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Aaron Harber rolls out TV talk with Colorado candidates
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DENVER – If they can’t make to a rally, Coloradans can see and hear candidates for statewide office as veteran public affairs host Aaron Harber sits down for an hour to question them on the issues. “The Aaron Harber Show” airs across the state over the airwaves, on cable and online, with a new episode each Sunday.…
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Colorado Republicans agree to fill Rep. Steve Lebsock’s House seat
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Colorado Republicans said Friday morning they will take up Rep. Steve Lebsock on his tacit invitation for the GOP, not his former party, to fill his seat in north metro Denver. Lebsock, the House District 34 representative from Thornton, switched his party affiliation less than an hour before he was voted out 52-9 over multiple…
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Democrats, Republicans set to gather across Colorado for precinct caucuses
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That biennial ritual of neighbor-to-neighbor democracy, the precinct caucus, is nearly here. Across Colorado, Republican and Democratic voters will convene at 7 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, March 6, in schools, churches, community centers and other neighborhood gathering places, marking the parties’ first official step toward picking candidates. This year, Republicans are grappling with what party…
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Mueller indictments: Russian agents targeted Colorado in plot to sway election to Trump
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Russians intending to influence the 2016 presidential election targeted Colorado and other swing states as part of a multi-million dollar operation to “sow discord” among Americans while helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to an indictment released Friday naming 13 Russians and three Russian organizations. The federal indictment, brought by Special Counsel Robert…
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Following hullabaloo, flu-stricken Tom Tancredo misses Colorado Hispanic Republican forum
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Flu season collided with campaign season this week, sidelining Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo for a few days and keeping him from participating Wednesday night in a forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans – this after organizers initially said Tancredo couldn’t take part, but then relented after his supporters raised a hue and cry and…
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Colorado Democrats, Republicans trade shots over Tancredo’s participation in Hispanic GOP forum
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Seizing upon an ongoing dispute between state Republicans over whether gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo can attend a forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, a spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party gleefully tweaked the opposition Tuesday. State GOP officials, for their part, shrugged off the jab from across the aisle, with one calling it a…
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Colorado Hispanic Republicans to allow Tancredo to take part in forum — if his fans come up with $1,500
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Tom Tancredo will be able to join fellow Republican gubernatorial candidates later this month at a forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans if his supporters can come up with $1,500 to help pay for the event. As of Monday afternoon, about half the money had been pledged, according to a Republican working to broker…
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Colorado Hispanic Republicans brush off Tancredo request to join gubernatorial forum
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Tom Tancredo wants to participate in an upcoming gubernatorial candidate forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, a campaign spokesman says, but the organization has said the event lineup is set and there’s no room for the former five-term congressman known for his hard-line positions on illegal immigration. In response, the Tancredo campaign is reminding…
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Meanwhile, back in Colorado: State GOP redirects its ranks after Moore’s defeat
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Just in case its members needed to be reminded that all politics is, ultimately, local, the Colorado Republican Party sent its members an e-missive this week urging them “to focus on the task at hand” – i.e., politics here in Colorado – in the wake of maverick Republican Roy Moore’s loss to Democrat Doug Jones…
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Q&A with Morgan Carroll: ‘There is no greater calling than fighting for people, our rights and our planet’
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Regardless of their politics, those who have served in elected office alongside Morgan Carroll will tell you she’s one politician who doesn’t flinch. Now the chair of the state Democratic Party, Carroll is a veteran of the campaign trail who carved out a reputation as a dogged warrior. After years in the legislature, where she…
