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WATCH: What does hate look like in Colorado?

Aug 14, 2018

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Next with Kyle Clark, 9News

It’s been a year since a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Which raises the question: What does hate looks like in Colorado? Are white supremacists active in Colorado, and if so, what are they doing? In the video below, Kyle Clark talks about hate in Colorado with Scott Levin, mountain states regional director…
Denver’s everyman mayor: Michael Hancock’s big agenda

Nov 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Michael Hancock is a mayor on a mission. It’s the Friday before the election, and Hancock is promoting a once-in-a-decade, $937 million bond package filled with hundreds of projects to maintain and improve Denver’s transportation, public safety and cultural infrastructure. After a stop at a Spanish-language radio station to pitch the ballot questions, he tours…
Colorado GOP declines to apologize for tweets slamming Southern Poverty Law Center

Sep 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A coalition of civil rights groups and left-leaning organizations on Friday demanded an apology from the Colorado Republican Party for “viciously attacking” the Southern Poverty Law Center on Twitter, but the state GOP’s chairman called the request ridiculous and doubled down on the party’s criticism of the watchdog group. The dispute centers around what the…
Tom Tancredo says ‘it won’t take much’ to push him into Colorado GOP’s gubernatorial primary

Aug 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A Golden-based political action committee began circulating a petition Tuesday urging Tom Tancredo to run in next year’s GOP primary for governor of Colorado, but the former five-term congressman told Colorado Politics he’s so angry at Republicans that “it won’t take much” to persuade him to run. Tancredo called it “infuriating” and “appalling” that Republican…
Bennet, Democratic senators press Trump administration over down-playing ‘far-right extremism’

Aug 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is among two dozen Democrats pressing the Trump administration over its response to domestic terrorism, including what the lawmakers called an apparent de-emphasis on “far-right extremism.” A vehicle assault associated with a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one woman dead and more than a dozen people injured “was seemingly…
Staff picks: The top five stories this week in Colorado Politics

Aug 21, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

National news, from white nationalists to Trump to town halls, ran deep through Colorado politics this past week. Here are the stories that the staff of Colorado Politics, home to the state’s deepest coverage of the topics, thinks you should keep in mind as the issues play out. 5. Armstrong’s company under fire A…
Colorado Democrats hail Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s exit from White House, but say it isn’t enough

Aug 19, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democrats on Friday celebrated news President Trump had fired chief strategist Steve Bannon but questioned whether the ouster resolves complaints the president sympathizes with white nationalists and other extremist groups. “Removing Mr. Bannon’s divisive, nationalist influence from the White House was long overdue; he should never have worked there in the first place,” said…
Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette co-sponsors resolution censuring Trump over Charlottesville remarks

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is co-sponsoring a House resolution introduced Wednesday to censure President Donald Trump for his response to the weekend’s violence surrounding a rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va. “I’m co-sponsoring a resolution to censure @POTUS for defending white supremacists in #Charlottesville,” DeGette wrote in a tweet Wednesday afternoon.…
Colorado’s congressional delegation rips Trump’s latest ‘both sides’ remarks about white supremacists

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle came down hard on President Donald Trump’s latest comments defiantly blaming “both sides” for the weekend violence between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, tweeted scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks, calling them “unacceptable and…
Colorado’s Rep. Doug Lamborn tweets blistering criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response

Aug 16, 2017

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ERIN PRATER

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs tweeted a scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks about the weekend’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia – the Republican congressman’s strongest statement yet on the topic. “The KKK, Neo-Nazis, and White Supremacists and Nationalists are abhorrent,” Lamborn posted to Facebook and Twitter. “Statements that provide even…