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Attorney general candidates show off "water chops" to Water Congress
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VAIL – Candidates for Colorado attorney general flaunted their “water chops” at the annual meeting of the Colorado Water Congress this week. On Wednesday Republican George Brauchler became the first in a parade of candidates for top state offices to address the summer conference. Brauchler is the district attorney for the 18th Judicial District. He’s…
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Campaign cash: Stapleton raises $255K, Polis drops $1.6M into gov. campaign
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The Walker Stapleton campaign for Colorado governor has collected more than a quarter-million dollars in contributions since late June, while opponent Jared Polis has written his campaign a check for $1.6 million. And Democrat Polis has significantly outspent Republican Stapleton over the last few weeks. That’s according to the latest campaign finance reports to the…
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DeGette, congressional panel assess effectiveness of opioid treatment grants
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WASHINGTON – A government health care administrator advocated expanding access to opioid addiction treatment Thursday during a congressional hearing at a time when the drug’s health risks are becoming a campaign issue in Colorado. “What we have to do is to work very hard to integrate substance abuse treatment, opioid addiction treatment, into primary care settings…
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Republican AGs group up ad buy to back George Brauchler
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The Republican Attorneys General Association upped its ad buy for George Brauchler Tuesday to $250,000, telling Colorado Politics, “This is just the beginning.” That’s bad news for Phil Weiser, who spent heavily to ward off a Democratic primary challenge from state Rep. Joe Salazar, an underfunded underdog from Thornton. RAGA released the ad, called “Protect,”…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Weiser, Brauchler divvy up AG backers
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With the primary in the rear view mirror, organizations and individuals are handing out endorsements for the general election. The Colorado AFL-CIO, representing 180 affiliate unions, voted unanimously to endorse Democratic gubernatorial nominee U.S. Rep. Jared Polis and the party’s attorney general candidate, Phil Weiser, the union’s political arm announced this week. In an earlier round…
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PRIMARY 2018: State Rep. Joe Salazar concedes attorney general nomination to Phil Weiser
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Colorado State Rep. Joe Salazar conceded the Democratic nomination for attorney general to Phil Weiser on Saturday. Weiser takes the victory by less than 1 percent, separated by 5,136 votes out of 590,960 cast, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. The Secretary of State’s Office has been counting votes in the narrow race since…
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PRIMARY 2018: Colorado’s winners and losers
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Winners Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton: Presumed frontrunners from the beginning lived up to their billing, turning back the largest field of primary challengers in either party since at least World War II. And they both played to their bases, the hard left and hard right. Both survived runs at their integrity in negative ads,…
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Republican AGs roll out big for Brauchler
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The champagne from Democrat Phil Weiser’s victory party had barely lost its fizz when the national Republican Attorneys General Association rolled out the tanks for George Brauchler Wednesday morning. Brauchler, the district attorney for Arapahoe and surrounding counties, had no challenger in Tuesday’s GOP primary to succeed Republican Cynthia Coffman. Weiser fended off state Rep.…
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PRIMARY 2018: Polis, Stapleton to face off in November for Colo. governor
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Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis, two sitting office-holders with high name recognition and lots of campaign cash, dominated their opponents and claimed victories in their parties’ primary races for governor less than an hour after the polls closed Tuesday. In all-but-final tallies June 28, Stapleton had received 47.7 percent of the Republican vote…
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State GOP plans Unity Tour across Colorado after the primary
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When the victory hangovers have abated and the losers have made peace with coming up short, Colorado Republican candidates will hit the road together on Thursday. Winners and losers in the gubernatorial, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general and the University of Colorado regent at-large races will make eight stops on the Front Range Thursday…
