californian of the year
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Spoof award for state Senate’s Sonnenberg draws a double take
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Wednesday’s announcement by the Denver-based Independence Institute that rural Republican rancher, farmer and state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling had won the institute’s tongue-in-cheek “Californian of the Year” award landed with thud on the right. The libertarian-leaning think tank – a sometimes-rogue fellow traveler of GOP causes – cooked up the dubious distinction to mock creeping…
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Independence Institute set to announce which Coloradan will be named Californian of the Year
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Awards season is upon us, and the conservative jesters at Colorado’s right-leaning Independence Institute are bestowing the inaugural “Californian of the Year” award Wednesday on the lucky Coloradan who has “done the most to turn us into California,” in the words of the think tank’s president, Jon Caldara. While the award has been generating some…
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As Lafayette goes, so goes Colorado? The Independence Institute hopes not
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If California ever does tumble into the sea, there’ll still be “East California” – aka Colorado. At least, that’s how Denver-based libertarian think tank Independence Institute envisions one possible U.S. map of the not-too-distant future. Well, not the part about California’s seismic fate; the part about politically purple Colorado morphing into a Middle American imitation…
