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Groups sign on to Kent Thiry-backed proposals to revamp redistricting in Colorado
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A bipartisan organization pushing ballot measures to change the way Colorado draws its legislative and congressional boundaries announced the support Monday of a number of groups representing rural, minority, business and civic reform interests. Fair Districts Colorado, a group chaired by Kent Thiry, the CEO of kidney dialysis giant DaVita Inc., said it now has the…
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Lines drawn over ballot measures to determine how Colorado draws its legislative, congressional lines
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The battle is heating up over how Colorado draws its legislative and congressional boundaries. After failing to knock out a pair of proposed redistricting and reapportionment ballot measures in court, a rough coalition of mostly liberal and good-government groups filed competing ballot measures in late December and is vowing to take the choice before voters…
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State Sen. Cheri Jahn switches from Democrat to unaffiliated legislator
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State Sen. Cheri Jahn will no longer be identified as a Democrat from Wheat Ridge. She announced on Facebook Friday evening that she’s leaving the party to become an unaffiliated member of the legislature. “To be sure, this was a very difficult decision,” she wrote. “Ultimately, this was a very personal decision and one that…
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Making the pitch, passing the hat for Fair Districts Colorado
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Behind every millionaire who aims to leave his mark on politics is a skilled political operative with the seasoning and savvy needed to make things happen. Hence, dialysis giant DaVita’s CEO, Kent Thiry, who is newly minted chairman of the nonpartisan redistricting reform coalition Fair Districts Colorado, can lean on Alan Philp. The veteran Republican utility player…
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Centrist Project hopes to break statehouse gridlock by electing independent candidates
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Despite the fact that more Colorado voters are unaffiliated than belong to any one political party, the state has never elected an independent candidate to the Legislature – a 140-year streak a young organization called the Centrist Project aims to break in next year’s election. “Independents are a force to be reckoned with, but they’re…
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Fair Districts Colorado moves ahead with redistricting commission
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Colorado Politics told you last month about a bipartisan group that hopes to move the power to draw legislative districts a little farther away from partisan interests to a independent commission. Thursday Fair Districts Colorado the language for three proposals with the Office of Legislative Council after it says it conducted a statewide listening tour.…
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Updated: Bipartisan group files initiatives to change how Colorado legislative, congressional districts are drawn
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A bipartisan group filed paperwork on ballot initiatives Wednesday to redraw the rules on how legislative and congressional districts are drawn in Colorado, a process that now ensures lots of safe districts for parties to control and feeds partisan gridlock in the state Capitol. The paperwork to get on the November 2018 ballot was submitted…
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Blake: Single-subject rule is too limiting
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It’s a good thing the Founding Fathers didn’t have to run the First Amendment by the Colorado Supreme Court before sending it out to the states for ratification. Our justices would have rejected it on grounds it violates the single-subject rule. Does it ever. The amendment, a single 45-word sentence, contains not one, not two,…
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Western Slope Dems look down ballot in post-Bernie world
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With the official nomination of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, longtime Democrats and progressive political activists on Colorado’s Western Slope are grappling with the impacts on down-ballot races in a post-Bernie Sanders world. Some candidates and party officials are predicting a Democratic exodus of disaffected Bernie backers to the Green Party, while…
