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El Paso County Republicans set up alternative campaign headquarters amid intense infighting
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Volunteers lugged campaign signs and stuffed bags with fliers awash in red this past week at what has become the alternative hive of Republican campaign activity this season. The Peak Republicans office near Interstate 25 and Garden of the Gods Road was set up during intense Republican primary election battles locally and is now functioning…
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Republican in Colorado House race called on to step aside because of felony conviction
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The only Republican on the primary ballot in the House District 21 race running to represent southern El Paso County, Karl Dent, is embroiled in legal battles related to domestic violence and animal cruelty, leading a former representative for the district to call on him to step aside. “I can’t imagine anybody at the Capitol…
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House OKs bill banning firefighting foam that contaminated Colorado aquifer
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A bill that bans the kind of firefighting foam that has contaminated water supplies in southern El Paso County has cleared the Colorado state House and is on its way to the Senate. House Bill 1279 is sponsored by a bipartisan quartet of El Paso County lawmakers, including its House sponsors, Democratic Rep. Tony Exum…
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El Paso County lawmakers sponsor bill to ban firefighting foam
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If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won’t act, a bipartisan group of El Paso County legislators will. This week, the foursome introduced House Bill 1279, which would ban the kind of firefighting foam found in water supplies of Fountain, Security and Widefield. The two Republican sponsors are Sen. Dennis Hisey of Fountain and Rep. Lois…
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INSIGHTS | Pot foe says kids provided a reason to pass CBD bill
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To say Colorado state Rep. Lois Landgraf loves pot is like setting up a punch line. The Republican from Fountain, however, thinks sick kids are no laughing matter. “I’ve always been against marijuana, but this isn’t that,” she said over the phone one evening about a pot-related bill she fought for last legislative session. She…
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Capitol M: Week ending July 13, 2018
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Although the General Assembly is not in session, there’s enough going on outside of the legislative races, and inside it, too, to take another walk among the Mmmmmms. Good luck…to Democratic Sen. Dominick Moreno of Commerce City, who was recently appointed to the Adams 14 school board. Now Capitol M did a little checking on…
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Money wins: the death of the grassroots and caucuses
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It’s rare when the far left Bernie Sanders followers and the far right friends of Gordon Klingenschmitt share a common political cause, but the recent Colorado Republican and Democrat state-wide party primary votes are sadly cause for such new agreement. Grassroots activists are now terribly outspent by the establishment middle, worsened now that unaffiliateds voted…
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PRIMARY 2018: Colorado’s winners and losers
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Winners Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton: Presumed frontrunners from the beginning lived up to their billing, turning back the largest field of primary challengers in either party since at least World War II. And they both played to their bases, the hard left and hard right. Both survived runs at their integrity in negative ads,…
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PRIMARY PREVIEW: 5 Republican races to watch for the Colo. legislature
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There are 18 contested races for Colorado legislative seats in the June primary. These are CoPo’s picks for the top five Republican races to watch. (And check back with ColoradoPolitics.com at lunchtime for the top races for Democrats.) Senate district 2: Clear Creek, El Paso, Fremont, Park and Teller counties. Why this race matters: The…
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ProgressNow picks winners and losers from the left’s view
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ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s best-known liberal advocacy group, has picked its winners and losers from the four-month legislative session that ended last week. And if you know ProgressNow’s partisan pugilistic tendencies, then it comes as no surprise that Democrats and their agenda looked good, but Republicans got a sock in the election-year kisser. But not entirely.…
