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Hickenlooper names 32 civic and business leaders as Governor’s Fellows
The Quarterly Forum inducted 32 executives and community leaders on Friday who will make up the next class of Colorado Governor’s Fellows from across the state. The nonpartisan fellowship started in 2016 under Gov. John Hickenlooper with endorsements from former Govs. Bill Ritter and Bill Owens. The idea is to train leaders and cultivate their ideas…
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PRIMARY PREVIEW: Races for treasurer, AG play out across parties’ fault lines
The top-of-the-ticket primaries for Colorado governor have been hogging the spotlight, but Democrats and Republicans are also angling for nominations for state treasurer and attorney general. While the down-ballot primaries differ from each other in several ways, they all feature a battle between the parties’ mainstream and more hard-core versions, and strategists say the outcomes…
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LOMAX | ‘Raise the Bar’ restored as court lowers the boom on anti-biz groups
Talk about a short-lived victory. Anti-growth and single-payer healthcare activists barely had a chance to celebrate a single judge’s ruling against Amendment 71, passed overwhelmingly by voters in 2016, before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver restored the constitutional provision in full. All told, it took just over two weeks for the 10th…
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Nathan Coats to be Colorado’s next chief justice
Nathan B. Coats will be the new chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, elected by the associate justices. He’ll take the seat occupied by retiring Chief Justice Nancy Rice effective June 30. Rice announced her plans last month to step down after 31 years on the bench, 20 on the state Supreme Court. She…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, April 8 edition
STEP BY STEP … When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Donna Lynne, Colorado’s lieutenant governor and chief operating officer, announced plans to walk the entire 26-mile length of Colfax Avenue on April 8, the stratagem echoed a pair of signature campaign exploits that propelled a couple of Colorado’s most successful politicians in decades past, as well as…
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Cover Story: ‘Anybody’s ballgame’ — crowded ballots, wide-open primaries make for a wild governor’s race
DENVER – For the first time in 20 years, Colorado voters in both parties are faced this year with contested primaries for an open seat for governor. While the race to replace term-limited Gov. John Hickenlooper has been underway for more than a year and front-runners have emerged, the June primary ballot likely won’t be…
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Q&A with Dick Wadhams | The political grand master channels Walt Klein: ‘Voters have to like you before they’ll listen to you’
For once, Dick Wadhams had a wound that wasn’t inflicted by his adversaries. The legendary Republican political strategist, two-time Colorado GOP state chair, decades-long veteran of campaign combat and, when needed, bare-knuckled brawler was taking his usual walk along a lake near his house the other day when he slipped on some ice. He fell…
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Conservative website calls out Democrat Jason Crow for law firm’s lobbying history on behalf of gun interests
The conservative Washington Free Beacon on Monday pointed out that Democratic congressional candidate Jason Crow works at a high-powered law firm that has lobbied and done legal work for gun interests at the same time he’s attacked the “gun lobby” and been calling on U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman to return campaign contributions from the National…
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Floyd Ciruli and experts to examine this year’s election landscape Thursday
Veteran pollster Floyd Ciruli says Colorado’s political landscape that’s evolving, and Thursday he will moderate a panel that will tell us where it’s headed. The program, “Colorado Politics in 2018: Transition in the Age of Polarization,” is from 4 to 6 p.m., followed by a reception, in Room 1150 at the Sié Center at 2201…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 11 edition
I’LL SEE YOUR BERNIE AND RAISE A JOYCE FOSTER … The battle of the bold-faced names is on in the House District 9 Democratic primary, where three-term incumbent state Rep. Paul Rosenthal is facing two candidates seeking to dislodge him from the southeast Denver seat. Less than a week had passed since Bernie Sanders –…