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Recall drive against San Luis Valley District Attorney submits enough signatures, officials say
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday announced enough signatures had been turned in to start a recall election against District Attorney Alonzo Payne of the 12th Judicial District, which covers Colorado’s six-county San Luis Valley region. Payne was first elected to the office in 2020. His tenure has been marred by accusations that…
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Alamosa City Council approves funding for recall of controversial San Luis Valley district attorney
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After listening to an hour of public comment regarding their controversial district attorney, including testimony from the police chief and city manager, the Alamosa City Council voted 4-1 to use taxpayer dollars in an effort to recall him. Alonzo Payne took office in 2021 and has three years left on his term, but a recall…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
