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Michael Dougherty appointed to replace Stan Garnett as Boulder district attorney
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday appointed veteran prosecutor Michael Dougherty, a former Democratic candidate for attorney general, to replace Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett, who is stepping down at the end of the month to take a job with a law firm. At the same time, state Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, the other finalist…
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Holocaust survivor Estare Weiser featured in ad for her son Phil Weiser’s attorney general campaign
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Estare Weiser, one of the youngest living Holocaust survivors, introduces her son Phil Weiser in a digital ad released Thursday by the Democrat’s campaign for Colorado attorney general. Born in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on April 13, 1945, Estare Weiser and her mother were liberated the next day by the Second Infantry Division of…
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Democrat Mike Foote launches campaign for Boulder DA whether he’s appointed or not
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State Rep. Mike Foote, a Lafayette Democrat, on Wednesday said he’s running for Boulder County district attorney whether he wins appointment to the office later this month or not. Gov. John Hickenlooper plans to name a replacement by March 1 for Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett, who announced last month he’s stepping down after…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 4 edition
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THE HITS KEEP COMING: Remember the difficulty some state-level campaigns had filing their quarterly campaign finance reports last month, including a couple whose initial reports listed some of their major contributors’ donations twice? It turns out neither the candidates nor their compliance agents were to blame. Election officials at the Colorado secretary of state’s office…
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Democrat Michael Dougherty suspends attorney general campaign, applies for Boulder DA
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Democrat Michael Dougherty said Friday he was suspending his campaign for attorney general and had applied to fill the vacancy created by Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett’s decision to step down at the end of the month. Dougherty, the assistant district attorney for Jefferson and Gilpin counties and a former top prosecutor in the attorney general’s…
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Stan Garnett stepping down as Boulder district attorney to take job at his old firm
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Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett is resigning after 10 years in office to take a position as senior partner at the powerful Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he worked before winning election in 2008, he announced Thursday. Garnett, 61, was the second-longest serving district attorney in Boulder County, the state’s 20th Judicial…
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Democratic secretary of state candidate Jena Griswold lands backing from unions, elected officials
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Jena Griswold, a Democratic candidate for Colorado secretary of state, announced Monday she’s won the endorsements of two local unions and more than a dozen current and former elected Democrats, including state lawmakers, city council members and county officials. “Colorado needs a secretary of state who will protect all eligible voters’ right to vote and…
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Rep. Mike Foote, local prosecutor, backs Michael Dougherty in AG’s race
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State Rep. Mike Foote, a prosecutor himself, is providing a notable early endorsement for Colorado attorney general candidate Michael Dougherty. Foote is a well-regarded Democrat, a universally well-respected legislator and a deputy to Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett. There was an avalanche of high-level talk in the springtime about Foote’s viability as a candidate…
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McCann: Sessions’ federal sentencing directive ‘disturbing’
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Denver District Attorney Beth McCann, Breckenridge District Attorney Bruce Brown and Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett are among close to 30 current and former local and state prosecutors to oppose a recent directive from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that instructs federal prosecutors to charge, pursue and seek the longest possible sentences for the “most…
