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Diplomas provided by Nelson raise further questions about candidate
In response to an inquiry about his academic credentials, Aurora Public Schools Board member and House District 42 candidate Eric Nelson, an Aurora Democrat, transmitted images of two diplomas to The Colorado Statesman on Tuesday, although even a cursory examination of the documents casts doubt on their authenticity. Nelson, 38, has been the target of questions…
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Hullinghorst, Fields demand Nelson withdraw from House District 42 race
House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Boulder, and state Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, on Tuesday called on House District 42 candidate Eric Nelson to withdraw from the race after an investigation by The Colorado Statesman raised questions about numerous claims made over the years by the Aurora Democrat. Fields, who represents the seat Nelson is seeking but is…
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Silverii takes reins at ProgressNow Colorado
Ian Silverii, the House Democrats’ former chief of staff, took over as executive director of left-leaning online advocacy group ProgressNow Colorado on Wednesday, the organization announced. “I care deeply about the kind of policies we make on the state level,” Silverii told The Colorado Statesman. “With Congress being deadlocked for a decade, it’s fallen on…
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Frustrated state lawmakers look to voters to break Capitol gridlock
Colorado lawmakers this week expressed disappointment in what they saw as a stunted legislative session where divided chambers blocked major proposals and they looked outside the building toward the ballot box as the best way to move their agendas forward in the future. Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, who is term-limited and…
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In 2016, big splash bills went nowhere, quiet compromise ruled the day
It came to seem like a routine signal this legislative session: If lawmakers held a press conference touting the introduction of an important bill, one they placed at the top of their priority list, that bill would very likely never make it to the governor’s desk. The result was a legislative session marked by a…
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Trans bond bill sails through Senate votes, fate uncertain in House
A Republican bill to let voters decide if the state should use bonds to fund more than $3 billion for transportation projects passed two Senate committees and a late vote Thursday night on the Senate floor. But given the resistance to the idea already stated by House Democratic leadership, it could be D.O.A. if it…
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Hospital fee debate moves on to second act in Senate
The curtain officially rose Thursday in the House on the long drama centered around the Democratic-led effort to reclassify the state’s $700 million hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund. By Friday at roughly 11:00 a.m., the first act had concluded. Two bills concerning the reclassification passed with Republican support and headed to the Senate,…
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Hullinghorst on supermarket beer debate: ‘I’m with the little guys’
The two top Democrats at the Capitol agree: They want to keep full-strength beer out of the supermarkets and on the shelves of small liquor stores. “I think it’s sort of the big guys versus the little guys right now — and of course I’m a Democrat, so I’m for the little guy,” said Speaker…
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Hullinghorst hopes fine-tuned hospital fee proposals win Republican support
The long dance in the Legislature over a plan to reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund continued on Tuesday, when Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, presented a new bill to direct how additional revenues collected from the reclassification should be spent. On March 28, Hullinghorst introduced House Bill…
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Crowder wants to be really clear about how he sees the hospital provider fee, you follow?
“The thing I’m trying to impress on people is we got to come out and have to have an adult conversation in this state about what direction we want to go,” said state Sen. Larry Crowder, standing on the steps of the Capitol last week. Crowder was talking about his support for House Bill 1420,…