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Colorado Senate Republican put Barbara Kirkmeyer on Joint Budget Committee

Dec 9, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado Senate Republicans on Friday unanimously chose Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer to be the caucus’s representative on the Joint Budget Committee. Kirkmeyer, a Brighton Republican who is halfway through her first term, replaces Sen. Bob Rankin. The Carbondale Republican was the committee’s longest-serving member, having been on JBC since 2014. He announced Dec. 1 he would…
Rubber will hit the road — without a tax hike — via GOP plan to fund transportation

Jan 17, 2018

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Coloradans and voters across the state agree that Colorado’s roads are in terrible shape and that improving and maintaining our state highways and roads needs to be Priority One for the state’s lawmakers. The mystery is why in the face of this broad, statewide consensus, from Grand Junction to Colorado Springs and Aurora to Alamosa,…
Senate’s ruling Republicans reach out to rural Colorado as #coleg opens

Jan 11, 2018

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

The Colorado Senate’s majority Republicans are pitching upgrades to the information superhighway – as well as to plain-old paved highways – as a boon to rural Colorado. A press announcement touting the legislation said both proposals – the first two Senate bills introduced on opening day Wednesday – demonstrated a “commitment to assisting parts of rural…
Fracking opponent and supporter get poetic on Twitter about drilling risks, benefits

Dec 8, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A pair of #copolitics Twitter accounts threw down Friday in an impromptu, virtual poetry slam about fracking, or hydraulic fracturing – the polarizing practice of pumping pressurized fluid deep into the ground to free up fossil fuels. First, the anonymous Twitter account Piceance Watchdog – named after Northwest Colorado’s Piceance Basin, which holds vast quantities of…
Colorado Christian University calls on legislators to reject campaign donations from marijuana industry

Oct 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

In a stern letter to state lawmakers, the president of Colorado Christian University and the director of the school’s conservative think tank on Thursday called on legislators to refuse campaign donations from the marijuana industry, saying the legalized drug “has devastated Colorado by nearly every metric.” “It has come to our attention that state legislators…
EMILY’s List targets Secretary of State Wayne Williams, Colorado Senate’s Republican majority

Sep 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

EMILY’s List, a national group that recruits and helps fund Democratic women candidates, said Thursday it’s putting Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams and GOP state senators “on notice,” naming them to its list of top targets for defeat in next year’s election. The group charged that Williams has “failed to defend” Coloradans against…
Colorado GOP declines to apologize for tweets slamming Southern Poverty Law Center

Sep 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A coalition of civil rights groups and left-leaning organizations on Friday demanded an apology from the Colorado Republican Party for “viciously attacking” the Southern Poverty Law Center on Twitter, but the state GOP’s chairman called the request ridiculous and doubled down on the party’s criticism of the watchdog group. The dispute centers around what the…
Colorado Senate Democrats’ campaign organization names Michael Whitehorn as executive director

Aug 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The campaign organization that works to elect Democrats to the Colorado Senate has named political veteran Michael Whitehorn as its executive director, it announced Monday. Whitehorn, who was most recently U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s campaign manager and senior counsel to the Denver Democrat’s congressional office, takes over from Andrew Short, who helmed the Democratic Senate…
Nic Morse, former GOP congressional nominee, considering a run for state Senate in Larimer County

Jul 7, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Nic Morse, the Republican who challenged Jared Polis in last year’s 2nd Congressional District, says he’s considering a run for state Senate next year. The Loveland entrepreneur would be a candidate for the Republican District 15 seat being vacated by term-limited Kevin Lundberg of Berthoud. Lundberg is considering a run for state treasurer, a race…
Progressives groups release combined scorecards rating Colorado legislators

Jun 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A group of liberal advocacy organizations for the first time released combined legislative scorecards this week, conglomerating assessments of the 100 Colorado lawmakers’ votes last session on key legislation the organizations said they plan to present to voters next year. A Republican who received among the lowest overall scores, however, dismissed the endeavor as a…