If you like summer election mysteries, you’ll enjoy pondering why personal injury attorney Frank Azar gave $50,000 to a committee backing Denver District Attorney candidate Michael Carrigan. And why would Azar run the money through a Texas entity?
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The Raging Against Their Own Dying Light
There’s a not quite explicit generational struggle at play in this election. The older generations, trying to bide just a little more time for that winning lottery ticket of conservative policy–it will be the next one surely–don’t want to relinquish decision-making. In fact, this year will feature the oldest combined age of the two major party candidates ever.
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Special edition of the Colorado Statesman appears in Denver Post as advertising insert on Thursdays
Colorado Statesman Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Jared Wright announced last week that a special edition of the Statesman will be inserted in The Denver Post on Thursdays.
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Woods calls Medicaid an “entitlement black hole”
Colorado State Sen. Laura Woods suggested in a radio interview last month that state Republicans wanted Gov. John Hickenlooper to cut health-care for children, elderly, the disabled, and other poor people in exchange for allowing the state to spend $370 million in TABOR rebates on roads, schools, and other state programs.
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Tancredo responds to Orlando shooting with another “Celebrating Diversity” image
After the Paris shooting last year, former GOP Congressman Tom Tancredo posted a Facebook image with the words “Celebrating Diversity…one massacre at a time…Coming soon to a concert hall near you.”
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In new book, a conservative explains why she’s a “pro-life realist” and more
Conservative operative Laura Carno is out with a new book with the ridiculous title of, “Government Ruins Nearly Everything.”
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Adams County GOP official does not agree with anti-Muslim bigotry expressed in email he shared on Facebook
Adams County Republican Party Vice Chair John Sampson does not believe that a Muslim judge, who chose to take her oath of office with her hand on a Quran, will use Sharia law as the basis of her legal decisions, even though an email shared by Sampson on Facebook made the argument that the judge, Carolyn Walker-Diallo, “will head the first federally sanctioned SHARIA COURT.”
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FACT CHECK: Coverage of Chimp meme that appeared on Delta Republican’s Facebook Page
Journalists should take note of the factual errors in Delta County Republicans’ explanations of how and why a racist meme appeared on the Facebook page of Delta GOP Chair Linda Sorenson. Some of the lapses are going unchecked in media coverage of the incident.
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State senate swing district could test Trump’s impact in Colorado
Depending on where you’re coming from, one of the most interesting, important, scary, fun, inspiring, or depressing questions about Trump’s triumph among Republicans is, how will he impact down-ticket races?
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader McConnell says Glenn’s acceptance of a conservative endorsement is like having a “ticket on the Titanic”
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell waded into Colorado politics Saturday, telling KNUS 710′s Craig Silverman that to accept the endorsement of the Senate Conservative Fund (SCF) is like having a “ticket on the Titanic”