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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election (March 4)

Mar 4, 2018

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Ernest Luning

STRIKE UP THE BAND … It is, after all, March Fourth. The celebration started a few days early in Colorado, when John Philip Sousa IV, the grandson of the composer and marching band icon, was on hand to endorse a pair of longshot Republican candidates – Greg Lopez, the former Parker mayor running for governor,…
Colorado Springs’ Sen. Mike Merrifield said it’s time to retire, maybe

Sep 5, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The news came as a surprise Saturday night when Rep. Pete Lee told a gathering of Democrats at Colorado College he planned to run for Sen. Mike Merrifield’s District 11 seat. Merrifield could run for another term, before term limits force him out in 2022. He beat Republican Bernie Herpin in 2014, after Herpin unseated…
Q&A with Colorado’s Laura Carno: ‘I, the citizen, am created equal to the politician’

Sep 3, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Laura Carno’s political views probably could be summed up in four words: Government ruins nearly everything. In fact, that’s the title of her book. It also says a lot about the campaigns and causes she embraces. The El Paso County-based author, political consultant and all-around activist on the right, who was instrumental in the recall…
Capitol veteran Lisa LaBriola named chief of staff for Colorado Senate Democrats

Jul 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Lisa LaBriola is the new chief of staff for the Colorado Senate Democratic Caucus, Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman announced Monday. LaBriola was most recently deputy chief of staff and policy director for the caucus. She takes over for Shad Murib in the top spot. The Colorado native has been working for Senate Democrats at the…
Owen Hill welcomes Darryl Glenn to 5th District GOP primary, calls him ‘long on talk, short on accomplishments’

Jul 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Sen. Owen Hill knocked El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn as “long on talk and short on accomplishments” after news broke Friday that Glenn was planning to join Hill in a Republican primary challenging U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District. Colorado Politics reported Friday morning that Glenn was notifying leading Republicans…
Q&A with Colorado’s Ed Jones: Walk a mile (or three) in this former state senator’s shoes

Jun 26, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Ed Jones has come a long way since his childhood in Hattiesburg, Miss., in the segregated South of the 1940s. After mustering out of the Army at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs in 1963, he made the city his new home. He would go on to run for office – and win – unheard of…
Owen Hill formally launches primary challenge against congressional incumbent Doug Lamborn

Apr 3, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Sen. Owen Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican, formally launched his primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn with a Monday morning email saying he plans to bring a bold approach to Congress instead of merely voting the right way. “Over the past several years, so many in our district have approached me with a…
Republican Owen Hill set to announce he’s running for congressional seat held by Doug Lamborn

Apr 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Sen. Owen Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican, plans to announce on Monday that he’s running for the 5th Congressional District seat held by six-term U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, The Colorado Statesman has learned. Although he’s long been rumored to be considering a run for state treasurer in next year’s election, Hill confirmed Saturday that he intends…
Complete Colorado: NY’s Bloomberg is back in Colorado’s gun debate

Feb 3, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Of interest today as the state Senate heats up with floor debate over two GOP gun bills: Complete Colorado reports that billionaire investor and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control advocacy organization has hired Colorado lobbyists to oppose one of the pending proposals. Here’s Complete’s Sherrie Peif: From August through December, the Everytown for Gun Safety…
? The effectiveness of ballot issue TV ads is iffy

Nov 1, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

Story Updated: 11/4/2016 at 12:34 p.m. All those political TV ads we’ve been watching for what seems like an eternity are almost over, but what have they accomplished? That’s the big question only Colorado voters can definitively answer as they cast their ballots in the Nov. 8 general election. Not counting the races for various offices, state…