Wadhams. Last week, during an appearance on KHOW’s Dan Caplis Show, Republican strategist Dick Wadhams criticized Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams for dividing the party and for failing to maintain the party’s voter outreach initiatives.
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CO Republicans Are About To Oust Their Leader — Again.
If Dave Williams is booted from his position as leader of the Colorado Republican Party this weekend, it will be no surprise, given the fate of the six Colorado Republican chairs over the past 13 years. All six were run out of office, the last four after just one term each. Will Eli Bremer, who today announced his intention to replace Williams, be the leader to end the nearly decade-long streak of one-and-done chairmen?
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Leading CO Republican Says He Won’t Vote for Trump if Trump Is GOP Nominee
One of the Colorado Republican Party’s most successful campaign strategists told a right-wing radio host last week that he won’t vote for Trump if the former president wins the Republican presidential nomination and appears on the November election ballot.
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How CO Republicans Eat Themselves: A List of the Last 6 Poor Souls To Lead the State Party
When he decided not to seek another term as leader of the Colorado Republican Party, Dick Wadhams wrote in a 2011 good-riddance letter to fellow Republicans that he was tired of GOP activists who see “conspiracies around every corner.” (Emphasis: That was 2011.)
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SILVERII: The Race To Lead Colorado’s Republican Party Is a Red Hot Mess. Just ask the Former CO GOP Chair
Silverii Dick Wadhams, chair of the Colorado Republican Party from 2007-2011 and I have never met. When I moved to Colorado, he was known as Colorado’s Karl Rove. That is to say, a cynical but effective operator, and he had the record to back it up. Wadhams also had a penchant for coining (or hijacking) insulting nicknames (i.e., “Boulder Liberal Mark Udall,” “Lawyer Lobbyist Tom Strickland” ) and working for racist candidates (i.e., former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), who said a deplorable anti-Black racial slur to a newspaper editor, and former Gov. George Allen (R-VA) of “Macaca” infamy). Ironically, this makes old Dick quite a bit like the man he accuses of destroying nearly everything Wadhams built in Colorado over his career, one Donald J. Trump.
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Conspiracist Congressman Keynoting Colorado Republicans Annual Dinner
Colorado Republicans announced conspiracist Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) as the keynote speaker for their annual fundraising dinner next week in Colorado Springs.
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GOP Pundit Wants Candidates With the ‘Guts’ To Say ‘Fraud Didn’t Happen’ But Praises Some Who Dodge the Question
Colorado Republican Dick Wadhams, the moderator of a GOP candidate forum Thursday, hops up and down and insists that Colorado voters will consider Republican candidates “credible” only if the candidates say the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. He wants candidates with the “guts” to say, “Fraud didn’t happen.”
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Colorado Election Conspiracy Watch: A List of CO Republicans Who Believe the 2020 Election Was Stolen — And Some Who Don’t
Colorado Republicans show no sign of stopping their attacks against last year’s election results, both in Colorado and nationwide — even though claims that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of the Democrats have been debunked.
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GOP State Senators Kevin Priola, Barbara Kirkmeyer Rumored To Vie for CO’s New Congressional Seat
A longtime respected GOP campaign consultant and former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party recently announced on conservative talk radio that two moderate Republican legislators are being considered for a run to represent Colorado’s new eighth congressional district.
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Wadhams Wouldn’t Be ‘Surprised’ if Majority of CO GOP Governing Body Votes To Exit Open Primaries
Former Colorado Republican leader Dick Wadhams “would not be surprised” if over 50% of the governing body of the Colorado Republican Party votes Saturday not to participate in open primaries anymore, falling short of the 75% that’s legally required to dump open primaries but setting the table for GOP activists to file a lawsuit that could overturn the 75% threshold and allow Republicans to eschew primaries as early as next year.