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Colorado bill to reimburse Masterpiece Cakeshop baker for losses fails
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An effort by a conservative Colorado House Republicans to find a way to force the state to reimburse Jack Phillips, the owner of Lakewood’s Masterpiece Cakeshop, for attorney fees and loss of business income failed to gain sympathy from a Democratic-controlled House committee Tuesday. House Bill 1081, sponsored by Republican Rep. Dave Williams of Colorado…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Bernie Sanders, Al Gore back measure to restrict drilling
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Fresh off last week’s visit to rally Colorado voters behind gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis and other Democratic candidates, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has released his positions on a few of the state’s ballot questions, including support for an initiative that opponents warn could grind oil and gas production to a halt. Sanders, who describes himself…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Business, LGBTQ groups bestow bipartisan backing on lawmakers
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Two of Colorado’s most prominent political committees – One Colorado PAC, which advocates for LGBTQ residents, and NFIB Colorado PAC, the political arm of the state’s largest small business organization – announced a slew of legislative endorsements last week, with both groups crossing party lines in an instance or two. One Colorado executive director Daniel…
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Non-shocker: One Colorado endorses Polis, who’d be Colo.’s first gay governor
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The suspense is over. The state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, long allied with Democrats, is backing the Democratic nominee for governor. Jared Polis also would be the state’s first openly gay governor. Daniel Ramos, the organization’s executive director, broke the news in a statement Thursday afternoon, saying Polis’ work as a congressman from Boulder showed…
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One Colorado says religious liberty task force will codify LGBTQ bias
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions aims to harm others using a proposed religious liberty task force, says One Colorado, the state’s largest advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Coloradans. “A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom,” Sessions said a Department of Justice…
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Colorado politicos react to Trump’s pick of Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
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k.vineys President Trump’s selection of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court brought swift yet predictable reactions from Colorado politicos Monday night. Kavanaugh would succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered a moderate swing vote on the high court. The nominee’s rulings in the lower courts suggest a move to the right for the Supreme Court.…
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Colorado’s oil and gas industry tells voters it’s a friend
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Colorado’s oil and gas industry needs all the friendly voters it can get in the next few weeks, so the avalanche of positive spin generated this week by its allies and affiliates is no coincidence. In the June primary, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, the industry’s favorite political bad guy, is leading the field of four…
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Democratic candidates for governor to participate in One Colorado debate
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One Colorado, the state’s leading advocacy organization for LGBTQ Coloradans, will host a debate with the four candidates for governor from the Democratic Party on Thursday, June 7. The debate, which will focus on LGBTQ issues, will be moderated by Colorado Politics’ own Joey Bunch and is to be held at the EXDO Event Center, 1399…
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Colorado Senate committee OKs religious adoption rules, nixes conversion therapy ban
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A Republican majority on a Colorado Senate committee took two opposite actions that riled up gay rights advocates Monday night. The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee passed a rule on adoptions that the gay rights organization says is designed to allow discrimination against same-sex couple. It also voted down a bill that would…
