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Stapleton picks Rep. Lang Sias as GOP running mate

Jul 11, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

With a backdrop of military aircraft and heroic leadership as a setting, Republican gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton announced a state legislator and former Navy Top Gun pilot, Rep. Lang Sias, as his running mate. Stapleton revealed his choice at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver on July 11, honoring Sias,…
Rep. Brittany Pettersen pleased with bipartisan leadership on opioid plan

Jan 13, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

State Rep. Brittany Pettersen was pleased after Gov. John Hickenlooper finished his State of the State address Thursday. He, Senate President Kevin Grantham and House Speaker Crisanta Duran agreed with her: Something must be done about Colorado’s opioid abuse epidemic. Each of the leaders made finding answers a priority. “We really have all of our…
Republican committee member challenges results of House District 14 vacancy election

Dec 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A member of the House District 14 Republican vacancy committee on Friday challenged Thursday night’s election of Shane Sandridge to the Colorado House of Representatives alleging another committee member was ineligible to participate and arguing Sandridge fell one vote short of the required majority. The vacancy committee picked Sandridge from a field of five candidates…
Shane Sandridge picked by GOP vacancy committee to fill state Rep. Dan Nordberg’s term

Dec 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A Republican vacancy committee on Thursday elected Shane Sandridge, a Colorado Springs investment consultant and former police officer, to become the next representative of state House District 14. Sandridge will replace state Rep. Dan Nordberg, R-Colorado Springs, who is stepping down in January to take a job as regional administrator of the Small Business Administration.…
Pueblo Republican Tamra Axworthy says she’s done contesting ‘rigged’ statehouse vacancy election

Dec 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Pueblo Republican Tamra Axworthy said Tuesday she’s done contesting the legislative vacancy election won last month by Judy Reyher and probably won’t challenge Reyher in a primary – even while charging Reyher was “selected under a cloud of suspicion” and ripping the former Otero County GOP chair for “embarrass[ing] our party with racially charged offensive remarks.”…
State Rep. Dan Nordberg resigning from legislature to take SBA position with Trump administration

Dec 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Rep. Dan Nordberg plans to resign his legislative seat to serve as regional administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Colorado Springs Republican announced Monday. His resignation takes effect at the beginning of January, and a GOP vacancy is scheduled to meet on Dec. 21 to fill the remainder of his term. “I’m ready…
Former GOP congressional nominee urges Judy Reyher to resign, but newly appointed lawmaker isn’t backing down

Dec 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A former Republican congressional nominee called on recently appointed GOP state lawmaker Judy Reyher to step down over social media posts and comments criticizing African Americans, Muslims and others, but a defiant Reyher vowed to fight back against attacks she termed desperate and divisive. Reyher has come under fire since winning a vacancy appointment Monday…
Otero County Republican Judy Reyher engulfed in controversy after contested House District 47 vacancy appointment

Dec 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The aftershocks were still coming days after a Republican vacancy committee picked a replacement for former state Rep. Clarice Navarro, the Pueblo Republican who resigned to take a position with the Trump administration in early November. Judy Reyher, a Swink resident and former Otero County GOP chair, won the appointment to Navarro’s seat on a…
Welcome aboard, Judy! Vacancy committee picks Navarro’s successor

Nov 28, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Fifth-generation southeast Coloradan Judy Reyher will take the baton from third-term Pueblo Republican state Rep. Clarice Navarro, who resigned her office earlier this month after being appointed executive director of the Colorado Farm Service Agency by the Trump administration. Reyher was chosen to succeed the high-profile Navarro in House District 47 by a vacancy committee Monday. From…
El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton endorses fellow Republican Chance Hill for CU regent seat

Nov 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton is the latest official to endorse Chance Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican and the lone candidate in next year’s election for the University of Colorado Board of Regents seat from the 5th Congressional District. Littleton, a former elected member of Colorado’s State Board of Education, said she was impressed that…