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Libertarian candidate Williams qualifies for Club 20’s U.S. Senate debate
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Colorado Libertarian candidate Lily Tang Williams will share the stage at the first U.S. Senate debate on Saturday in Grand Junction between Michael Bennet, the incumbent Democrat, and El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, his Republican challenger. It’ll be the first time in memory that a third-party or independent candidate has appeared at a debate sponsored…
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Green Party appealing to growing number of Colorado voters
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A social justice advocate and self-proclaimed radical, Arn Menconi said he spent 20 years working within the political system, trying to affect change through the Democratic Party, serving locally as an Eagle County Commissioner for eight years and campaigning for numerous party candidates, among them Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. But after watching Democrats like Bennet…
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Politicians, business owners debate: Is Initiative 101 friend or foe of franchise model?
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Robert Cresanti, president and CEO of the International Franchise Association, calls the nationwide push for mandated minimum wages such as Colorado’s Initiative 101 an existential threat to the uniquely American and highly successful business model of franchising. “There’s the extremely corrosive, challenging and destructive business environment stuff, which falls into the $15 minimum wage [movement],…
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The Hot Sheet, August 22, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 157 | AUGUST 22, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning and Happy Back-To-School Monday! Hopefully your smaller versions of self (if you have them) are off to a great start today. The weekend had lots of small tweak-type developments on Colorado’s political path to enlightenment…
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The Hot Sheet, August 4, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 145 | AUGUST 04, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Another dawn, a new Hot Sheet prepared just for you. If you’re reading this, you made it through to a new day, presumably healthy and happy. If, however, you are reading this from a hospital…
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Western Slope Dems look down ballot in post-Bernie world
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With the official nomination of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, longtime Democrats and progressive political activists on Colorado’s Western Slope are grappling with the impacts on down-ballot races in a post-Bernie Sanders world. Some candidates and party officials are predicting a Democratic exodus of disaffected Bernie backers to the Green Party, while…
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The Hot Sheet, August 1, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 142 | AUGUST 01, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning and welcome back to real life … if you ever, in fact, left it for the weekend. Some of us don’t take such leisures. Today is Colorado Day, the anniversary of President…
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Poll: Gary Johnson leads Trump among Colorado independents
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Democrat Hillary Clinton is sitting on a 10-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in a head-to-head race for swing-state Colorado’s nine electoral votes, according to a poll of registered voters conducted this week by Fox News. The same poll shows Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet beating Republican challenger Darryl Glenn by 15 points. In perhaps…
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Bennet, Clinton hold wide leads in new Colorado poll
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Democratic candidates U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hold identical 13-point leads over their Republican opponents in Colorado, according to a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. It’s the second poll in as many days to show top-ticket Republicans trailing in the swing state, although the margins were closer in the…
