In his race for the state Senate, Tom Sullivan, who first ran for the state legislature after his son was killed in the Aurora Theater massacre and has made gun safety a top priority ever since, faces a Republican opponent, Tom Kim, who received an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and appears to oppose the basic gun safety measures Sullivan has pushed into Colorado law.
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FACT CHECK: Kirkmeyer Has a Record of Being an Extreme Anti-Abortion Activist
Kirkmeyer Longtime Republican strategist Dick Wadhams told The Denver Post this week that congressional candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer “does not have a record of being an activist on abortion.”
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Colorado Chamber of Commerce Endorses Election Conspiracists for the Legislature
Earlier this month, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce announced its endorsements of state legislative candidates for the 2022 election, saying the candidates selected by the chamber, “all demonstrated a dedication to working with the business community to support forward-thinking policies that will promote job creation and opportunity for all Coloradans.”
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Criticizing Dems for Refunding $750 to All Coloradans, GOP Lawmaker Says the Rich Should Get a Bigger Tax Refund Than Low-Income People
Thanks to a law recently passed by Democrats, everyone in Colorado who filed an income return tax last year, no matter how much they made, will be receiving a $750 refund.
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Erik Aadland Follows QAnon, Election Conspiracy, and White Nationalist Groups on Far-Right Social Media
Aadland Colorado congressional candidate Erik Aadland follows multiple white nationalist, election conspiracy, and QAnon groups on the far-right social-media platform Parler.
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Christians Confront ‘Hostile Pagan Culture,’ Says Denver Bishop. But Is It That Bad Out There?
Denver’s Archbishop Samuel Aquila has been amping up his condemnation of his community in recent years.
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Aurora Mayor Coffman Hoped to Push Homeless to Other Communities, But Objects to Douglas County Doing Same
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman is up in arms about homeless people coming to Aurora from Douglas County, despite saying last year that he hoped Aurora’s camping ban would result in Aurora’s unhoused population migrating from Aurora to “another community.”
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Ganahl Says She ‘Never Met’ Eastman, But in Their Email Exchange, She Wrote, ‘I’ve Heard Wonderful Things About You’
Heidi Ganahl, a Republican who’s running to be governor of Colorado, has stated multiple times that she “never met” John Eastman, who was a legal architect of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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BRIEF: Someone’s ‘Smoking Too Much Weed’ at GOP Candidate’s Office?
We know many in Colorado, the first state to legalize recreational pot, love their ganja, so some might say it’s risky for one Republican to pay for an ad accusing “someone” at her GOP opponent’s “headquarters” of smoking too much pot — as voters may be drawn to the pot-smoking candidate’s campaign.
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BRIEF: Anti-Abortion Radio Host Caplis Won’t Vote For GOP Candidate Joe O’Dea
Citing Republican Senate candidate Joe Odea’s support for Roe v. Wade, Denver talk radio host Dan Caplis, who’s emphasized repeatedly over more than a decade that his opposition to abortion is his foundational political issue, said last week on air that he won’t vote for O’Dea in the June 28 primary.