jeff hays

ICYMI: Teachers and guns, Denver Water investigated, TABOR changes? and more …

Feb 26, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

You know all about the big political news of the past week: Hickenlooper says (projecting about two years out) he has no plans to run for president in 2020 (haven’t we heard that somewhere before?); support seems to be growing for the confirmation of Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court and the…
West Slope’s McCarney makes it three hats in the ring for state GOP chair

Feb 21, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Mesa County Trump campaign Chair Kevin McCarney has joined the fray of those vying to lead Colorado’s Republican Party – lending the race for state party chair a West Slope voice and what McCarney says is the only real plan to boost party prospects. With an eye toward two rivals already in the field for weeks – and the April…
PHOTOS: Ytterberg reflects on tenure as Jeffco GOP chair, looks toward future under Trump administration

Feb 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

On his last day as chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, Don Ytterberg had a few things to say. After welcoming several hundred members of the county GOP’s central committee – along with family, friends and a handful of Republican candidates – to the party’s biennial reorganization meeting on Feb. 4, at Green Mountain…
Incumbent Derrick Wilburn endorses Sherrie Gibson for state GOP vice chair

Feb 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Incumbent Colorado Republican Party Vice Chairman Derrick Wilburn said Wednesday he’s endorsing Sherrie Gibson for the vice chair position in the upcoming state GOP leadership elections. “I know what it takes to be effective in this role,” Wilburn said in a statement. “Sherrie is more than capable. I whole-heartedly offer an enthusiastic endorsement of Sherrie…
Former lawmakers land county party positions at reorganization meetings

Feb 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Three former legislators won election to county party offices on Saturday as state Democrats and Republicans conduct their biennial reorganization meetings. Denver Democrats elected former state Rep. Mike Cerbo, D-Denver, to a two-year term as the county party’s chairman, Adams County Republicans tapped former state Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, as vice chair, and El…
Steve House: Stop fighting over support for Trump, look to future of state GOP

Feb 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Calling the dispute a “useless exercise” and a distraction, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House said Monday he wants the candidates competing for his job to stop arguing about who supported Donald Trump when, and whether they did so with sufficient gusto. Instead of debating what happened last year, House told The Colorado Statesman, the…
Republican state chair candidates hurl charges over Trump support

Feb 10, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The race for Colorado Republican Party leadership heated up this week as state chair candidates Jeff Hays and George Athanasopoulos each questioned his opponent’s depth of support for Donald Trump. Hays, the outgoing chairman of the El Paso County Republican Party, and Athanasopoulos, who lost a bid last year challenging U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, are…
Co-chair of Colorado Trump campaign ‘disappointed’ with Hays endorsement

Feb 10, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A statewide co-chair of the 2016 Colorado Trump campaign said Friday she was frustrated and disappointed that the campaign’s other co-chair sent an email earlier in the week to Republicans endorsing Jeff Hays in the race for state GOP chair on behalf of the Trump campaign. “As a co-chair of the Trump team, I have…
Colorado Trump team backs Hays in state chair race, but Athanasopoulos fires back

Feb 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

President Donald Trump’s Colorado campaign team threw its weight behind El Paso County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Hays on Wednesday in the race for state GOP chair. But Hays’s opponent, former congressional candidate George Athanasopoulos, was having none of it, calling the endorsement “preposterous” and predicting the move could backfire among the grassroots Republicans supporting…
Latest complaint by GOP dissident draws skeptics, fuels doubts about campaign law

Feb 7, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Matt Arnold is about as popular as Hillary Clinton in some Colorado Republican circles. Sure, he’s a member of the party himself, yet the maverick activist is responsible for filing more campaign-finance complaints than anyone else under Colorado’s 14-year-old law on the subject – and a whole lot of those efforts have been directed at his own tribe. The tally of court…