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Silverii: Doing the right thing isn’t always easy
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As readers may have heard in the news, on television or on the radio, the Board of Directors of ProgressNow Colorado has voted to oppose Amendment 69, the “ColoradoCare” health care ballot measure, despite our broad agreement with the ColoradoCare campaign’s stated goals. I wanted to take a moment to explain why we made this…
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Aguilar: ColoradoCare: Real progress, right now
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ProgressNow, a nonprofit that claims to support progressive issues, came out against ColoradoCare/Amendment 69. With this decision, the organization abandoned the people of Colorado and joined forces with status quo establishment politicians and profit- driven private insurers who make it their business to deny care to those who need it most. ProgressNow abandoned legendary progressive…
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Carroll says she isn’t supporting ColoradoCare ballot measure
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Democratic congressional candidate Morgan Carroll said Friday she is opposing Amendment 69, the Colorado ballot measure known as ColoradoCare, saying that problems with health care costs and coverage need solutions at the national level. The proposal would create universal health care in the state, run by a single insurer financed by payroll taxes, payments for…
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The Hot Sheet, August 18, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 155 | AUGUST 18, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – This morning we rise to greet new possibilities,To stab campaign signs into our lawns,Or other people’s lawns,Or to tear them from other people’s lawns,Secretly under cloak of night,That’s you, not me,I have better things to do,Watch…
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Progressive groups rupture, oppose ColoradoCare
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Calling it a “well-intentioned but flawed proposal,” a leading progressive organization has decided to oppose the ColoradoCare amendment that would create a state-run health care program. The board of directors of ProgressNow Colorado voted to oppose Amendment 69 on the Colorado general election ballot, despite broad agreement with the ColoradoCare campaign’s stated goals. “The first…
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Liberal group urges protesters to ignore Trump in Colorado
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Last time Donald Trump was in town, they built a wall. But this time, a prominent progressive advocacy group in Colorado is encouraging opponents of the Republican presidential nominee to stand down. “Donald Trump’s entire political movement is built on irrational anger and confrontation – so let’s not give him what he wants,” wrote ProgressNow…
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Liberal groups plan to build wall to greet Trump
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Liberal groups plan to welcome Donald Trump to Colorado by building a wall of cardboard boxes – and then fill them with donations for the needy – when the presumptive Republican presidential nominee makes his first campaign stop in Denver on Friday. The activists, organized by ProgressNow Colorado, say they’ll erect the symbolic wall –…
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Silverii: Congress should follow Colorado’s lead on gun safety
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The shocking violence committed against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans in Florida, on June 12 has horrified us all. The attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando has brought together the combined threats of terrorism, gun violence and hate our nation faces today. Here in Colorado, our state’s painful history of mass murder has…
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Silverii takes reins at ProgressNow Colorado
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Ian Silverii, the House Democrats’ former chief of staff, took over as executive director of left-leaning online advocacy group ProgressNow Colorado on Wednesday, the organization announced. “I care deeply about the kind of policies we make on the state level,” Silverii told The Colorado Statesman. “With Congress being deadlocked for a decade, it’s fallen on…