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WATCH: Sharp exchanges from Polis, Stapleton at 9News/Coloradoan debate
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Sparks flew Wednesday night as Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton, the major-party candidates vying to be Colorado’s next governor, met for an hour-long, televised debate in Fort Collins. Stapleton sought to brand Polis as a free-spending liberal determined to drive Colorado “off a cliff” in an effort to keep a slew of campaign…
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INSIGHTS | Democrats should be careful what they wish for
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The political seeds have been sown for months, and the harvest is ready if you’re a Democrat in Colorado these days. President Donald Trump is unpopular and can’t keep himself out of the midterm elections, a time that’s typically inhospitable to the party holding the White House. That’s why candidates such as Republican incumbent Mike…
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WATCH | Colorado Politics, Gazette host Polis, Stapleton at State Debate
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Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton will face off on the issues Saturday night in Colorado Springs along with other candidates for statewide office at a debate event staged by Colorado Politics, The Gazette and TV station KOAA News5. The gubernatorial debate begins at 7 p.m. at the Garden Pavilion at the Penrose House…
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Colorado auto dealers make first-ever endorsement: Walker Stapleton
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The Colorado Auto Dealers Association officially put its name Thursday behind a political candidate for the very first time: Republican Walker Stapleton for governor. “Walker Stapleton is the leader Colorado needs,” Tim Jackson, the organization’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “We are endorsing a gubernatorial candidate for the first time in history because…
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ANALYSIS: 6 things we’ve learned halfway through the Stapleton-Polis debates
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We’re now half-way through the schedule of eight debates in the Colorado governor’s race – enough to draw some conclusions. Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton, have debated four times as of Tuesday: Twice in Denver on Friday, in Grand Junction on Saturday and in Pueblo on Monday. They will debate for the fifth…
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COVER STORY | Heavy traffic across Colorado: Transportation dollars at stake in election
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Colorado’s means of getting around are in great need of attention, partisans on every side agree. But the various solutions and competing ways of paying for transportation improvements offered by candidates and ballot measures are a different political matter entirely. The interstates across Colorado have gotten by on a federal gas tax that hasn’t been…
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HUDSON | Blame our underfunded highways on want of money, not waste
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It has been apparent for more than a decade that Colorado needs to spend more money on its roads. If you have had the occasion to travel across our borders recently, it is apparent that even blood red states like Utah, Nebraska, Kansas and Wyoming have figured out how to finance this central responsibility of…
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INSIGHTS | Gender politics divide the nation and Colorado
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America should heed the advice uttered routinely on the radio by former University of Colorado football coach Rick Neuheisel: “Get yourself together.” If politics is a sport, the roughness of gender politics is too unnecessary. Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court battle, leading to Saturday’s narrow Senate confirmation vote, gave a fresh look at how divided we…
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NOONAN | Campaign committees hide behind nondescript names
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Colorado’s elections have attracted $100 million in contributions from around the nation. Right now, the expenditure side of the tally is out of balance with contributions. Campaign committees have committed $110 million to the election season. Luke Ragland of Ready Colorado gets the prize for the most interesting campaign finance committee name: Blank Check Blatant…
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WATCH: Polis, Stapleton trade jabs at Western Slope debate
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Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton pulled no punches during their opening weekend of debates in the Colorado governor’s race, questioning each other’s honesty as much as their social and fiscal policies. They clashed for the second night in a row Saturday in Grand Junction in the Western Slope’s Rural Colorado Debate, organized by…