colorado republican party
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Colorado’s 3 Republican gubernatorial candidates face off in heated primary debate
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The three Colorado Republicans running for governor defended their qualifications, described their visions for the state and traded jabs over each other’s character at an often contentious televised debate that routinely veered into unusual territory Tuesday night in Denver. The 60-minute debate at the University of Denver, sponsored by 9News, The Denver Gazette and Colorado…
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Colorado Republicans elect software engineer Craig Steiner to fill vacant state chairman position
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The Colorado Republican Party on Saturday elected Craig Steiner to fill the party’s vacant state chair position at a state central committee meeting in Buena Vista, just over a week before primary ballots go out to voters and five months before the general election. The former Douglas County GOP chair takes over from Eric Grossman,…
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Colorado business groups host gubernatorial forum Thursday
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Several business groups are hosting a forum among gubernatorial candidates on Thursday morning. The candidates attending are Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, and Republicans Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer and Victor Marx. The forum will take place from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at the Infinity Park Event Center in Glendale. The organizers…
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Colorado county Republican chair arrested in sting on allegations he tried to pay for sex with a child
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Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old chairman of the Weld County Republican Party, was one of two men arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to buy sex from Larimer County Sheriff’s Office investigators who posed as minors as part of an operation targeting child predators. After news of Rivera’s arrest broke late Friday, multiple prominent Republicans denounced…
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Ron Hanks, Scott Bottoms sue to stop Colorado’s unaffiliated voters from participating in June primary
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Three Republican candidates in Colorado filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court this week seeking to prevent unaffiliated voters from participating in next month’s primary, arguing that the state’s semi-open primary system violates their constitutional rights by forcing Republicans to let outsiders help choose the party’s nominees. Ron Hanks, Scott Bottoms and David Willson are…
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Colorado GOP asks judge to bar state from sending Republican primary ballots to unaffiliated voters
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The Colorado Republican Party on Monday asked a federal judge to issue an emergency injunction to prevent the state’s unaffiliated voters from being able to cast ballots in the GOP’s upcoming primary election. Lawyers for the party argue in a motion filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado that requiring Republicans to…
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Colorado GOP votes down bid to ask court to prevent unaffiliated voters from voting in June primary
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Members of the Colorado Republican Party’s executive committee rejected a proposal Thursday night to seek an emergency injunction in federal court to prevent unaffiliated voters from participating in the state’s upcoming June primary election. The proposed motion, backed by Colorado Republican National Committeeman Randy Corporon, was in response to a federal judge’s recent ruling that…
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Judge rules that Colorado law makes it too hard for parties to bar unaffiliated voters from primaries
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A federal judge ruled in favor of the Colorado Republican Party late Tuesday, saying that a portion of the state law that allows unaffiliated voters to cast ballots in party primaries is unconstitutional because it imposes an unrealistic burden on political parties seeking to restrict the nominating process to their own members. U.S. District Court…
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Colorado GOP chair Brita Horn says she’ll resign next month, points to ‘divide within our party’
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Colorado Republican Party Chair Brita Horn said Thursday that she will resign her position next month following the GOP’s state assembly, citing what she described as an “enduring divide” within the party “marked by vitriol and hostility.” Horn’s announcement came just over a week after the Republicans’ state central committee voted overwhelmingly to approve a…
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Republican Jeff Crank, Democrat Jessica Killin qualify by petition for Colorado’s 5th CD primary
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Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank and Jessica Killin, one of the Democrats challenging the first-term incumbent, have both qualified for the primary ballot in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District after turning in a sufficient number of petition signatures, state election officials said this week. Crank is seeking the GOP nomination without opposition in the Republican-leaning district,…