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Democrat Jared Polis kicks off gubernatorial campaign at employee-owned Colorado Springs grocery store

Jun 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Freshly minted gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis, a Democratic congressman from Boulder, visited an employee-owned grocery store in Colorado Springs on Monday for one of several Front Range stops meant to highlight key campaign themes. Standing in the produce section of a recently opened Save-A-Lot grocery store on North Academy Boulevard, Polis said he wants to…
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis to join crowded Democratic field for Colorado governor

Jun 11, 2017

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Peter Marcus

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis announced Sunday that he’s running for governor of Colorado in next year’s election, shaking up an already crowded Democratic primary field. Colorado Politics has learned that Polis plans to launch his campaign Monday with stops up and down the Front Range, including Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver and Boulder. Polis told Colorado Politics in…
Democrat Noel Ginsburg kicks off statewide gubernatorial campaign tour at business he founded

Apr 28, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Noel Ginsburg, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor in next year’s election, launched a series of campaign events taking place across Colorado with a rally in Pueblo on Friday and a scheduled rally on Saturday in Denver at the manufacturing firm he founded nearly four decades ago. The entrepreneur and nonprofit leader plans to…
Romney nephew Doug Robinson quietly rolls out campaign for governor of Colorado

Apr 25, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Republican Doug Robinson, a former investment banker and Mitt Romney’s nephew, entered the race for Colorado’s next governor this week with an email to Republicans and online ads pointing to his campaign website. Robinson is the fourth GOP candidate in a fast-growing primary field for the chance to take over when Gov. John Hickenlooper, a…
Governor’s race picks up a Romney family member, Denver businessman Doug Robinson

Apr 25, 2017

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Joey Bunch

Doug Robinson is the latest Republican candidate to enter next year’s governor’s race. Besides his involvement with Colorado’s GOP, his uncle is former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. He told Colorado Politics Tuesday morning that Colorado had given him and his family a good life since they moved here from Michigan 20 years ago, and now…
Stamper-Brown: Damage in the wake of ‘No Drama Obama’

Apr 24, 2017

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Jared Wright

Every time a picture of America’s Coolest Prez Ever gets posted on social media, the internet lights up like a Christmas tree. Of late, His Excellency, Barack Obama, was caught on camera photographing Michelle while they cruised the South Pacific on a carbon footprint-hogging 450-foot super yacht. One Instagram click later and, who cares about…
PHOTOS: Ytterberg reflects on tenure as Jeffco GOP chair, looks toward future under Trump administration

Feb 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

On his last day as chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, Don Ytterberg had a few things to say. After welcoming several hundred members of the county GOP’s central committee – along with family, friends and a handful of Republican candidates – to the party’s biennial reorganization meeting on Feb. 4, at Green Mountain…
Preparing for White House, Trump to attend Army-Navy game

Dec 10, 2016

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Ken Thomas

President-elect Donald Trump is partaking in one of the nation’s most storied football rivalries, saluting U.S. troops at the annual Army-Navy game on Saturday as he prepares to enter the White House. The future commander-in-chief planned to attend the 117th game between the military academies at West Point and Annapolis, which is being held on…
Election exposes generational divide among Hispanics

Oct 30, 2016

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NICHOLAS RICCARDI

Donald Trump’s rhetoric on immigration is testing a long-term trend among Hispanics: Members of a family that has been in the country for multiple generations and uses primarily English are more likely to vote Republican than those who more recently arrived in the United States. The number of Latinos in the United States is growing,…
YESTERYEAR: Rising star Barack Obama fills Aurora plaza for Perlmutter rally

Oct 27, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … An estimated 1,300 people crowded a plaza in Aurora to cheer Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at a rally for Democratic congressional candidate Ed Perlmutter, who was running against Republican Rick O’Donnell for the seat being vacated by GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez. “Today, you’re going…