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Former GOP congressional nominee urges Judy Reyher to resign, but newly appointed lawmaker isn’t backing down
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A former Republican congressional nominee called on recently appointed GOP state lawmaker Judy Reyher to step down over social media posts and comments criticizing African Americans, Muslims and others, but a defiant Reyher vowed to fight back against attacks she termed desperate and divisive. Reyher has come under fire since winning a vacancy appointment Monday…
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Otero County Republican Judy Reyher engulfed in controversy after contested House District 47 vacancy appointment
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The aftershocks were still coming days after a Republican vacancy committee picked a replacement for former state Rep. Clarice Navarro, the Pueblo Republican who resigned to take a position with the Trump administration in early November. Judy Reyher, a Swink resident and former Otero County GOP chair, won the appointment to Navarro’s seat on a…
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State senators Baumgardner, Tate hit with allegations of sexual harassment at Colorado Capitol
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Two Republican senators were accused Thursday of improper behavior at the Colorado Capitol amid a wave of sexual harassment and misconduct allegations that have rocked the Legislature over the past week, but the lawmakers both denied they had done anything inappropriate. In a story first reported by Bente Birkeland of public radio station KUNC and…
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Republican tax reform plan draws skeptical, accusatory reviews from Coloradans
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Senate Republicans veered onto a new course for tax reform Thursday, and Colorado leaders were both skeptical and accusatory, as the upper chamber’s GOP leadership proposed delaying the corporate tax cuts the president wants and scuttling the laborious efforts of Republicans in the House. Colorado Republican Party chairman Jeff Hays sided with the Senate Republicans…
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Centrist Project hopes to break statehouse gridlock by electing independent candidates
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Despite the fact that more Colorado voters are unaffiliated than belong to any one political party, the state has never elected an independent candidate to the Legislature – a 140-year streak a young organization called the Centrist Project aims to break in next year’s election. “Independents are a force to be reckoned with, but they’re…
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State Republican Party rallies around Trump and tax reform
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Is this the same #nevertrump Colorado GOP that yielded a walk out of last year’s Republican National Convention over Donald Trump? The state that gave the sitting president no delegates to the RNC, and he accused them of running a rigged game? Time heals all wounds and so do tax breaks for Republicans. Jeff Hays,…
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The Colorado GOP: ‘We want many voices, new ideas’
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No, it’s not a passage from some best-selling, self-help paperback: The great game of life is to always challenge yourself to become better than you were, better than you are, the best you can be. Nor is it a line from “Trump: The Art of the Deal” – though you’re getting warm. It’s part of…
