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Democrat Zornio launches 2020 bid for Gardner’s Senate seat
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After criss-crossing Colorado for a year and a half while exploring a bid for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Trish Zornio made it official Saturday: The scientist and educator from Superior is running for the seat held by Republican Sen. Cory Gardner. “I’m running because we need to think forward and solve the problems of tomorrow,…
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Keith Pottratz joins the race for Gardner’s US Senate seat
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Keith Pottratz (photo courtesy of the campaign)JoeyBunch, Colorado Politicsjoey.bunch@coloradopolitics.comhttps://www.coloradopolitics.com/content/tncms/avatars/6/70/8cf/6708cfca-eabc-11e8-9a46-bf7a51d49447.afaf41e1b93ded859377d9abf86ee22e.png Another Democrat, Keith Pottratz, 31, of Grand Junction, has announced plans to run against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner in 2020. A press release Sunday said he served 5½ years in the Navy and is the vice president of the Grand Junction chapter of Wings and…
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Bennet takes on gerrymandering, even as Colo. voters are set to decide it
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet introduced a bill in Congress Thursday that aims to end gerrymandering, the same issue that Colorado voters are set to consider in November. The state ballot question, however, seeks to lessen the influence of partisan lawyers by creating independent commissions and professional staff to draw up maps for state legislators and…