An editorial published today by the Colorado Springs Gazette bashed recent reporting on candidate for governor Walker Stapleton’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan and claimed that media outlets are biased for ignoring what they refer to as Democratic candidate Jarid Polis’ “more willful linkage to the Klan.”
Trump’s nominee for Colorado’s U.S. Attorney, Jason Dunn, once received a searing and rare reprimand by Judge Richard L. Gabriel, who now sits on the Colorado Supreme Court.
Last week, after Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with Colorado Republican state senators, including Kevin Grantham of Canon City, Beth Martinez Huminek of Westminster, and Randy Baumgardner of Hot Sulphur Springs, he meandered up to Steamboat Springs, where he gave a lengthy interview praising Trump and warning against blaming climate change for Colorado’s wildfires.
Most everyone apparently thinks Republican candidate for governor Walker Stapleton needs to say more about his great-grandfather and KKK leader. Denounce him. Apologize. Condemn the KKK. Express revulsion at racism. Slam white nationalists. Something.
Meet Colorado weed tourist, Indiana State Representative Jim Lucas. He wasn’t here for fun, this was research. In an interview with TV station WTHR, the Republican lawmaker shared details of his five-day learning tour of Colorado’s marijuana industry. And as the Indianapolis news anchors breathlessly reported, yes, he did sample the products personally.
As the special prosecutor Robert Mueller turns up the heat on Trump and his associates, Republicans are fighting back with increased intensity, not just through Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
After 9NEWS anchor Kyle Clark shared an email from a right-wing troll telling Clark to “STOP” his “propaganda pushing liberal left wing media biased stories,” Jenna Stapleton tweeted in response that she’d like to get in touch with the sender to work on her husband Walker Stapleton’s campaign for governor.
The Colorado Republicans’ Senate Majority Fund tweeted this week that State Sen. Tim Neville of Littleton has been a strong advocate for education reform his “entire time in the legislature – maybe the Democrats will start listening now.”
Tom Tancredo is always comfortable in front of a microphone, even when his words are making his audience uncomfortable. That’s exactly what the most prominent Republican to endorse Walker Stapleton did July 30 at the Jefferson County Republican Men’s club, when he delivered racist comments about black student athletes at his alma mater, Northeastern Junior College.
In a post Tuesday, the Colorado Times Recorder reported, among other things, that KHOW 630-AM’s morning host Ross Kaminsky said Social Security is “clearly” a “Ponzi scheme,” like U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) said a few years back.
