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Former Colorado Republican Party Vice Chair Mark Baisley joins race for state GOP chair
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Cyber-security expert Mark Baisley, a former vice chair of the state GOP, announced Thursday he’s in the running for Colorado Republican chair, joining three other candidates and potentially throwing the election up for grabs just more than three weeks before the vote. Baisley said in a Facebook post that he had recently been recruited –…
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Perlmutter camp unimpressed at news national Republicans targeting his seat
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s campaign manager didn’t sound too concerned this week that his boss had landed on a national Republican group’s list of top Democratic targets in next year’s election. Perlmutter aide Clinton Thomas shrugged at news the National Republican Congressional Committee – the campaign arm of congressional Republicans – was including the five-term congressman among…
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Tim Leonard already weighing legislation to ‘clarify’ statute that landed him in jail
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Jefferson County authorities jailed State Rep. Tim Leonard, R-Evergreen, Friday afternoon on contempt-of-court charges stemming from a longstanding series of disputes between the lawmaker and his ex-wife over education decisions for two of their minor children. Leonard was sentenced to serve 14 days behind bars at the Jefferson County Detention Center in Golden by District…
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Perlmutter draws Republican opponent who vows to end immigration
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Republican Bruce Baker, a member of the Westminster City Council, is challenging five-term U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Golden Democrat, on a platform of ending immigration into the United States and slapping a punitive tariff on all imports into the country. “We need to end immigration — all immigration, not just illegal immigration,” Baker told…