Congressman Jeff Crank (R-Colorado Springs) said on conservative talk radio last month that he supports Trump’s efforts, led by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to cut the budget of the Department of Defense.
Colorado Springs residents protested proposed cuts to Medicaid Friday afternoon. The protest took place outside U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s (R-CO) district office in the Catalyst Campus in downtown Colorado Springs, a building owned by Crank supporter and co-owner of the Colorado Springs Independent, Kevin O’Neil.
Conservatives from across Colorado participated in a “fun-fundraiser” for The Peak News Educational Foundation’s “Journalistic Ethics and Media Vocational Training Program” at the Pinery in Colorado Springs on Thursday night. The crowd was a diverse mix of current and former elected officials — congressmen, El Paso County Commissioners, Colorado Springs City Councilors, and local school board members, the leaders of the El Paso County chapter of Moms for Liberty, recently pardoned Jan. 6 rioters, local pastors, libertarians, and the Gazette’s Debbie Kelley, who has penned credulous profiles of the ‘J6 Praying Grandma’ Rebecca Lavrenz and conservative faith healer Mario Murillo.
Republicans in El Paso County gathered at Boot Barn Hall in Colorado Springs to celebrate their election night wins that preserved the statewide status quo, even as they lost a traditionally red senate seat. While Republicans lost their bid for Sen. Bob Gardner’s (R-Colorado Springs) seat, they didn’t lose any other Senate or House seats, kept Republican control of the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners, and celebrated Jeff Crank’s predictable victory over Democrat River Gassen. The loss of Gardner’s seat was offset by the GOP retaking a reliably conservative seat in Denver that only changed hands when Kevin Priola (D-Brighton) switched parties in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
When the Pikes Peak Media Company, owned by JW Roth and Kevin O’Neil, bought the Colorado Springs Independent and the Colorado Springs Business Journal, they promised to continue the newspaper’s tradition of independent journalism.
Last Friday Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans publicly called on his own state party chair to resign, and for the party’s central committee to vote him out if he refused to step down. GOP calls for Williams to step down boiled over last month when Williams sent a vicious anti-gay missive via the party’s email account attacking anyone who supports Pride month.
Republican 5th Congressional District candidates Jeff Crank and Dave Williams attended Saturday’s Walk for Life, an annual fundraiser for Life Network, a chain of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in Colorado Springs.
Jeff Crank, the Republican competing against Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams for the 5th Congressional District nomination, has been endorsed by the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Candidate Fund. Crank, a regional vice president at the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and host of its American Potential podcast, has called abortion a “convenience” and expressed support for a national abortion ban.
When most people in Denver think about “Colorado Springs Republicans,” what comes to mind is gay-hating, Trump-loving, election-denying, abortion-banning, modernity-rejecting, circular-firing-squadding extremists. It’s the brand, right, with the city’s history of Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs Gazette’s screaming red editorials, the Christian nationalist churches, and more, even the military.
During an April 19 interview on KNUS radio’s Jeff and Bill Show, Colorado congressional candidate Jeff Crank stated his support for a national abortion ban.
