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Campaign finance initiative makes November ballot
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The last of the statewide ballot measures awaiting review – a campaign finance initiative – cleared the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office Tuesday, making it a baker’s dozen of questions voters will be asked to decide in November. The measure is a constitutional amendment on campaign finance, initiative 173, backed by former state Rep. BJ…
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First big-name Colorado Republican calls on Trump to resign
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The man who finished second in the Republican primary for governor in June is calling on President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of a guilty plea Tuesday by his former lawyer. “Given the convictions and guilty pleas yesterday, it’s time for all Republicans to come together and call on President Trump to resign,”…
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Colo. campaign-spending initiative sets signature record
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Signatures for the last of seven measures that proponents hope to make it to the November ballot were turned in to the secretary of state just after 2:30 p.m. Monday. The last one turned out to be the biggest in terms of petition signatures, with more than 212,000 names – a new state record for…
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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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Colo. Republicans hit the road on a unity tour
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They quarreled like politicians on the campaign trail before Tuesday’s primary. On Thursday, Republican candidates for governor applauded nominee Walker Stapleton in a series of small rallies up the Front Range. To try to gum up the GOP unity, the state Democratic Party emailed reporters a list of quotes his GOP primary rivals said about…
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PRIMARY 2018: Polis, Stapleton to face off in November for Colo. governor
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Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis, two sitting office-holders with high name recognition and lots of campaign cash, dominated their opponents and claimed victories in their parties’ primary races for governor less than an hour after the polls closed Tuesday. In all-but-final tallies June 28, Stapleton had received 47.7 percent of the Republican vote…
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State GOP plans Unity Tour across Colorado after the primary
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When the victory hangovers have abated and the losers have made peace with coming up short, Colorado Republican candidates will hit the road together on Thursday. Winners and losers in the gubernatorial, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general and the University of Colorado regent at-large races will make eight stops on the Front Range Thursday…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Colorado candidates notch support as primary looms
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Politicians and organizations are bestowing last-minute endorsements as candidate scramble to motivate voters in the days before the June 26 primary. Here are some of the Colorado candidate endorsements announced in recent days, including some going to candidates who aren’t in contested primaries and have already won their party’s nomination: ? Former U.S. Sen. Tim…
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HUDSON | Neither heat nor much light in gubernatorial debate
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You know your life has arrived at some considerable misfortune when you spend a lovely Saturday evening watching Colorado’s Republican and Democratic gubernatorial debates back to back. Surely there must be better things to do with one’s time: mow the grass, clean out the garage, or smoke some of Colorado’s finest? The first thing I…
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WATCH: Republican candidates stand by Trump in final gubernatorial debate
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The four Republicans and four Democrats running for governor in Colorado gave their final debate performances at the University of Denver Monday and Tuesday nights, respectively. Republicans moved gingerly around the Trump administration’s previous policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexican border, while Democrats put the pedal down in the political fast lane to next…
