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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…
#Coleg Week 15: Legislative suspended animation, candidate tax returns, homeless civil rights, sexting, civil forfeiture

Apr 17, 2017

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John Tomasic

It’s a strange run-up to the home stretch at the Legislature. This week there will be floor votes and committee hearings same as the weeks before, but the whole endeavor seems to be operating in a suspended state, the major legislative projects of the year still hanging in the balance. The state’s $26.8 billion budget…
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…
Gardner, GOP colleagues urge Trump to keep Cuban prison open

Feb 15, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, and 10 of his Republican colleagues, last week sent a letter to encourage President Donald Trump to assess the future operations and detention of terrorism-related detainees held at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba. “Congress has continuously opposed and prohibited the closure of…
May: Coming to America

Oct 6, 2016

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Clifford D. May

Who should we take in, how many can we integrate and who decides? Millions of people want to come to America. Actually, it’s tens of millions or perhaps hundreds of millions. Some Americans believe our borders should be open – that everyone has a “right” to live in the United States. That seems to me both…
Western Conservative Summit: An offstage scrapbook (photos)

Jul 3, 2016

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John Tomasic

Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute hosted the seventh-annual Western Conservative Summit this weekend at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver and drew national conservative figures to address the event’s approximate 4,000 attendees, including presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, former Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, RedState founder Christian conservative pundit Erick…
Trump set to speak among friends, foes at Western Conservative Summit

Jun 30, 2016

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John Tomasic

The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump will kick off the Western Conservative Summit in Denver this Friday as part of a larger effort to shore up support for his candidacy among traditional conservative voters ahead of the party’s July 18-21 national convention in Cleveland. The convention, hosted by the Centennial Institute at Colorado…
The Hot Sheet, February 12, 2016

Feb 12, 2016

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Jared Wright

By TCS Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Jared Wright @_JaredWright_ Friday, February 12, 2016 DENVER – Well, you made it to Friday. Ahead for you are two days of not having to wander underneath the Gold Dome. Congrats. If you’re working campaigns … my condolences. “It’s always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves … they tend to spill over …” —…