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Insights: Hickenlooper-Kasich, is it just crazy enough to work?

Aug 28, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

In the yellow dog days of August, when the fish aren’t biting, the political anglers have more time to ponder. If talk turns to the presidential race in 2020 there’s no juicier summertime morsel than what’s next for John Hickenlooper, our moderate governor who has already written his book for national office two years ago.…
Hick and Kasich together again? This is getting unusual.

Aug 6, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Republican, are turning into an item. Sunday they will appear together on the CBS news show “Face the Nation.” The show airs at 9:30 a.m. on CBS4. Though one of the more rational presidential candidates last year, Kasich couldn’t get far in the GOP…
Republican George Brauchler wins Western Conservative Summit’s Colorado gubernatorial straw poll

Jul 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyJ5CRU8U4 Republican George Brauchler won the Western Conservative Summit’s straw poll for next year’s gubernatorial election in Colorado with nearly twice the vote of his nearest competitor, organizers announced Sunday. Brauchler, the 18th Judicial District attorney, led the vote with 39 percent of the vote in the highly unscientific poll. Entrepreneur and former state lawmaker…
Republican Darryl Glenn declares he’s challenging Colorado U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn: ‘Our country is in the balance’

Jul 17, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Declaring that the 5th Congressional District needs someone who will “fight for what he knows is right” and not just vote the right way, Darryl Glenn, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in Colorado last year, announced on Monday that he’s running for the seat held by incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, another Colorado…
Owen Hill welcomes Darryl Glenn to 5th District GOP primary, calls him ‘long on talk, short on accomplishments’

Jul 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Sen. Owen Hill knocked El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn as “long on talk and short on accomplishments” after news broke Friday that Glenn was planning to join Hill in a Republican primary challenging U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District. Colorado Politics reported Friday morning that Glenn was notifying leading Republicans…
Republican Darryl Glenn jumping in 5th Congressional District primary against Lamborn, Hill

Jul 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, the Republican nominee for Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat last year, notified GOP insiders on Friday that he plans to run for the 5th Congressional District seat held by six-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in next year’s election, Colorado Politics has learned. “Colleagues, I want to give you a…
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams: Russia didn’t tinker with the vote even if it interfered with election

Jun 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Secretary of State Wayne Williams wants to make it clear that even though the Russians might have interfered with last year’s U.S. election, that doesn’t mean the hostile country tampered with ballots or vote totals. Responding to a story posted online Thursday about U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s recent town hall in Frisco, Williams sent Colorado…
Paul Ryan says more help for older people needed in GOP health bill

Mar 20, 2017

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Hope Yen

Days before a pivotal vote, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday he will seek changes to a GOP health care bill to provide more help to older people. The new willingness to compromise was a bid for more support from moderate Republicans, who expressed continuing unease about the plan to replace Barack Obama’s health law…
#Coleg photo of the week: ‘The Deal’ still tops the list

Mar 14, 2017

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John Tomasic

Photos of elected officials doing elected official things circulate among politics watchers. People talk about them for a while and then they fall off the radar. Gov. John Hickenlooper last fall showing off his Trump-Sanders socks. Ted Cruz in the shining moment when he took the stage after sweeping the Colorado Republican Party presidential nomination,…
Steve House: Stop fighting over support for Trump, look to future of state GOP

Feb 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Calling the dispute a “useless exercise” and a distraction, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House said Monday he wants the candidates competing for his job to stop arguing about who supported Donald Trump when, and whether they did so with sufficient gusto. Instead of debating what happened last year, House told The Colorado Statesman, the…