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With Democrats in charge, Colorado now backs clean air rule
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Colorado’s new attorney general said Wednesday the state will withdraw from a lawsuit challenging one of the Obama administration’s biggest climate change initiatives. Democrat Phil Weiser’s announcement signaled a reversal from his predecessor, Republican Cynthia Coffman, who signed Colorado on to a multistate lawsuit seeking to roll back the Clean Power Plan. “Instead, we’ll be…
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Weiser amends attorney general’s budget request, wants to review wrongful conviction claims
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Attorney General Phil Weiser submitted an amended budget request Tuesday to the Joint Budget Committee, seeking additional funds for staff salaries, to combat the state’s opioid epidemic and to set up an energy advisory unit to guide local governments on energy development. “Budget is policy,” said Weiser in a letter to the JBC. “Whether fighting…
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Sights and sounds from the Polis inauguration
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As seen at Tuesday’s inauguration of Colorado’s 43rd governor, Jared Polis: Little lighting up or phone foolery: As much as Colorado’s new governor is a friend to the cannabis industry, there was no readily noticeable toking up in the crowd at the ceremony among the several thousand who stretched from the west steps of the…
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Colorado Attorney General-elect Weiser names executive team
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Attorney General-Elect Phil Weiser Thursday announced appointments to his leadership team, including heavyweights from the Colorado legal and public policy community. According to a statement from Weiser, the group includes seven veterans of the Colorado Department of Law, the agency headed by the attorney general, “and five individuals joining the department from diverse backgrounds in…
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ELECTION 2018 | Democrats win all statewide offices
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Democrats made a clean sweep of Colorado’s statewide executive offices Tuesday, winning the races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer as well as governor. Perhaps the biggest upset of the bunch was Democratic political newcomer Jena Griswold, who defeated Republican incumbent Secretary of State Wayne Williams. The other statewide seats were open. Griswold…
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AG candidate Brauchler pushes through Colorado Springs as election day nears
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The last leg of Republican attorney general candidate George Brauchler’s campaign is spread across the state – the size of which is not insignificant, he’s quick to mention. “We’re the eighth-biggest state, … but feels like the fifth biggest,” Brauchler joked Friday afternoon in a GOP office on Colorado Springs’ north side. About a dozen…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Bernie Sanders, Al Gore back measure to restrict drilling
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Fresh off last week’s visit to rally Colorado voters behind gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis and other Democratic candidates, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has released his positions on a few of the state’s ballot questions, including support for an initiative that opponents warn could grind oil and gas production to a halt. Sanders, who describes himself…
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Attorney general’s race divides Colorado’s newspapers
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If elections were decided by newspaper editorial boards, Republican George Brauchler would be Colorado’s next attorney general by the narrowest divide. He has seven of the 13 official endorsements so far over his Democratic rival Phil Weiser ahead of next Tuesday’s general election. > RELATED: More Colorado newspapers make endorsements in governor’s race Here are…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Will Election Night 2018 be a double whammy?
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Two political waves could be washing across Colorado on election night this Tuesday. The first is a “blue wave” of Democratic votes from folks who dislike Republican President Donald Trump. The second is a “big dollars” wave of Democratic votes caused by the fact Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis has spent more than $20 million…
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Election Preview 2018 | Voters to choose new attorney general, treasurer
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After the November election, besides a new governor, Colorado also will have a new chief legal officer and a new state financial manager. The attorney general seat is open because the Republican who currently holds the office, Cynthia Coffman, ran for governor instead, though she failed to secure her party’s nomination in the primary. That…
