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Recall drive against San Luis Valley District Attorney submits enough signatures, officials say
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
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
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…