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Stapleton taps running mate — but plans to keep selection secret for awhile
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Walker Stapleton has a running mate, but the Republican gubernatorial nominee is in no hurry to let anyone know who it is. After winning the four-way GOP primary a week ago, the two-term state treasurer has “offered the position to a well-qualified candidate,” a Stapleton campaign spokesman told Colorado Politics on Tuesday, and the candidate…
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Republicans are giddy for Western Conservative Summit (and so are Democrats)
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Chief organizer Jeff Hunt says he hasn’t seen this much excitement around the Western Conservative Summit since Donald Trump and Sarah Palin came to Denver for the 2016 gathering. This year’s summit – the largest gathering of conservatives outside the nation’s capital Beltway – runs Friday and Saturday at the Colorado Convention Center. Each year…
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Polis, Kennedy complain to state Democrats about dirty campaigning
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The gubernatorial campaigns of Cary Kennedy and Jared Polis have filed complaints with the state Democratic Party alleging the other violated the Clean Campaign Promise, signed last year by all the candidates. Polis’ complaint Wednesday evening came after Kennedy filed one that morning – and just a few hours after Kennedy’s camp sent an email trying…
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Fox News earns a hat tip — from Colorado Democrats
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It’s not often you see the Democratic Party intentionally driving traffic to Fox News. But the right-leaning network’s coverage of this week’s surprise announcement by GOP gubernatorial front-runner Walker Stapleton evidently created enough of an impression of “chaos” – Fox News’ word – in Colorado Republican ranks that it rated a press release from state…
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Cynthia Coffman goes on record on talk radio: She’s personally pro-life
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Well, that’s put to rest. Core conservatives have been waiting on Attorney General Cynthia Coffman to explain her position on abortion, an issue that’s been in question since she entered the race for governor in November. She answered that question on “Wake up! with Randy Corporon” on 710 KNUS on Saturday: She’s pro-life. As a…
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‘We’ve had enough Bushes’: Colorado Democrats invoke Barbara Bush to needle Walker Stapleton for Dallas fundraiser
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The Colorado Democrats are proud to stand with Republican Barbara Bush, the forthright former first lady – at least when it comes to a statement the matriarch made five years ago about whether another one of her sons should run for president. Asked during an April 2013 Today Show appearance whether former Florida Gov. Jeb…
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Colorado Democrats lash Cynthia Coffman for petition-to-caucus ‘switcheroo’
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Colorado Democrats jeered Thursday at news Attorney General Cynthia Coffman plans to abandon petitioning onto the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot and instead pursue the nomination through the caucus and assembly process. Saying she “felt removed from the grassroots” and that her “heart just wasn’t in it,” Coffman made the announcement Tuesday night in a telephone…
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Tom Tancredo waves a white flag at Jared Polis and thumbs his own party in the eye
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No sooner had Colorado Politics’s Ernest Luning broken the news that Republican frontrunner Tom Tancredo was dropping out of the Colorado governor’s race, citing insufficient fund-raising, than the ever outspoken ex-congressman was speaking out once again – this time, against the state GOP. And a gleeful Colorado Democratic Party was of course standing at the ready…
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Democrats dance on Tancredo’s exit from governor’s race, warn his spirit remains
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Democrats seized upon word Republican Tom Tancredo was withdrawing Tuesday from Colorado’s gubernatorial race to declare the election unwinnable for any Republican – while taking the opportunity to lash the controversial former congressman and his platform to the remaining field of GOP primary contenders. “Even former front-runner Tom Tancredo knows there is no path to…
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Now Cynthia Coffman sounds like a red-meat Republican
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The Colorado Democratic Party seemed all too pleased to give Republican gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Coffman a boost with the opposing party’s conservative base Thursday. Democrats alerted reporters to her comments at a Colorado Hispanic Republicans forum Wednesday night. Red-meat conservatives, who are likely to support Tom Tancredo anyway, have been none too happy with the…
