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Race for El Paso County’s House District 15 pits pastor against mechanic
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Colorado Springs-area pastor and Republican candidate Scott Bottoms is looking to retain the decades-long GOP stronghold in Colorado’s House District 15 in next month’s election. But Democrats say their candidate Alvin Sexton’s chances of winning the seat this year are more promising than in recent memory thanks to redistricting and changing demographics. El Paso County…
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Republican Kit Roupe sets grudge match with state Rep. Tony Exum Sr. in House District 17
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It’ll be round three this fall in Colorado’s seesaw House District 17 between state Rep. Tony Exum Sr., the incumbent Democrat, and former state Rep. Kit Roupe, the Republican, who filed Tuesday to run for the seat she won from Exum two elections ago and held for one term until Exum ousted her in the…
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Colorado Democrats already fundraising off chance Gordon Klingenschmitt could run for office again
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No sooner had word gotten out that former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt was considering mounting a political comeback than the Colorado Democrats were sounding the alarm – and passing the hat. In a fundraising email blasted out Wednesday, the director of the state Democrats’ House Majority Project warned supporters that Klingenschmitt, a Colorado Springs Republican,…
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The return of Dr. Chaps? Gordon Klingenschmitt weighs run against Tony Exum
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Former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, the Colorado Springs Republican and former Navy chaplain known as “Dr. Chaps,” said Tuesday night he’s forming an exploratory committee to weigh a bid against state Rep. Tony Exum, the Colorado Springs Democrat who holds one of the state’s swingiest of swing seats. Klingenschmitt told a group of Republican activists…
