisa; daughter, Eleanor This is a weekly series of personal interviews Colorado Politics is doing on all the candidates, so we can learn who they are as people before we tear into their political positions.…
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GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell calls out Hickenlooper on Amazon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6JgbcaaOD0 Victor Mitchell’s new digital ad campaign doesn’t go after his Republican primary opponents, or even the best-known Democrats, Jared Polis, Mike Johnston, Cary Kennedy or Donna Lynne. Instead the entrepreneur and former legislator from Douglas County takes aim at Gov. Hickenlooper and the tax breaks being offered to lure the Amazon HQ2 project to…
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Walker Stapleton set to break Colorado quarterly fundraising record for governor’s race
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Walker Stapleton is set to break a Colorado fundraising record for his first full quarter in the governor’s race, Colorado Politics has learned. We were the first to report it when Stapleton entered the race in September. Reports for the last quarter of 2017 are due to the Secretary of States’ office a week from…
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Plastics and career development entrepreneur Noel Ginsburg, a Democratic candidate for governor, has a dream
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When Noel Ginsburg was 5 years old, he began spending time working the manufacturing line at his father’s pickle business in Arvada and says he fell in love with it. By the time he was in college at the University of Denver in the late 1970s, his father had sold the business he’d thought might…
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Cynthia Coffman appeals to disappointed Hillary Clinton voters in New York Times column
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Sometimes you have to see your reflection, Colorado, to know what you look like. That was the case in the New York Times Sunday Review when op-ed columnist Frank Bruni reflected on the state of our political landscape. The piece, titled “The State Where Everyone Wants to be Governor,” is an interesting read for Mile…
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Erik Underwood sees issues in the Colorado governor’s race beyond left and right
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Erik UnderwoodParty: moderate DemocratAge: 38Occupation: digital technology entrepreneurFamily: SinglePolitical experience: Ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 as a Republican This is a weekly feature to profile the candidates for governor as people, before we dig deeper into their politics as the race heats up. Erik Underwood is a candidate for governor who has seen…