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CAPITOL M | Politics get messy, more attack ads
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With last week’s Club 20 debates providing the unofficial kickoff to the fall campaign season, lots of shenanigans of all shapes and sizes on election mailers and other such stuff are starting to surface. We start with an interesting observation from Aspen Times reporter Brent Gardner Smith (he’s the BOMB on water reporting, by the…
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Attorney general, congressional candidates debate at Club 20
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GRAND JUNCTION – Club 20’s Saturday night debate lineup featured the first face-to-face confrontation between the major party candidates for the state’s 3rd Congressional District and a lively debate – the second but most intense to date – between the major party candidates for attorney general. The Club 20 debates mark the unofficial start to…
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Club 20 debates kick off general election campaign season in Grand Junction
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GRAND JUNCTION – Viewed as the unofficial start to the campaign season, the Club 20 debates in Grand Junction Saturday drew heat and humor, but without the marquis matchup hoped for between gubernatorial candidates Walker Stapleton, the Republican state treasurer, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder. (Polis declined to participate.) The debates –…
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Club 20 Friday night steak fry fetes those about to debate
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GRAND JUNCTION – The election debate weekend at Club 20 on the Western Slope started out Friday night with a steak fry that allowed Saturday’s combatants to have a good meal and a drink or two before the debates. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis chose to skip the headline debate Saturday night. Keep your eyes…
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Stapleton will get the stage to himself at Club 20
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Candidates will flock to Grand Junction to debate on Sept. 8, but Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton will have the stage to himself at Club 20’s political gathering. Stapleton and Democratic nominee Jared Polis each picked the debates they wanted to do, and Polis chose another Grand Junction debate put on by the local Daily…
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SLOAN | Polis snubs West Slope as Colorado’s urban-rural divide deepens
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The decision by Jared Polis to break with decades of political tradition and sit out the inaugural gubernatorial debate hosted every four years by Club 20 has raised the ire of a lot of folks; on the West Slope, certainly, but also throughout rural Colorado – though Mr. Polis seems rather unaffected. Part of the…
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INSIGHTS | ‘Y’all Come’ isn’t on the playlist of Colorado’s candidates for governor
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For 50 weeks a year, a chunk of property in the middle of what passes for a town in rural Alabama sat vacant of everything but insects, snakes and a weather-stained block of concrete the size of a flatbed trailer. For two weeks each summer, before and after the Fourth of July, the weeds were…
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Club 20 won’t allow lieutenant governor Lynne to debate for Jared Polis
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Club 20, the venerable Western Slope coalition of government and business leaders, said Friday that Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne won’t be allowed to stand in for Democratic nominee Jared Polis in next month’s political debate in Grand Junction. When Polis announced which debates he would accept last week, Club 20 didn’t make the cut. Instead,…
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Polis’ plan to skip Club 20 debate kicks up a fuss on the Western Slope
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A gubernatorial candidate hasn’t bypassed the Club 20 debate for decades, if ever, and folks on the Western Slope aren’t taking Jared Polis’ decision lightly. Monday Colorado Politics reported the debates that Polis, the Democratic nominee, and Republican Walker Stapleton were willing to do between now and Election Day. Polis is sending Lt. Gov. Donna…
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Polis, Stapleton commit to debates (but not all the same ones)
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Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton laid out the gubernatorial debates they’re willing to do Monday. Now the haggling on the dates, venues and questions begins. Both campaigns told Colorado Politics they have been inundated with requests to appear at debates and other joint events. Polis issued a press release Monday afternoon challenging Stapleton…
