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INSIGHTS | Walker Stapleton, from his wife’s point of view
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At a campaign event at the Republican Party’s Victory Office in Greenwood Village a few weeks ago, Walker Stapleton literally hugged two of his three kids around him as he told the packed house about a Colorado future he wants to create for his kids and theirs when he’s elected governor. His wife, Jenna, stood…
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Polis pitches ‘economy that works for everyone’ in Labor Day ad
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Colorado gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis is launching a digital ad on Labor Day that features union members touting the Democratic congressman’s pledge to build “an economy that works for everyone.” In the 30-second spot, made available to Colorado Politics before its debut, a half dozen members of unions that have endorsed Polis describe a central…
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Big Western Slope weekend with Polis ticks off the GOP
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Jared Polis is making 13 campaign stops on the Western Slope over the Labor Day weekend, and Republicans aren’t taking the news well. The GOP has been kicking the Democratic nominee unceasingly for skipping the Club 20 gubernatorial debate on Sept. 20, a tradition that goes back decades on the Western Slope. Instead, he will…
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Stapleton rolls out education policy
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Democrat Jared Polis has been touting his education policy, including free full-day preschool, for months. On Friday his Republican opponent in the Colorado governor’s race will unveil his detailed education plan. Colorado Politics managed an early look at Walker Stapleton’s plan to put “more money in our classrooms and more money in parents’ pockets where…
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BIDLACK | Why isn’t health care viewed as a right? Blame Jefferson
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A recent Colorado Politics story was the Colorado Springs Gazette’s lead story last Tuesday. The lengthy story, entitled “Fear Factor High in Health Care Debate,” is a careful look at both of our main gubernatorial candidates, Mr. Polis and Mr. Stapleton. As the article notes, the two candidates have very different views on how to…
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Polis: I’ll stand up for reproductive rights if elected governor
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There’s no “personhood’ amendment among the dozen measures voters will address on the November ballot. But according to U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, the Democratic party’s candidate for governor, reproductive rights are on the ballot in November in the form of who gets elected governor. Polis, who spoke at a roundtable hosted by Planned Parenthood of…
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LOMAX | In a rare convergence, Polis and Stapleton both balk at drilling ban
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Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton both oppose a ballot measure that would effectively ban oil and gas development across Colorado. The two candidates for governor made this rare point of agreement very clear in speeches to the Colorado Oil & Gas Association’s annual conference this month. The ballot measure would ban drilling within 2,500 feet,…
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A showdown over showing up: Stapleton, Polis trade digs on absenteeism
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Democrats allege Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton is a guy who doesn’t show up for work, but their party’s nominee, Jared Polis, has a record of missing roll-call votes in Congress that’s “much worse” than the norm, a nonpartisan vote-tracking website says. GovTrack, which compiles data on congressional votes, said Polis has missed 375 of…
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COVER STORY | Polis loyalists follow candidate’s decree: Keep campaign ‘joyous’
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If Democrat Jared Polis’ campaign for governor has a mantra – and you can bet the five-term congressman from Boulder’s operation has a mantra – it’s this: “Be joyous.” That’s according to Lisa Kaufmann, who chairs the Polis campaign and has helped chart the dot-com millionaire’s political course for more than a decade. Kaufmann, a…
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COVER STORY | Stapleton fields a campaign team with deep Colorado ties
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Michael Fortney hunkered over a laptop computer screen at a standing desk in his sixth-floor office, perched near Colorado Boulevard and Interstate 25, the Denver hub of Republican Walker Stapleton’s campaign for governor. With stark lighting from the wall-sized window at his back, a white board covers much of the wall to his right, filled…