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As the Denver Post reports: With less than three weeks to go before the primary election, the campaign among four Republicans vying to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has veered toward the personal. This week, the two leaders in the race in terms of fundraising traded the most public blows of the campaign so […]

She just couldn’t help herself, as the Fort Collins Coloradoan reports: After avoiding her once-signature issue for most of her third term in Congress, Marilyn Musgrave stepped back into the debate over gay marriage in recent weeks by signing on as a co-sponsor of constitutional amendments to define marriage as between a man and a […]

As the Denver Post reports: Colorado Republicans need to focus on fiscal restraint and small government – and avoid social issues – if they want to reassert themselves against the well-funded and well-organized Democratic Party that has emerged in the Centennial State over the last four years, a panel of experts told The Denver Post […]

Most of us outside Mesa County know Commissioner Janet Rowland as 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez’s running-mate, which many observers consider to have been a poor choice: her wacky public statements on social wedge issues likely turned off more voters statewide than she won for the ticket on the Western Slope. As the Grand […]

Rep. Morgan Carroll greatly upset insurance lobbyists today by sending out a press release with attached records of hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to them in 2008 (follows), just as debate was beginning on her bill regulating health insurance premium increases. We hear the response to this very personal slap, intended to highlight the […]

As the Denver Post reports: Sen. Shawn Mitchell said he was just poking fun at Democrats, not race, when he directed a comment today at Senate President Peter Groff and Sen. Ken Gordon that some lawmakers found insensitive. Mitchell, a Broomfield Republican who is white, was speaking on a medical malpractice law bill sponsored by […]