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Granby ‘Killdozer’ author and Steve Bannon classmate blasts anti-government trend
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EDWARDS – Longtime Granby newspaper editor and publisher turned author Patrick Brower argues former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency by stoking the growing flames of anti-government anger in ways that are dangerous for democracy and potentially deadly for innocent citizens caught in the crossfire. Brower should know.…
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Tom Tancredo getting help from GOP operative who helped knock off Eric Cantor
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Chris Doss, the campaign operative who helped take down U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia in 2014, is putting his brand on Tom Tancredo, or maybe it’s the other way around. Doss will be in Colorado next weekend talking to volunteers and helping Tancredo beef up his run for governor, according to an…
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CIRULI: Roy Moore’s fate shows character counts — while control of the House teeters
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My Dec. 6 blog on the Alabama Senate race opened with, “Alabama Judge Roy Moore is in the first post-Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, et.al. sex scandal election.” His loss in a state that Republicans have held a near total lock on since the early 1990s was a powerful demonstration that character counts.Because of the uniqueness…
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Colorado Democrats, Republicans trade shots over Tancredo’s participation in Hispanic GOP forum
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Seizing upon an ongoing dispute between state Republicans over whether gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo can attend a forum sponsored by the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, a spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party gleefully tweaked the opposition Tuesday. State GOP officials, for their part, shrugged off the jab from across the aisle, with one calling it a…
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SLOAN: Trump’s biggest successes in 2017 may have come in spite of him
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If it were necessary to uncover a single word to define President Donald Trump’s inaugural year, it would have to be “incongruity.” On one hand, we behold the burlesque Trump; the bombastic populist, the undisciplined, impulsive social media presence, the somewhat child-like figure who lacks the support of much of his own party – an…
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SLOAN: Cory Gardner got it right in his approach to the Moore fiasco
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Roy Moore lost his bid for U.S. Senate in Alabama last week, and Democrats around the nation celebrated – rightly so, inasmuch as the victory in deepest-of-deep-red Alabama chiseled the GOP Senate majority to a bare 51-49. In their exuberance, many Democrats and liberals hailed the election as a bellwether for the mid-term elections, a…
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Out West Roundup: Utah Republicans rally for Romney after Bannon remark on his Mormon faith
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Utah Utah Republicans rally for Romney after Bannon remark on his Mormon faith Mitt Romney’s allies lashed out at former White House strategist Steve Bannon last week after he said at an Alabama rally that Romney and his family “hid behind” their Mormon religion to avoid military service. Sen. Orrin Hatch and other prominent Utah…
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Cory Gardner calls on Roy Moore to drop out of Alabama Senate race if report on relations with teenage girls is true
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Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, called on Roy Moore, the GOP’s Senate nominee in Alabama, to withdraw from the race if a news report that he had relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s turns out to be true. “The allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy…
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Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman draws primary challenge from ‘passionate patriot’ Roger Edwards
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Douglas County Republican Roger Edwards plans to announce Wednesday that he’s challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in next year’s GOP primary, charging the five-term incumbent with paying lip service to conservative priorities and using “identity politics” to divide residents of the battleground 6th Congressional District, he told Colorado Politics. “It has become exceedingly more difficult…
