Tag: Colorado Republican Party
State Republicans eye Loveland event center for 2010 convention
The 2010 state Republican convention will likely be held at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, the Loveland Reporter-Herald reports. That's inside the 4th Congressional District, which will be a top GOP target next year as the party tries to retake the seat from freshman U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, a Fort Collins Democrat who ousted three-term Republican Marilyn Musgrave last year.
Republican Roberts announces bid for term-limited Isgar’s state senate seat
State Rep. Ellen Roberts, a Durango Republican, announced she'll run for the sprawling southwest Colorado Senate seat held by term-limited Democrat Jim Isgar, the Durango Herald reports.
GOP aide Milner’s scary sweaty ‘macaca’ moment
He wasn't driving around in an unmarked van luring kids for a Fox news program and he wasn't provoking a pseudo-confrontation with university cops to garner news/documentary footage, but Colorado GOP aide Matt Milner is wading in the same swampy genre.
RNC boss to Colorado GOP: ‘We lost our minds,’ strayed from...
Hard on the heels of the Republican Party’s third straight pasting at the hands of Colorado voters, GOP leaders agree on one thing: It’s time to dig in those heels. The reason Republicans keep losing elections, party members agreed at this weekend’s state GOP gathering, isn’t that voters reject the party’s approach; it’s that Republicans have strayed from their roots.
Wadhams clobbers challengers to win re-election as Colorado GOP chairman
On the heels of thumping losses in last fall's election, Colorado Republicans decided Saturday to stick with the one that brung 'em.
State GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams easily won re-election to a second two-year term with 85 percent of the vote at the party's central committee meeting. Wadhams rebuffed challenges from former Eagle County Commissioner Tom Stone and party activist Christine Tucker, who threw her support to Stone at the end of her nomination speech.
State party showdown: Rush Limbaugh-wannabe vs Rove 2.0
While we're introducing much of the state to little-known Colorado Republican Party chair candidate Tom Stone it makes sense to revisit our 2007 coverage of Dick Wadhams when he sought to ascend the GOP throne.
Now that Stone has been dubbed "Eagle County's Rush Limbaugh" by a member of his own party, we'll see how he matches up to Wadhams, the über-operative not-so-affectionately called "Karl Rove 2.0."
GOP mayor: State party chairman candidate is Eagle County’s Rush Limbaugh
If you ask Ron Wolfe, the Republican mayor of Avon, Tom Stone has played a major role in marginalizing his party in Eagle County, where there was a Democratic sweep in November and the GOP trails in voter registration for the first time in recent memory.
And as Republicans continue to take stock of their defeats nationally and locally, there's debate over whether Stone, a Realtor and former county commissioner, would be a better GOP party chairman than Dick Wadhams.
GOP chair candidate Tom Stone put his partisan brand on Eagle...
Before Republican Realtor Tom Stone rode into town in 1998, Eagle County was a largely nonpartisan place, leaning more to the right, but a difficult place to tell the Dems and the members of the GOP apart.
Stone throws in against Wadhams in contest for state GOP chairman
Former Eagle County Commissioner Tom Stone announced Friday morning he plans to challenge Dick Wadhams in next month's election for chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. Running on a platform to modernize the state GOP and "work smarter and not just harder," Stone unveiled a campaign Web site with a manifesto proposing to update the party's message "while not changing our principles."
Intact FASTER bill to raise vehicle registration fees passes House vote
SB 108, the so-called FASTER plan to fund road and bridge repairs, is just a couple of minor procedural steps from hitting Gov. Bill Ritter’s desk for a signature after the state House of Representatives passed it 34-31 on final reading Wednesday.