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Colorado Common Cause names Amanda Gonzalez executive director
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Colorado Common Cause said Friday that Amanda Gonzalez will take over as the government-reform nonprofit’s executive director on Feb. 1. She replaces longtime executive director Elena Nunez, who is going to work for national Common Cause as director of state operations and ballot measure strategies. Nunez said the state organization’s campaigns will be in good hands…
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Colorado Common Cause endorses ballot measures to change redistricting procedures
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Colorado Common Cause on Tuesday endorsed a pair of proposed ballot initiatives filed by a coalition of left-leaning groups calling itself People Not Politicians that would overhaul how the state draws its political districts. The ballot measures “will give unaffiliated voters an equal voice in drawing legislative and congressional maps and ensure the process reflects Colorado’s…
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Common Cause — no friend of ALEC’s — will host a ‘teach-in’ on the conservative group
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As noted here last week, Denver will host this year’s annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council. Better known in political circles as simply ALEC, the national conservative, pro-free market group has been an advocate of limited government and a resource for model legislation to state legislators in Colorado and around the country for 44 years.…
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Primary elections bill weathers first test in the House
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Democrats on the House State Affairs committee voted Monday to advance a bill that would bring presidential primary voting back to Colorado in the wake of wide frustrations with the caucus system voiced by voters this spring. The hearing was a first hurdle cleared on a long track with time ticking down fast to the…
