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State Rep. Polly Lawrence, a Republican candidate for state treasurer, submits nominating petitions
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State Rep. Polly Lawrence, a Douglas County Republican running for Colorado state treasurer, turned in nearly 20,000 petition signatures Monday to secure a spot on the June primary ballot, her campaign said. “Each of the signatures and the people behind them, willing to put their name literally on the line, means so much to me,”…
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Republican Brian Watson first to turn in nominating petitions for state treasurer’s race
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Republican Brian Watson, a candidate for Colorado state treasurer, on Monday turned in petition signatures to the secretary of state’s office in hopes of securing a spot on the June primary ballot. The real estate CEO is one of six Republicans running for the office held by term-limited Walker Stapleton, a GOP candidate for governor.…
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Republican Justin Everett tops straw poll at Colorado Christian University state treasurer forum
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Republican state Rep. Justin Everett handily won a straw poll conducted Monday night after a bipartisan forum for state treasurer candidates at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood. The three-term lawmaker from Littleton, nicknamed “Justin Neverett” and “Dr. No” for his penchant to vote against legislation, led the 10 candidates on the ballot with 34.9 percent…
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Colorado treasurer candidate Brian Watson buys building near the Capitol for $17.1 million
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Donald Trump could have his winter White House at Mar-a-Lago, and if he’s elected in November, Brian Watson could have a lunch-time state treasurer’s office. Watson’s Denver-based commercial real estate firm Northstar Commercial Partners announced Friday it bought the Offices at the Art building for $17.1 million. The handsome three-story office building across Broadway from…
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In video, GOP state treasurer candidate Kevin Lundberg says caucusing can change the world
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Colorado’s precinct caucuses are just over a month away, and Republican Kevin Lundberg, a veteran state lawmaker and one of six GOP candidates for state treasurer, is urging voters to attend the neighborhood meetings in a lengthy campaign video that features historians, state and party officials and students. “The Colorado caucus is a beautiful thing,”…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 4 edition
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THE HITS KEEP COMING: Remember the difficulty some state-level campaigns had filing their quarterly campaign finance reports last month, including a couple whose initial reports listed some of their major contributors’ donations twice? It turns out neither the candidates nor their compliance agents were to blame. Election officials at the Colorado secretary of state’s office…
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Republican state treasurer candidate Polly Lawrence plans to petition onto primary ballot
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Republican Polly Lawrence, a candidate for Colorado’s state treasurer, plans to petition onto the June primary ballot rather than pursue the nomination through the caucus and assembly process, her campaign said. “She’s going to take it straight to the people,” her campaign manager, Sara Boyd, told Colorado Politics. “She’s absolutely committed to the people in…
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GOP state treasurer candidate Brian Watson hauls in more than $200,000 for quarter, plans to petition on ballot
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Republican state treasurer candidate Brian Watson plans to report raising roughly $215,000 for the quarter just ended, his first in the race – almost precisely the amount reported so far by all the other candidates running in both parties’ crowded primaries – and plans to petition his way onto the June primary ballot, Colorado Politics…
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Polly Lawrence hints at double-dealing in state contracts in campaign ad
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State Rep. Polly Lawrence has an effective digital campaign called #FocusOnTheFactsWithPolly, other than it being a 25-character hashtag, as part of her campaign for state treasurer. Last Thursday she released a video on her Facebook page that hits hard at state employees who might be more focused on their next job than getting the best…
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Charles Scheibe, Colorado’s chief financial officer, enters Democratic primary for state treasurer
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Saying his 11 years as Colorado’s chief financial officer have prepared him better than the politicians who are running, Democrat Charles Scheibe on Tuesday entered a crowded field for state treasurer that includes five state lawmakers, a county treasurer, an elected prosecutor and a former legislative candidate. “As a taxpayer, who would you rather have…
