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  • YESTERYEAR: Legislature hits low with frivolous lobbyist ethics complaints

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    Rachael Wright

    Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … In a continuation of the battle for welfare reform, Gov. Roy Romer outlined his reason for vetoing House Bill 97-1166. “I am vetoing this bill because of one provision. That provision creates an irrational two-tiered system of welfare cash assistance benefits for our fellow citizens…

  • Colorado Republicans elect Jeff Hays as state party chairman

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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…

  • Mark Baisley withdraws from Republican state chair race just days after jumping in

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    Ernest Luning

    Two days after jumping in the crowded contest for Colorado GOP state chair, Douglas County Republican Mark Baisley abandoned the race, saying he’d decided his candidacy wouldn’t be good for the party. Baisley, a former chairman of the Douglas County GOP and former vice chairman of the state party, said in a Facebook post late…

  • Former Colorado Republican Party Vice Chair Mark Baisley joins race for state GOP chair

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    Ernest Luning

    Cyber-security expert Mark Baisley, a former vice chair of the state GOP, announced Thursday he’s in the running for Colorado Republican chair, joining three other candidates and potentially throwing the election up for grabs just more than three weeks before the vote. Baisley said in a Facebook post that he had recently been recruited –…

  • State GOP vice chair Derrick Wilburn says he won’t be seeking top party post

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    Ernest Luning

    Incumbent Colorado Republican Party Vice Chairman Derrick Wilburn on Wednesday told The Colorado Statesman he won’t be running for state GOP chairman in upcoming party elections. That leaves two candidates for the top spot: former congressional nominee George Athanasopoulos and El Paso County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Hays. Wilburn had said earlier in January that he would…

  • House says he won’t seek another term as GOP chair

    House says he won’t seek another term as GOP chair

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    Ernest Luning

    Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House isn’t seeking a second term heading the state GOP, and he isn’t going to run for governor, either, he said Monday. Instead, House said in a statement he plans to focus on improving the health care system and raise money to support next year’s Republican nominee for governor. House…

  • Former Rep. Tim Dore fined $2,000 for mistakes on campaign finance reports

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    JOEY BUNCH

    An administrative law judge fined former state Rep. Tim Dore of Elizabeth $2,000 for failing to report a round of robo-calls, featuring, coincidentally, former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez. Dore’s re-election campaign last summer also failed to accurately report some radio ads as “electioneering communications,” according to the ruling by Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer. The…

  • ? In mad election year, to many it’s the down ticket races that count

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    John Tomasic

    Ballots have dropped in Colorado and news of the presidential election race continues to break at a furious clip. The frenzied nature of the top ticket race is having perhaps the most pronounced impact on down ticket races in Colorado history. Wikileaks recently released emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s account – which Podesta…

  • The Hot Sheet, August 4, 2016

    The Hot Sheet, August 4, 2016

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    Jared Wright

    VOL. 01 NO. 145 | AUGUST 04, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright   DENVER – Another dawn, a new Hot Sheet prepared just for you. If you’re reading this, you made it through to a new day, presumably healthy and happy. If, however, you are reading this from a hospital…

  • Bill Armstrong: ‘He will be remembered’

    Bill Armstrong: ‘He will be remembered’

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    Ernest Luning

    On Friday night, thousands who were gathered at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver paused for a few moments to share a tribute to Bill Armstrong, the father of the modern Republican Party in Colorado, whose civic work across six decades has inspired multitudes and established Armstrong as a role model for the modern conservative.…

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