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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 18 edition

Feb 18, 2018

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Ernest Luning

THEY GRABBED A CLIPBOARD … It looks like a lot of Coloradans took the advice of a certain soon-to-be-former president. In his farewell address, delivered just over a week before leaving office, President Barack Obama said an oft-quoted line – “If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some signatures, and run…
Trooper Cody Donahue honored, ahead of bill to extend insurance to families of fallen officers

Feb 6, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

The Colorado Senate honored the family of the late Trooper Cody Donahue Monday after passing the Move Over for Cody Law last session. This year, lawmakers will consider a bill to help sustain insurance for the families of fallen officers. While law enforcement officers are in mind, Senate Bill 148 also would extend insurance coverage for…
Updated: America’s Cabinet includes lawmakers from Colorado: Duran, Winter and Moreno

Jan 30, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran, state Rep. Faith Winter and state Sen. Dominick Moreno were in Washington, D.C., Monday to take a seat on America’s Cabinet, a shadow group to President Trump’s advisers but with their own take. The program is a part of the nonpartisan Young Elected Officials Network, a national group of leaders…
State Rep. Steve Lebsock releases detailed response to sexual harassment complaints

Dec 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Hours after releasing a lie detector test he says debunk claims he sexually harassed a fellow lawmaker, state Rep. Steve Lebsock of Thornton made public his detailed response to a formal complaint filed last month by state Rep. Faith Winter, but the Westminster Democrat dismissed the polygraph as a stunt and said Lebsock’s statements don’t…
Kickballing Colorado legislators raise $15k for hurricane victims

Oct 13, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Don’t say Colorado legislators didn’t do anything good during their two-day special session this month, though two attempts to fix a costly mistake in a new law went nowhere. Some of them raised almost $15,000 for hurricane victims dueling on the kickball field on a cold, rainy Monday night in the first Bipartisan Charity…
Democrat Dan Baer drops bid challenging Colorado U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter

Oct 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Dan Baer, a former ambassador and U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s only remaining Democratic challenger, said Wednesday he’s dropping his bid to represent Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. Three other Democrats – state Sens. Andy Kerr and Dominick Moreno and state Rep. Brittany Pettersen – ended their campaigns for the suburban seat in late August within days…
See an all-star legislative roster on the kickball field Monday night in Denver

Sep 30, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Game on. The Colorado legislature returns to the Capitol Monday to settle some things once and for all, unlike what might happen with the fix to flawed bill that’s costing special districts their share of marijuana taxes. More certainly they’ll settle who are the champs and who are the chumps in politcal kickball. Reps. Dan…
Republicans Jerry Natividad, Mark Barrington weigh run against U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter

Sep 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Two Lakewood Republicans are considering whether to challenge U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s bid for a seventh term in the 7th Congressional District, Colorado Politics has learned. Jerry Natividad, who mounted a brief campaign last year for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet, and Mark Barrington, who has run for legislative and city…
‘A devastating betrayal’: Colorado officials react to Trump’s decision to end DACA program

Sep 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, called President Trump’s Tuesday decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program “the height of cruelty” and called on Congress to come up with a plan to replace it. “Today’s announcement is a devastating betrayal for the hundreds of thousands of individuals who…
Civil rights pioneer Marlon Green to be enshrined in Colorado aviation hall of fame

Sep 3, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Fans of the state’s history in flight can pay tribute to a pilot from Denver pilot who broke racial barriers, the late Marlon Green, at a banquet next month. Green won a landmark Supreme Court case that allowed African-Americans to be airline pilots. He died in 2009 at age 80. The Colorado Aviation Historical Society will posthumously…