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Colorado Treasurer Dave Young wins re-election | ELECTION NIGHT 2022
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Democrat Dave Young will serve a second four-year term as Colorado State Treasurer, unofficial election results show. The Associated Press declared Young the winner just after midnight on Wednesday. Young is leading against his Republican challenger, former state Rep. Lang Sias, in a 52.2% to 44.6% vote as of Thursday. The state treasurer manages more than…
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Four former GOP state treasurers endorse Lang Sias
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The last four Republicans to hold the office of Colorado state treasurer are endorsing Lang Sias’s 2022 campaign for the office, the Arvada Republican said Monday. Sias, a former state representative and the 2018 GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, is challenging Democratic State Treasurer Dave Young’s bid for a second term. Young’s four most recent…
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TRAIL MIX | Candidate switcheroos are nothing new in Colorado
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Wouldn’t you know it, less than a week after last week’s Trail Mix column went to press, it was obsolete. In the holiday news lull, it had seemed like a good opportunity to take stock of the candidate line-ups in major Colorado races. While savvy political watchers have been expecting at least a few additional contenders…
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INSIGHTS | A GOP family feud over a red-flag bill
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Editor’s note: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of May 11, 2018. Close to midnight on one of the final days of the 2018 legislative session last May, Colorado House of Representatives Republicans met in a caucus to discuss removing one of their rising stars, Cole Wist, from his…
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Polis slips up on role of National Guard; Sias calls foul
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Former fighter pilot Lang Sias, the Republican pick for Colorado lieutenant governor, called out Jared Polis Friday over a televised misstatement about the National Guard. On KUSA-9News’ Next with Kyle Clark program Thursday, the Democratic nominee for governor said he wouldn’t give President Trump access to Colorado Army National Guard troops to send to the…
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Pat Schroeder takes on Stapleton’s running mate over Tailhook scandal
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Pat Schroeder, a longtime former congresswoman from Denver, has targeted Colorado lieutenant governor candidate Lang Sias in a newspaper opinion piece that brings up the Tailhook scandal 27 years ago. Schroeder represented Denver in the U.S. House of Representatives when the Tailhook sex scandal unfolded after a Navy pilots’ convention in Las Vegas in 1991.…
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State Republican Party and Walker Stapleton christen Colorado Springs "victory office"
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The path to Republican victories in the November elections runs through El Paso County, party representatives and candidates said Wednesday as the Colorado Republican Party set up shop in downtown Colorado Springs. “I need your help,” GOP gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton told about two dozen local Republicans at an event christening the state party’s newest…
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Republicans replace Colo. state House candidates on Nov. ballot
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The Colorado Republican Party has added three new candidates to the November ballot to replace two who dropped out of their races and a third who hopes to become lieutenant governor. In House District 25, Steven Szutenbach of Evergreen will vie for the seat currently held by Republican Rep. Tim Leonard of Evergreen. Leonard dropped…
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Sias’ bid for lieutenant governor moves race for House seat to competitive
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Wednesday’s announcement that Colorado state Rep. Lang Sias of Arvada is Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton’s pick for running mate changes the dynamics of the House District 27 race that, until Wednesday, might not have been that competitive. It is now. Sias was appointed to his north Jefferson County seat in 2015 and won his…
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Stapleton picks Rep. Lang Sias as GOP running mate
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With a backdrop of military aircraft and heroic leadership as a setting, Republican gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton announced a state legislator and former Navy Top Gun pilot, Rep. Lang Sias, as his running mate. Stapleton revealed his choice at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver on July 11, honoring Sias,…
