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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 18 edition
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THEY GRABBED A CLIPBOARD … It looks like a lot of Coloradans took the advice of a certain soon-to-be-former president. In his farewell address, delivered just over a week before leaving office, President Barack Obama said an oft-quoted line – “If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some signatures, and run…
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IN RESPONSE: Diana DeGette does not stand for you
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Diana DeGette does not stand for you. DeGette and her fat cat cronies have been getting wealthy while our communities suffer. She shows up at election time for our votes and, once elected, quickly returns to Washington to vote for bigger and bigger government programs that make her and her friends rich and powerful and…
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DeGette primary challenger Saira Rao tops 500 donors, six figures in under a month
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Saira Rao, a Denver Democrat, said Friday her campaign received contributions from more than 500 individual donors within a month of launching her primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, who is serving her 11th term representing Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. “We are not taking any corporate PAC money,” Rao said in a statement. “Special interests…
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Longshot congressional candidate Casper Stockham endorses longshot for governor
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Republican Casper Stockham wasn’t deterred from running for Congress this year by the fact he got less than 28 percent against Democratic incumbent Diana DeGette in 2016. The long odds that former Parker Mayor Greg Lopez faces in becoming governor, then, didn’t stop Stockham from throwing his endorsement to Lopez Tuesday. He said Lopez is…
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Coffman challenger Jason Crow leads state congressional candidates in quarterly fundraising
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The battle for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District is shaping up to be an expensive one. Democrat Jason Crow, one of Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s challengers for the swing seat, raised more in campaign contributions than any other congressional candidate in the state for the quarter that ended the year – and Coffman came in…
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Diana DeGette: After 11 terms in Congress, she’s here to stay
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WASHINGTON – Diana DeGette just completed her 21st year as the Democratic congresswoman representing the district that includes the heart of Denver, making her the most senior member of the Colorado delegation and a force not to be overlooked in Washington’s hard knocks politics. While…
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DeGette primary challenger Saira Rao calls on Colorado lawmakers to boycott Trump’s State of the Union address
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Saira Rao, a Denver Democrat challenging 11-term U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette in a primary, on Thursday called on Colorado’s congressional delegation to boycott President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week, saying that attending the speech in Washington will only “legitimize” the Republican. Instead, Rao said she’s sponsoring an alternative event on Tuesday…
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Former GOP congressional candidate Casper Stockham takes stock of gentrification
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Uber driver Casper Stockham ran for Congress and lost last year, but he hasn’t lost sight of a campaign promise to help build up Five Points around the families who settled there. A first-timer, Stockham didn’t know enough about campaigning, how to get his message out and how to raise the millions of dollars in…
