2022 elections
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TRAIL MIX | Before Colorado’s primary line-up is final, some candidates face courtroom battles
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Colorado’s June primary ballot is nearly set. Federal and state-level Democratic and Republican candidates seeking their party’s nomination have been chasing support from fellow partisans for months, hoping to collect enough votes from delegates to party assemblies or signatures on nominating petitions – or in some cases, both – in order to qualify for the…
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Republican Heidi Ganahl qualifies for Colorado’s gubernatorial primary ballot by petition
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Heidi Ganahl on Tuesday became the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to qualify for the June primary ballot after state election officials determined she submitted enough valid signatures on her petitions. One of a dozen Republicans seeking the nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, Ganahl was the only GOP gubernatorial candidate to submit petitions. The…
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Democrat Yadira Caraveo qualifies by petition for primary ballot in Colorado’s new 8th CD
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State Rep. Yadira Caraveo, a Thornton pediatrician, became the first Democrat on Tuesday to qualify for the party’s primary in Colorado’s newly created 8th Congressional District after election official determined she submitted more than enough signatures to make the ballot. The announcement came just hours before Caraveo was set to compete with Adams County Commissioner…
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Tina Peters, Ron Hanks to headline ‘election truth’ rally featuring Mike Lindell
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An “election truth” rally is expected to draw hundreds of people to the Colorado state Capitol today. Several of Colorado’s conservative firebrands, including Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and Rep. Ron Hanks, R-Cañon City, plan to speak at the rally organized by a prominent group with an associated militia. Sherronna Bishop, a Garfield County resident who…
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Pam Anderson qualifies for GOP primary against Tina Peters for Colorado secretary of state
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Republican secretary of state candidate Pam Anderson on Monday qualified for Colorado’s June primary ballot after election officials determined she submitted enough valid signatures on nominating petitions. Anderson, a former Jefferson County clerk and former executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, is running for the GOP nomination against Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who…
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El Paso GOP chair attacks Lamborn after he cites ‘troubling irregularities’ in assembly process
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Long-simmering tension between competing factions in the local Republican Party spilled into public view on March 31 when El Paso County GOP Chairwoman Vickie Tonkins tore into U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a combative email denouncing the Colorado Springs Republican as dishonest and corrupt after Lamborn accused Tonkins and her allies of rigging the nomination…
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National Democratic super PAC reserves $4.4 million for TV ads in Denver market
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The House Democrats’ chief political action committee is booking $4.4 million worth of TV advertising this fall in the Denver market, part of a massive early ad reservation that suggests which races the Democrats consider their midterm battlegrounds. While the House Majority PAC has yet to target individual contests, the Denver TV market covers voters…
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Adam Frisch is 2nd Democrat challenging Lauren Boebert to make primary ballot by petition
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Congressional candidate Adam Frisch, one of nine Democrats running against Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, has qualified for Colorado’s June primary ballot by submitting enough valid signatures on petitions, the Secretary of State’s Office said Thursday. The former Aspen City Council member is the second Democrat to make the primary in the Republican-leaning 3rd Congressional…
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State GOP chair Kristi Burton Brown makes good on vow to visit all 64 Colorado counties
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It took nearly a year, but Colorado Republican Kristi Burton Brown has fulfilled one of the promises she made in her campaign for state GOP chair – visit every one of the state’s 64 counties during her first year in office. Burton Brown completed the journey earlier this month with a stop in Pitkin County…
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GOP Senate candidate Deborah Flora debuts parents group to coincide with documentary release
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Deborah Flora’s campaign has launched a statewide organization of Colorado parents supporting her bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. The group’s formation coincides with the national debut of the feature-length documentary, “”Whose Children Are They?” The documentary features Flora, who calls it a “comprehensive expose of what is actually going on…
