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NOONAN | Dem fund-raising leaves GOP in the dust in key state Senate races
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Out of eighteen state Senate seats up for election, only four are “competitive.” These Senate districts have less than five percentage points separating Democratic and Republican registration. They also have Unaffiliated registration up to 39% of voters. The fight for these seats puts four Democratic women, or the Four Musketeers, against two men and two…
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NOONAN | Expect bare knuckles, scorched earth as state Senate races heat up
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The general election contests for control of Colorado’s state Senate will follow two of philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s depictions of human experience: nasty and brutish. They won’t be, as Hobbes also wrote, short. Seventeen senate districts are up, but four will be hardest fought. Voters should expect mail depicting opponents as lying “swamp creatures.” That designation…
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Colo. Senate advances bill to tackle same issue as House red flag measure: mental health
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The Republican-controlled Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee later Monday is expected to hear the “red flag” proposal on guns, House Bill 1436, and kill the measure, likely along party lines. At the same time, Republicans are pushing for a bill to address the mental health issue that is also embedded in the red flag…
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Capitol M: Week ending April 6, Budget Edition
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Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd, or, what goes on at the Capitol when lawmakers are not sitting at Coors Field, or as it was briefly known as on Friday, Citizens Bank Park. The next time Rep. Leslie Herod offers you donuts around April Fool’s Day…Capitol M advises…
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Colorado House moving bills aimed at high healthcare costs
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DENVER – House Democrats have made good, so far, on their promise to pass bills aimed at curbing healthcare costs, and Thursday they passed one out of committee to address the high cost of insulin. House Bill 1009, sponsored by Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, would require pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, insurers and nonprofits to…
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Bill to fix PERA amended to exclude taxpayers from ‘shared responsibility’
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A bill to fill a $32 billion to $50 billion hole in the Public Employees’ Retirement Association won’t have the public employers’ help, if it keeps an amendment passed in Senate Bill 200‘s first committee vote Thursday. In a five-member committee with three Republicans, Sen. Jack Tate. R-Centennial, needed to make the change to secure…
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Bill to fill PERA’s $32 billion shortfall rolls out to a tentative start
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The sponsors called the compromise to fix PERA a starting point, not a finish line, as a bill to do so was introduced Wednesday. Senate Republicans and House Democrats agree, however, that lawmakers must make sure the money the state pension brings in is enough to support its retirees. Current workers, retirees and taxpayers all…
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Colorado House Dems roll out latest child care bill in family-friendly agenda
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Middle-income families who shell out thousands of dollars every year for child care could get a little help from the state under a bill that is expected to show up in the Colorado House Monday. The measure, which doesn’t yet have an assigned number, will be sponsored by Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran, a…
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Centrist Project launches initial Colorado slate of unaffiliated legislative candidates, announces name change
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The nonprofit formerly known as the Centrist Project, a group working to elect nonpartisan officials nationwide, on Monday unveiled a slate of four unaffiliated Colorado candidates running this year for the Legislature in the opening salvo of its assault on the two major parties’ unbroken rule of the state’s government. It also announced it’s changing…
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State Sen. Cheri Jahn switches from Democrat to unaffiliated legislator
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State Sen. Cheri Jahn will no longer be identified as a Democrat from Wheat Ridge. She announced on Facebook Friday evening that she’s leaving the party to become an unaffiliated member of the legislature. “To be sure, this was a very difficult decision,” she wrote. “Ultimately, this was a very personal decision and one that…
