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Mark Waller to run for district attorney for Colorado’s El Paso, Teller counties
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Mark Waller, currently a member of the El Paso Board of County Commissioners and a former state representative, announced Thursday he will run for the 4th Judicial District Attorney position in the 2020 election. Waller is running to replace current District Attorney Dan May, who is term-limited in 2020. The 4th Judicial District includes El…
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With Democrats in charge, Colorado now backs clean air rule
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Colorado’s new attorney general said Wednesday the state will withdraw from a lawsuit challenging one of the Obama administration’s biggest climate change initiatives. Democrat Phil Weiser’s announcement signaled a reversal from his predecessor, Republican Cynthia Coffman, who signed Colorado on to a multistate lawsuit seeking to roll back the Clean Power Plan. “Instead, we’ll be…
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Colorado gets share of $575M Wells Fargo settlement with states
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Wells Fargo & Co. — Colorado’s largest bank — has agreed to pay $575 million to all 50 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that a fake-account scandal in its retail bank and improper auto-loan and mortgage charges harmed customers. Colorado’s share of the settlement is $21.5 million, state Attorney General Cynthia…
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Colo. left out of Justice Dept. meeting on social-media political bias
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Colorado so far does not have a seat at the table for a politically-fraught Sept. 25 meeting between U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a bipartisan group of 24 state attorneys general to discuss consumer-protection and antitrust complaints against social media companies. Sessions first invited just Republican attorneys general to the meeting, which will include…
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Colorado suing drug maker over opioid addiction epidemic
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman said Thursday she’s suing one the nation’s biggest drug makers over whether it feeds Colorado’s “ravaging” opioid addiction epidemic. She alleges Purdue Pharma L.P. and Purdue Pharma, Inc. used “fraudulent and deceptive marketing” to mislead Colorado doctors and patients about the risks addiction. Purdue also coaxed doctors into prescribing “more…
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COVER STORY | Energy, environment at forefront of Colo. AG’s race
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From standing up to President Donald Trump to gun control, there are a lot of issues where George Brauchler and Phil Weiser diverge dramatically. But there’s no starker distinction between the two candidates for Colorado attorney general than on the twin topics of energy and the environment. And it’s over those issues that Brauchler and…
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PRIMARY 2018: State Rep. Joe Salazar concedes attorney general nomination to Phil Weiser
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Colorado State Rep. Joe Salazar conceded the Democratic nomination for attorney general to Phil Weiser on Saturday. Weiser takes the victory by less than 1 percent, separated by 5,136 votes out of 590,960 cast, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. The Secretary of State’s Office has been counting votes in the narrow race since…
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Trailing by slim margin, Joe Salazar says AG race isn’t over
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State Rep. Joe Salazar isn’t giving up yet. The Thornton Democrat said Thursday he wants election officials to finish tabulating thousands of uncounted ballots statewide before deciding who won the primary for Colorado state attorney general, even though Salazar has trailed rival Phil Weiser by thousands of votes since soon after polls closed Tuesday night.…
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Republican AGs roll out big for Brauchler
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The champagne from Democrat Phil Weiser’s victory party had barely lost its fizz when the national Republican Attorneys General Association rolled out the tanks for George Brauchler Wednesday morning. Brauchler, the district attorney for Arapahoe and surrounding counties, had no challenger in Tuesday’s GOP primary to succeed Republican Cynthia Coffman. Weiser fended off state Rep.…
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PRIMARY 2018: Polis, Stapleton to face off in November for Colo. governor
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Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis, two sitting office-holders with high name recognition and lots of campaign cash, dominated their opponents and claimed victories in their parties’ primary races for governor less than an hour after the polls closed Tuesday. In all-but-final tallies June 28, Stapleton had received 47.7 percent of the Republican vote…
