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From Under Colorado’s Gold Dome: General Assembly, week one
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Here’s some of the notables and quotables from the first week of the 2018 Colorado General Assembly. ICYMI: Last October, Gov. John Hickenlooper called lawmakers back to the state Capitol for what was eventually a two-day session intended to fix a drafting error in Senate Bill 17-267. You do remember that, right? Apparently, memories are…
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GOP gubernatorial candidates Walker Stapleton, Victor Mitchell, Doug Robinson petitioning onto ballot
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Three of the Republicans running for governor – Walker Stapleton, Victor Mitchell and Doug Robinson – are planning to petition their way onto Colorado’s primary ballot, their campaigns tell Colorado Politics, potentially leaving GOP voters with as many as a half dozen candidates to choose from in June. Candidates can begin gathering petition signatures Tuesday…
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Colorado Republicans unveil plans to hold 2018 state assembly at Coors Event Center in Boulder
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Colorado Republicans will convene this year’s state assembly at the Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder on Saturday, April 14, returning to the same hall where the GOP assembled four years ago, party officials said Friday. “We looked for a venue in Colorado, but they were all booked,” said state party…
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Walker Stapleton tops gubernatorial straw poll after Mesa County GOP candidate forum
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Republican Walker Stapleton won a straw poll conducted Thursday night at the conclusion of a GOP gubernatorial candidate forum in Grand Junction. The state treasurer pulled about 45 percent of the vote in a field that included former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and businessmen Victor Mitchell and Doug Robinson, although it…
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Reactions to Hickenlooper’s State of the State fall along party lines
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Reactions to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s final State of the State speech Wednesday fell predictably along party-lines, with rah-rahs from Democrats and less enthusiasm from Republicans. The governor took 49 minutes to talk about his agenda for the 2018 legislative session and his final year in office. “We have a lot to accomplish in the next 119 days”…
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Republican Tom Tancredo at Capitol to talk PERA, prepare for Hickenlooper-Tancredo transition
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Republican Tom Tancredo, the former congressman running for governor of Colorado, spent Thursday morning at the state Capitol to hear Gov. John Hickenlooper’s final State of the State address and offer his thoughts on where the state is headed. “Let’s be realistic about this,” Tancredo told Colorado Politics before Hickenlooper, who is term-limited, delivered the…
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Democrat Mike Johnston hauls in more than $1.5 million, sets off-year gubernatorial fundraising record
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Democrat Mike Johnston plans to report his campaign for governor has taken in more than $1.5 million through the end of 2017, breaking the modern Colorado record for off-year fundraising for any gubernatorial candidate, Colorado Politics has learned. The former two-term state senator from Denver raised $255,640 in the 4th Quarter, which ended Dec. 31,…
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WATCH LIVE: Gov. John Hickenlooper gives his last Colorado State of the State address
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(Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared as a blog on our website last Friday.) When gunfire erupted outside the state Capitol last week, before Gov. John Hickenlooper was scheduled to meet with reporters, he was too busy to pay much attention. “It had nothing to do with me,” he said of the gunfire,…
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The return of Dr. Chaps? Gordon Klingenschmitt weighs run against Tony Exum
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Former state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, the Colorado Springs Republican and former Navy chaplain known as “Dr. Chaps,” said Tuesday night he’s forming an exploratory committee to weigh a bid against state Rep. Tony Exum, the Colorado Springs Democrat who holds one of the state’s swingiest of swing seats. Klingenschmitt told a group of Republican activists…
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Cynthia Coffman appeals to disappointed Hillary Clinton voters in New York Times column
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Sometimes you have to see your reflection, Colorado, to know what you look like. That was the case in the New York Times Sunday Review when op-ed columnist Frank Bruni reflected on the state of our political landscape. The piece, titled “The State Where Everyone Wants to be Governor,” is an interesting read for Mile…