Greg Lopez, a Republican candidate for Colorado Governor, said at a May campaign event in Silverton that he agreed with a racially charged rant concerning former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Dems Work to Keep Preventive Health Care Free in Colorado Even If Obamacare Is Killed
With Obamacare again on the chopping block this year at U.S. Supreme Court, it’s possible that the national health care law’s mandate that insurance companies offer free preventive care (e.g., annual checkups, vaccinations) will disappear, leaving it up to states to decide whether health insurance companies should be required to offer this type of care at no charge.
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Gardner: When Obama Was President, U.S. Businesses Were “Afraid”
In a radio interview this morning, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) responded directly to former President Barack Obama’s point in a speech last week that the U.S. economy had turned around in 2015 and 2016, not during the Trump presidency.
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State Senator Randy Baumgardner Posts Fake News Implying Obama Is Muslim
A Colorado state senator shared a meme of an old fake news story claiming that President Obama replaced American flags in the White House with a “Muslim prayer curtain,” presumably as a nod to his “true” religion.
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Colorado Senator Gardner Again Blames Obama, Not Trump, for Russian Aggression
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner appeared on FOX News’ right-leaning Fox and Friends this morning and praised Trump as having the “style” of a general who personally leads his troops to battle.
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Colorado Republicans are using reports of Weinstein’s sexual abuse to criticize Democrats
After the news of Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long sexual predation broke last week, some Colorado Republicans attempted to construe the scandal as a political thorn in the side of the Democratic Party.
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Why do GOP office holders hang out with racist, misogynistic, xenophobic Tom Ready?
I see a lot of bad stuff in the #FeverSwamps™, but I am continually shocked by the depravity of a Republican activist and fundraiser named Tom Ready. Each year, Tom Ready holds a “Steak Fry” that benefits Republicans under his “Let’s Win” PAC. Each year, some of the biggest names in GOP state politics show up to eat and drink with him.
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Conservatives watched the Yates hearings and what they heard was “It was Obama’s fault”
I have to admit that it is hard to read what conservative officials post on Facebook sometimes. This morning was one of those days. I went looking for conservative reaction to the testimony of former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, in which she described warning Trump’s counsel that Michael T. Flynn was compromised by the Russians and had been lying to members of the administration, including the vice president.
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Derrick Wilburn takes Trump’s cue: Jobs numbers are “real” now
I’m gonna miss Derrick Wilburn, former Vice Chair of the Colorado GOP. He is reliably one of the nuttiest and most hyper-partisan members of the party. As a tribute to his history of Fever Swamp hysterics, I offer this case study in double standards. A few days ago, Wilburn posted this on Facebook: