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Joe O’Dea makes Colorado’s Republican US Senate primary ballot by petition
Construction company owner Joe O’Dea has qualified for the Republican primary for the nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, election officials said Monday. O’Dea is the first Republican to secure a spot on Colorado’s June 28 primary ballot for the seat. Seven other Republicans are vying to make the ballot at Saturday’s state…
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Republican delegates advance Lamborn challenger Dave Williams to 5th CD primary ballot
State Rep. Dave Williams won top-line designation Saturday on Colorado’s Republican primary ballot in the 5th Congressional District, guaranteeing that U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn will face at least two GOP challengers in his bid for a ninth term. Williams, a three-term state lawmaker from Colorado Springs, was the only candidate to emerge from the Republicans’…
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El Paso GOP chair attacks Lamborn after he cites ‘troubling irregularities’ in assembly process
Long-simmering tension between competing factions in the local Republican Party spilled into public view on March 31 when El Paso County GOP Chairwoman Vickie Tonkins tore into U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a combative email denouncing the Colorado Springs Republican as dishonest and corrupt after Lamborn accused Tonkins and her allies of rigging the nomination…
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Arizona’s US Rep. Andy Biggs to keynote Colorado Republicans’ annual dinner
Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona will deliver the keynote address at the Colorado GOP’s annual fundraising dinner next week on the eve of the party’s state assembly, state Republican chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown announced. The 2022 Centennial Dinner is scheduled for Friday, April 8, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Colorado Springs. The…
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Bennet challenger Joe O’Dea hits airwaves with Spanish-language radio ad
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea has released a Spanish-language radio ad narrated by his wife, whose grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the early part of the last century, his campaign said. O’Dea, a wealthy construction company owner and one of seven GOP candidates running against Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet,…
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State GOP chair Kristi Burton Brown makes good on vow to visit all 64 Colorado counties
It took nearly a year, but Colorado Republican Kristi Burton Brown has fulfilled one of the promises she made in her campaign for state GOP chair – visit every one of the state’s 64 counties during her first year in office. Burton Brown completed the journey earlier this month with a stop in Pitkin County…
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More than half of Republican bill package struck down in Colorado legislature
Halfway through this year’s session, the Republican legislative agenda is not looking good, with more than 50% of the party’s “Commitment to Colorado” bill package already dead. Republican lawmakers unveiled the 44-bill package in January to address three core goals: affordability, education and public safety. As of Monday, Democrat-controlled committees have rejected 25 of them.…
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Colorado GOP calls on Tina Peters to suspend campaign for secretary of state in wake of felony indictments
The Colorado Republican Party’s statewide officers on Wednesday called on Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to suspend her campaign for secretary of state while under indictment on multiple felony charges related to allegations the Grand Junction Republican tampered with voting equipment. In an extraordinary joint statement issued hours after prosecutors released the 13-count grand jury…
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Republicans sue to block unaffiliated voters from voting in primaries
Republicans filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against Secretary of State Jena Griswold, challenging a 2016 voter-approved ballot measure that allows unaffiliated voters to participate in primaries. The lawsuit was authorized by the state GOP central committee last September, after turning down a request to call off the 2022…
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El Paso County GOP mulls punishing Republicans deemed insufficiently Republican
El Paso County Republicans plan to decide whether the local party can censure its members for violating its platforms or getting crosswise with GOP leaders. The county GOP’s central committee – made up of precinct leaders, party officers and elected officials – is scheduled to weigh a proposed bylaws amendment to establish a formal censure procedure…