racism

‘Do you speak English?’: Twitter erupts after Mike Coffman tweets about DACA in Spanish

Dec 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman must have struck a nerve when he tweeted Friday that he planned to appear on a Spanish-language radio talk show to discuss legislation he supports to protect certain young immigrants from deportation. In the tweet, the Aurora Republican urged listeners to tune in – his tweet even included an emoji of…
FEEDBACK: Protests vs. coffee; hate vs. love

Dec 7, 2017

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Colorado Politics

ink! protests are about housing, not coffee The clamor that ink! coffee created with their gentrification sign has now been heard across the nation, and it’s only louder here in Denver, where the issue has ignited a powderkeg that has long been overstuffed as the cost of living continues to skyrocket along the Front Range. …
Former GOP congressional nominee urges Judy Reyher to resign, but newly appointed lawmaker isn’t backing down

Dec 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A former Republican congressional nominee called on recently appointed GOP state lawmaker Judy Reyher to step down over social media posts and comments criticizing African Americans, Muslims and others, but a defiant Reyher vowed to fight back against attacks she termed desperate and divisive. Reyher has come under fire since winning a vacancy appointment Monday…
Otero County Republican Judy Reyher engulfed in controversy after contested House District 47 vacancy appointment

Dec 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The aftershocks were still coming days after a Republican vacancy committee picked a replacement for former state Rep. Clarice Navarro, the Pueblo Republican who resigned to take a position with the Trump administration in early November. Judy Reyher, a Swink resident and former Otero County GOP chair, won the appointment to Navarro’s seat on a…
Colorado Democrats hail Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s exit from White House, but say it isn’t enough

Aug 19, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democrats on Friday celebrated news President Trump had fired chief strategist Steve Bannon but questioned whether the ouster resolves complaints the president sympathizes with white nationalists and other extremist groups. “Removing Mr. Bannon’s divisive, nationalist influence from the White House was long overdue; he should never have worked there in the first place,” said…
Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette co-sponsors resolution censuring Trump over Charlottesville remarks

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is co-sponsoring a House resolution introduced Wednesday to censure President Donald Trump for his response to the weekend’s violence surrounding a rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va. “I’m co-sponsoring a resolution to censure @POTUS for defending white supremacists in #Charlottesville,” DeGette wrote in a tweet Wednesday afternoon.…
Colorado’s congressional delegation rips Trump’s latest ‘both sides’ remarks about white supremacists

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle came down hard on President Donald Trump’s latest comments defiantly blaming “both sides” for the weekend violence between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, tweeted scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks, calling them “unacceptable and…
Colorado’s Rep. Doug Lamborn tweets blistering criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response

Aug 16, 2017

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ERIN PRATER

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs tweeted a scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks about the weekend’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia – the Republican congressman’s strongest statement yet on the topic. “The KKK, Neo-Nazis, and White Supremacists and Nationalists are abhorrent,” Lamborn posted to Facebook and Twitter. “Statements that provide even…
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner renews Trump criticism at town hall: ‘There is no moral equivalent to the hatred we saw’

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner kept his cool even as hundreds of constituents lost theirs time and again Tuesday afternoon at a town hall meeting in Lakewood. After more than a year without holding a traditional town hall – Gardner has held several tele-town halls and numerous roundtable discussions with small groups – the Colorado Republican…
Colorado officials, politicians react to violence surrounding white nationalist rally in Virginia

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado officials, candidates and organizations reacted with anger, derision and sadness to the violence that occurred Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists, neo-Nazis, skinheads, members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. One woman was dead and dozens injured after a car plowed…