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Q&A with Colorado lawmaker Barb Kirkmeyer | Republican says she’ll be a governor who ‘knows how to govern’
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State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer says her decades of experience in government — as a county commissioner, director of a state department and state legislator — have prepared her to be a “really great governor,” and the Brighton Republican argues that’s what it’ll take to pull Colorado out of the tailspin she says it’s in. The…
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Republican state lawmaker Barb Kirkmeyer set to launch campaign for Colorado governor
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Republican state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer filed paperwork Monday to run to be Colorado’s next governor, making the Brighton lawmaker’s long-anticipated campaign official. Kirkmeyer, who lost a close race for Congress in 2022, plans to make a formal announcement Tuesday evening in Fort Lupton, her campaign said in a release. The 66-year-old dairy farmer and fourth-generation…
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Q&A with Greg Lopez | Colorado Republican reflects on abbreviated stint in Congress
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Nearing the end of his six-month term representing Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, Douglas County Republican Greg Lopez told Colorado Politics in an exclusive interview that he’s been struck by the U.S. House of Representative’s inefficiency and disappointed that there’s little communication across the aisle. Lopez, a former Parker mayor and state director of the U.S.…
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Lauren Boebert lags challenger Ike McCorkle by double digits, Democrat’s internal poll shows
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An internal poll conducted last week for one of the three Democrats hoping to deny U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert another term in Congress shows potential challenger Ike McCorkle leading the Republican by double digits in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. However, a whopping one-third of the voters surveyed said they were undecided. McCorkle, a Marine veteran…
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Colorado lawmakers eye $2 billion budget hike amid deficit, courts tackle unique case of West African man accused of torture in Gambia, Colorado rejects drilling ban | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is April 1, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit – even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. Only a tight…
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Colorado lawmakers eye $2 billion budget hike amid deficit, courts tackle unique case of West African man accused of torture in Gambia, Colorado rejects drilling ban | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is April 1, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”);…
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Republicans pick Greg Lopez to for Ken Buck’s seat, court warns against questioning service animals, Lakewood rejects eliminating low-level crimes | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 29, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A Republican committee on Thursday night nominated Douglas County Republican Greg Lopez to run in a June special election to serve out the remainder of former U.S. Rep. Ken Buck’s term. Pitching himself as a “placeholder” candidate, Lopez argued that since he isn’t…
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Republicans pick Greg Lopez to for Ken Buck’s seat, court warns against questioning service animals, Lakewood rejects eliminating low-level crimes | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 29, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A Republican committee on Thursday night nominated Douglas County Republican Greg Lopez to run in a June special election to serve out the remainder of former U.S. Rep. Ken Buck’s term. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Pitching himself as a “placeholder” candidate, Lopez argued that…
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10th Circuit tosses GOP challenge to Colorado’s campaign spending limits
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The federal appeals court based in Denver on Monday rejected an attempt by a trio of Republicans to temporarily block enforcement of the voluntary campaign spending limits Colorado voters enacted two decades ago as an anti-corruption measure. Although the plaintiffs brought their lawsuit and request for an injunction in early 2022, prior to the midterm…
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Colorado GOP primary results pave way for more competitive November elections
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Colorado voters made two things clear in Tuesday’s primary election: The state’s blue streak could be put to the test in this year’s general election, and the Democrats who spent millions of dollars trying to pick Republican nominees failed spectacularly. In linked developments, voters in the state’s Republican primary — including a record-high share of unaffiliated…
