marianne goodland
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Campaign cash: Stapleton raises $255K, Polis drops $1.6M into gov. campaign
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The Walker Stapleton campaign for Colorado governor has collected more than a quarter-million dollars in contributions since late June, while opponent Jared Polis has written his campaign a check for $1.6 million. And Democrat Polis has significantly outspent Republican Stapleton over the last few weeks. That’s according to the latest campaign finance reports to the…
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Republicans raise the $10K needed for Trump portrait at Capitol in less than 36 hours
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What started out as something of an embarrassment has turned into a successful effort to raise the funds necessary to commission a portrait of President Donald Trump for the Colorado state Capitol’s Hall of President’s gallery. In about 32 hours, a GoFundMe campaign set up by Colorado Senate President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City raised…
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As trade war escalates, Colo. faces broadening impact on export economy
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It isn’t only Colorado agriculture that’s getting nervous about what the Trump administration’s tariffs could cost them. Insiders at many industries in Colorado – even distillers – say they could be hurt by an escalation of the trade war between the United States and foreign trading partners like China, Canada and Mexico – the state’s…
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Fundraising for Trump portrait at Colo. Capitol is finally underway
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After international news poked fun at a prankster’s placement of a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the state Capitol last week, Senate Republican President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City has initiated an effort to raise the $10,000 necessary to commission a portrait of President Donald Trump. Grantham is spearheading the fundraising through a GoFundMe.com account. It…
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Another Colo. House hopeful has problems with child support, says report
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Republican Don Bendell of Florence, who hopes to win a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives in November, failed to pay child support for more than a decade for the three children from his first marriage, according to Tuesday’s Pueblo Chieftain. According to Bendell’s three children, now adults, he didn’t pay child support for…
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Gardner, bipartisan Senate group back bill to keep US in NATO
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“NATO is as bad as NAFTA,” President Donald Trump told G7 leaders in Canada in June. And you know how much Trump hates the North American Free Trade Agreement. Concerns that the president could unilaterally remove the United States from the nearly 70-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have prompted four bipartisan senators to introduce…
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No Trump portrait yet at Colorado Capitol? How about Putin?
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An unidentified prankster put up a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Colorado state Capitol Thursday, near the spot where a portrait of President Donald Trump would go – if anyone cared to donate the money to have the portrait made. The portrait gallery of the state Capitol on the building’s third floor…
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Voucher-backing Ready Colorado rates legislature on education reform
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Colorado House and Senate Republicans got the best grades for the 2018 legislative session in a scorecard released Thursday by conservative education reform backers Ready Colorado. State Sen. Owen Hill of Colorado Springs and Rep. Paul Lundeen of Monument (who hopes to be in the Senate come January) both got top marks from the group,…
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Rep. Ken Buck opposes Freedom Caucus push to impeach Rosenstein
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A Colorado congressman who is a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House says he didn’t join 11 fellow caucus members in pushing to impeach the Justice Department official who oversees Robert Mueller’s investigation. Wednesday, 11 House Republicans, all Freedom Caucus members, introduced a resolution containing five articles of impeachment against Deputy…
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Gardner, Bennet help find work-around to save conservation fund
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A handful of bipartisan members of the U.S. Senate Tuesday came up with a different way to make permanent the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which helps pay for outdoor projects in Colorado and elsewhere, by inserting it into a required federal spending bill. The LWCF gets his money from federal oil and gas…
