mike merrifield
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Denver’s March for Our Lives: ‘No more silence, end gun violence’
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DENVER – Luna Rosenzweig was fed up. She was in an ocean of teenagers in Denver’s Civic Center Park Saturday afternoon, demanding an end to a sea of bloodshed on school campuses across the country. “We deserve not to die in our schools,” the sign-toting sophomore from Denver’s East High School said near the stage at…
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Senate Republicans sink bump stocks ban, advance magazine limit repeal
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DENVER – In the same committee hearing Monday afternoon, Senate Republicans rejected a ban on bump stocks – devices that give legal rifles the ability to fire more bullets like an illegal one – and advanced a bill to repeal the 15-round limit on ammunition magazines passed by Democrats in 2013. “We can’t afford to wait…
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Transportation bill stalls, as Colorado Senate Democrats filibuster
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Colorado Senate Democrats continued their attempts to amend a bill that would tie up $300 million a year from the state budget for transportation. Republicans played defense and ultimately passed Senate Bill 1 postponed to a third day of debate next Tuesday. If Republicans pass the legislation on a recorded vote with their one-seat majority,…
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Transportation funding without tax hike bogs down in Colorado Senate
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The Colorado Senate considered a bill to beef up funding for transportation without raising taxes Wednesday, but it bogged down in amendments about where the money would go, as well as delivering a tacit protest of the bill’s sponsor. Senate Bill 1 would ask voters in November to set aside more than $300 million a…
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Colorado Senate verbally jousts over union activity on the clock
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State Sen. Bob Gardner was having breakfast reading the newspaper when he saw that a public-sector union was on strike elsewhere in the country. The Republican from Colorado Springs was not supportive. “And I got to thinking about the fact that those collective bargaining agreements are often negotiated by people who are being paid by…
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Colorado group backing unaffiliated candidates says it’s recruiting in 8 legislative districts
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The campaign organization that used to be called the Centrist Project says it’s recruiting unaffiliated candidates in eight legislative seats across Colorado – and plans to train potential candidates the same night Republicans and Democrats will be holding precinct caucuses. Unite Colorado, the state-focused arm of Unite America, is already fielding unaffiliated candidates in four…
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Sen. Mike Merrifield picks up key GOP support for arts accreditation point
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Sen. Mike Merrifield, in his last session before retiring from the legislature, is more hopeful than ever about securing an optional accreditation point for Colorado schools that offer arts programs. He tried and failed last year, but this session Senate Bill 8 has an influential co-sponsor among Republicans, Majority Leader Chris Holbert of Parker. Merrifield, a…
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Former Manitou Springs mayor to run for Pete Lee’s House seat
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The race to succeed Rep. Pete Lee in House District 18 in Colorado Springs next year got a little more crowded when former Manitou Springs Mayor Marc Snyder signed up for the race last week. Lee is running in Senate District 11 to succeed Mike Merrifield, a former Manitou Springs city councilman who is retiring…
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19-year-old Denver Public Schools board candidate Tay Anderson: ‘I’ll continue to fight’
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Soon after the first round of results had posted at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, Auontai “Tay” Anderson, a candidate for a northeast Denver school board seat, spoke to the crowd gathered to watch election night returns at a popular food incubator in Denver’s trending RINO neighborhood. Anderson, a May graduate of Manual High School –…
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Republican Patrick McIntire launches bid in Senate District 11
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Republican Patrick McIntire this week launched his campaign for the Senate District 11 seat held Democrat Mike Merrifield, who isn’t running for a second term in next year’s election. “It is only when our form of government is reclaimed from special interests and blind partisans, that the trust that has been lost between our community and…
