gordon klingenschmitt
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Democrats want it both ways on Lebsock controversy
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
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
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
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’
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
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…