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8th CD candidate Chaz Tedesco wins endorsements from Andrew Romanoff, Joe Salazar

Dec 6, 2021

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Ernest Luning

Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, former state Rep. Joe Salazar and community leader Nita Gonzales are among a group of endorsers announced Monday by Democratic congressional candidate Charles “Chaz” Tedesco, an Adams County commissioner and former union president. Tedesco is one of three Democrats seeking the nomination in Colorado’s new battleground 8th Congressional District,…
Democrats, Republicans set to gather across Colorado for precinct caucuses

Mar 5, 2018

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Ernest Luning

That biennial ritual of neighbor-to-neighbor democracy, the precinct caucus, is nearly here. Across Colorado, Republican and Democratic voters will convene at 7 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, March 6, in schools, churches, community centers and other neighborhood gathering places, marking the parties’ first official step toward picking candidates. This year, Republicans are grappling with what party…
Denver Democrats book Paul Ryan challenger Randy ‘Iron Stache’ Bryce for annual dinner

Aug 31, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Randy Bryce, the Wisconsin Democrat running against House Speaker Paul Ryan, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Denver Democrats’ annual Edward M. Kennedy fundraising dinner in October, the party announced this week. Known as the “Iron Stache” – the union ironworker’s appearance has been compared to mustachioed Parks and Recreation character Ron…
‘I’m not ruling anything out,’ Hickenlooper says of potential 2020 presidential run

Aug 3, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Tuesday he isn’t ruling anything out, but the Democrat downplayed rumors he might join Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, on a presidential ticket. Hickenlooper responded with a laugh when Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, co-authors of Politico Playbook, asked him about the possibility at a Playbook Exchange discussion at…
McCann cancels tour of crime lab for Denver Democrats’ fundraising group

May 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann on Monday cancelled a tour of the Denver Police Crime Lab scheduled later this week for members of a fundraising group tied to the Denver Democratic Party after a conservative organization raised a fuss. Kelly Maher, executive director of Compass Colorado, sounded the alarm in a release Monday over an…
Denver Young Democrats’ turmoil symbolic of party’s struggle to rebuild

Mar 6, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Last Tuesday evening in Denver, about 40 young Democrats gathered in a brewery for an “airing of grievances.” It was not a “festivus.” Sitting inside the backroom of the Diebolt Brewing Co., surrounded by fermentation tanks and the smell of yeast in this gentrified north Denver neighborhood, millennials sipped craft beer and sat on fold-out chairs…
Denver Democrats stoke enthusiasm, lay groundwork for ‘the resistance’

Feb 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

It’s a quote attributed to Pericles, and it resonated in the halls at Denver’s South High School on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 11: “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Three months after Democrats were stunned by the results of the presidential election…
Former lawmakers land county party positions at reorganization meetings

Feb 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Three former legislators won election to county party offices on Saturday as state Democrats and Republicans conduct their biennial reorganization meetings. Denver Democrats elected former state Rep. Mike Cerbo, D-Denver, to a two-year term as the county party’s chairman, Adams County Republicans tapped former state Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, as vice chair, and El…
UPDATED: Judge tosses lawsuit aimed at keeping votes for Keyser from being counted

Jun 1, 2016

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Ernest Luning

A judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed late last week to remove candidate Jon Keyser from the Republican U.S. Senate primary, contending that the plaintiffs had waited too long to file it. Denver District Judge Morris Hoffman ruled as military and overseas voters were beginning to return their ballots for the June…