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Ex-Colorado GOP chief Steve House calls for cutting off donations to Senate Republicans’ campaign group

Jul 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Former Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House said Wednesday that donors should stop contributing to the campaign committee dedicated to electing Senate Republicans until GOP lawmakers get it together to fix the nation’s health care system. “We asked them to defund Planned Parenthood. We asked them to defund Obamacare. They did neither. It is time…
Republican Darryl Glenn declares he’s challenging Colorado U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn: ‘Our country is in the balance’

Jul 17, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Declaring that the 5th Congressional District needs someone who will “fight for what he knows is right” and not just vote the right way, Darryl Glenn, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in Colorado last year, announced on Monday that he’s running for the seat held by incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, another Colorado…
Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet on GOP health care bill: ‘Nobody should bet against Mitch McConnell’

Jul 10, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, is warning against underestimating Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s ability to pass legislation overhauling the nation’s health care system – even if the bill appears to be on the ropes. “It is hard to bet against Mitch McConnell. He is relentless at this stuff,” Bennet told the hosts…
Democratic lawmaker Diane Mitsch Bush declares bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton

Jul 6, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, a Steamboat Springs Democrat, declared Thursday she’s challenging Republican Scott Tipton in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in next year’s election. Mitsch Bush, a former Routt County commissioner, said she decided to challenge Tipton after the four-term incumbent voted in May for a House Republican plan to repeal and replace the…
Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner cheer Senate health care bill delay, but for different reasons

Jun 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s two U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner, both said Tuesday they were glad Senate Republicans decided to delay a vote on legislation meant to overhaul the health care system, although it was for different reasons. Bennet, a Democrat, said it was chance for a fresh start, while Gardner, a Republican, called it an…
Protesters clad in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ outfits turn out to welcome Mike Pence to Colorado Springs

Jun 24, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Protesters cloaked in red robes and wearing white bonnets like characters in the novel and TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” greeted Vice President Mike Pence on Friday when he spoke at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs. The 1985 Margaret Atwood novel depicts a dystopian society under fundamentalist rule where women are treated…
Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet urges Senate Republicans to ‘start over’ on health care overhaul

Jun 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet roundly criticized health care legislation released Thursday by Senate Republicans, saying the bill would slash coverage and increase costs for Americans while cutting taxes for the extremely rich. Calling the bill “just as bad, if not worse” than a bill passed by the House at the beginning of May, the Colorado…
Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner slams ‘knee-jerk’ opposition to Senate GOP’s health care bill

Jun 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, one of 13 Republicans tasked with drafting Senate legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system, said Thursday morning he was seeing the bill for the first time and cautioned critics against jumping to conclusions before reviewing it. “This is the first I’ve viewed the legislation so I am beginning to…
Hickenlooper: ‘Kind of crazy’ to expect health care solutions from small, partisan group

Jun 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, on Monday called on Senate Republicans to invite Democrats to the table and bring negotiations over health care legislation into the open. “I’ve never had a good idea in my life that, the moment I started talking about it with staff or…
Bennet discusses legislating in the Trump era and whether words have meaning anymore at Frisco town hall

Jun 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Near the end of the town hall in Frisco last Friday, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat in his ninth year in the Senate, invoked the famous answer Benjamin Franklin gave when asked what the framers of the Constitution had created. “He was asked, ‘What kind of government are you forming, a republic or a…