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TRAIL MIX: Colorado candidates take aim at gun issues
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As Colorado’s primary-election campaign hits the home stretch (ballots get mailed in early June) and the general election lies within sight, some of the sharpest jabs thrown by candidates and their supporters lately have involved guns and legislation aimed at curbing gun violence. With news of the May 18 shooting that left 10 dead at…
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Wash. Gov. Inslee in Colo. to back gun control, Dem candidates
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Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee spoke at the Colorado Capitol to back gun control efforts and to encourage support for Democratic candidates for governor. Inslee – chair of the Democratic Governor’s Association, and mentioned by some as a potential 2020 presidential candidate – was joined at Thursday’s event by state Democratic Party chief Morgan Carroll…
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Tom Sullivan to challenge Cole Wist in House District 37 race
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Democrat Tom Sullivan of Centennial plans to take on House Assistant Minority Leader Cole Wist, R-Centennial, in November, he announced Monday. Sullivan, the only Democrat in the House District 37 race so far, ran for state Senate against incumbent Jack Tate in 2016, losing by about 7 percentage points. The south-metro Denver district includes Centennial,…
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State legislative contests resolve into stalemate
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Democrats add to House majority; Republicans retain Senate majority At the end of a long election season that delivered shocks at every stage, including a dramatic upset win for Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, voters in Colorado shuffled some of the players at the state Capitol but didn’t change the game.…
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Photos: Inside the 10th annual Patricia Schroeder dinner
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In Aurora, at the Arapahoe County Democratic Party’s 10th annual Patricia Schroeder dinner, lots of political insiders mingled with heavy-hitter progressive U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN5, who even donned a Broncos hat out of respect for the Centennial State during the Saturday night festivities. The dinner was named for former U.S. Rep. Patricia Nell Scott “Pat”…
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Tate versus Sullivan: The big state Senate showdown brewing in Arapahoe County
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It pales of course in comparison to this year’s downright gaudy presidential contest, but the race to represent state Senate District 27 is one of the biggest political stories in Colorado. Because Democrats fairly comfortably control the state House and the governor’s office, and Republicans control the Senate by only one seat, the District 27…
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Tate versus Sullivan: The big state Senate showdown brewing in Arapahoe County
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It pales of course in comparison to this year’s downright gaudy presidential contest, but the race to represent state Senate District 27 is one of the biggest political stories in Colorado. Because Democrats fairly comfortably control the state House and the governor’s office, and Republicans control the Senate by only one seat, the District 27…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
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The Hot Sheet, February 24, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Wednesday, February 24, 2016 DENVER – Happy Wednesday from all of us here at The Colorado Statesman. Here’s to a smooth initial approach into the weekend. May your landing have very little turbulence. “Winning, winning, winning!” — Donald Trump (and I think also, Charlie Sheen) Now your substrata feed…