A pair of Western Slope Republicans vying for Colorado Republican Party leadership slots at Saturday’s statewide GOP reorganization meeting in Colorado Springs say it’s time to move past the bitter divisiveness of the Dave Williams era and welcome all comers in a bid to beat Democrats.
Mike Murphy of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) visited Colorado late last month with a simple message for the state lawmakers and business leaders he met with: “Bad news flows downhill.”
You remember the ads from the 80s, right? “This is your brain [man holds up an egg]. This is ozone [he points to a hot skillet, cracks the egg into it, holds up the sizzling skillet]. This is your brain on ozone. Any questions?”
In his new book, “Terrible Beauty,” Aspen’s outgoing senior vice president of sustainability, Auden Schendler, makes a compelling case for companies in the ski industry and far beyond breaking out of the collective malaise that’s coopting corporate climate activism and has been largely self-imposed – quite ingeniously — by the obfuscation efforts of the fossil fuel industry.
Healthcare and health insurance costs could skyrocket under the second coming of a Trump administration still seemingly bent on eliminating or at least undercutting Obamacare, consumer advocates warn, while the profits of large, corporate health systems are likely to grow.
Rick Brandt, who’s the police chief in the northeastern Colorado town of Evans, considers himself a bit of a myth buster on the fentanyl front – a battle he’s been in the trenches of since 2007 when he took over as top cop in this city of 22,000 south of Greeley following 26 years with the Aurora Police Department.
Cole Buerger, a fifth-generation Coloradan with much deeper roots in Silt than former resident and Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, said his experience fighting for democracy overseas and his reaction to the U.S. Capitol riot in 2021 converged to get him into politics in 2021.
EAGLEVAIL, Colo. — Dave Williams reshaped his local Republican Party after 2020 election deniers took it over and shrank attendance by 80%. He rejected a MAGA pledge sent to him by the Colorado Republican Party to run for state House District 13 (HD13). And he has actively sought the removal of Donald Trump loyalist Dave Williams (no relation), chairman of the Colorado GOP.
Pushing back on a Colorado Times Recorder story Monday based on an interview with Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans, a spokesperson for the critical 8th Congressional District (CD8) candidate’s campaign argued Evans has been very clear on the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by more than 7 million votes.
BASALT, Colo. – In this mountain town 18 miles northwest of Aspen – far from the Front Range flatlands of Adams and Weld counties – Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans was looking for anyone to meet and greet in his quest to represent Colorado’s newest congressional district.
