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Letter: Debate commission should suspend arbitrary rules, include everyone
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Editor: Why do American voters have to choose between the two most unpopular presidential candidates in the last ten presidential election cycles? Because the Commission on Presidential Debates says so. The Commission on Presidential Debates sounds like an important public entity, but is, in fact, a private corporation hired by the Democratic and Republican parties.…
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Libertarian candidate Williams qualifies for Club 20’s U.S. Senate debate
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Colorado Libertarian candidate Lily Tang Williams will share the stage at the first U.S. Senate debate on Saturday in Grand Junction between Michael Bennet, the incumbent Democrat, and El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, his Republican challenger. It’ll be the first time in memory that a third-party or independent candidate has appeared at a debate sponsored…
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Green Party appealing to growing number of Colorado voters
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A social justice advocate and self-proclaimed radical, Arn Menconi said he spent 20 years working within the political system, trying to affect change through the Democratic Party, serving locally as an Eagle County Commissioner for eight years and campaigning for numerous party candidates, among them Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. But after watching Democrats like Bennet…
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Green Party’s Jill Stein campaigns in Colorado, woos voters wary of major party choices
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The Green Party’s Jill Stein made a presidential campaign stop in the Centennial State Saturday, courting the undecided Colorado voter, dissatisfied with the two major party candidates. Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, rallied a modest group of supporters at Colorado Springs’ Acacia Park, before leading a march through downtown chanting political battle cries like “Jill not…
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Nicolais: Court kicks third parties to the curb
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Trump or Clinton. Clinton or Trump. Our country’s two-party dichotomy dominates the presidential race and leaves little alternative for many Americans who view this year’s election as a choice between evils. With two dramatically flawed candidates securing the nominations of the Republican and Democratic parties, a morose pall cloaks the election. The very structure of…
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Bill Clinton in Vegas: Hillary’s email server ‘a mistake’
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Bill Clinton said it was a mistake for Hillary Clinton to maintain a personal email server even though her predecessors and her successor at the State Department did it, adding that she should’ve known a different set of rules would apply to her if she ever ran for president. Bill Clinton’s acknowledgement came during a question and answer period on Friday…
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The Hot Sheet, August 4, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 145 | AUGUST 04, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Another dawn, a new Hot Sheet prepared just for you. If you’re reading this, you made it through to a new day, presumably healthy and happy. If, however, you are reading this from a hospital…
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Western Slope Dems look down ballot in post-Bernie world
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With the official nomination of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, longtime Democrats and progressive political activists on Colorado’s Western Slope are grappling with the impacts on down-ballot races in a post-Bernie Sanders world. Some candidates and party officials are predicting a Democratic exodus of disaffected Bernie backers to the Green Party, while…
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Menconi: Our world is not for sale
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I’m Arn Menconi, and I am a candidate for U.S. Senate for the Green Party. I am running, because as a dad of two young children, our generation must take our democracy back. I want to represent the people, not corporations and the top one percent. I will fight to end the military industrial dominance of…
