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TRAIL MIX | Crow flies to Duckworth for House speaker instead of Pelosi
Newly minted U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, an Aurora Democrat, stuck to his guns Thursday by refusing to vote for Nancy Pelosi for House speaker and instead cast his vote for U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois. The other members of Colorado’s House delegation voted for the nominees put forward by the two party caucuses –…
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Rep-elect Jason Crow names Iraqi immigrant as district director
Jason Crow, the first Democrat to represent Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, on Friday announced that he’s hired Maytham Alshadood, an Iraqi immigrant who served as a military translator and combat interpreter, to be his district director. Crow, an attorney and Army Ranger veteran who unseated five-term Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in November, said his…
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Perlmutter reverses course, will support Pelosi for speaker following compromise
By Alan Fram, Associated Press, and Colorado Politics WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi all but ensured that she will become House speaker next month, quelling a revolt by disgruntled Democrats including Colorado’s Ed Perlmutter by agreeing to limit her tenure to no more than four additional years in the chamber’s top post. In exchange,…
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Pelosi in talks with Perlmutter, other critics about term limits for House leaders
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is in advanced negotiations with critics inside her party — including U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado — about an agreement that could clear the way for her to be elected speaker next month. Despite presiding over a 40-seat midterm-election pickup last month, Pelosi, D-California, has been dogged by internal…
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Trump vs. Pelosi: Will it be war?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined by from left, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio., speaks to media at Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, to announce her nomination by House Democrats to lead them in the new Congress. She still faces a…
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THE PODIUM | The election was a mandate; voters now expect action
The 2018 election cycle was a clear victory for working families across the state. We successfully elected candidates statewide that have committed to stand up for issues working families care about like lifting up wages, affordable quality healthcare, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, climate justice and the right to organize. While pundits may attribute this election…
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Gun-control advocates see election as turning point in battle against NRA
By Kelly Cohen, Washington Examiner The election of pro-gun-control lawmakers like Colorado’s Jason Crow in the House, which helped Democrats capture the majority during this month’s midterm elections, is being seen by those wanting to impose stronger gun restrictions as a pivotal political moment. “The tide has been turning for some time now, with more…
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WATCH: Jason Crow’s election night victory speech
Democratic challenger Jason Crow has defeated Republican incumbent Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, part of a “blue wave” that flipped leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives to the Democrats. The district covers the eastern edge of the Denver metro area-including all of Aurora and parts of cities like Centennial, Highlands Ranch,…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Even after blue wave, Colorado retains its purple hue
Team Blue “ran the table” in last Tuesday’s Colorado state elections. It’s been “four score and two” years since Democrats won all four statewide elected positions in the state back in 1936 – governor, treasurer, attorney general, and secretary of state – and won majorities in both houses of the state legislature. What accounts for…
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ELECTION 2018 | Crow beats Coffman in key race for control of Congress
Voters in Denver’s suburbs just did something that doesn’t happen very often in Colorado in an election – unseat a congressional incumbent. Members of either major party have only managed to pull it off three times in the last 30 years, but Democratic attorney Jason Crow ended Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s three decades in…