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Lamborn, DeGette challenger Rao qualify for primary ballot by petition
Congressional candidates Doug Lamborn and Saira Rao will be on Colorado’s June primary ballot, the office of Secretary of State Wayne Willams said Thursday after ruling they submitted enough valid signatures on nominating petitions. Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican seeking his seventh term representing the 5th Congressional District, says he’ll pass on asking delegates for…
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Denver’s March for Our Lives: ‘No more silence, end gun violence’
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
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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Grantham on the Colorado legislature: It’s become a "theater of the absurd"
DENVER – Senate Republicans Monday morning took just about everyone to task over inappropriate remarks in the House and Senate, beginning in their own chamber. The House wasn’t exempt from their criticisms, either, after a Democratic member of that chamber last Friday threatened to call for the expulsion of another member over a disagreement in…
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Colorado Senate Republicans: Still a ‘NO’ on banning bump stocks, but yes to RMGO money
The Trump administration is OK with a ban on bump stocks. The Florida Legislature, despite opposition from the National Rifle Association, last week approved a package of gun control measures, including a ban on bump stocks that increase the firing capacity of normal rifles. Colorado’s state Senate is a week away from hearing a bill that…
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Democratic congressional candidate Stephany Rose Spaulding turns in nominating petitions
Congressional candidate Stephany Rose Spaulding, one of five Democrats running for the seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, on Monday turned in petitions bearing just over 1,500 signatures to the secretary of state’s office, her campaign said. Spaulding is the third candidate – and the first Democrat – in the 5th Congressional District…
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Republican Nic Morse, a former congressional nominee, drops primary bid in Larimer County’s Senate District 15
Larimer County Republican Nic Morse is withdrawing from the race for the Senate District 15 seat held by term-limited state Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, who is seeking the GOP nomination for state treasurer, Colorado Politics has learned. Morse, a marketing executive and the 2016 Republican nominee for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Jared…
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Stephany Rose Spaulding picks up endorsement from women’s PAC
Stephany Rose Spaulding, a Democratic candidate for Congress in El Paso County, picked up an endorsement from the national Women Under Forty Political Action Committee, her campaign said Friday. The unaffiliated PAC aims to elect women younger than 40. Spaulding hopes to unseat Republican incumbent Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs in what’s considered a reliably…
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Lamborn challenger Owen Hill drops petitions, plans to seek ballot through GOP assembly
State Sen. Owen Hill, one of four Republicans challenging U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, has dropped plans to circulate petitions and will put all his chips on the 5th Congressional District assembly to make the June primary ballot, the Colorado Springs lawmaker told Colorado Politics. A campaign spokesman for Lamborn, who turned in petitions to the…
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Republican Darryl Glenn qualifies for 5th Congressional District primary ballot by petition
Republican congressional candidate Darryl Glenn will be on the primary ballot in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, the secretary of state’s office said Tuesday after ruling the El Paso County commissioner submitted a sufficient number of valid signatures on his petitions. Glenn, one of four Republicans challenging six-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, is the first candidate…