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Rep. Dan Thurlow challenging Sen. Ray Scott in GOP primary, flirted with unaffiliated bid
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State Rep. Dan Thurlow, a Grand Junction Republican, plans to announce Saturday he’s challenging state Sen. Ray Scott in the GOP primary, although he first considered running for the seat as an unaffiliated candidate, Colorado Politics has learned. Thurlow, who has represented House District 55 for two terms, asked supporters in an email Friday to…
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Colorado House passes its version of SB 267 fix; bill heads to Senate
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Shortly after 10:30 Tuesday morning, and after more than an hour of wrap-up debate by both sides, the Colorado House voted 37 to 25 to pass its version of the special district fix, House Bill 17B-1001. Three members of the House – two Republicans and one Democrat – were excused. The final vote included all…
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Rep. Dan Thurlow, a Republican, wants to tinker with TABOR next session
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Rep. Dan Thurlow has a couple of ideas on the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights he wants to present during next year’s session of the Colorado Legislature, the Grand Junction Republican told people at a town hall meeting on state tax issues Thursday. First, Thurlow wants to try again to change how the Legislature calculates how…
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Principles of Liberty Colorado organization releases legislative scorecard, honors ‘rock stars’
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State Rep. Justin Everett, a Littleton Republican, ranked highest among Colorado lawmakers in the annual Principles of Liberty scorecard, the conservative organization announced Saturday at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. Known as “Justin Neverett” and “Dr. No” for his propensity for voting “no” on legislation, Everett was one of nine legislators, all Republicans, to…
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Getting to yes, just saying no: Lawmakers Everett, Hansen and Kennedy talk session votes
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By one measure, state Rep. Justin Everett, a House Republican serving his third term in the Colorado General Assembly, and state Reps. Chris Hansen and Chris Kennedy, a pair of Democrats in their first terms, stand as far apart as any lawmakers at the Capitol, based on the votes they cast in the just-completed 2017…
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#Coleg Zoo Day: Write your own captions
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Some real animals descended on the Capitol on Tuesday — real-life animals. It was Denver Zoo Day at the Legislature, so zookeepers and their wards made the rounds, joining the state’s political animals in their natural habitat. Zoo staffers later sent out photos — and the captions write themselves. There are “talking-point parrots,” “porcupine prickly…
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Crowder on tweaking TABOR: Rural Coloradans would rather have a hospital than a $45 tax refund
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It was a tax bill bound to make a splash, even though it was all but doomed from the start not to pass into law. It was a Republican proposal meant to tweak the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, a constitutional amendment that caps taxing and spending in the state and sacrosanct public policy…
