Paid family and medical leave is the subject of one of the many statewide ballot issues being put to Colorado voters this election season.
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CO State Sen. Winter of Denver Featured in Reality TV Pilot
A trailer for "RUN" came out today, billing the independently-produced reality TV program featuring state Sen. Faith Winter (D-Denver) as a makeover show for the campaigns of female candidates.
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Legislation Aims To Ease Colorado’s Student Debt, Which Has Reached Its Highest Level In Ten Years
A new study of government data shows, “Colorado borrowers owe more than $26 billion in student debt,” according to a new study by Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC).
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Gardner: Rural GOP Vote Needed To Stop Front Range “Liberal” Agenda
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner didn’t appear in the Denver area, but he made campaign stops last week in rural parts of the state to encourage fellow Republicans to vote for Walker Stapleton, the GOP candidate for governor, and other allied candidates.
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POLITICAL AD CHECK: Hickenlooper Endorsed Winter Not Humenik In Adams County Race
A letter penned by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was sent to Adams County voters last week, asking them to “ignore the misleading and negative ads” about Democrat Faith Winter, who’s running for a state senate seat.
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FACT CHECK: Attack Ad Against State Senate Candidate Faith Winter Is Grossly Inaccurate
A television advertisement attacking Democratic state Senate candidate Faith Winter of Adams County falsely claims she supported a measure that would have added $25,000 to the tax bill of every family of four.
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Humenik Opposes Planned Parenthood Funding for Cancer Screenings, STI Testing for Low-Income Women
A state Senator who’s up for reelection in a highly competitive suburban Denver swing district has come out in opposition to all public funding for Planned Parenthood, including funds from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income people.
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Dark-Money Group That Purchased Illicit Facebook Data To Target Colorado Voters Is Back Again
Concerned Citizens for Colorado, a dark-money group that purchased Facebook data from the disgraced firm Cambridge Analytica and used the personal information to help win key Colorado senate seats in 2014, is pumping a half million dollars into the Colorado Republican Party again this year.
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FACT CHECK: Humenik Not As Moderate As Campaign Advertisements Claim
In campaign ads in advance of November’s election, State Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik of Thornton is presented as a middle-of-the-road lawmaker.
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Will The #MeToo Movement Sweep Humenik Out Of the Colorado Legislature?
One of the most competitive races in Colorado’s state legislature pits a woman who led the charge to expose a culture of sexual harassment at the Capitol against a woman who protected an alleged perpetrator of that harassment from expulsion.