primary elections
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 11 edition
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I’LL SEE YOUR BERNIE AND RAISE A JOYCE FOSTER … The battle of the bold-faced names is on in the House District 9 Democratic primary, where three-term incumbent state Rep. Paul Rosenthal is facing two candidates seeking to dislodge him from the southeast Denver seat. Less than a week had passed since Bernie Sanders –…
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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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RNC members Vera Ortegon, George Leing urge Colorado Republicans to stick with primary election
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Colorado’s Republican National Committee members are joining the chorus of GOP stalwarts urging the party’s central committee to reject a proposal to opt out of the primary election next year rather than allow unaffiliated voters to participate. State Republicans decide Saturday whether to go along with voter-approved Proposition 108 and let voters who aren’t affiliated…
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State GOP officer candidates make case at county meetings
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The announced candidates for the Colorado Republican Party’s statewide officer elections made the rounds in the metro area on Saturday, pressing the flesh and making their pitches at GOP county reorganizations. All four of the Republicans in the running – chair hopefuls George Athanasopoulos, a former congressional candidate, and Jeff Hays, the outgoing chair of…
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Athanasopoulos stresses grassroots, counterinsurgency tactics in bid for state GOP chair
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Former congressional candidate and Army veteran George Athanasopoulos is running an aggressive campaign for Colorado Republican Party chairman, unafraid to call out the party and his current opponent as he argues the GOP should pick him to turn the state red. “I am the one person that will change the Republican Party in a way…
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Sand Creek Massacre Capitol grounds memorial plan moves forward
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State officials on Friday advanced a plan to site a new memorial to the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre on the grounds of the Capitol in Denver after more than an hour of emotional testimony delivered mostly by members of regional Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The proposal won unanimous support from the 12-member Capitol Building Advisory…
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Blake: On the initiatives, just say ‘no’
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I love the initiative process in theory. Power to the people! In practice, not so much. At least this year. Like a pianist playing scales, I used to warm up for my biennial ballot concerto by quickly flipping the “no” lever on all the judges up for retention. It not only flexed the fingers, it…
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YESTERYEAR: Election official warns moving primary to August could dampen vote
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Legislators should be “ashamed” of moving the primary election from September to August, wrote Susan Duncan, president of the Denver Election Commission, in a guest commentary. “These are the dog days of August, when sensible people are paying attention to baseball – not politics,” she…
