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Coming to a freeway near you, maybe: Barack Obama Highway

Apr 19, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Colorado House Democrats this week are trying to get permission from the General Assembly to rename the portion of Interstate 25 that goes through Denver the “Barack Obama Highway.” They’re hoping the renaming follows in the footsteps of what lawmakers have done in the past for Republican presidents: renaming the portion of I-25 through El…
Faith, family drive Larimer County Commissioner Lew Gaiter’s GOP gubernatorial bid

Dec 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

There are a few things that define Lew Gaiter III, the Larimer County commissioner running in the Republican primary for governor. He’s a Christian and a cancer survivor. He’s a family man who built a business. After growing up in a family of prominent Colorado Democrats, he’s been a Republican since his college years. Until…
Republican Mike Coffman: The ‘absolute last thing Washington needs’ is ‘morally bankrupt’ Roy Moore

Dec 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

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,…
Republican Tom Tancredo set to launch campaign for governor of Colorado

Oct 31, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Tom Tancredo is set to kick off a campaign for governor of Colorado, joining a crowded Republican primary field in what will be his third run for the office, Colorado Politics has learned. Tancredo enters the race – after more than two months spent exploring a run – on the heels of a private poll…
Vice President Mike Pence promises Colorado donors Republicans will pass tax reform this year

Oct 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday told a ballroom full of Republicans in Greenwood Village that a unified GOP will fulfill a key campaign pledge of President Donald Trump by enacting tax reform legislation. “I’m going to make a prediction tonight: We’re going to pass the largest tax cut in American history, and we’re…
Tom Tancredo fires back at Mike Coffman: ‘No, I’m not bored’

Sep 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

As former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo makes the rounds at conservative gatherings, asking for advice as to whether or not he should run for governor of Colorado next year in what’s already a jam-packed Republican primary, he wants the man who took his place in Congress to know one thing. “Mike Coffman was on the…
When pols play pundit to pick apart the opposition

Jul 25, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Divide and conquer is a stratagem at least as old as the ancient Greeks, but it seems to have taken on a contemporary twist in modern, Middle American politics. In a political culture driven by pundits, partisans figure they can play the part as well as anyone. Their true aim isn’t idle analysis, of course;…
13-year-old Trump campaign worker Weston Imer calls on state Republicans to consider Generation Z

Apr 3, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Weston Imer, the young Republican who gained international attention last year for co-chairing the Jefferson County Trump for President campaign at 12 years old, was back in the spotlight Saturday when he delivered an urgent plea to Colorado Republicans to get busy safeguarding freedoms and reforming government “back to the basics” until his generation is…
YESTERYEAR: Political espionage, international terror network conspiracies make top headlines

Mar 30, 2017

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Rachael Wright

… Thirty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … Daniel Schorr, a nationally known CBS and cable newsman, spoke to several hundred attendees on March 27 at the B.H.M. Synagogue in Denver during a speech entitled “A Jew In Journalism.” During the talk, Schorr honed in on the timely news of Jonathan Pollard and the surrounding controversy regarding his…
Noonan: Political parties must change or die. What then?

Mar 17, 2017

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Paula Noonan

Our political parties are approaching an end game. A quick look at March registration numbers tells the story. Among active voters, Democrats and Republicans are even in registration. Unaffiliated voter registrations exceed both parties by 200,000 people. The short-term problem for Democrats in 2018 when voting numbers will be low is that Republicans have about…