pete coors
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Douglas County School Board race neared $1 million in spending
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This story has been updated and corrected. Due to an error in the TRACER reporting system, an expenditure was listed incorrectly with contributions. The Douglas Schools for Douglas Kids independent expenditure committee did report spending $131,000 on campaign expenses in the weeks leading to the Nov. 8 election. __ Final campaign finance reports for the 2017…
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Election Day was a game changer for key Colorado school districts
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This turned out to be the year the teachers unions staged a comeback. Long on the defensive and losing members in Colorado and across the country amid expanding school choice and a rapidly shifting public education landscape, the unions dug in their heels. They opened their coffers and pushed back hard in Tuesday’s election against…
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Staff picks: This week’s top 5 stories in Colorado Politics (Aug. 13, 2017 edition)
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It’s been a busy week in Colorado Politics, with campaign cash, coal’s slow-motion collapse and the ever-evolving candidacy of Ed Perlmutter in the headlines. Our staff re-evaluated the week, and here are the stories we think you should keep in mind in the days and weeks ahead: 5. Coal communities need a new engine,…
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Stapleton’s alleged super-PAC is unquestionably packed with cash
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My pal Mark Matthews of the Denver Post broke the story this week that non-gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton has a big non-campaign fundraiser on Aug. 21 at a rich executive’s house in Cherry Hills Village. Mark got his hands on an invitation that is officially a fundraiser for the Republican-back Better Colorado Now independent expenditure…
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More headliners on the way for ALEC’s Denver gathering
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The Trump administration’s Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke will join the speakers’ dais in Denver at next week’s annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council. The event already features Jim DeMint, Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Pete Coors, Guy Benson and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.…
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ALEC will reel in the political right at its annual meeting in Denver
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Lawmakers who lean right – and hope to reinvent government accordingly – have had a friend named ALEC for 44 years. The conservative, pro-free market American Legislative Exchange Council has been an advocate of limited government and a resource for model legislation to generations of (mostly Republican) state legislators in Colorado and across the country.…
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The Hot Sheet – Trump is growing on Hick, Hey – big (political) spender, cities investing in Christmas, Boulder is paying for WHAT? and MORE …
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VOL. 01 NO. 196 | DECEMBER 1, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 (2016 Colorado campaign cash) DENVER – Happy Thursday to you and yours from all of us at the Colorado Statesman. Has it been hard for you getting back in the swing of things following the long (not long enough) Thanksgiving holiday? There,…
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No silver bullets: Jim Carpenter stresses fundamentals, agility
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Jim Carpenter likes to tell a story about a campaign stop more than two decades ago in a small town on the Eastern Plains. It’s no coincidence the story stars former three-term Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, a man Carpenter describes as the master of quick thinking and innovative approaches to the surprises any politician is…
