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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | EMILY’s List gets behind Democratic legislative candidates
EMILY’s List, a national group that backs pro-abortion-rights Democratic women candidates, has endorsed 14 Colorado legislative candidates, including a half dozen running for seats that could determine which party has the majority in the state Senate. The group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, said the group’s picks “have the backbones and experience to fight for Colorado’s women…
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Campaign cash: Stapleton raises $255K, Polis drops $1.6M into gov. campaign
The Walker Stapleton campaign for Colorado governor has collected more than a quarter-million dollars in contributions since late June, while opponent Jared Polis has written his campaign a check for $1.6 million. And Democrat Polis has significantly outspent Republican Stapleton over the last few weeks. That’s according to the latest campaign finance reports to the…
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Obama endorses Polis, other Colorado Democrats for midterm elections
Former President Barack Obama endorsed 13 Colorado Democrats Wednesday, including the gubernatorial ticket of Jared Polis and Dianne Primavera, calling them “leaders as diverse, patriotic, and big-hearted as the America they’re running to represent.” The list includes attorney general nominee Phil Weiser, who worked in the Obama Justice Department, and secretary of state nominee Jena Griswold,…
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NOONAN | Expect bare knuckles, scorched earth as state Senate races heat up
The general election contests for control of Colorado’s state Senate will follow two of philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s depictions of human experience: nasty and brutish. They won’t be, as Hobbes also wrote, short. Seventeen senate districts are up, but four will be hardest fought. Voters should expect mail depicting opponents as lying “swamp creatures.” That designation…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Support for candidates piles up as primary ballots drop
Candidates in the June 26 primary election continue to receive endorsements from politicians and organizations even as ballots arrive in voters’ mailboxes this week and the campaigns near the finish line. Here are some of the Colorado candidate endorsements announced in recent days: ? Citing his “proven record of leadership on our Second Amendment freedoms,”…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | EMILY’s List picks candidates in Democratic primaries
EMILY’s List, a national group that backs pro-choice Democratic women candidates, on Wednesday endorsed five legislative candidates running for open seats in Colorado’s June 26 primary election. The group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, called the group’s picks “at the forefront of advocacy for Colorado’s working families and their children.” “These women have used their personal experiences…
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Opioids, vet benefits, civil rights top Hickenlooper’s bill signings this week
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has begun the last round of statewide bill signings for his time in office, with ceremonies starting on the Front Range and ending the week on the Western Slope. Hickenlooper has until June 8 to sign, veto or allow bills to become law without his signature. The General Assembly sent 432…
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ProgressNow picks winners and losers from the left’s view
ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s best-known liberal advocacy group, has picked its winners and losers from the four-month legislative session that ended last week. And if you know ProgressNow’s partisan pugilistic tendencies, then it comes as no surprise that Democrats and their agenda looked good, but Republicans got a sock in the election-year kisser. But not entirely.…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH: Lundberg backs Watson in GOP treasurer’s race
The recent slew of endorsements has slowed a bit recently, perhaps because the Legislature’s waning days have drawn the focus of Colorado’s political world, perhaps because few bigwigs remain who have not bestowed their blessings during this long political season. Still, some candidates learned in the last week that they won the support of notables,…
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Transportation got everyone’s attention on the opening day of Colorado’s legislature
The transportation issue squealed its tires out of the gate on the opening day of Colorado’s legislative session. Transportation funding dominated last year’s session, but a bipartisan bill to ask voters for a sales tax hike hit a roadblock among senators in the Senate, who preferred the money come from existing taxes in the state…