Tag: John Hickenlooper
CU Regents urge McInnis to step down
Yet more calls for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to step down are coming in, this time from some of the University of Colorado...
Schaffer jabs McInnis on Twitter, conjuring ghosts of 2008
One thing the whole Scott McInnis plagiarism scandal has dredged up is a bit of not-so-ancient history revealing internal cat fighting in the Colorado...
Numbers indicate GOP off-base on ‘job-killing’ drilling regs
Republicans campaigning for the governor’s office in November keep hammering on the “job-killing” amended oil and gas drilling regulations championed by Democratic Gov. Bill...
Hickenlooper denies flip-flopping on oil and gas drilling regulations
DENVER - Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper Wednesday responded to accusations of flip-flopping on oil and gas regulations first made at a tea party rally in Estes Park Tuesday by potential Republican opponent Scott McInnis. Hickenlooper said that while he has said some of the rules enacted in the spring of 2009 went too far, he has never said he planned to change those rules.
Hickenlooper doubles up rivals in June fund-raising race
In June, Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper raised more than twice as much as his two Republican rivals combined.
According to reports filed with the...
McInnis works to paint Hickenlooper as flip-flopper at tea-party event
ESTES PARK - Speaking to a few hundred tea party activists Tuesday, Republican gubernatorial candidates Dan Maes and Scott McInnis laid out similar agendas of battling illegal immigration, cutting taxes for businesses, and making oil and gas drilling a priority again in Colorado. But as Maes targeted McInnis, it was clear McInnis was setting his sites on Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper in an attempt to paint him as a flip-flopper.
Hickenlooper reports $1.2 million in future TV time reserved
While none of the gubernatorial candidates had filed June fund-raising reports as of 3 p.m. today, the campaign for Democrat John Hickenlooper released preliminary...
Maes reportedly owns up to formerly ‘frivolous’ violations
Back in late May, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes told our own Scot Kersgaard that a complaint filed against him by a Grand Junction...
Hickenlooper predicts Biennial of Americas may bring in $30 million
DENVER - Mayor John Hickenlooper told the Colorado Independent that the Biennial of the Americas may generate as much as $30 million in additional...
Hickenlooper would defy state Dems and reinstate tax-free ‘enterprise zones’
COMMERCE CITY-- Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper presented his "road map" (Video part 1) (Video part 2) for Colorado job creation and economic growth last week. The road map puts him at odds with some Democratic members of the Colorado legislature who took pains this session to repeal the state's so-called "enterprise zones" where businesses are exempted from paying taxes. Hickenlooper told the Colorado Independent that he strongly supported enterprise zones as a way to spur new business activity and that as governor he would look to promote them as a first order of business.