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NOONAN | Expect bare knuckles, scorched earth as state Senate races heat up

Jul 30, 2018

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Paula Noonan

The general election contests for control of Colorado’s state Senate will follow two of philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s depictions of human experience: nasty and brutish. They won’t be, as Hobbes also wrote, short. Seventeen senate districts are up, but four will be hardest fought. Voters should expect mail depicting opponents as lying “swamp creatures.” That designation…
Capitol M: Week ending July 13, 2018

Jul 13, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Although the General Assembly is not in session, there’s enough going on outside of the legislative races, and inside it, too, to take another walk among the Mmmmmms. Good luck…to Democratic Sen. Dominick Moreno of Commerce City, who was recently appointed to the Adams 14 school board. Now Capitol M did a little checking on…
TRAIL MIX: Tom Tancredo, Bernie Sanders will flavor Colorado’s fall campaign

Jun 29, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Elsewhere at ColoradoPolitics.com, we take a look at the just-completed June primary and consider the winners and losers left in its wake. Two towering and political figures, Tom Tancredo and Bernie Sanders, don’t fit neatly into either category – they appear to have won some and lost some – but have done as much as…
ENDORSEMENT WATCH | EMILY’s List picks candidates in Democratic primaries

May 31, 2018

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Ernest Luning

EMILY’s List, a national group that backs pro-choice Democratic women candidates, on Wednesday endorsed five legislative candidates running for open seats in Colorado’s June 26 primary election. The group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, called the group’s picks “at the forefront of advocacy for Colorado’s working families and their children.” “These women have used their personal experiences…
Candidates for legislature, state board of education qualify for ballot by petition

Apr 20, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Three legislative candidates and one candidate for the State Board of Education have successfully petitioned onto the June primary ballot, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday – although one of them just made it, with only a dozen signatures to spare. To get on the ballot for those offices by petition, candidates must…
90-year-old Frank Francone bound for congressional ceremony to honor Filipino World War II vets

Oct 24, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Ninety-year-old World War II veteran Frank Francone will be on hand Wednesday in Washington to help commemorate the service and sacrifice of the Filipino and Filipino-American soldiers who fought to liberate the Philippines more than 70 years ago. House and Senate leaders plan to gather at the U.S. Capitol to present a Congressional Gold Medal to…
PHOTOS: Ytterberg reflects on tenure as Jeffco GOP chair, looks toward future under Trump administration

Feb 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

On his last day as chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, Don Ytterberg had a few things to say. After welcoming several hundred members of the county GOP’s central committee – along with family, friends and a handful of Republican candidates – to the party’s biennial reorganization meeting on Feb. 4, at Green Mountain…
The Hot Sheet, August 22, 2016

Aug 22, 2016

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Jared Wright

VOL. 01 NO. 157 | AUGUST 22, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning and Happy Back-To-School Monday! Hopefully your smaller versions of self (if you have them) are off to a great start today. The weekend had lots of small tweak-type developments on Colorado’s political path to enlightenment…