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Western Conservative Summit rejects press pass for Samantha Bee (Video)
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She wasn’t the Centennial Institute’s preferred celebrity to begin with, but after using some crude language about Ivanka Trump, comedian Samantha Bee will have to find an alternative route into next weekend’s Western Conservative Summit. Organizers of the largest gathering of conservatives outside the D.C. beltway said Saturday that the hostess of “Full Frontal…
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Jeff Sessions will speak at the Western Conservative Summit June 8
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The Western Conservative Summit will hear from a member of President Trump’s immediate orbit for a second year in a row. The Centennial Institute, which puts on the annual gathering in Denver, said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will speak June 8. Last year Trump attorney Jay Sekulow spoke on religious liberty at the event,…
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‘Nevertheless, We Persisted’: Leslie Herod, Fanny Starr among Colorado authors in anthology
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State Rep. Leslie Herod, Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr and former Lt. Gov. Gail Schoettler are among a number of Coloradans whose essays are included in “Nevertheless, We Persisted,” an anthology for young adults that features diverse voices recounting how they were held back in their youth but persisted. Other contributors include actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy,…
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner lifting most holds on Trump’s nominations
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said he’s lifting most of the holds he’s put on President Trump’s Justice Department nominees over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ threats to crackdown on legal marijuana. Gardner spoke by phone with Colorado Politics and a handful of other Colorado reporters Thursday morning to say he had made progress in negotiations with…
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Sen. Cory Gardner stands ground on marijuana vs. Jeff Sessions’ taunts
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Blame Cory Gardner. Democrats have been doing that for a while, but now U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is down on the senator from Colorado, claiming the fellow Republican is using pot to trip up the Justice Department. On Tuesday Gardner wasn’t backing down. Gardner is blocking Trump nominees over Sessions’ decision in January to…
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Lamborn challenger Owen Hill blasts GOP incumbent’s position on pot enforcement
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State Sen. Owen Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican challenging U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a primary, on Monday called on the federal government to keep its hands off Colorado’s legalized marijuana industry and tore into Lamborn for welcoming a recent shift in policy that could lead to a federal crackdown. “Doug Lamborn is coming out in…
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Colorado’s Cory Gardner draws fire from national police union
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It’s usually a friend to the GOP, having endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016, but the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest law-enforcement labor union, has come out swinging at Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. What’s the beef? Gardner’s vow to hold up nominees to the many vacant posts in the U.S. Justice…
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Medical marijuana enforcement on hold, for now, thanks to federal budget deal
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The Congressional budget deal that re-opened the federal government after a brief shutdown had one bright light for the medical marijuana industry. According to Marijuana Business Daily, the deal extended a budget amendment that blocks the Justice Department from spending any money that would “interfere with state marijuana laws or businesses.” The amendment is known…
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Just when it seemed every Colorado pol was thumbing his nose at Jeff Sessions …
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… along comes 5th Congressional District Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn – that uber-Republican from ultra-GOP El Paso County – and he breaks ranks. Days after other Republicans as well as Democrats in Colorado’s D.C. delegation had sounded off with varying degrees of outrage at the U.S. attorney general’s renewed offensive against legal recreational marijuana,…
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FEEDBACK: Pushing back at the feds; picking the right pols
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Stop federal encroachment on legal cannabis in Colorado Colorado’s cannabis industry has generated more than $200 million annually for the state. In addition, opiate-related deaths in states that hae legalized cannabis have fallen by 25 percent. Still, the federal government in the form of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided that it will allow…
