Being a parent is difficult regardless of age, gender or the things that can make us feel different. Many parents struggle with a lack of access to a living wage or adequate healthcare or the support they need. This can be particularly difficult for women.
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It’s no longer acceptable to attack gay people, so conservative bigots pivot to attacking transgender children
This post is about one individual, but I must preface it by saying that the former GOP legislator Shawn Mitchell is not the only one. Since support for LGBTQ causes has risen to the point where it would be foolish to admit bigotry, conservatives have pivoted to attacking the one group they still feel it is OK to ridicule: Transgender Americans (especially children).
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Colorado’s House Republican leader is all in on the meme war between Trump and CNN
Colorado’s House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, a Republican from Castle Rock, has been loving the onslaught of memes that have taken over the internet this week that depict Donald Trump violently bashing CNN.
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In his own words: Gardner writes home about his July 4 journey through Colorado
It’s gotten to the point where we no longer need to examine or critique Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner’s words at all. They speak for themselves.
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Still no town hall and now Gardner is refusing to be anywhere near a protest
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) spokesman, Casey Contres, told Steamboat Today on Friday that the senator had to cancel a planned lunch with local GOP officials “in order to accommodate a necessary healthcare meeting.”
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Here are my questions for Gardner about the U.S. Senate’s health care bill. Please add yours.
Here’s my list of key questions for Gardner. Please add yours in the comment section.
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When you claim you are the “fake news” whisperer and it turns out you’re the mark
You might remember El Paso County Republican Party Vice Chair Joshua Hosler as the guy who got beat out by now state Rep. Dave Williams in a Republican primary for state Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt’s abandoned seat.
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Hundreds attend health care rally led by disability rights activists at Sen. Gardner’s office
Hundreds of concerned community members, along with state lawmakers and disability rights activists, rallied in front of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) Denver office today to protest the GOP bill to replace Obamacare.
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Citing sick child in England, Gardner remains committed to Obamacare replacement; sees progress on Senate bill
Citing an English child with a rare degenerative brain disease, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) remains committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare, and he’s “been told” the U.S. Senate has made progress toward writing viable legislation.
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Is Gardner trying to shirk responsibility for calling the police on protesters with disabilities at his office?
Last Thursday, after a health care sit-in that lasted nearly sixty hours, nine disability rights activists with the Denver-born organization ADAPT, many of whom are in wheelchairs, were arrested at the office of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO).