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Salazar lights up Denver Young Democrats’ holiday crowd
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Ken Salazar, former secretary of the interior, former U.S. senator and former Colorado attorney general, on Tuesday night declined again to say whether he plans to run for governor. The featured speaker at the Denver Young Democrats’ holiday party only smiled and told The Colorado Statesman he was “focused on helping my friends get elected…
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National group Emily’s List joins effort to unseat Colorado Rep. Windholz after Planned Parenthood remarks
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Emily’s List, a national group that supports pro-choice women candidates, has placed Colorado state Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, on its list of officeholders to defeat this year, the organization told The Colorado Statesman on Friday. The organization cited Windholz’s record of opposing women’s healthcare that includes access to birth control and abortion and her…
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At Planned Parenthood shooting commemoration, hope for a new chapter at Colorado Capitol
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Looking to wrestle something positive from the Black Friday shooting attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, the organization’s top regional executive said she wants to work with conservative lawmakers in Colorado to tame the escalating political rhetoric that has grown around the organization. One of the organization’s top critics at the Capitol…
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Clashes over Planned Parenthood attack signal stormy legislative session ahead
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Colorado is still reeling from the shooting attack that killed three and injured nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The tragedy has stunned the community and fanned long-smoldering political embers into a firestorm that shows every sign of roaring through next year’s legislative session and through the…
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Hickenlooper thwacks hornet’s nest with position on Syrian refugees
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Gov. John Hickenlooper drew a storm of criticism in the wake of his announcement Monday that Colorado would welcome Syrians who are fleeing their war-torn country and who had been admitted to the United States through the federal government’s refugee program. “Our first priority remains the safety of our residents,” Hickenlooper said. “We will work…
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JBC’s Hamner will lean on committee to find solutions
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It was a tough day to be the new chair of the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee. Gov. John Hickenlooper and his budget chief Henry Sobanet on Thursday rolled out for the six-member committee a well-worked-over $27 billion plan for the next year that landed with a clang. It proposed cutting $370 million from state services…
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Republican lawmakers put Planned Parenthood on trial
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At a hearing on fetal tissue sales and medical research held by conservative state lawmakers Monday, there was shock and outrage and determination to do something to end the practices and to hold Planned Parenthood responsible for what nearly all of the people in the packed Capitol committee room were convinced were barbaric and likely…
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Poised Fiorina wins debate among Denver GOP watchers, while aggressive Kasich reaps disdain
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At Choppers Sports Grill in Cherry Creek, the watch party crowd for the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate liked former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina best, voting her top dog in a poll that ranked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio second and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson third. There were roughly 80 people watching the Republican…
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Jeffco landslide hangs like question mark over conservative election efforts
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Conservative campaign forces lost badly in the Jefferson County school board elections this week. They lost unaffiliated voters and they lost Republican voters — and it wasn’t for lack of trying. “I’m a conservative and I can tell you that these school board people were not conservatives,” Jeffco voter Robert Zurbin told The Colorado Statesman…
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Hudak reflects on recalls past and present
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Evie Hudak, a former Democratic state senator from Arvada who resigned ahead of a threatened recall election in 2013, was one of the revelers on Tuesday celebrating the successful recall election of the conservative Jefferson County School Board majority. “I was never recalled,” she was quick to remind The Colorado Statesman. “Besides, not all recalls…
