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Colorado lawmakers vote to give themselves a pay raise beginning in 2025
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Colorado House Democrats on Thursday voted to boost the pay of General Assembly lawmakers beginning in the 2025-26 fiscal year, with those living in the Denver metro area getting substantially more in actual dollars and rate increase than policymakers who reside outside. The cost to taxpayers for the higher per diems is just shy of…
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Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera co-chairs national mental health task force
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Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera is co-chairing a national task force charged with developing policies to support the mental health of workers and address behavioral health workforce shortages. Primavera convened the State Exchange on Employment and Disability’s (SEED) bipartisan National Task Force on Workforce Mental Health Policy last week, along with Martin Walsh, secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. “I’m…
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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,…
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TRAIL MIX | No. 2 pick not a No. 1 attention getter
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Before this year, Colorado’s major-party gubernatorial nominees had to name running mates for just four elections – and the pick has rarely attracted much attention. Walker Stapleton is looking to change that. Until the 2002 election, voters decided in party primaries which lieutenant governor candidates would advance to the fall ballot. That was before tension…
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Stapleton taps running mate — but plans to keep selection secret for awhile
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Walker Stapleton has a running mate, but the Republican gubernatorial nominee is in no hurry to let anyone know who it is. After winning the four-way GOP primary a week ago, the two-term state treasurer has “offered the position to a well-qualified candidate,” a Stapleton campaign spokesman told Colorado Politics on Tuesday, and the candidate…
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Polis picks former state lawmaker Dianne Primavera as running mate
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, the Democratic nominee for Colorado governor, plans to tap former state Rep. Dianne Primavera to be his running mate, Colorado Politics has learned. Polis, a five-term U.S. congressman from Boulder, plans to introduce Primavera, a former counselor and the CEO of a nonprofit that fights breast cancer, during what the campaign…
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BARTELS: Colorado welcomes a new lieutenant governor
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Donna Lynne officially became Colorado’s 49th lieutenant governor after she took the oath of office at the state Capitol in front of friends, family and a whole lot of political folks. Lynne told Gov. John Hickenlooper during the ceremony on Thursday it was a good thing he didn’t choose her as his running mate…
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Donna Lynne wins legislative confirmation as Colorado’s new lieutenant governor
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Health care executive Donna Lynne will be Colorado’s new lieutenant governor. Lynne was approved by the Senate on a 35-0 vote Wednesday night after winning unanimous approval by the five members of the Senate State Affairs committee earlier in the afternoon. Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Lynne as his choice to replace outgoing Lt. Gov.…
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Kerns: Who is Donna Lynne?
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One question has begun permeating state Capitol hallways: Who is Donna Lynne? During a sparsely attended snow day news conference last week, Gov. Hickenlooper nominated Donna Lynne to serve as Colorado’s next lieutenant governor. The warmth between the two could have melted the foot of snow that was amassing just outside the statehouse Wednesday with Gov.…
