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  • Colorado Republicans call meeting to rein in chair Brita Horn, but state GOP says plans are ‘illegal’

    Colorado Republicans call meeting to rein in chair Brita Horn, but state GOP says plans are ‘illegal’

    They’re at it again. For the second time in as many years, a group of Colorado Republicans are planning to convene a meeting of the party’s state central committee despite the state GOP insisting that the proposed meeting would be “illegal” because its organizers haven’t complied with the party’s bylaws. Critics of state Republican Party…


  • Capitol M: Week ending July 13, 2018

    Capitol M: Week ending July 13, 2018

    Although the General Assembly is not in session, there’s enough going on outside of the legislative races, and inside it, too, to take another walk among the Mmmmmms. Good luck…to Democratic Sen. Dominick Moreno of Commerce City, who was recently appointed to the Adams 14 school board. Now Capitol M did a little checking on…


  • Money wins: the death of the grassroots and caucuses

    Money wins: the death of the grassroots and caucuses

    It’s rare when the far left Bernie Sanders followers and the far right friends of Gordon Klingenschmitt share a common political cause, but the recent Colorado Republican and Democrat state-wide party primary votes are sadly cause for such new agreement. Grassroots activists are now terribly outspent by the establishment middle, worsened now that unaffiliateds voted…


  • PRIMARY 2018: Colorado’s winners and losers

    PRIMARY 2018: Colorado’s winners and losers

    Winners Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton: Presumed frontrunners from the beginning lived up to their billing, turning back the largest field of primary challengers in either party since at least World War II. And they both played to their bases, the hard left and hard right. Both survived runs at their integrity in negative ads,…


  • Following hullabaloo, flu-stricken Tom Tancredo misses Colorado Hispanic Republican forum

    Following hullabaloo, flu-stricken Tom Tancredo misses Colorado Hispanic Republican forum

    Flu season collided with campaign season this week, sidelining Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo for a few days and keeping him from participating Wednesday night in a forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans – this after organizers initially said Tancredo couldn’t take part, but then relented after his supporters raised a hue and cry and…


  • Colorado Hispanic Republicans to allow Tancredo to take part in forum — if his fans come up with $1,500

    Colorado Hispanic Republicans to allow Tancredo to take part in forum — if his fans come up with $1,500

    Tom Tancredo will be able to join fellow Republican gubernatorial candidates later this month at a forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans if his supporters can come up with $1,500 to help pay for the event. As of Monday afternoon, about half the money had been pledged, according to a Republican working to broker…


  • The Hot Sheet, April 4, 2016

    VOL. 01 NO. 57 | APRIL 4, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Good morning and Happy Monday. Hopefully you got some time to enjoy the first indications of spring in Colorado over the weekend. Many Republicans, however, were holed up on Saturday, trying to get themselves elected…


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