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Colorado Municipal League untangles special session-driving tax issue
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As often is the case, the Colorado Municipal League is the go-to source to explain complicated issues that we untrained reporters struggle to fully grasp. That’s the case with the tax bugaboo that has Gov. John Hickenlooper working on plans to call lawmakers back to Denver for a special session next month. The mistake was…
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Jesse Mallory takes reins at Americans For Prosperity-Colorado from Michael Fields
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After serving as chief of staff for the Colorado Senate Republicans for five sessions, Jesse Mallory takes over as state director of Americans for Prosperity-Colorado, the influential conservative organization announced Monday. AFP-Colorado’s previous state director, Michael Fields, was named senior director of issue education for the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a related organization, he announced in…
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State Senate GOP staffer Jesse Mallory to lead Colorado AFP
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With Americans For Prosperity’s Michael Fields moving up from state director to take on a broader portfolio for the conservative, pro-free market, national advocacy group, Jesse Mallory – chief of staff for the ruling state Senate Republicans – has been tapped to fill Fields’s shoes. The AFP announced the move this afternoon, quoting Mallory: Mallory is…
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Hickenlooper delays decision on special session for transportation funding, other topics
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Gov. John Hickenlooper hadn’t yet decided on Monday whether to call a special session to come up with more funding for the state’s transportation needs, among other topics he said were left unfinished in the General Assembly’s 120-day regular session. While Hickenlooper called it “the most productive legislative session” since he took office in 2011,…
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House debate on budget continues, colored with flashes of rancor
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After ten hours of back and forth Thursday night, it became clear at near 11 p.m. that members were not going to conclude first-round debate on amendments to the proposed $26.8 billion state budget before midnight, the tentative deadline, so they halted debate and began again at 9:00 a.m. Friday. The debate so far is…
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Americans for Prosperity targets four GOP senators over transportation funding legislation
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Americans for Prosperity Colorado announced plans Wednesday to rain down pressure on four Republican senators who have yet to state a position on a bipartisan transportation funding package unveiled last week by legislative leadership. The conservative advocacy organization’s state director, Michael Fields, said the four GOP lawmakers – Senate President Pro Tem Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling,…
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Duran, Grantham unveil deal to raise sales tax, fund $3.5 billion in transportation bonds
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A long-awaited transportation funding deal introduced by Colorado lawmakers Wednesday proposes asking voters to approve a sales-tax hike in November to pay for $3.5 billion in bonds for road construction, as well as other transit projects. Majority leaders in the House and Senate hailed the package as a “breakthrough” but also cautioned that the bill…
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‘Normalized’: Americans for Prosperity lobby day at the Capitol
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Thursday was Americans for Prosperity lobby day at the Capitol. The group’s anti-tax free-market message this year was much the same as it was last year, but the headlines will be different – mainly because the state Senate president stayed on message. President Kevin Grantham, a Republican from Canon City, thanked AFP activists for their…
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THE HOT SHEET: Religious Freedom Bill fails – again, Trump’s wrath and CO immigration, CO voter fraud ‘extremely rare,’ EPA freezing out CO and … MORE!
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VOL. 02 NO. 013| JANUARY 26, 2017 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2017 DENVER – Happy Green Juice, Peanut Brittle and National Spouses Day. Hey, we didn’t create the mix. Today also marks the 16th day of the 2017 Regular Session for the Colorado General Assembly. They still have a whopping 104 days to play around with.…
