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El Paso County lawmakers sponsor bill to ban firefighting foam
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If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won’t act, a bipartisan group of El Paso County legislators will. This week, the foursome introduced House Bill 1279, which would ban the kind of firefighting foam found in water supplies of Fountain, Security and Widefield. The two Republican sponsors are Sen. Dennis Hisey of Fountain and Rep. Lois…
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ProgressNow picks winners and losers from the left’s view
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ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s best-known liberal advocacy group, has picked its winners and losers from the four-month legislative session that ended last week. And if you know ProgressNow’s partisan pugilistic tendencies, then it comes as no surprise that Democrats and their agenda looked good, but Republicans got a sock in the election-year kisser. But not entirely.…
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2018 Colo. legislature: Winners and losers from the session
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Winners House Assistant Majority Leader Alec Garnett of Denver and Assistant Minority Leader Cole Wist of Centennial: For the second year in a row, these two lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle took on some of the toughest issues in the session. This year, that included the year’s most controversial bill – the “red flag”…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH: Lundberg backs Watson in GOP treasurer’s race
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The recent slew of endorsements has slowed a bit recently, perhaps because the Legislature’s waning days have drawn the focus of Colorado’s political world, perhaps because few bigwigs remain who have not bestowed their blessings during this long political season. Still, some candidates learned in the last week that they won the support of notables,…
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House to take up bill to extend insurance for families of fallen police, firefighters
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With eight working days left in the General Assembly, the Colorado House will have to move fast to give families of fallen local officers and firefighters the same security of insurance extended to state troopers this session. Senate Bill 247 passed the upper chamber 35-0 last Thursday and awaits a yet-unscheduled committee hearing in the…
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Capitol M: Week ending April 6, Budget Edition
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Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd, or, what goes on at the Capitol when lawmakers are not sitting at Coors Field, or as it was briefly known as on Friday, Citizens Bank Park. The next time Rep. Leslie Herod offers you donuts around April Fool’s Day…Capitol M advises…
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Rep. Donald Valdez calls out fellow House Democrat on House floor
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The issue of harassment at the state Capitol took a turn Friday, when a Democratic member of the House claimed he’d been harassed by another member, a fellow Democrat, and threatened to call for an expulsion resolution. Rep. Donald Valdez of La Jara took to the House microphone Friday morning to complain that he had…
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El Paso County delegation almost unanimous in vote to expel Rep. Steve Lebsock
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The eight members of the Colorado House from El Paso County were nearly unanimous on whether or not to expel Rep. Steve Lebsock. Seven of the eight voted in favor of the resolution to expel the Thornton Democrat. The lone “no” vote came from the El Paso delegation’s newest member, Republican Rep. Shane Sandridge, who…
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Colorado group backing unaffiliated candidates says it’s recruiting in 8 legislative districts
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The campaign organization that used to be called the Centrist Project says it’s recruiting unaffiliated candidates in eight legislative seats across Colorado – and plans to train potential candidates the same night Republicans and Democrats will be holding precinct caucuses. Unite Colorado, the state-focused arm of Unite America, is already fielding unaffiliated candidates in four…
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Republican Kit Roupe sets grudge match with state Rep. Tony Exum Sr. in House District 17
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It’ll be round three this fall in Colorado’s seesaw House District 17 between state Rep. Tony Exum Sr., the incumbent Democrat, and former state Rep. Kit Roupe, the Republican, who filed Tuesday to run for the seat she won from Exum two elections ago and held for one term until Exum ousted her in the…
