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NOONAN | Does Colorado tilt toward grass roots or establishment? Primaries will tell

Jun 22, 2018

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Paula Noonan

The state attorney general and state treasurer primary races will reveal the most about the left and right forces on Democrats and Republicans. These primary races, even with independents voting, will give the sharpest snapshots of how progressive/moderate Democrat or establishment Republican/Trump Republican the parties are. State Democratic Rep. Joe Salazar, running for attorney general,…
‘Do you speak English?’: Twitter erupts after Mike Coffman tweets about DACA in Spanish

Dec 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman must have struck a nerve when he tweeted Friday that he planned to appear on a Spanish-language radio talk show to discuss legislation he supports to protect certain young immigrants from deportation. In the tweet, the Aurora Republican urged listeners to tune in – his tweet even included an emoji of…
Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette co-sponsors resolution censuring Trump over Charlottesville remarks

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is co-sponsoring a House resolution introduced Wednesday to censure President Donald Trump for his response to the weekend’s violence surrounding a rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va. “I’m co-sponsoring a resolution to censure @POTUS for defending white supremacists in #Charlottesville,” DeGette wrote in a tweet Wednesday afternoon.…
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner renews Trump criticism at town hall: ‘There is no moral equivalent to the hatred we saw’

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner kept his cool even as hundreds of constituents lost theirs time and again Tuesday afternoon at a town hall meeting in Lakewood. After more than a year without holding a traditional town hall – Gardner has held several tele-town halls and numerous roundtable discussions with small groups – the Colorado Republican…
Colorado officials, politicians react to violence surrounding white nationalist rally in Virginia

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado officials, candidates and organizations reacted with anger, derision and sadness to the violence that occurred Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists, neo-Nazis, skinheads, members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. One woman was dead and dozens injured after a car plowed…
Republican Sen. Cory Gardner demands Trump ‘lay blame on white nationalists and on hatred’

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, turned up the heat on President Donald Trump Sunday, demanding the president explicitly condemn white supremacists and white nationalists for the violence that left one dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. “This is not a time for vagaries, this isn’t a time for innuendo or…
Republican Cory Gardner reprimands Trump for Charlottesville remarks: ‘Call evil by its name’

Aug 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, called out President Donald Trump on Saturday for failing to blame white supremacists for escalating violence in Virginia that has claimed at least one life. “Mr. President – we must call evil by its name,” Gardner said in a tweet. “These were white supremacists and this was domestic…
Colorado senators Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner denounce violent white nationalist rally in Virginia

Aug 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s two U.S. senators, Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner, condemned the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, calling it “deeply disturbing” and “contrary to all we stand for as a country.” Politicians across the country and on both sides of the aisle denounced the “Unite the Right” rally, organized by a…
Polman: How false media equivalency is benefiting Trump

Sep 1, 2016

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Dick Polman

Back in early May, I predicted that the mainstream media’s “objectivity” rituals would kick in as autumn neared, “balancing” the two major candidates according to the timeworn rules of “on of the one hand, on the other hand,” thus leaving the impression that Hillary Clinton (seasoned and experienced, whatever her flaws) and Donald Trump (manifestly…
‘Alt-right’ hashtag spurs racism, rebukes during speech

Aug 26, 2016

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Associated Press

Wondering what “alt-right” means? There’s a hashtag for that – but the results might not be pretty. People in the niche conservative movement are using the hashtag #AltRightMeans not only to define the philosophy, but also to slam Muslims, immigrants in the U.S. illegally and others they see as a threat to their vision of…