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Threats, harassment a grim part of public life, lawmakers say
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A side effect of taking public policy positions in 21st century politics – being threatened Capitol veterans and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle greeted news that a 21-year-old Arvada man had been arrested and charged with threatening to shoot state Sen. Laura Woods with sympathy for the Arvada Republican and a grim acknowledgement that…
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The Hot Sheet, August 9, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 148 | AUGUST 09, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning. Yesterday, Colorado activist groups of all sorts of varieties submitted petition signatures to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams‘s office in attempts to legislate from the streets, placing issues near and dear to their hearts on the November general election…
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Trump’s Colorado campaign announces senior staff
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Donald Trump’s Colorado campaign on Monday announced its senior staff, including several operatives and politicians familiar to state Republicans. “The team we have assembled in Colorado will help bring victory to the Trump campaign in November. I am confident that every staff member will help spread Mr. Trump’s message of change throughout the state,” state…
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Noonan: Surprise! State House and Senate leadership agreed with each other in 2016
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Four of the six legislative leaders are retiring: Democratic House Speaker Dickie Lee Hullinghorst, Senate President Bill Cadman, Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel and House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso. House Majority Leader Crisanta Duran and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, both from Denver, will return. With four members of leadership waving goodbye, perhaps it’s not…
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Western Conservative Summit: An offstage scrapbook (photos)
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Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute hosted the seventh-annual Western Conservative Summit this weekend at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver and drew national conservative figures to address the event’s approximate 4,000 attendees, including presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, former Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, RedState founder Christian conservative pundit Erick…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
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Chaps, Gardner continue to prove Senate District 12 GOP primary is one to watch
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Like many of the political races this year, the race for the Senate District 12 Republican primary has not been a cakewalk for either contender. In a race that is nearly deadlocked, current House District 15 Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt and Robert “Bob” Gardner, a former state representative, are locked in an intensive struggle for the…
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Hickenlooper signs bill creating national cybersecurity center in Colorado Springs
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Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation on the steps of the El Pomar Center Friday at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. At a bill signing ceremony crowded with state legislators and other high-ranking officials, he jotted his signature to an act establishing Colorado’s formal push to become a national leader in cybersecurity. House Bill 16-1453…
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Donna Lynne wins legislative confirmation as Colorado’s new lieutenant governor
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Health care executive Donna Lynne will be Colorado’s new lieutenant governor. Lynne was approved by the Senate on a 35-0 vote Wednesday night after winning unanimous approval by the five members of the Senate State Affairs committee earlier in the afternoon. Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Lynne as his choice to replace outgoing Lt. Gov.…
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House green lights Lynne nomination for lieutenant governor
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The House voted to approve the nomination of Donna Lynne as Colorado lieutenant governor on Friday by an overwhelming 54 -11 vote. Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Lynne as his choice to replace outgoing Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia at the end of March. Hickenlooper touted Lynne’s experience as a top-level figure in corporate and government settings.…
