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Conservative provocateur Jonathan Lockwood launches communication shop
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Conservative operative Jonathan Lockwood, whose advocacy work in Colorado was once labeled “flat-out deranged” by The Denver Post editorial board, launched his own political communications firm this week after a boisterous year as spokesman for the Oregon Senate Republicans. Lockwood said he wants Jonathan Lockwood & Associates to “help people tell their stories, and ignite…
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Conservative communications maven Jonathan Lockwood shakes up Oregon statehouse with pugnacious approach
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After cutting a provocative path though Colorado’s political scene for half a decade, conservative spinmeister Jonathan Lockwood pulled up stakes and decamped for a strange land with strange customs, a place unaccustomed to his rapid-fire, unrelenting attacks on liberals and his take-no-prisoners approach to making a point – a place called Oregon. Unlike swing-state Colorado,…
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Kerns: Is ColoradoCare a magic pill or prescription for disaster?
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Just as Coloradans became accustomed to the idea of the Affordable Care Act, along came a ballot measure to replace the state’s health care exchange with a model similar to Canada’s universal health care system. Amendment 69 is a ballot initiative that promises to deliver on big goals of health coverage for all at a…
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The Hot Sheet, March 23, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 49 | MARCH 23, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Good morning, and a happy Snowpocalypse Wednesday to those of you in the Denver metro area and happy snow day to the Colorado state House and Senate. “Whimps” says veteran state Capitol…
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In meetings with rural groups, lawmakers defend stands on hot-button hospital fee makeover
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Rural advocacy groups representing 59 of the 64 counties in Colorado joined forces at the Capitol Thursday to press legislators on their biggest issues. Group members said they desperately need funding to shore up failing rural transportation, education, healthcare and communication systems. As a result, much of the conversation Thursday centered on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s…
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Group looks to turn up heat on Crowder, any other would-be ‘constitutional arsonist’
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The rolling skirmish over a plan to rework the state’s hospital provider fee at the Legislature is intensifying, even in the absence of any legislation for the opposing parties to wrangle over. Conservative advocacy group Advancing Colorado unleashed a broadside Wednesday against state Sen. Larry Crowder, R-Alamosa, who has signaled he may be open to…
