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A LOOK BACK | Newspaper publishers come to Aspinall’s defense
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: When Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Dominick, CD-2, and Colorado Republican Party Chair Jean Tool cast shade on the voting record of Democratic U. S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall, CD-4, going so far as to insinuate that he was a “communist” sympathizer, the reactions were strong and immediate. But newspaper publishers from…
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Sierra Club drops big bucks late into Colorado races
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With Election Day just days away, the Sierra Club says it is putting money and effort into the Colorado governor’s race and state Senate races that could tip the statehouse’s balance of power to the left. The environmental group’s political arm said Tuesday it’s dropping a “major 6-figure general election campaign” that will include mailers,…
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Adam Johnson joins Compass Colorado’s conservative cause
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The Denver-based conservative nonprofit Compass Colorado has added a new blade to its liberal meat grinder. Adam Johnson, a politico who’s been around the Colorado block, this week became the communications director for the firm led by well-known political commentator Kelly Maher, its executive director. “AJ has been a friend and colleague for over 15…
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Colorado Dems, GOP playing politics over who should return ‘tainted’ donations
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Play ball! That’s what’s going on in purple-state Colorado as Democrats and Republicans get in some spring training on “tainted” donations with November elections in mind. Monday the Colorado Democratic Party was shopping around a story about a new Super PAC called Fighting for Colorado based in Washington, D.C., and led by California GOP consultant…
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Republican Mike Coffman: The ‘absolute last thing Washington needs’ is ‘morally bankrupt’ Roy Moore
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As Alabama voters prepared to head to the polls Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican, denounced Roy Moore, the state’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee, as “morally bankrupt” and called a Moore win “the absolute last thing Washington needs.” The 70-year-old Moore, who was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court for defying federal law,…
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Former congressional candidate George Leing won’t run for Colorado attorney general
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There won’t be two Georges running for Colorado attorney general after all. Saying he believes it’s important for the GOP to “consolidate behind one candidate” for attorney general, George Leing, Colorado’s Republican National Committeeman and a former congressional candidate, announced Monday that he won’t be joining one-time gubernatorial candidate George Brauchler in the race. Brauchler, the…
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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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RNC names Adam Johnson its Colorado leader as part of its midterm strategy
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Nearly 13 months from Election Day, the Republican National Committee is putting its state directors for the midterms, and in Colorado veteran operative Adam Johnson will lead the effort. In a Thursday morning press release, the RNC described Johnson this way: Adam Johnson’s political experience began in 2002 working on the successful re-election of Gov.…
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YESTERYEAR: World leaders descend on Denver for G-7; health care forum exposes tragedies
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Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman: Little old Colorado was plunged into the deep end of international politics when Denver hosted eight world leaders from the Group of Seven. Denver rolled out the carpet for national leaders from the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia and the United Kingdom, and on the…
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YESTERYEAR: Nicholson draws fire from pro-lifers
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Twenty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson came under fire by an unlikely group of pro-life Republicans who compared his actions to those of Adolf Hitler. Nicholson, who considered himself pro-life, came under attack in early May 1997 by the American Constitution Party, the Colorado affiliate of the…
