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Missouri’s Jason Kander to headline fundraiser for Democratic secretary of state candidate Jena Griswold
Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, the president of Let America Vote and a 2016 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, will be the featured guest at a March fundraiser for Colorado secretary of state candidate Jena Griswold, her campaign announced Wednesday. Kander and Griswold, who is challenging Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams’…
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Colorado Senate candidate who ‘glitter-bombed’ Mitt Romney quits Democratic primary, mounts independent bid
Charging that the Democratic establishment has already picked its nominee, Senate District 32 candidate Peter Smith, who gained national attention when he “glitter-bombed” Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Denver six years ago, said this week he’s left the Democratic Party and plans to run for the seat as an independent. Initially issued a citation…
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DeGette primary challenger Saira Rao running for a ‘seat at the table’
Saira Rao says she decided to stop practicing law at a New York firm and start a publishing company devoted to children’s fiction featuring diverse characters when she was watching cartoons with her daughter Lila one day about six years ago. “I saw the utter lack of diversity, and that’s when I switched gears to…
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Gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Cunningham wants a Denver version of Central Park
Kathleen CunninghamParty: UnaffiliatedAge: 64Hometown: downtown DenverOccupation: Retired CPAFamily: Four siblingsPolitical experience: Independent and write-in races for president and governor since 2010 This is a weekly series by Colorado Politics to feature a wide range of candidates for governor to tell voters who they are as people before we plow into their politics in the weeks…
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Trump’s first State of the Union touches on Colorado concerns
President Trump used his State of the Union address Tuesday night to seek unity after a divisive first year, while Colorado’s undocumented immigrants and highway builders listened closely. He upped his promise of $1 trillion for infrastructure to $1.5 trillion by promising to leverage local and state dollars and private investment. He called for…
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Colorado Democrats warn: The Russians want your emails, so delete anything embarrassing
Candidates, campaigns and political parties aren’t the only ones gearing up for the election, the Colorado Democratic Party warns in this month’s Democratic Dispatch newsletter. The Russian government-aligned hackers who broke into email accounts belonging to Democrats – including presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, her campaign chairman John Podesta and state Sen. Andy Kerr – in…
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Democrat Jason Crow beats Mike Coffman in quarterly fundraising, lags GOP incumbent’s cash on hand
Democrat Jason Crow outraised Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in the most recent fundraising quarter, but the five-term incumbent outspent his challenger in Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District and had more cash on hand at the end of the year, according to reports the campaigns plan to file with the Federal Election Commission. In the…
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Hickenlooper, Duran, Guzman among honorees at Colorado Democrats’ inaugural Obama Dinner
Three newcomers to Aurora’s nonpartisan city council will be honored with the Rising Star Award by the Colorado Democratic Party at its inaugural Obama Dinner on Feb. 3 in Denver, the party announced. State party chair Morgan Carroll also plans to give the Chair’s Service Award to three term-limited state officials – Gov. John Hickenlooper,…
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FEEDBACK: ‘Primaries make us stronger, not weaker’
Editorial got it wrong on guv’s race It was with great disappointment that we read an editorial in Colorado Politics’ news affiliate, the Colorado Springs Gazette, calling for a preemptive conclusion to our democratic primary process in favor of prematurely anointing one candidate (“EDITORIAL: Republicans should clear the field for Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton,” Jan.…
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Congressional candidate Levi Tillemann says top House Democrat Steny Hoyer urged him to end primary campaign
Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in House leadership, encouraged Democrat Levi Tillemann to end his primary campaign in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District during a December meeting at a Denver hotel, saying that state and national congressional and party leaders had decided “very early on” to consolidate their resources behind another…