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Colorado Dawn hit with campaign finance complaint
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A campaign finance complaint has been filed against the independent expenditure committee Colorado Dawn, IEC. The expenditures at the heart of the complaint were paid for by Colorado Dawn’s 501(c)(4), at $872,000 for text messages and campaign flyers in support of school choice on the November ballot. Colorado Dawn is a 501(c)(4), and according to…
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Democrats lead in 3 of 4 State Board of Education races | ELECTION NIGHT 2022
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Democrats held leads in three of the four seats up for grabs on the State Board of Education this year as of 9 p.m. on Election Day. The State Board of Education approves the budget for the state Education Department, appoints the Commissioner of Education, accredits public school districts, oversees charter school appeals of district…
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Two new seats, high stakes in Colorado State Board of Education election
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Colorado’s State Board of Education is growing from seven to nine seats, and political control of the body that sets education policy could be at stake in November’s election. The addition of two seats due to Colorado’s growing population – one representing a new 8th Congressional District that includes Adams and Weld counties and another…
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Gun self-defense in 4th grade? No, says Colorado education board
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The Colorado Board of Education voted June 13 along party lines to changes in standards for teaching health and physical education, but omitted a proposal to teach fourth graders about the benefits of guns for self-defense. The proposal was first floated last month by Republican Debora Scheffel, who represents the 4th Congressional District on the…
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Guns for self-defense by 10-year-olds?
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Update: 11 a.m. June 8: Board member Debora Scheffel, who proposed the amendment, told Colorado Politics she’s withdrawing the amendment because it’s “misunderstood.” The Colorado State Board of Education next week will decide on whether to add amendments to the state’s comprehensive standards for Colorado public education – including one proposed amendment that would promote…
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Resign to run: Public deserves the undivided attention of officeholders
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Down in Texas, the state legislature is considering measures to require local governments to seek voter approval before raising taxes, along the lines of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR). Here in Colorado, we might want to return the favor by adopting a version of Texas’s “resign-to-run” law, a measure that requires some state and…
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YESTERYEAR: GOP reviles Ritter signed construction defects legislation
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Thirty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … Elie Wiesel and Emil Hecht received honorary degrees in Humane Letters from the University of Denver at “A Triumph of Conscience” dinner which was attended by 1,400 distinguished eventgoers. Dr. Dwight Smith, Chancellor of the University of Denver, said the honors were bestowed on “two whose contributions to the welfare…
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Former GOP lawmaker Victor Mitchell weighing run for governor
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A Douglas County entrepreneur and former state lawmaker could be adding his name to the lengthy list of possible Republican candidates for governor in 2018, sources tell The Colorado Statesman. Victor Mitchell, who served a term in the Legislature a decade ago, is weighing a run, and Capitol veteran Steve Durham thinks Mitchell can bring…
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YESTERYEAR: Allegations surface that embezzlement scheme helped fund U.S. Senate petition drive
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Thirty-Five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Some of the money allegedly embezzled from the Central Bank for Cooperatives in Denver by Eve Lincoln, a former coordinator for Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan’s 1980 Senate campaign, could have been used to help finance Buchanan’s petition drive to get on the ballot,…
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Beauprez campaign accuses Holtzman of breaking law with media spin
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Ten Year Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … The race for the Republican nomination for governor was steaming up. John Marshall, campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, demanded that GOP rival Marc Holtzman immediately fire his campaign manager, Dick Leggitt, and submit his campaign to a formal investigation for “the flagrant and…
