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Former lawmakers land county party positions at reorganization meetings
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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…
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Noonan: Final results show election angst on both sides turns into not much in Colorado
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In the grand total of many things political, Democrats did well in Colorado in 2016, going against the fly-over state trend. Even so, at the state level, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Statewide, unaffiliated voters broke toward Democrats at about 4.5 percent. With party registrations in November at almost even…
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State legislative contests resolve into stalemate
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Democrats add to House majority; Republicans retain Senate majority At the end of a long election season that delivered shocks at every stage, including a dramatic upset win for Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, voters in Colorado shuffled some of the players at the state Capitol but didn’t change the game.…
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? Noonan: The May-Priola Senate race could be the linchpin for both parties
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As it turns out, the 2016 general election in Colorado will probably follow the recent trends of presidential election cycles, with two exceptions that may help Republicans hold the state Senate. The most important numbers to watch are ballot returns. As of time of publication, Democrats have turned in more ballots than Republicans. That’s especially…
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Brown: Politics is local; why I care about the Colorado Senate
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When it comes to politics, seemingly all of the attention this year is focused on the presidential election. While the outcome of the presidential race is important, the reality is that local and statewide elections have a far greater impact on our day to day lives. This year, the stakes couldn’t be higher. In January…
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Hickenlooper faces repeat of 2013 as Soros, Steyer pour cash into Democratic legislative races
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If progressive mega-donors George Soros and Tom Steyer really wanted to help Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, they might consider funneling a few bucks to legislative Republicans. Instead, the big-spending liberals are sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars into flipping control of the state Legislature to Democrats, targeting the three most competitive state Senate races in an attempt to…
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In race to win diverse swing Senate District 25, May, Priola relish long-march door-to-door
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There’s really no other effective way to do it. People tune out TV and radio and mailers are quickly recycled. You have to go door to door, meeting the residents, chatting them up, listening to their concerns, doing what you can to win them over or at least make sure that, when they’re staring down…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
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Republican Sandgren launches challenge to Salazar
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Former middle school biology teacher Jessica Sandgren kicked off her campaign to challenge state Rep. Joe Salazar, D-Thornton, Wednesday night surrounded by House Republican leadership and several elected officials from Adams County. House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, who introduced Sandgren at her campaign launch at the Thorncreek Golf Course clubhouse, recalled that voters in…
