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Sen. Cory Gardner says Republicans aren’t done on healthcare at Western Conservative Summit
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Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner told a crowd of thousands at the Western Conservative Summit Friday night that Republicans in Congress, as early as next week, will address healthcare. The Senate GOP’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare collapsed last week. Gardner never said how we would have voted on that bill, even though he…
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Zinke to speak at Western Conservative Summit, after private appearance at ALEC
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The Trump administration is coming through, after all, at the Western Conservative Summit this weekend in Denver, and in a huge way. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will speak at the mega-gathering of the country’s top conservatives at the Colorado Convention Center Friday. On Monday Jeff Hunt, the director of the Centennial Institute, which puts on…
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Western Conservative Summit draw stars, but none from the White House
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They’ve all been to the Western Conservative Summit before: White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, to name a few of the Trump administration in Denver. But this year one of the nation’s largest gathering of conservative advocates and experts, held annually in Denver, has only President Trump’s lawyer…
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Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow to talk religious liberty at Denver’s Western Conservative Summit
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Donald Trump is invited, but his lawyer is showing up at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver on July 22. Jay Sekulow, the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, is one of the most influential lawyers in America, said Jeff Hunt, chairman of the Western Conservative Summit and director of the…
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Conservative Centennial honors founder of like-minded Focus on the Family
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Focus on the Family founder James Dobson – revered by the religious right, reviled by the secular left and influential for years in national politics – will be recognized by the Centennial Institute for his advocacy of bedrock conservative stands on some of the country’s most hotly debated issues. The institute, based at Colorado Christian…
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#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action
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The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
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Liberal group urges protesters to ignore Trump in Colorado
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Last time Donald Trump was in town, they built a wall. But this time, a prominent progressive advocacy group in Colorado is encouraging opponents of the Republican presidential nominee to stand down. “Donald Trump’s entire political movement is built on irrational anger and confrontation – so let’s not give him what he wants,” wrote ProgressNow…
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Trump sets Friday rally, fundraiser in Colorado Springs
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to campaign at a town hall and attend a high-priced fundraiser in Colorado Springs on Friday, the same day the wealthy Koch brothers kick off their secretive, semi-annual weekend donor gathering just across town, sources close to the Trump campaign confirm. The Trump stop will come a day after…
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At CCU, Armstrong was his very best ‘happy warrior’ and ‘servant leader’
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Conservative icon Bill Armstrong, who spent 20 years as a Colorado member of Congress and who died this month, took the reins in 2006 as president at Colorado Christian University, where he worked his celebrated brand of leadership to perhaps its best effect, according to Jeff Hunt head of the college’s Centennial Institute. “This year,…
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BARTELS: Former Sen. Bill Armstrong: The guy who went from saying “no” to saying “maybe”
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As Congress was fighting the debt ceiling in 2013, Dick Wadhams, Colorado’s political historian, passed on a New York Times story he knew I would enjoy: a 1983 feature on U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong and his brand of conservatism. “In one sense the Senator is a missionary, preaching the gospel of fiscal rectitude to…
