gordon klingenschmitt
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Colorado Springs officials already preparing for ‘near certain’ mayoral runoff
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Before ballots for the nonpartisan April 4 municipal election have even hit residents’ mailboxes, city officials are already preparing for the likely possibility that two candidates will head for a showdown in May as they campaign to become Colorado Springs’ next mayor. With 12 candidates in the crowded running to succeed Mayor John Suthers, who…
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Conservative Christian leader Will Perkins, known as a leading voice for Amendment 2, dies at 91
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Will Perkins, a prominent local businessman who helped cement Colorado Springs’ reputation as an epicenter for evangelical Christianity, died Saturday at the age of 91. Perkins, who ran Perkins Motors dealership for nearly three decades, was a renowned leader in the city’s religious community, working for and alongside Christian ministries such as Focus on the…
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Conservative firebrand Gordon Klingenschmitt running for El Paso County commission
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Former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, a conservative firebrand, said Friday he hasn’t given up on politics despite a recent defeat. The Colorado Springs Republican said he will seek the District 2 seat on the five-member El Paso County commission in 2020. District 2 encompasses much of eastern Colorado Springs up to the edge of northeastern…
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High-profile conservative Klingenschmitt eyes seat on Colorado Springs City Council
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Conservative firebrand, former state representative and lightning rod for controversy Gordon Klingenschmitt announced Friday that he will run for an at-large seat on the Colorado Springs City Council. “My main concern is that our city has gone to the left, especially with regard to over taxation,” Klingenschmitt said. “This is Colorado Springs. We are a…
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COVER STORY | Bob Beauprez: Colo.’s partisan past should bend toward the middle
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COALMONT- The high country air chops like the beating of helicopter blades next to Bob Beauprez’s farmhouse in the heart of his 1,300-acre ranch in Colorado’s North Park. He doesn’t notice until a visitor points it out. “Isn’t that great?” he replied about the sound of wind energy helping power his family business in Jackson County.…
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INSIGHTS: Public loses authority to police campaign finance
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On “The Andy Griffith Show,” Gomer Pyle took the law into his own hands. After Barney Fife wrote Gomer a ticket for an illegal U-turn, the deputy made the same mistake. Gomer leaped from the cab of his truck and into law enforcement. “Citizen’s arrest, citizen’s arrest, citizen’s arrest,” he called out until Barney stopped…
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Republican Kit Roupe sets grudge match with state Rep. Tony Exum Sr. in House District 17
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It’ll be round three this fall in Colorado’s seesaw House District 17 between state Rep. Tony Exum Sr., the incumbent Democrat, and former state Rep. Kit Roupe, the Republican, who filed Tuesday to run for the seat she won from Exum two elections ago and held for one term until Exum ousted her in the…
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Colorado Democrats already fundraising off chance Gordon Klingenschmitt could run for office again
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No sooner had word gotten out that former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt was considering mounting a political comeback than the Colorado Democrats were sounding the alarm – and passing the hat. In a fundraising email blasted out Wednesday, the director of the state Democrats’ House Majority Project warned supporters that Klingenschmitt, a Colorado Springs Republican,…
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The return of Dr. Chaps? Gordon Klingenschmitt weighs run against Tony Exum
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Former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, the Colorado Springs Republican and former Navy chaplain known as “Dr. Chaps,” said Tuesday night he’s forming an exploratory committee to weigh a bid against state Rep. Tony Exum, the Colorado Springs Democrat who holds one of the state’s swingiest of swing seats. Klingenschmitt told a group of Republican activists…
