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El Paso County GOP censures Vickie Tonkins, calls for Dave Williams’ removal in disputed meeting
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The standoff between Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams and some of the Republicans seeking his removal from office took an unexpected turn on Monday night when members of the El Paso County GOP’s governing body convened on lawn chairs in a church parking lot in Colorado Springs to demand that Williams resign. In addition…
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El Paso GOP chair attacks Lamborn after he cites ‘troubling irregularities’ in assembly process
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Long-simmering tension between competing factions in the local Republican Party spilled into public view on March 31 when El Paso County GOP Chairwoman Vickie Tonkins tore into U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a combative email denouncing the Colorado Springs Republican as dishonest and corrupt after Lamborn accused Tonkins and her allies of rigging the nomination…
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Republican El Paso County candidates say GOP hampered campaigns ahead of assembly
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El Paso County Republican candidates are concerned the GOP leadership hampered individual campaign efforts ahead of Saturday assemblies, gatherings candidates rely on to make the June primary ballot. The party assemblies where candidates for offices such as county commissioner, sheriff and state representative compete for votes from elected delegates to make the ballot are expected…
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Republican candidates, volunteers claim party bias for candidates ahead of caucuses
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Republican candidates and El Paso County GOP volunteers say the county party’s leadership has taken steps to favor four far-right candidates ahead of Tuesday’s precinct caucuses. While GOP rules prohibit party officers from taking sides in primaries, critics say county Republican Chairwoman Vickie Tonkins and her allies haven’t remained neutral even though they’re responsible for…
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El Paso County GOP mulls punishing Republicans deemed insufficiently Republican
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El Paso County Republicans plan to decide whether the local party can censure its members for violating its platforms or getting crosswise with GOP leaders. The county GOP’s central committee – made up of precinct leaders, party officers and elected officials – is scheduled to weigh a proposed bylaws amendment to establish a formal censure procedure…
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El Paso County Republicans consider banishing members accused of bucking GOP
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Crossing the party line could take on a new meaning in El Paso County if local Republicans adopt a proposed rules change to allow for “formal censure and removal” of party members who cross the GOP. In a move some local Republican officials are comparing to Soviet-style party purges, a county GOP committee wants to…
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Money wins: the death of the grassroots and caucuses
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It’s rare when the far left Bernie Sanders followers and the far right friends of Gordon Klingenschmitt share a common political cause, but the recent Colorado Republican and Democrat state-wide party primary votes are sadly cause for such new agreement. Grassroots activists are now terribly outspent by the establishment middle, worsened now that unaffiliateds voted…
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El Paso County commissioner candidate Cami Bremer racks up endorsements
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Cami Bremer, one of three Republicans running for El Paso County commissioner in District 5, announced this week she’s been endorsed by dozens of current and former elected and party officials – including seven current and former El Paso County commissioners and three former state GOP chairmen – as well as civic leaders and a…
