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Colorado Center Party becomes state’s newest political party
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Coloradans now have a seventh minor political party to choose from when casting ballots and registering to vote. The Colorado Center Party was officially recognized as a minor political party on Wednesday, after at least 1,000 registered voters affiliated with the group by July 1 when it was a qualified political organization, the Secretary of State’s Office…
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A House divided: Session defined by dissension between progressives, establishment, GOP
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In the Colorado House of Representatives, the 2023 legislative session ended the same way it started: with conflict and division. Lawmakers were almost giddy Monday, spending the last day of the session playing with toys and instruments, recording singalongs to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and sharing a meal on the balcony cooked by Rep. Ron Weinberg. But…
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TRAIL MIX | Hoping to build a powerful coalition from the center out
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Americans have never been as sharply or deeply divided along partisan lines, research shows, but at the same time the ranks of the unaffiliated – voters who don’t feel at home in either major party – are growing at a record pace. Just glance at a screen, and the results of the most recent round…
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TRAIL MIX: Independents flex their money muscles
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The organization that rolled into Colorado last year with the goal of electing some unaffiliated candidates to the legislature had some big news recently. Unite Colorado, the state-level arm of Unite America – perhaps better known by its old name, the Centrist Project – proudly announced that the five independent House and Senate candidates it’s…
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DaVita CEO Kent Thiry leaves GOP, registers unaffiliated to ‘reduce partisan gamesmanship’
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After spending eight months as a Republican, Kent Thiry, the multimillionaire CEO of Denver-based dialysis giant DaVita Inc., has changed his voter registration back to unaffiliated with the hope of combating excessive partisanship, Colorado Politics has learned. Earlier this year, he considered but ultimately decided against running for governor as a Republican after spending millions of…
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Denver Republican Party chairman hears from White House after incident at LGBT pride parade
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Denver Republican Party Chairman Jake Viano can scratch a big item off his bucket list. On Monday, he received a phone call from the White House to thank him and GOP volunteers for remaining calm during an altercation with a protester at Sunday’s PrideFest Parade in Denver. “I was really stunned,” Viano told Colorado Politics.…
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Republicans accused of ‘hijacking’ education funding in the name of charter schools
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Democrats and the state’s largest teachers’ union say Republicans have hijacked a critical school funding measure in the name of charter schools. The annual School Finance Act, which lawmakers are constitutionally obligated to pass each year, was amended on Thursday to include equitable funding for charter schools. Republicans, led by Sen. Owen Hill of Colorado…
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Zenzinger: transportation measure "long time coming"
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Any legislation that addresses the state’s transportation needs should take the entire state of Colorado into account and is “a long time coming,” freshman state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, D-Arvada, said in an interview with the Transit Alliance. The Denver-based group is a public-advocacy organization that started in 1997 and works to help citizens to “lead…
