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On Tuesday, The Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby broke the news that indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ trial set to begin Friday would be delayed until this summer after Peters abruptly fired her second set of attorneys. Since Peters’ indictment on a range of felony and misconduct charges stemming from her failed attempt […]
If you had spent any time at all trying to think up something that would make the 2024 election cycle for Colorado Republicans even more bizarre, this is probably what you would have come up with… As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman: Doug Bruce, the author of Colorado’s […]
Nine Republican candidates seeking the open seat in CO-04 being vacated by the retirement of Rep. Ken Buck participated in a candidate forum on Thursday evening sponsored by the “Women of Weld” (WOW). You can watch the entire 90-minute debate on Facebook, or keep reading for one of our infamous “Debate Diaries.” In the […]
When House Minority Leader Mike Lynch announced earlier this month that he would be running for Congress in CO-04 but would NOT be stepping down from his leadership role in the GOP caucus, we thought this was a pretty poor decision. When Lynch previewed the 2024 legislative session by promising to continue the Republican strategy […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Dennis Webb reports today, the Republican commissioners por vida in Rep. Lauren Boebert’s longtime residence of Garfield County, Tom Jankovsky, John Martin, and Mike Samson, are all conspicuously staying out of the upcoming GOP primary for Boebert’s congressional seat: None of the three commissioners in the home county of Boebert, […]
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The Colorado Republican Party today not only announced its censure of state Sen. Larry Liston (R-Colo Springs), but called on him to resign immediately. The censure addresses his filing of a criminal complaint against the husband the El Paso County party chair Vickie Tonkins, following an altercation between them at a county party meeting […]
What do you need to know about new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson? Well, we’ll tell you in a moment. But there’s a shorter version of this answer: Congressperson Lauren Boebert is a YUGE fan of the four-term Republican from Louisiana. Boebert, in fact, stood literally right next to Johnson during his first press […]
We’re taking a break from wondering if Congress will ever again function normally in order to point you to some absolutely breathtaking corruption currently taking place in one Colorado Springs school district. We haven’t seen any other reporting on this story, but we absolutely should; this is one of those tales that needs to be […]