gordon klingenschmitt
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Democrats want it both ways on Lebsock controversy
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Amidst the wave of sexual harassment allegations from Hollywood to Alabama to the Colorado State Capitol, and as an evangelical Republican who condemns sexual harassment and sexual immorality, I will hereby argue why my friend Rep. Steve Lebsock should immediately switch from Democrat to Republican. Lebsock and I served together as state representatives, often dueling…
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Colorado’s Dr. Chaps goes to Alabama, says Roy Moore’s accusers lie
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Alabama Senate candidate and “Ten Commandments Judge” Roy Moore had some controversy-seasoned Colorado support Thursday during a press conference with religious leaders intended to refute the latest allegations of sexual misconduct. Prominent at his side during the presser: controversy lightning rod, former Colorado lawmaker and TV pastor Gordon Klingenschmitt, aka Dr. Chaps. Klingenschmitt, who served…
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Some El Paso County Republicans up in arms over proposal to replace county chair tonight
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Some members of the El Paso County Republican Party’s executive committee are crying foul over a proposal to name a new county chair at a meeting tonight rather than throw the selection to the much larger central committee at a later date. County GOP chairman Trevor Dierdorff, who was elected to the post this spring,…
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Former lawmakers land county party positions at reorganization meetings
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Three former legislators won election to county party offices on Saturday as state Democrats and Republicans conduct their biennial reorganization meetings. Denver Democrats elected former state Rep. Mike Cerbo, D-Denver, to a two-year term as the county party’s chairman, Adams County Republicans tapped former state Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, as vice chair, and El…
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Former Colorado Springs Rep. Klingenschmitt: Rival ‘hired’ ‘my rapist’ to ‘defame me’
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Yes, former Colorado Springs Republican state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt really said that – to be precise, he wrote it, in his e-newsletter on Friday – although he presumably meant some of it only figuratively. Klingenschmitt, who was soundly defeated last June in the GOP primary for a state Senate seat in Colorado Springs, lost his latest political bid, to…
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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
