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House District 25 primary highlights feud between GOP’s moderate and conservative wings
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The Republican primary for Colorado’s House District 25 reflects the sharp divide between the party’s moderate and conservative factions. State Rep. Colin Larson of Littleton, who currently represents House District 22, is fighting for the Republican nomination with retired teacher Dede Wagner, who has expressed support for QAnon on social media and criticized Larson for supporting…
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Officials in both parties eye bids to replace Ed Perlmutter in Colorado’s 7th District
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Several Jefferson County politicians tell Colorado Politics they’re deciding whether to jump in the race for the 7th Congressional District after eight-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s surprise announcement on Monday that he won’t run for re-election. The potential candidates include two state lawmakers and a county commissioner whose husband narrowly lost a bid for…
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Bill banning e-cigarette use indoors passes Colorado House; heads to Senate
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Colorado state House lawmakers have given a strong bipartisan “yes” to a bill that adds vaping and e-cigarettes to the list of things that can’t be used in indoor spaces. House Bill 1076 cleared the House on a 48-17 vote Thursday and now heads to the Senate. Republican state Rep. Colin Larson of Littleton, one…
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Capitol M: Week ending July 13, 2018
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Although the General Assembly is not in session, there’s enough going on outside of the legislative races, and inside it, too, to take another walk among the Mmmmmms. Good luck…to Democratic Sen. Dominick Moreno of Commerce City, who was recently appointed to the Adams 14 school board. Now Capitol M did a little checking on…
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TRAIL MIX: Tom Tancredo, Bernie Sanders will flavor Colorado’s fall campaign
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Elsewhere at ColoradoPolitics.com, we take a look at the just-completed June primary and consider the winners and losers left in its wake. Two towering and political figures, Tom Tancredo and Bernie Sanders, don’t fit neatly into either category – they appear to have won some and lost some – but have done as much as…
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Outside political spending floods House and Senate primary races
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Independent expenditure committees (IECs), which include 527 political groups, have been on an unprecedented spending spree during the primary season on state House and Senate races. One candidate – Zach Neumann, who’s running for the Democratic nod for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Irene Aguilar – has been the biggest beneficiary, to the…
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GOP primary race turns ugly in Jeffco House district
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A Republican primary race for a state House of Representatives seat in south Jefferson County has turned ugly, with candidate Colin Larson sending out campaign literature referring to opponent Frank Francone’s “arrest for dealing cocaine base” nearly three decades ago as well as tax problems, and Francone calling Larson a “swamp creature.” The GOP primary…
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Candidates for legislature, state board of education qualify for ballot by petition
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Three legislative candidates and one candidate for the State Board of Education have successfully petitioned onto the June primary ballot, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday – although one of them just made it, with only a dozen signatures to spare. To get on the ballot for those offices by petition, candidates must…
