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WATCH: Polis, Stapleton spar in 1st televised debate in governor’s race
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Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton clashed over nearly everything but kombucha Friday night in the first televised gubernatorial debate of the general election, held just 10 days before ballots go out to Colorado voters. While the two candidates affirmed their mutual support for the zesty, fermented beverage in the final moments of the…
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WATCH: Stapleton, Polis debate at Denver chamber event
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Colorado gubernatorial candidates Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton sparred about business issues and the state’s economy Friday morning at a forum sponsored by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and more than a dozen other business organizations. Denver Business Journal Ed Sealover moderated the 90-minute debate at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center.…
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WATCH: Americans for Prosperity rolls out gubernatorial ads
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Colorado Politics told you last month that Americans for Prosperity planned to put big bucks into this year’s race for governor. Now we see two pieces of fruit from that labor: new ads out Thursday building up Republican Walker Stapleton and tearing down Democrat Jared Polis. One ad portrays Stapleton as a defender of Colorado’s…
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Colorado Farm Bureau endorses Stapleton for governor
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The state’s largest organization for farmers and ranchers threw its support behind Republican Walker Stapleton for governor Wednesday. The 24,000-member Colorado Farm Bureau said Stapleton gets agriculture more than his opponent, Democrat Jared Polis. “Walker Stapleton is the leader Colorado needs,” Colorado Farm Bureau president Don Shawcroft, a San Luis Valley rancher, said in a…
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Debate update: Stapleton, Polis to square off 8 times in Colo. governor’s race
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The debate schedule for Colorado’s governor candidates has gotten crowded. Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis are set to face off in eight more debates across Colorado – starting Friday and continuing through Oct. 23, when voters will have ballots in hand. That’s up from the five debates the candidates had both agreed to…
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Poll finds Polis leading Stapleton by 7 points in Colorado governor’s race
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Democrat Jared Polis holds a 7-point lead over Republican Walker Stapleton in the race to be Colorado’s next governor, according to a new survey of likely voters by a bipartisan team of Colorado-based pollsters. The survey – jointly conducted by Democratic firm Keating Research and Republican firm Magellan Strategies – was commissioned by the nonpartisan…
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After 19 years, police report surfaces in Jared Polis campaign for governor
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An incident 19 years ago involving Jared Polis, an employee and the police has surfaced amid the Democrat’s campaign for governor. On June 23, 1999, Polis – then a businessman – called police to report he suspected an employee who had recently given her notice, Patricia Hughes, was attempting to make off with documents from…
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COVER STORY | Profile: Entrepreneur Jared Polis seeks to make a difference
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It’s easy to see the contradictions in Jared Polis. The wildly successful entrepreneur – he launched three companies before he turned 30 that collectively sold for more than $1 billion – routinely faces derision from Republican opponents as an enemy of capitalism and a threat to the state’s very economy. The 43-year-old power broker with…
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INSIGHTS | Old political games face the two-minute warning
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As we barrel toward Election Day, it’s clear political operatives need new playbooks. The political wishbone and wing-T formations of the past aren’t scoring with voters against the spread offenses and run-pass options they respond to these days. The old trick plays are either ineffective or already dead. The fortunes of Tom Tancredo in Colorado…
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9NEWS TRUTH TEST | Anti-Polis ad on income taxes, and Polis response, both misleading
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Not paying your income taxes would be a crime. In a political ad by the Republican Governors Association, which supports the candidacy of Republican Walker Stapleton, his opponent, Democratic candidate Jared Polis, is accused of doing just that. True, Polis did not pay taxes for five years prior to becoming a congressman, but the ad…