vacancy election
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Kenny Nguyen selected to represent Colorado House District 33
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Kenny Nguyen, a member of the Broomfield City Council, was chosen by a 36-member Democratic vacancy committee on Monday to represent House District 33. Nguyen will replace Sen. William Lindstedt, who was appointed by Gov. Jared Polis last week to serve out the final year of the term of the late Sen. Faith Winter. Nguyen…
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Colorado Democratic vacancy committee selects Lori Goldstein for HD 29
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A Democratic vacancy committee on Sunday chose Lori Goldstein, president of the Adams 12 Board of Education, to serve the final year of Rep. Shannon Bird’s term. Bird, a Democrat who would have been term-limited this year, resigned her seat on Jan. 5 to run for Congress in District 8 full-time. Goldstein, who had already…
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Gov. Polis appoints Lindstedt to Colorado Senate District 25 after vacancy committee misses deadline
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Despite a similar vote by a Senate District 25 vacancy committee last week, it was up to Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday to make sure the Senate seat was filled and ready for the 2026 session. That’s because the vacancy committee failed to turn in the required paperwork by the deadline. It’s the second time…
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Q&A with Rep.-elect Tim Hernández | Activist-turned-legislator on channeling his fire
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Sixteen months ago, Tim Hernández lost his job teaching at North High School. Today, he represents the school’s northwest Denver district in the Colorado House of Representatives. A committee of Denver Democrats selected Hernández to represent House District 4 on Aug. 26, as the district’s former representative, Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, resigned to join the Denver City Council.…
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Tim Hernández to represent Denver’s District 4 in Colorado House of Representatives
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Chicano activist and teacher Tim Hernández will represent northwest Denver in the state House of Representatives. Hernández was selected on Saturday by a 68-member vacancy committee to represent House District 4 through 2024. Hernández will complete the term of former Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, who represented House District 4 since 2019 and resigned earlier this month to join the Denver City…
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State Republicans to announce ruling Tuesday on contested HD 14 vacancy election
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Call him Schrödinger’s rep. Like the cat made famous by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 1935 thought experiment in quantum mechanics, Colorado Springs Republican Shane Sandridge can be considered both alive and dead – in the political sense – until the Colorado GOP reveals how the party’s executive committee ruled last week on a complaint challenging the…
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State Rep. Dylan Roberts plans to introduce bill to bring transparency to insulin prices in Colorado
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Inspired by a Nevada law that takes effect Monday, state Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, plans to introduce legislation when the Colorado General Assembly convenes next week to require transparency about insulin pricing from drug manufacturers. “If you have Type I diabetes, you cannot live without insulin, and it’s one of the prescription drugs whose price…
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Republican committee member takes complaint over HD 14 vacancy election to state GOP
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The Republican precinct officer who charged that improprieties should invalidate last week’s vacancy committee election to replace state Rep. Dan Nordberg escalated her complaint to the Colorado GOP Thursday after the committee chair dismissed her objections and said the election followed the rules. Kanda Calef, a member of the House District 14 Republican vacancy committee,…
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Republican committee member challenges results of House District 14 vacancy election
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A member of the House District 14 Republican vacancy committee on Friday challenged Thursday night’s election of Shane Sandridge to the Colorado House of Representatives alleging another committee member was ineligible to participate and arguing Sandridge fell one vote short of the required majority. The vacancy committee picked Sandridge from a field of five candidates…
