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Supreme Court deals big setback to public labor unions
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor. The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that…
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Q&A with Jesse Mallory | ‘Economic liberty will be realized on the community level’
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Worried about the future of freedom? Rest assured; assorted advocacy groups on America’s political right are doing your bidding – though it’s often enough on the far-off battlefront of our nation’s capital. Americans for Prosperity is fighting the fight in the trenches alongside you – in your state, in your community, one issue after another. Hence,…
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Republican businessman Barry Farah launches 11th-hour bid for Colorado governor
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Colorado Springs businessman Barry Farah is jumping in the crowded Republican primary for governor Wednesday, barely three weeks before the GOP state assembly, saying he wants to “reform the state of Colorado’s government to have a more humble view of itself.” Farah, 56, told Colorado Politics he decided to mount a last-minute campaign for the…
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Conservative LIBRE Initiative aims ads on Dreamers at Colorado Latinos
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The LIBRE Initiative, a partner of the better-known Americans for Prosperity, has a message for Colorado Latinos: You are patriots. The organization is launching an ad blitz in 12 states, including Colorado, around immigration, border security and “certainty” for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, called the Dreamers. “With the March 5th…
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Americans for Prosperity brings conservative roadshow to the Capitol
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The conservative policy-shaper Americans for Prosperity held its annual lobby day at the Capitol Thursday with a free box lunch for members and legislators who participated in their program. No Democrats showed up to speak in the West Foyer of the state Capitol, though some joked that they liked the annual handouts from the organization…
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Income tax rate reduction bill clears Senate Finance Committee
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Senate Republicans Tuesday championed a bill on tax cuts that would spend down some of the estimated $1 billion revenue surplus expected by state economists in 2018-19. Senate President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City and his number two, Senate President Pro tem Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling, are the sponsors of Senate Bill 61, which would…
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Colorado’s road to freedom starts with reducing barriers to work, resisting urge to raise taxes
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In 2018 state lawmakers have an opportunity to make Colorado an even better place to live, and they can do it without having to raise our taxes. Legislators will be lobbied to support pet projects that favor the select few and get behind tax increases to pay for it all, but a better approach would…
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Americans for Prosperity offer ‘Road to Freedom’ to Colorado lawmakers
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You won’t find Bob Hope or Bing Crosby but Americans for Prosperity are urging Colorado lawmakers to take the “Road to Freedom,” the conservative organization’s legislative agenda. Colorado Politics scored an early review of the AFP’s positions on energy, education, transportation and the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. You can read the document by clicking here.…
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Q&A with Jeff Crank: A political playmaker who heats up the airwaves, too
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Jeff Crank is a mainstay of the political right, a linchpin in the conservative infrastructure of his hometown of choice – unflinchingly Republican Colorado Springs. Yet, his origins are 45 miles down the road in undeniably Democratic Pueblo, where he was born and raised. And to hear Crank, it is precisely Pueblo’s political tilt that…
