5th congressional district

Lamborn primary challenger Bill Rhea calls on Trump to resign over vulgar immigration remarks

Jan 17, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Bill Rhea, one of three Republicans challenging six-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a primary, on Tuesday called on President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of an ongoing furor ignited by Trump’s use of the term “shithole” to describe African countries during an Oval Office discussion about U.S. immigration policy. “I am…
Republican congressional candidate Owen Hill to accept campaign contributions in bitcoin

Jan 4, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Republican congressional candidate Owen Hill is accepting campaign contributions in bitcoin – to encourage participation in his race by the widest possible audience, the Colorado Springs state senator said Wednesday. Starting this week, donors to Hill, challenging U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a crowded GOP primary, can send money his way using a check, credit…
Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Strand abandons primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn

Dec 23, 2017

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Conrad Swanson

Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Strand is ending his bid to unseat incumbent Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn before it began. “The pieces for ’18 just didn’t roll together. … It seemed like I was trying to put a square peg in a round hole to make this happen,” Strand said Friday of his decision not…
El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton endorses fellow Republican Chance Hill for CU regent seat

Nov 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton is the latest official to endorse Chance Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican and the lone candidate in next year’s election for the University of Colorado Board of Regents seat from the 5th Congressional District. Littleton, a former elected member of Colorado’s State Board of Education, said she was impressed that…
‘You are the swamp’: Conservative leaders demand Mitch McConnell step aside, cite failure to support Darryl Glenn

Oct 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A group of nationally prominent conservative organizers on Wednesday called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senate leaders to resign, charging they’ve failed to pass any substantive legislation even as the GOP controls every branch of government. “Republicans were given full control of the federal government,” the leading conservatives wrote in a…
Retired Texas judge, former missionary Bill Rhea launches ‘centrist Republican’ challenge to Doug Lamborn

Oct 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Calling himself a “distinctly centrist Republican,” retired Texas judge Bill Rhea on Tuesday jumped in the crowded GOP primary for the 5th Congressional District seat held by five-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn. Rhea plans to focus his campaign on what he terms “a needed renewal of the core values of the Republican Party,” as…
Commissioner Stan VanderWerf endorses Republican Chance Hill in CU regent’s race

Sep 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Republican Chance Hill announced Tuesday that he’s won the endorsement of El Paso County Commissioner Stan VanderWerf for University of Colorado regent in the 5th Congressional District. Hill, an employment law attorney and political newcomer, is the lone declared candidate for the seat in next year’s election, when incumbent Kyle Hybl, who has also endorsed…
Buoyed by 2016 senate bid that fell short, Darryl Glenn back in the running

Sep 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Congressional candidate Darryl Glenn likes to tell a story about a woman he met at a farmer’s market earlier this summer. “She was an older black lady, independent,” he says. “I stopped by and introduced myself, and she was like, ‘You’re a – Republican?’” He scowled like he was sniffing a carton of milk…
Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Strand juggling obligations to run for Congress

Aug 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Tom Strand isn’t planning on giving up his seat on the Colorado Springs City Council to run for Congress against Republican Doug Lamborn, the entrenched 5th Congressional District incumbent up for election next year. Strand said his obligations to the council – he was elected as an at-large member in 2015, and as chairman of…
Colorado Springs Councilman Tom Strand says he plans to mount GOP run in 5th Congressional District

Aug 24, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Strand plans to enter the crowded Republican primary for the 5th Congressional District seat held by five-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, he told Colorado Politics Thursday. The retired Air Force colonel and former member of the Colorado Springs School District 11 board said he’s been considering a run for…