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Senator Owen Hill: Poetry Critic
UPDATE: Senator Hill replied with a statement at the end of this post.
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Bunny Boilers and Primary Challengers: Gardner’s Shutdown Statement Angers Republican Base
Colorado’s conservative activists are furious at U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s call to end the government shutdown without funding for President Trump’s wall. County GOP officials and Tea Party leaders are talking openly about the need for a primary challenger in 2020.
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Adams County GOP chair on school fracking setback deal: “COGA capitulated to the environazis”
Adams County Republican Party Chair Anil Mathai dismissed a unanimous vote by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission to increase oil & gas well setbacks from schools to 1,000 feet as “[capitulation] to the environazis.”
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Kroenke Executive Paid Russian Spy Maria Butina To Create Pro-Putin TV Show
The head of a major Colorado media company hired now admitted Russian spy Maria Butina to help him create a television show starring Vladimir Putin as a conservation-minded outdoorsman.
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Disability Activists At Senator Gardner’s Christmas Party Get Picture But No Promises
Colorado Senator Cory Gardner had a few unexpected guests at his annual Christmas party Friday evening at the Brown Palace Hotel.
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Senator Gardner PAC Hosts Annual Christmas Party Tonight At Brown Palace Hotel
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner’s annual Christmas party will take place at the historic Brown Palace Hotel in Denver this evening. The annual event is officially hosted by Project West PAC, a leadership political action committee chaired by Gardner.
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Colorado Republicans Invite Hate Leader To Speak At Post-Election Retreat
Looking to re-energize their caucus following sweeping losses at the ballot box last month, Colorado Republicans held a retreat in Sedalia immediately after the election. The event featured controversial writer and pundit David Horowitz as a keynote speaker.
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Blue Wave Prompts State Lawmaker To Propose Weld County Leave Colorado and Join Wyoming
In response to Democratic gains in this month’s election, State Sen. John Cooke (R-Greeley) now thinks Weld County has “a lot more in common with Wyoming than Boulder” and therefore should cut ties with Colorado and “join Wyoming.”
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GALLERY: Protect Mueller Rally at the Capitol
With less than 24 hours’ notice, hundreds of Coloradans gathered at the West Steps of the state capitol on Thursday evening to protest President Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker to be acting Attorney General of the United States. Whitaker had been AG Jeff Sessions’ Chief of Staff. He has publicly argued that Special Counsel Mueller’s Russia investigation has gone too far and that President Trump has the authority to end it whenever he wants.