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Republican Tom Tancredo at Capitol to talk PERA, prepare for Hickenlooper-Tancredo transition
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Republican Tom Tancredo, the former congressman running for governor of Colorado, spent Thursday morning at the state Capitol to hear Gov. John Hickenlooper’s final State of the State address and offer his thoughts on where the state is headed. “Let’s be realistic about this,” Tancredo told Colorado Politics before Hickenlooper, who is term-limited, delivered the…
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Colorado Republicans tell national conservatives that school choice is working
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Republican elected officials from Colorado welcomed conservative leaders from around the country Thursday, arguing that the Centennial State makes the case for school choice efforts. Speaking at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting in Denver on was state Treasurer Walker Stapleton, who is considering a run for governor, and state Rep. Owen Hill, R-Colorado…
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Zinke to speak at Western Conservative Summit, after private appearance at ALEC
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The Trump administration is coming through, after all, at the Western Conservative Summit this weekend in Denver, and in a huge way. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will speak at the mega-gathering of the country’s top conservatives at the Colorado Convention Center Friday. On Monday Jeff Hunt, the director of the Centennial Institute, which puts on…
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman says ALEC is ‘extremely valuable’
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Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman hates traffic. At least that’s what she told an audience at the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council meeting in Denver on Wednesday. Coffman, who is considering a run for governor, was feeling “disheveled” after spending nearly an hour trying to get into the downtown Denver hotel where the meeting was…
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ALEC puts Colorado label on business-friendly policies for lawmakers
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The American Legislative Exchange Council kicks off its three-day annual gathering in Denver Wednesday to tilt state legislators from across the country toward the industry-friendly principles of free markets and limited government. Moreover, the business-supported nonprofit best known by its acronym, ALEC, helps them draft pro-business legislation to fight a ground war of sorts in…
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Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos will encounter ‘Resistance’ in Denver
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To (very) loosely paraphrase von Clausewitz in advance of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos’s anticipated visit to Denver next week: Just about everything nowadays is the continuation of politics by other means. At least, as far as “The Resistance” to the Trump administration is concerned. OK, so the von Clausewitz reference was a bit clunky,…
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More headliners on the way for ALEC’s Denver gathering
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The Trump administration’s Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke will join the speakers’ dais in Denver at next week’s annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council. The event already features Jim DeMint, Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Pete Coors, Guy Benson and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.…
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Common Cause — no friend of ALEC’s — will host a ‘teach-in’ on the conservative group
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As noted here last week, Denver will host this year’s annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council. Better known in political circles as simply ALEC, the national conservative, pro-free market group has been an advocate of limited government and a resource for model legislation to state legislators in Colorado and around the country for 44 years.…
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ALEC will reel in the political right at its annual meeting in Denver
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Lawmakers who lean right – and hope to reinvent government accordingly – have had a friend named ALEC for 44 years. The conservative, pro-free market American Legislative Exchange Council has been an advocate of limited government and a resource for model legislation to generations of (mostly Republican) state legislators in Colorado and across the country.…
