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DNC includes Coffman, Lamborn town halls in cheering press releases
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Republican congressional town halls have been making headlines for weeks. Videos of elected officials fielding angry questions and gamely attempting to defend the Trump administration’s first 100 days and Republican-majority policy-making stumbles on Capitol Hill have gone viral soon after they post. The Democratic National Committee is enjoying the extended moment, sending dispatches to members…
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Sean Spicer ‘needs to go’ says Rep. Mike Coffman at town hall
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Showing no partisan love for embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, told the sometimes angry, confrontational audience in his first Trump-era town hall meeting Wednesday night that Spicer should step down. “He needs to go,” Coffman said of Spicer. The comment arrived like a crescendo in the nearly two-hour long town…
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DeGette: Trumpcare would hurt seniors and others in Colorado: Here’s how
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Trumpcare was defeated and the Affordable Care Act saved from repeal last month thanks in large part to the American public. They spoke out passionately on behalf of the ACA in phone calls and emails to their members of Congress. They raised their voices at events like the community forum in Denver where 1,000 of…
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Aghast Larry Crowder on proposed $500M cut to state hospitals: ‘The problems keep coming’
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“Five-hundred and twenty-eight million dollars?” said Sen. Larry Crowder, a Republican from Alamosa. “Yeah, well, I imagine that’s where we’re heading.” Crowder was digesting the news that state legislative budget writers are planning to unveil their draft version next week and that it will very likely include a $528 million cut to state hospital operating…
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U.S. Rep. Polis expecting 900 constituents each at pair of Front Range town halls
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This weekend, the office of 2nd District Democratic Congressman Jared Polis announced that he expected 900 people at each of the town hall meetings he has scheduled for Sunday, one at Broomfield High School and the other at the Fort Collins Lory Student Center Theater. Polis is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration and…