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What’s next for Lamborn? Questions & answers on Colo.’s ballot mess
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So what lies ahead for U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn? The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ordered state officials to leave the Colorado Springs congressman’s name off the Republican primary ballot, causing jaws to drop and heads to spin. Almost immediately, attorneys for the six-term representative vowed to take their case to federal court, where they…
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Republican Doug Robinson turns in nominating petitions for Colorado governor’s race
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Republican Doug Robinson, a candidate for governor of Colorado and Mitt Romney’s nephew, turned in petitions to the secretary of state’s office Monday morning in hopes of qualifying for the June primary ballot. “The petition process is extremely complex, involving hundreds of man hours – not only in talking to voters and collecting signatures, but…
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Democrat Jared Polis says he’ll go through caucuses and circulate petitions to get on primary ballot for governor
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis said Thursday he plans to take two approaches to getting on Colorado’s June primary ballot – by going through the caucus and assembly process and by gathering petition signatures. He’s one of five leading Democrats running for the office held by term-limited Gov. John Hickenlooper. Two of the others –…
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Donna Lynne plans to petition her way onto primary ballot
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Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, a candidate for governor of Colorado, said Tuesday she plans to petition onto the Democratic primary ballot rather than pursue the nomination through the caucus and assembly process in order to engage with voters across the state. “I have been privileged to work with and help people in every county as…
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Owen Hill welcomes Darryl Glenn to 5th District GOP primary, calls him ‘long on talk, short on accomplishments’
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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…
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Republican Darryl Glenn jumping in 5th Congressional District primary against Lamborn, Hill
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El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, the Republican nominee for Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat last year, notified GOP insiders on Friday that he plans to run for the 5th Congressional District seat held by six-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in next year’s election, Colorado Politics has learned. “Colleagues, I want to give you a…
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Hick signs safeguards against forged signatures on Colorado candidates’ petitions
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Remember Republican rising star Jon Keyser’s highly touted but short-lived bid for the U.S. Senate last year? His ambitions imploded en route to last June’s GOP primary amid findings that a worker had forged signatures to land him a spot on the primary ballot. In the end, paid petition circulator Maureen Marie Moss, 45, was sentenced to four years probation on…
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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
