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#Retweet: The best of Twitter about Colorado politics this week

Oct 8, 2017

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Joey Bunch

‘Absolutely heartbreaking’: Colorado officials react to Las Vegas shooting

Oct 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado officials expressed shock and horror at the attack unleashed by a gunman Sunday night in Las Vegas that left at least 58 people dead and more than 500 injured – the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday morning ordered flags lowered to half-staff immediately to honor the victims…

See an all-star legislative roster on the kickball field Monday night in Denver

Sep 30, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Game on. The Colorado legislature returns to the Capitol Monday to settle some things once and for all, unlike what might happen with the fix to flawed bill that’s costing special districts their share of marijuana taxes. More certainly they’ll settle who are the champs and who are the chumps in politcal kickball. Reps. Dan…

Buoyed by 2016 senate bid that fell short, Darryl Glenn back in the running

Sep 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Congressional candidate Darryl Glenn likes to tell a story about a woman he met at a farmer’s market earlier this summer. “She was an older black lady, independent,” he says. “I stopped by and introduced myself, and she was like, ‘You’re a – Republican?’” He scowled like he was sniffing a carton of milk…

AFP bows to its anti-tax allies, miffed lawmakers on “Champions of Economic Freedom” scorecard

Sep 14, 2017

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Marianne Goodl

Sometimes complaining about your grades does pay off. The Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), hit earlier this week with criticism from anti-tax allies like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Freedom, has released a new “Champions of Economic Freedom” that is dramatically different than the version that came out a week ago. In that…

Retweets: Here are the tweets of the week in Colorado politics

Sep 10, 2017

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Joey Bunch

‘A devastating betrayal’: Colorado officials react to Trump’s decision to end DACA program

Sep 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, called President Trump’s Tuesday decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program “the height of cruelty” and called on Congress to come up with a plan to replace it. “Today’s announcement is a devastating betrayal for the hundreds of thousands of individuals who…

Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Strand juggling obligations to run for Congress

Aug 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Tom Strand isn’t planning on giving up his seat on the Colorado Springs City Council to run for Congress against Republican Doug Lamborn, the entrenched 5th Congressional District incumbent up for election next year. Strand said his obligations to the council – he was elected as an at-large member in 2015, and as chairman of…

Colorado Springs Councilman Tom Strand says he plans to mount GOP run in 5th Congressional District

Aug 24, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Strand plans to enter the crowded Republican primary for the 5th Congressional District seat held by five-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, he told Colorado Politics Thursday. The retired Air Force colonel and former member of the Colorado Springs School District 11 board said he’s been considering a run for…

Colorado officials, politicians react to violence surrounding white nationalist rally in Virginia

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado officials, candidates and organizations reacted with anger, derision and sadness to the violence that occurred Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists, neo-Nazis, skinheads, members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. One woman was dead and dozens injured after a car plowed…