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Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell turns in nominating petitions
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Republican Victor Mitchell, a candidate for governor of Colorado, delivered more than 26,000 petition signatures aimed at securing a spot on the June primary ballot to the secretary of state’s office on Wednesday, his campaign said. The businessman and former state lawmaker is the third GOP gubernatorial candidate to submit petitions to the secretary of…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 4 edition
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THE HITS KEEP COMING: Remember the difficulty some state-level campaigns had filing their quarterly campaign finance reports last month, including a couple whose initial reports listed some of their major contributors’ donations twice? It turns out neither the candidates nor their compliance agents were to blame. Election officials at the Colorado secretary of state’s office…
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Lest anyone forget the GOP is the party of fat cats and political scions …
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…ProgressNow Colorado has come up with a handy reminder you can install in your Google Chrome browser. The cheeky Democratic activists rolled out their Mitt Romney’s Nephew Chrome extension this week, with Executive Director Ian Silverii deadpanning in a press statement, “Voters need a simple way to cut through the noise” of “so many unknown candidates in the…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado Supreme Court overturns death penalty statute
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … The lawyer who led a successful constitutional challenge against Colorado’s death penalty law said no one should have been surprised that the Colorado Supreme Court overturned the statute, pointing out that some legislators had warned it was defective when it passed. University of Denver law professor…
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YESTERYEAR: Reagan, Bush visit Denver for separate speeches at conventions
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Assessing the nearly completed legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Ralph Cole, R- Littleton, said that Minority Leader Regis Groff, D-Denver, did a good job. “I admire him. He’s not unduly sensitive about the fact he’s a Black. He’s very able.” Groff returned the mixed compliment:…
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YESTERYEAR: Lawmakers scramble to pass United Airlines deal in special session
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Legislators were working overtime in a special session called by Gov. Roy Romer to put together an incentive deal to bring “a billion-dollar shower of money” to the Denver area by luring a United Airlines maintenance center, a reservations “megacenter” and expanded flight operations by…
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Beauprez campaign accuses Holtzman of breaking law with media spin
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Ten Year Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … The race for the Republican nomination for governor was steaming up. John Marshall, campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, demanded that GOP rival Marc Holtzman immediately fire his campaign manager, Dick Leggitt, and submit his campaign to a formal investigation for “the flagrant and…
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Dale Tooley autobiography tops charts, political dinners proliferate
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … I’d Rather Be in Denver — Dale Tooley’s Own Story, reached the top of the local best-seller lists just a few weeks after its release, according to both The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. The former Denver district attorney had completed his autobiography…
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Yesteryear: Colorado Bushes celebrate inauguration, Clinton revs up Denver Dems
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … As the nation celebrated the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush, the veep’s son and daughter-in-law, Coloradans Neil and Sharon Bush, were part of the official fanfare in Washington, D.C. Neil, who moved to Denver the previous summer when he go…
