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After Trump, Republican Victor Mitchell calls out Walker Stapleton, too
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Victor Mitchell spent north of $4 million from his own pocket to run for the Republican nomination for governor. Now he appears to be taking a pound of flesh from his party’s leaders in return. Wednesday morning, Colorado Politics was the first to tell you that Mitchell was on Facebook calling on Republicans to turn…
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Stapleton will get the stage to himself at Club 20
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Candidates will flock to Grand Junction to debate on Sept. 8, but Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton will have the stage to himself at Club 20’s political gathering. Stapleton and Democratic nominee Jared Polis each picked the debates they wanted to do, and Polis chose another Grand Junction debate put on by the local Daily…
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FEEDBACK | Stapleton unfairly targeted; vehicle registration is no bargain
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Blamed for the sins of our fathers? Really? (Re: Recent news coverage about gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton’s great-grandfather, Ben Stapleton, who as Denver mayor in the 1920s had been a member of the KKK.) Isn’t it a legal precedent dating back millennia that children cannot be punished for the misdeeds of their parents? Is the…
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Hickenlooper, lawmakers stand with oil and gas at Denver COGA summit
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Gov. John Hickenlooper described the oil and gas industry as an economic partner that has tried to do right by Colorado’s environment in a lunch speech Tuesday. He spoke at the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s Energy Summit in Denver, which continues Wednesday, when candidates to succeed Hickenlooper – Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker…
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SLOAN | Polis snubs West Slope as Colorado’s urban-rural divide deepens
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The decision by Jared Polis to break with decades of political tradition and sit out the inaugural gubernatorial debate hosted every four years by Club 20 has raised the ire of a lot of folks; on the West Slope, certainly, but also throughout rural Colorado – though Mr. Polis seems rather unaffected. Part of the…
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Thud: Polis just dropped $3 million into TV ads in the governor’s race
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Jared Polis is demonstrating the perks of being rich. The Democratic gubernatorial nominee and tech millionaire on Wednesday announced a jaw-dropped television ad buy: $3 million for October. For perspective: In 2014, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper raised a total war chest of $5.4 million for his tougher-than-expected re-election campaign. Republican Bob Beauprez raised a total…
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Q&A w/Michael Fields | A new voice to keep conservatives on message
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This fall’s coming cage fight between Colorado’s left and right will include at least one contender who’s battle-tested, agile and streetwise – at the tender age of 31. Michael Fields has emerged in no time as a leading man for conservative causes and a tormentor on Twitter – if a polite one – to liberal…
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INSIGHTS | ‘Y’all Come’ isn’t on the playlist of Colorado’s candidates for governor
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For 50 weeks a year, a chunk of property in the middle of what passes for a town in rural Alabama sat vacant of everything but insects, snakes and a weather-stained block of concrete the size of a flatbed trailer. For two weeks each summer, before and after the Fourth of July, the weeds were…
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Club 20 won’t allow lieutenant governor Lynne to debate for Jared Polis
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Club 20, the venerable Western Slope coalition of government and business leaders, said Friday that Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne won’t be allowed to stand in for Democratic nominee Jared Polis in next month’s political debate in Grand Junction. When Polis announced which debates he would accept last week, Club 20 didn’t make the cut. Instead,…
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Non-shocker: One Colorado endorses Polis, who’d be Colo.’s first gay governor
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The suspense is over. The state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, long allied with Democrats, is backing the Democratic nominee for governor. Jared Polis also would be the state’s first openly gay governor. Daniel Ramos, the organization’s executive director, broke the news in a statement Thursday afternoon, saying Polis’ work as a congressman from Boulder showed…