unaffiliated voters
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Colorado GOP chair predicts effort to scrap primary will fail
Colorado Republicans will decide in September whether to cancel next year’s primary election rather than allow unaffiliated voters to participate, party officials said this week, although the state GOP chairman says he’s confident the proposal will go down in flames. State voters approved Proposition 108 last year, allowing unaffiliated voters – a smidgeon over one-third…
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DaVita CEO Kent Thiry says he won’t run for governor of Colorado, plans to support ‘centrist’ candidates
After spending millions of dollars last year to make it easy for unaffiliated voters to help decide primary races in Colorado, DaVita Inc. President and CEO Kent Thiry, a Republican, announced Monday he won’t be running for governor next year but said he plans to support candidates and causes in upcoming elections. “I have held…
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Colorado GOP names Daniel Cole, Adam Johnson to state party posts
The Colorado Republican Party has named Daniel Cole as its new communications director and Adam Johnson as political director, Cole announced Monday in a chatty, informal letter he said reflects his approach to the job. The two mark the first hires at the party since former El Paso County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Hays took…
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Political veteran Dick Wadhams outlines ‘redprint’ for Republican victory in Colorado elections
Dick Wadhams, who chaired the state Republican Party for two terms and had a hand in electing the statewide officials who set the tone for the Colorado GOP across three decades, has a message for the party: Republicans have never had it easy in Colorado. “This has always been a competitive state; this has never…
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State GOP officer candidates make case at county meetings
The announced candidates for the Colorado Republican Party’s statewide officer elections made the rounds in the metro area on Saturday, pressing the flesh and making their pitches at GOP county reorganizations. All four of the Republicans in the running – chair hopefuls George Athanasopoulos, a former congressional candidate, and Jeff Hays, the outgoing chair of…
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Johnson: Prop 108: The devil is in the details
Now that the dust has settled with newly elected officials preparing to take office, we politicos immediately turn to the next election. Luckily for us, on a statewide level, 2018 looks to be just as rousing as 2016. Many individuals are talking about candidates for this race or that race. While this sounds gossipy, fun…