2018 legislative races
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Complaint accuses backers of independent Colo. candidates of finance violations
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A Denver election law attorney who regularly goes to bat for Democrats filed a complaint Monday alleging campaign finance violations by a group of nonprofits that are backing five unaffiliated legislative candidates in Colorado. Mark Grueskin, representing four registered Democrats from Denver and Arapahoe County, says in a 15-page complaint filed with the Secretary of…
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TRAIL MIX: Independents flex their money muscles
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The organization that rolled into Colorado last year with the goal of electing some unaffiliated candidates to the legislature had some big news recently. Unite Colorado, the state-level arm of Unite America – perhaps better known by its old name, the Centrist Project – proudly announced that the five independent House and Senate candidates it’s…
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Three legislative candidates succeed in petitioning onto primary ballot
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Three legislative candidates learned Friday that they had gathered enough signatures to qualify for Colorado’s June primary ballot, the secretary of state’s office announced – although one of them only made it by a whisker. The candidates whose petitions were deemed sufficient are Denver Democrats Julie Gonzales, running in Senate District 34, and Ed Britt, running…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, March 18 edition
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TREASURER HUNT … There are six Republicans running for state treasurer, and if current trends continue, primary voters could have nearly that many to choose from in June. Two of the candidates – Denver businessman Brian Watson and state Rep. Polly Lawrence of Roxborough Park – have turned in petitions, which are awaiting verification but…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 11 edition
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I’LL SEE YOUR BERNIE AND RAISE A JOYCE FOSTER … The battle of the bold-faced names is on in the House District 9 Democratic primary, where three-term incumbent state Rep. Paul Rosenthal is facing two candidates seeking to dislodge him from the southeast Denver seat. Less than a week had passed since Bernie Sanders –…
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Rep. Dan Thurlow challenging Sen. Ray Scott in GOP primary, flirted with unaffiliated bid
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State Rep. Dan Thurlow, a Grand Junction Republican, plans to announce Saturday he’s challenging state Sen. Ray Scott in the GOP primary, although he first considered running for the seat as an unaffiliated candidate, Colorado Politics has learned. Thurlow, who has represented House District 55 for two terms, asked supporters in an email Friday to…
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‘Pragmatic’ Republican Toren Mushovic launches bid against state Rep. Jeff Bridges in House District 3
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Describing himself as a “pragmatic decision-maker, not driven by an ideology,” Greenwood Village Republican Toren Mushovic, a health care executive, attorney and Navy veteran, announced Thursday he’s challenging state Rep. Jeff Bridges, the Democrat seeking a second term in one of the state’s most competitive seats, Arapahoe County’s House District 3. Mushovic, 40, who was…
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Unite Colorado unaffiliated candidates blast DC dysfunction, compare shutdown to failed special session
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The four unaffiliated statehouse candidates running under the Unite Colorado banner – that’s the organization that used to be known as the Centrist Project – declared a pox on both major parties’ houses after the federal government ran out of money late Friday night when Congress failed to approve spending legislation. In separate releases, all…
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Colorado Democrats already fundraising off chance Gordon Klingenschmitt could run for office again
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No sooner had word gotten out that former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt was considering mounting a political comeback than the Colorado Democrats were sounding the alarm – and passing the hat. In a fundraising email blasted out Wednesday, the director of the state Democrats’ House Majority Project warned supporters that Klingenschmitt, a Colorado Springs Republican,…
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The return of Dr. Chaps? Gordon Klingenschmitt weighs run against Tony Exum
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Former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, the Colorado Springs Republican and former Navy chaplain known as “Dr. Chaps,” said Tuesday night he’s forming an exploratory committee to weigh a bid against state Rep. Tony Exum, the Colorado Springs Democrat who holds one of the state’s swingiest of swing seats. Klingenschmitt told a group of Republican activists…
