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TRAIL MIX | Candidate switcheroos are nothing new in Colorado
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Wouldn’t you know it, less than a week after last week’s Trail Mix column went to press, it was obsolete. In the holiday news lull, it had seemed like a good opportunity to take stock of the candidate line-ups in major Colorado races. While savvy political watchers have been expecting at least a few additional contenders…
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Fight over bid to strip school-choice provision from foster-kids bus law
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Senate Republicans Wednesday mounted a furious effort to amend a bill that would strip out what’s viewed as school-choice language from a 2018 law that pays for foster children to be transported to their original schools when they’re uprooted from one home to another. Update: Thursday, the Senate voted 19-16 along party lines to advance…
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Senate panel advances bill to strip school-choice language from foster-kids measure
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The Colorado state Senate’s Education Committee on Thursday gave a party-line OK to a bill removing school-choice language from a 2018 measure on foster children that was the subject of a court challenge. The action followed a Denver District Court ruling last month that declared a portion of the 2018 bill unconstitutional. On a 3-2…
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Colorado gets 2 dozen new laws, new budget Sunday
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From squatters to swatters and $29 billion, the Colorado state budget and 25 laws take effect Sunday. They are the products of the 120-day legislative session that ended in May, when lawmakers passed 432 rules and regulations – about 60 percent of those introduced after the session began in January – and Gov. John Hickenlooper…
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PRIMARY 2018: DeGette, Crow, Neguse win congressional primaries
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With decisive votes, Coloradans set the table in the June primary that ended Tuesday for seven fall congressional elections, settling most key races not long after voting ended by wide margins. Less than an hour after the 7 p.m. voting deadline, three of the state’s most interesting congressional races were already decided, and a fourth…
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Darryl Glenn is paying himself a salary from congressional campaign funds
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Darryl Glenn, one of four Republicans challenging U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in the June 26 primary, has been paying himself a salary out of campaign funds equal to what he makes as an El Paso County commissioner, according to campaign finance documents filed Thursday. State Sen. Owen Hill, retired Texas judge Bill Rhea and former Green…
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Hickenlooper vetoes autopsy bill opposed by news outlets
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Friday afternoon announced he had vetoed three bills passed in the 2018 legislative session that ended last month, including one that would have placed autopsy reports on children off limits to the public except under limited circumstances. Senate Bill 223 was brought to the General Assembly by El Paso County Coroner…
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Only debate in CD5 won’t include Doug Lamborn
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A five-way race in the GOP primary in Congressional District 5 will have a four-way debate Thursday night at Woodland Park High School. The name not on the roster is perhaps the best known: incumbent Doug Lamborn. Why? It’s not clear. Lamborn’s camp “declined to participate,” according to Erik Stone, chairman of the Teller County…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH: Backing for governor, treasurer, Congress hopefuls
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The endorsements keep coming as candidates running in Colorado primaries near the finish line. This week, the Communication Workers of America Colorado and Wyoming state councils threw their support behind former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy, one of four Democrats running for governor. “Colorado’s governor must be someone who is a champion for working families in our…
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Poll: Lamborn, Glenn lead GOP primary field in 5th Congressional District
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn holds a 10-point lead over Darryl Glenn in the crowded 5th Congressional District’s Republican primary race just two weeks before mail ballots go out, according to a new survey released Wednesday by GOP polling firm Magellan Strategies. Lamborn, seeking his seventh term, tops the field of five Republicans, with 37 percent…
