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Democrat Jason Crow calls on Mike Coffman to return NRA money, ‘take action’ on gun measures
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Democratic challenger Jason Crow on Thursday called on U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman to return campaign donations the Aurora Republican has received from the National Rifle Association and urged the incumbent to “act now to pass commonsense gun safety reform” the day after a mass shooting at a Florida high school left 17 dead and 14…
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Mike Coffman donates campaign cash from GOP colleague who settled sexual harassment complaint
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A Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman on Wednesday called on the Aurora Republican to unload $10,000 in campaign contributions from a fellow GOP lawmaker under fire for settling a former aide’s sexual harassment complaint with taxpayer money – but a Coffman spokesman said he’d already donated the funds earlier in the day to a local…
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Campaign finance reform group hammers Mike Coffman on tax bill vote with six-figure ad buy
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A political action committee devoted to driving big money out of politics on Tuesday launched a six-figure digital ad campaign targeting U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman for the Aurora Republican’s vote in favor of the tax reform bill passed by Congress last month. “Congressman Coffman represents the worst of Washington’s pay-to-play system, and he’s proven time…
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Another group takes on Coffman over GOP’s tax-reform plan
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Progressive coalition Not One Penny, which was established to fight GOP tax reform, is shelling out $200,000 in ads targeting Aurora Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and his vote on the proposed tax plan. The Aurora Sentinel reports the ad is part of a seven-figure nationwide campaign, $200,000 of that spent here in Denver broadcast…
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Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman draws primary challenge from ‘passionate patriot’ Roger Edwards
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Douglas County Republican Roger Edwards plans to announce Wednesday that he’s challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in next year’s GOP primary, charging the five-term incumbent with paying lip service to conservative priorities and using “identity politics” to divide residents of the battleground 6th Congressional District, he told Colorado Politics. “It has become exceedingly more difficult…
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#Retweets: The week’s best Twitter takes on Colorado politics
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Guys, this time the @JonCaldara – Klingenschmitt wing is serious. #COpolitics #COleg pic.twitter.com/CkBvIGuWV1
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When pols play pundit to pick apart the opposition
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Divide and conquer is a stratagem at least as old as the ancient Greeks, but it seems to have taken on a contemporary twist in modern, Middle American politics. In a political culture driven by pundits, partisans figure they can play the part as well as anyone. Their true aim isn’t idle analysis, of course;…
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A diehard defender of tax limitation nails state lawmakers to a ‘Wall of Shame’
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Colorado’s political right has made its heartburn abundantly clear by now over Senate Bill 267, the eleventh-hour, catch-all, bipartisan legislation that wound up funding a little of this and a little more of that – and unexpectedly became the sleeper of the 2017 legislature. The bill’s title purported to address the “sustainability of rural Colorado” but, as…
