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DeSantis again tops Trump in 2024 straw poll at Colorado conservative summit
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran ahead of former President Donald Trump for the second year running in a 2024 presidential election straw poll conducted at the Western Conservative Summit in Aurora, summit organizers said late Saturday. Sponsored by Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute and billed as the largest gathering of conservatives in the western United…
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Colorado’s Jeff Hunt joins Turning Point USA council
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Jeff Hunt, the director of the conservative Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, is taking a seat on the advisory council for Turning Point USA, the high-profile outfit that courts college students on the merits of conservatism. The organization, however, also courts controversy. Last week the Arizona Republic noted it has “faced repeated claims of…
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Interior Secretary Zinke cites Colorado’s advantages in BLM move
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke gripped two hiking poles, citing a gimpy knee from his years as a Navy SEAL and a college football lineman, as he wandered deeper into Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday. “There’s no reason a trail can’t begin on Forest Service property and go into…
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson plans visit to Aurora affordable housing complex
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U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is scheduled to tour an affordable housing site in Aurora Monday afternoon with U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and the city’s new mayor, Bob LeGare. The officials plan to visit the $53 million Village at Westerly Creek complex on East Kentucky Avenue and talk about Aurora’s Opportunity…
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Sessions’ move to protect churches gets James Dobson’s applause
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in Denver last week talking about religious liberty. Wednesday he made a move applauded by two top religious leaders in Colorado. Dr. James Dobson and Dr. Tim Clinton issued a statement Wednesday evening praising Sessions for the Place to Worship Initiative to protect religious buildings from potentially discriminatory zoning…
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Pruitt to conservatives in Denver: EPA is no longer a ‘bastion of liberalism’
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Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, spoke to a friendly crowd Friday night at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, touting President Donald Trump’s accomplishments in reversing environmental regulations imposed by the previous Obama administration. We are living in transformational times, Pruitt told the audience: “God places responsibility on us to…
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AG Sessions, Hancock spar over sanctuary cities
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke of immigration in terms of cracking down on Mexican drug gangs and building a border wall Friday at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock pushed back soon after. Taking to Facebook, Hancock brought up a court opinion on the matter unflattering to the administration…
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AG Sessions, Gardner take center stage at Denver conservative summit
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Denver to talk about President Barack Obama, not President Donald Trump, it seemed Friday as he took center stage at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. He spoke of the corrections the Trump administration had made, especially on religious liberty and Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act.…
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Trump delivers a shout-out to Gardner’s pot bill
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Talking to reporters Friday, President Donald Trump said he “probably” will back legislation on states’ rights and marijuana introduced by Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Thursday. Inaudibly in a Fox News clip, a reporter calls out to Trump, evidently asking a question about the measure. He responded, “I really do, I support Sen. Gardner.…
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Republicans are giddy for Western Conservative Summit (and so are Democrats)
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Chief organizer Jeff Hunt says he hasn’t seen this much excitement around the Western Conservative Summit since Donald Trump and Sarah Palin came to Denver for the 2016 gathering. This year’s summit – the largest gathering of conservatives outside the nation’s capital Beltway – runs Friday and Saturday at the Colorado Convention Center. Each year…
