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Colorado GOP declines to apologize for tweets slamming Southern Poverty Law Center

Sep 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A coalition of civil rights groups and left-leaning organizations on Friday demanded an apology from the Colorado Republican Party for “viciously attacking” the Southern Poverty Law Center on Twitter, but the state GOP’s chairman called the request ridiculous and doubled down on the party’s criticism of the watchdog group. The dispute centers around what the…
Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette co-sponsors resolution censuring Trump over Charlottesville remarks

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is co-sponsoring a House resolution introduced Wednesday to censure President Donald Trump for his response to the weekend’s violence surrounding a rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va. “I’m co-sponsoring a resolution to censure @POTUS for defending white supremacists in #Charlottesville,” DeGette wrote in a tweet Wednesday afternoon.…
Colorado’s congressional delegation rips Trump’s latest ‘both sides’ remarks about white supremacists

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle came down hard on President Donald Trump’s latest comments defiantly blaming “both sides” for the weekend violence between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, tweeted scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks, calling them “unacceptable and…
Colorado’s Rep. Doug Lamborn tweets blistering criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response

Aug 16, 2017

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ERIN PRATER

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs tweeted a scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks about the weekend’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia – the Republican congressman’s strongest statement yet on the topic. “The KKK, Neo-Nazis, and White Supremacists and Nationalists are abhorrent,” Lamborn posted to Facebook and Twitter. “Statements that provide even…
Clad in Black Lives Matter t-shirts, Denver City Council condemns white supremacy

Aug 16, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

A day after hundreds took to Denver City Park to decry white supremacy in the wake of violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., the City Council sent its own message of solidarity, opening its weekly meeting Monday with a statement and moment of silence. Many council members wore Black Lives Matter t-shirts. Reading from a statement,…
Republican Sen. Cory Gardner demands Trump ‘lay blame on white nationalists and on hatred’

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, turned up the heat on President Donald Trump Sunday, demanding the president explicitly condemn white supremacists and white nationalists for the violence that left one dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. “This is not a time for vagaries, this isn’t a time for innuendo or…
Republican Cory Gardner reprimands Trump for Charlottesville remarks: ‘Call evil by its name’

Aug 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, called out President Donald Trump on Saturday for failing to blame white supremacists for escalating violence in Virginia that has claimed at least one life. “Mr. President – we must call evil by its name,” Gardner said in a tweet. “These were white supremacists and this was domestic…
As it turned out, Christopher Columbus carried the day…

May 5, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

…And, arguably, so did the Knights of Columbus — the national Catholic service organization that has championed the Italian explorer against a long-standing campaign to dump him from the holiday calendar. As we last reported here, the group was prepping for a battle royal in the state House this week to defend Colorado’s Columbus Day as…
Knights of Columbus warn that Joe Salazar’s Columbus Day ban would fulfill Klan’s plan

May 3, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization is coming out swinging against a bill sponsored by state Rep. Joe Salazar to cancel Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado. The Knights of Columbus — named in honor of explorer Christopher Columbus — is opposing House Bill 1327, saying the legislation is based on “fake history”…
Knights of Columbus push back at latest bid to dump Colorado holiday

May 1, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

It looks like it’s the K of C vs. the KKK in this year’s face-off over perennial legislative attempts to eliminate Colorado’s observance of Columbus Day. The fabled explorer’s namesake and ardent defender, the Catholic service organization Knights of Columbus, is taking the fight straight to what it maintains was the original author of the campaign to dump…