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#Retweet: Here are the best tweets this week in Colorado politics
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– Jon Caldara (@JonCaldara) March 12, 2018
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Conservation Colorado fundraising off Sen. Cory Gardner’s report card
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is doing some good for Conservation Colorado, but perhaps not in the way he would like. The state’s largest environment organization sent out a fundraising e-mail Wednesday with the Republican from Yuma as its centerpiece. Here’s what the pitch from deputy director Jessica Goad said, in part: Wow. We knew Senator…
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Maria Handley steps in to guide Conservation Colorado through the interim
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Seasoned Colorado politico Maria Handley will lead Conservation Colorado while the search continues for ta permanent executive director, the state’s largest and highest profile environmental organization tells Colorado Politics. Most immediately, Handley was the executive director of Generation Latino, but she’s familiar in Colorado political circles after 15 years working on campaigns, including those for…
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Conservation Colorado endorses Rep. Faith Winter in north metro Denver Senate race
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Conservation Colorado has a history of picking winners with its endorsement, and they’re favoring Rep. Faith Winter in her run for state Senate next year. Winter, a Democrat from Westminster, hopes to take on Republican incumbent Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik of Thornton in District 24. Thornton City Councilman Adam Matkowsky dropped out of the Democratic…
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Conservation Colorado backs first city-level candidates in Aurora, scores 2 more wins
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Conservation Colorado is this juggernaut green organization that gives state and national candidates the heebie-jeebies in the West’s political wilds. Last year, 54 of the 60 candidates it endorsed went on to win. And whenever legislation affecting the environment, large or small, is debated at the Capitol in Denver, Conservation Colorado is there in big…
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State’s largest environmental group sets sights on Aurora City Council election
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The crowded race for Aurora City Council could turn into a real barn-burner with the attention it’s drawing – especially from progressive groups. We told you last week about progressive group Colorado People’s Action throwing its support behind four candidates for council, promising to canvass neighborhoods in an effort to increase turnout. Well, now the…
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‘Western Way’ wants conservatives to own up to climate change — and take the lead
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How’s that again? Republicans were the original environmentalists? Conservatives – particularly in the West – should find it easy being green? That’s what John Andrews seems to be telling us. And when Andrews talks, Colorado’s Republicans and conservatives tend to listen. The former state Senate president, onetime presidential speechwriter, serial think-tank founder and all-around political and moral compass for the Centennial…
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Colorado Senate advances ban on toxic ‘coal rolling’ cultural protest
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Colorado lawmakers are inching toward outlawing “coal rolling,” the practice of adjusting the workings of a diesel truck in order to let loose at will clouds of unfiltered exhaust as a form of cultural protest in an age of electric cars and climate change. The state Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a revised version…
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Rescinding BLM gas waste reduction rule before Senate
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One of Colorado’s U.S. Senators is strongly opposed to a measure that would roll back an Obama administration rule to prevent the flaring and wasting of methane and natural gas developed on public and tribal lands, while the second is undecided. The rule was among several environmental regulations issued in the last days of the…
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Colorado U.S. Sen. Gardner’s phone lines not going to get any less clogged
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Frustrated Coloradans have been complaining since Inauguration Day that Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner won’t answer their calls or return email messages. They have phoned to ask about President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations and executive orders. They’re worried about environmental and civil rights proposals and education policy. They want to know where Gardner stands and…
