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Senate President Kevin Grantham calls for DA investigation in sexual harassment

Mar 1, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Senate President Kevin Grantham is calling on the Denver District Attorney’s Office to launch a criminal investigation into any sexual harassment charges that rise to the level of sexual assault. Grantham was flanked by Republican women in the West Foyer of the Capitol, as legislative Republicans and Democrats were meeting elsewhere in the Capitol…
Human Trafficking Legislative Day brings out stories of solutions and survival

Feb 15, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Kelly Dore is a survivor of familial human trafficking. She was a victim for 14 years, and then found her way out. Two years later, she testified against her abuser. Dore, a former Elbert County commissioner, is now executive director of National Human Trafficking Survivor Coalition and was one of several survivors of human trafficking to…
Denver DA will hand off any case regarding Colorado state Rep. Saine to special prosecutor in Boulder County

Dec 12, 2017

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Jessica Machetta

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann will hand off any case against Colorado state Rep. Lori Saine, who allegedly carried a loaded firearm into Denver International Airport last week, to a special prosecutor in Boulder County, according to an email sent from her office Tuesday to Colorado Politics. McCann’s office says it requested that the 20th…
#Retweet: The best tweets of the week in Colorado Politics

Oct 14, 2017

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Joey Bunch
Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell distributes campaign ‘newspaper’ to Colorado voters

Aug 17, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell is distributing a newspaper about his campaign this week, part of what a campaign spokesman describes as a multi-pronged approach to getting the Castle Rock entrepreneur and former state lawmaker in front of Colorado voters. Mitchell’s campaign printed “tens of thousands” of copies of the 16-page, tabloid-style publication, delivering them…
McCann: Sessions’ federal sentencing directive ‘disturbing’

May 31, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann, Breckenridge District Attorney Bruce Brown and Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett are among close to 30 current and former local and state prosecutors to oppose a recent directive from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that instructs federal prosecutors to charge, pursue and seek the longest possible sentences for the “most…
McCann cancels tour of crime lab for Denver Democrats’ fundraising group

May 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann on Monday cancelled a tour of the Denver Police Crime Lab scheduled later this week for members of a fundraising group tied to the Denver Democratic Party after a conservative organization raised a fuss. Kelly Maher, executive director of Compass Colorado, sounded the alarm in a release Monday over an…
McCann creates juvenile prosecution unit

Mar 1, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has announced the creation of a separate juvenile prosecutions unit within the district attorney’s office. Effective Wednesday, March 1, the Juvenile and Drug Courts Unit will be reorganized to establish a separate juvenile unit, led by its own chief deputy and specially selected deputies. The drug court unit will continue…
Denver Democrats stoke enthusiasm, lay groundwork for ‘the resistance’

Feb 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

It’s a quote attributed to Pericles, and it resonated in the halls at Denver’s South High School on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 11: “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Three months after Democrats were stunned by the results of the presidential election…
In battle pitting religious freedom against discrimination, a small surprise victory

Jan 30, 2017

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John Tomasic

Colorado House Republicans pitched a religious liberty bill last Wednesday to the Democratic-controlled State Affairs committee. It was the same kind of bill that has stirred hornets nest-like national protests in other states for fear that religious liberty might translate on the ground as discrimination. Republicans knew the bill, HB 1013, would die in committee,…