If you were the editor of a chain of Colorado newspapers, and the chain’s owner and his son controlled foundations that donated big bucks to an organization that you covered regularly, would you let readers know?
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GOP Candidate Marx Endorsed by Christian Nationalist, Whose Colorado Ministry Is Plagued by Alleged Abuse
Over the weekend, Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx was endorsed by Andrew Wommack, a leading Christian nationalist, who said Marx has “compassion” and “reliance,” and is “willing to lay his life down for other people.”
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Democrats’ Mobile Billboard: ‘Gabe Evans Is Taking Food Off Your Plate’
In U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans’ (R-CO) congressional district, high demand has forced the Weld County Food Bank to cut back on how much food it gives to families in need. On top of that, the Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill is sending more people to food banks — with even more expected to arrive at the doors of the Weld facility in the coming year.
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Evans Again Makes Misleading Explanation About His Vote To Cut Medicaid and Take Away Health Insurance From Tens of Thousands of Coloradans
As Democrats step up their attacks on Republicans for voting to take away Medicaid health insurance from over 11 million low-income people, GOP lawmakers, like U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO), are saying that Medicaid was not cut under the Big Beautiful Bill because total spending for the program will still increase over the next ten years.
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Say Cheese: Evans Has Voted 8 Times for Trump Tariffs While Staging Photo Ops at Businesses Hurt by the Tariffs
Gabe Evans is making a habit of staging photo ops at businesses in his district, claiming he’s championing them in Congress. But Evans’ eight votes in favor of Trump’s tariffs, among other priorities of the president, have hurt or disrupted the industries Evans says he’s helping.
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YIKES: Anschutz Businessman Chris Reen Replaces Journalist at Helm of Gazette
Colorado’s Gazette newspaper chain, owned by GOP billionaire Phil Anschutz, is botching yet another chance to prove it’s a professional news operation, instead of the Anschutz family’s tool to boost its business interests and favored political causes and candidates.
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Last Year, Marx’s Running Mate George Markert Said He Agreed With Everything Trump Had Done So Far
Victor Marx, the drama-and-satire-generating Republican candidate for governor, announced today that he’s picked retired Colonel George Markert as his running mate for lieutenant governor.
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Birthday of Medicaid Marked by Rally Denouncing Gabe Evans for Slashing the Program
“Last year, Medicaid was just another word to me,” said Thomas (TJ) Buckley, after explaining to a small crowd in Northglenn how he’d been blindsided by a horrible disease that he’s been able to fight thanks to Medicaid, a federal health insurance program for low-income people. “I hope none of you ever have to learn why Medicaid truly matters the way I did. Today it means something entirely different. It means another appointment kept, another treatment received, another chance to plan for the future, another holiday celebrated with friends and family, another ordinary day that suddenly doesn’t feel so ordinary anymore.”
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Gabe Evans Promised Medicaid Cuts Wouldn’t Affect ‘People Who Need It Most,’ But They’re Putting Hospitals at Risk
Before and after Republicans voted to cut Medicaid about a year ago, Washington Republicans insisted that their narrow focus was to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse from the health care program, not to siphon budget dollars for tax cuts or to cut funding for hospitals that need it.
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Right-Winger’s Beef: Let’s Focus on ‘Serious’ Issues, Not Whether Democrat Was a Vegan in College
Last week, right-wing radio host Jeff Hunt topped off a sililoquy of damnations of 9News anchor Kyle Clark with something unusual. He condemned Clark’s coverage of a Democrat, not of a Republican, saying that Clark wastes his time and ours bringing up minor and irrelevant nitpicks instead of being “serious” and addressing the “problems that we’re facing.”