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Colorado Republicans again weigh whether to boot unaffiliated voters from party primaries | TRAIL MIX

Sep 25, 2025

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Ernest Luning

For the fifth time since Colorado voters created the state’s semi-open primary system, Republican Party officials are set to decide if unaffiliated voters can cast ballots in the party’s upcoming primary. More than 400 members of the Republicans’ state central committee are scheduled to convene on the morning of Sept. 27 on the University of…
Democrats, Republicans set to gather across Colorado for precinct caucuses

Mar 5, 2018

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Ernest Luning

That biennial ritual of neighbor-to-neighbor democracy, the precinct caucus, is nearly here. Across Colorado, Republican and Democratic voters will convene at 7 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, March 6, in schools, churches, community centers and other neighborhood gathering places, marking the parties’ first official step toward picking candidates. This year, Republicans are grappling with what party…
Fair Districts Colorado brings in chairman with deep pockets: DaVita’s Kent Thiry

Oct 26, 2017

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Marianne Goodl

Kent Thiry, CEO of the dialysis company DaVita, has been named chairman of a nonpartisan redistricting reform coalition. Fair Districts Colorado, which last week filed three proposals for ballot initiatives on redistricting, announced Wednesday that Thiry would lead the coalition. Thiry is the latest to join the political battleground over redistricting, which draws congressional boundaries every…
Kent Thiry applauds Colorado GOP’s decision to leave primary open to unaffiliated voters

Sep 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The chief backer of a ballot measure to allow unaffiliated voters to cast ballots in Colorado primaries cheered Saturday’s decision by state Republicans to go ahead with next year’s primary under the new rules rather than cancel the election. “The vote by the Republican Party’s leadership is a great win for Colorado’s governance, the Colorado…
DaVita CEO Kent Thiry says he won’t run for governor of Colorado, plans to support ‘centrist’ candidates

Jul 24, 2017

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Ernest Luning

After spending millions of dollars last year to make it easy for unaffiliated voters to help decide primary races in Colorado, DaVita Inc. President and CEO Kent Thiry, a Republican, announced Monday he won’t be running for governor next year but said he plans to support candidates and causes in upcoming elections. “I have held…
Colorado Republicans elect Jeff Hays as state party chairman

Apr 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Republicans elected former El Paso County chairman Jeff Hays as state party chair at the GOP’s biennial reorganization meeting on Saturday in Englewood. “You know how you spell fun? W-I-N!” Hays said as he accepted the nomination in a packed auditorium at Englewood High School, invoking a catch phrase Hays learned from former Air…
Athanasopoulos: Why we must delay Proposition 108

Mar 6, 2017

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George Athanasopoulos

Our election process is being hijacked by big money interests, and if we don’t take a stand today, tomorrow will be too late. To save our electoral process, the Colorado General Assembly must pass a bill this session delaying the implementation of Proposition 108. Proposition 108 was passed by the voters last November but it…
Athanasopoulos stresses grassroots, counterinsurgency tactics in bid for state GOP chair

Jan 25, 2017

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Ernest Luning

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…
El Paso County’s Jeff Hays to launch bid for state Republican chairman

Jan 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

El Paso County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Hays likes to talk football and politics, but chances are that even the most detailed political discussion will soon start sounding like football. “Everything in my life is a football analogy,” he said with a chuckle in a recent interview with The Colorado Statesman, and he wasn’t kidding.…
Primary election measures signed by Hickenlooper

Dec 28, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Proposition 107, a measure calling for presidential primary elections to be held every four years, and Proposition 108, a measure allowing unaffiliated voter participation in primary elections, on Tuesday, Dec. 27. Proposition 107 was approved by 64 percent of state voters in the Nov. 8 general election. The measure allows unaffiliated…