jason kander

TRAIL MIX | Jason Kander stops trying to ‘outrun’ depression

Oct 5, 2018

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Ernest Luning

This column is usually about candidates running for office, but this week it’s about a candidate who stopped running. On Oct. 2, in a remarkably candid online post, Missouri Democrat Jason Kander, the frontrunner in next year’s race for mayor of Kansas City, declared he was ending his campaign. After 11 years of “trying to…
Democratic secretary of state candidate Jena Griswold wins endorsement from Let America Vote organization

Mar 9, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Calling her a “voting rights champion,” Let America Vote, a progressive organization devoted to fighting voter suppression efforts and expanding voting rights, this week endorsed Jena Griswold, one of two Democrats challenging Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams. “Jena Griswold knows that the right to vote is fundamental in our country, and I know she’ll…
Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election (March 4)

Mar 4, 2018

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Ernest Luning

STRIKE UP THE BAND … It is, after all, March Fourth. The celebration started a few days early in Colorado, when John Philip Sousa IV, the grandson of the composer and marching band icon, was on hand to endorse a pair of longshot Republican candidates – Greg Lopez, the former Parker mayor running for governor,…
Missouri’s Jason Kander to headline fundraiser for Democratic secretary of state candidate Jena Griswold

Mar 1, 2018

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Ernest Luning

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’…
Hickenlooper, Duran, Guzman among honorees at Colorado Democrats’ inaugural Obama Dinner

Jan 19, 2018

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Ernest Luning

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,…
Colorado Democrats want help naming annual fundraising dinner

Dec 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The Colorado Democratic Party is still looking for a name for its annual fundraising dinner – for the time being, the upcoming one is known as the 85th Annual Dinner – and plans to conduct a poll after gathering suggestions. The party is also accepting nominations in four categories for awards that will be bestowed…
Statehouse Democrats slam Rep. Dave Williams’ ‘take a knee’ allegation, charge Republican ‘will lie about anything’

Sep 30, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Democratic lawmakers were furious Friday after state Rep. Dave Williams, a Colorado Springs Republican, alleged some Democrats were planning to “take a knee” at the start of next week’s special legislative session in solidarity with NFL players, charging that Williams invented the accusation out of whole cloth. Williams issued a statement Friday morning denouncing what…
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams turns over state voter data to White House commission

Aug 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s secretary of state’s office successfully submitted voter data Tuesday to a White House commission on election fraud, capping a month of heated controversy over the request. The office was unable to send the data on Monday, as originally planned, due to a computer glitch, but received confirmation the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity had…
Eagle County Democrat Dylan Roberts launches campaign for House District 26 seat

Jul 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Democratic Party luminary Jason Kander gave Eagle County prosecutor Dylan Roberts some advice a few months back, and this week he took it. Kander, a former Missouri secretary of state and 2016 U.S. Senate nominee, delivered the keynote address at the Colorado Democratic Party’s annual dinner in March, the same night Roberts presented a pair…
Election officials slam Kobach claim that Colorado voters canceling registration might be felons, non-citizens

Jul 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Election officials on Friday tore into a suggestion by the co-chair of a White House commission on election fraud that Colorado voters withdrawing their registration might have something to hide. After Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the Republican vice chair of the bipartisan Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, asked for extensive voter registration data…