Colorado congressional candidate Jeff Hurd, a Republican, said last week in Pueblo that he would vote against a national 15-week abortion ban.
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Trump Campaign Pulls Its Top Colorado Staffer Amidst State GOP Turmoil
As if there wasn’t sufficient unrest amongst Colorado Republicans at the moment, the Trump campaign has pulled its state director after just four months. Justin Everett is going to work on the upcoming convention for the Republican National Committee, leaving the state director post empty. Meanwhile state GOP chair Dave Williams must survive a resignation demand from many of his county party chairs, one of whom faces “undetermined consequences” for her actions calling out Williams. Buckle up.
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Colorado GOP Chairman on Healthcare: ‘It Should Be Privatized’
During his debate last week with primary foe Jeff Crank, Colorado Republican Party Chair Dave Williams, who’s hoping to replace Congressman Doug Lamborn as the U.S. representative for Colorado Springs, staked out maybe the furthest-right position on healthcare of any major party candidate this year: privatize and the get the government out of it.
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Cause for Concern? Colorado’s Top Business Group Goes Dark Following Property Tax Deal
In the 48 hours following the close of Colorado’s legislative session, the state’s most prominent business group, Colorado Concern, had a board member resign publicly while citing policy disagreements, and scrubbed the names of member companies and its remaining board members from its website. Now, nobody is willing to talk about what happened.
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Despite Suspended License, Trump Attorney Eastman Claims Supreme Court Will Still Let Him Practice
Trump attorney John Eastman used to have licenses to practice law in California and Washington, D.C. Both of those have been suspended following a ruling by a California Bar Court judge that found him culpable of all ten disciplinary charges and recommended he be disbarred. Eastman is appealing that ruling, but in the meantime, a federal judge in the District of Columbia, where he is also licensed, forbade him from practicing law until the resolution of his appeal.
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Conservative Activist Hires Former CO Sec. of State to Sue Newspaper Over Report on ‘Furries’
The leader of a conservative Jefferson County parents group is suing her local newspaper, and she’s hired former Secretary of State Scott Gessler to represent her.
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Colorado Republican Mad About Decorum Rules Equates Democratic Legislators to Hitler
Former state Representative Dan Woog, who is a candidate to return to the statehouse, equated the current Democratic legislators with Nazis today. The Republican from Weld County posted a picture of the state Capitol and Hitler to his Facebook page, along with a post claiming that Democratic leaders’ rules of decorum during floor debate are equilvalent to Hitler’s despotic takeover of Germany. After making his analogy, he concluded by writing, “this isn’t contrived sensationalism. This is reality.”
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Colo GOP Puts Trump Purity Tests to Primary Candidates Seeking Party Endorsement
Under Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams, party neutrality is a thing of the past. The state GOP will for the first time be endorsing candidates in its upcoming primary. A voice vote on a resolution proposed by Williams (and ruled on by Williams) at the state assembly eliminated the possibility of an endorsement for any candidate who made the ballot solely by gathering signatures. To choose between those primary candidates who went through the assembly process, the Colorado GOP announced it would base its decision on consultations with local party officials as well as a questionnaire.
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Puppy Killer Kristi Noem Still Headlining Jeffco GOP Dinner
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will be the featured speaker at this Saturday’s fundraising dinner for the Jefferson County Republican Party. Noem, who is on Donald Trump’s vice presidential shortlist, was already widely known as a conservative firebrand, but she returned to the headlines today after the Guardian published excerpts from her new book, “No Going Back,” which includes her graphic recounting of killing a 14-month old puppy for being a bad hunting dog.
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EVRAZ Steel Wrote Pueblo Mayor’s Op-Ed Against Air Quality Bills, Then It Caught Fire
As black smoke billowed from a massive fire at Pueblo’s EVRAZ steel mill, city officials issued an air quality shelter-in-place alert: “Go or stay inside, please shut your windows and turn off your air conditioner.”