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Sen. Randy Baumgardner prevails in Senate vote on expulsion
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DENVER – The Colorado Senate tied 17-17 over whether to expel Sen. Randy Baumgardner Monday night, falling seven votes short of the two-thirds needed to remove him. The Republican from Hot Sulphur Springs is accused by a former legislative aide who said he “grabbed and slapped her buttocks on four separate occasions” during the legislative session…
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Is there a deal in place for Baumgardner to resign? Depends on whom you ask.
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DENVER – Friday, March 30 could be a big day in the state Senate. Or not. It’s not because of what might happen in the building. Both the House and Senate are closed Friday in observance of Good Friday. It’s because a sitting state senator may resign his seat. Or not. 5280 magazine reported Tuesday night…
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Accusations against Sen. Tate aren’t sexual harassment, Senate president says
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DENVER – Even if the accusations against Sen. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, are true, they don’t add up to sexual harassment. That’s the determination of Senate President Kevin Grantham. According to a report the accuser provided the press last week, she “alleges that Mr. Tate made comments about her clothing, that he said, ‘I like the way…
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Colorado Senate gives preliminary pass to PERA fix
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DENVER – The Colorado Senate gave an initial OK to a bill that seeks to shore up the state’s ailing public pension plan Monday morning. Senate Bill 200 still has to pass a formal vote in the upper chamber, where Republicans have a one-seat majority, before the Democratic majority in the House has its chance to…
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Colorado House moving bills aimed at high healthcare costs
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DENVER – House Democrats have made good, so far, on their promise to pass bills aimed at curbing healthcare costs, and Thursday they passed one out of committee to address the high cost of insulin. House Bill 1009, sponsored by Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, would require pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, insurers and nonprofits to…
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Republican aide to Colorado senator fired over sexual harassment post
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DENVER – A source in a Colorado Politics story Wednesday about sexual harassment accusations against Sen. Jack Tate was fired Thursday morning over an offensive social media post. Andrew Knarr, 25, was fired as an aide to Sen. Jim Smallwood, R-Parker, for an offensive posting on Snapchat about the sexual harassment training he received as a…
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Sen. Jack Tate’s accuser releases confidential sexual harassment complaint
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The former legislative intern accusing Sen. Jack Tate of sexual harassment is asking why he has not faced consequences based on her allegations. An independent investigator two months ago found the woman was more likely telling the truth than the Republican senator from Centennial. KUNC reporter Bente Birkeland posted a story Wednesday in which the…
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Bill to fix PERA amended to exclude taxpayers from ‘shared responsibility’
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A bill to fill a $32 billion to $50 billion hole in the Public Employees’ Retirement Association won’t have the public employers’ help, if it keeps an amendment passed in Senate Bill 200‘s first committee vote Thursday. In a five-member committee with three Republicans, Sen. Jack Tate. R-Centennial, needed to make the change to secure…
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PERA fix plows ahead to shore up Colorado public pension plan
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A Colorado Senate committee listened to four and a half hours of testimony on how to fix the state’s shaky pension plan Tuesday, but it didn’t take a vote. Instead, the Finance Committee will reconvene Thursday to throw amendments at Senate Bill 200. At stake is a plan to fill in a projected pension shortfall…
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Senate President Kevin Grantham: Denver DA not doing her job
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Senate President Kevin Grantham of Canon City responded Monday morning to the latest letter from Denver District Attorney Beth McCann on whether she would pursue investigations of sexual harassment issues in the General Assembly. Grantham said McCann’s latest letter, issued last Thursday, wasn’t responsive to a letter he sent two days earlier – the second…
