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Perlmutter calls Ritter decision ‘nightmare for Republican Party’

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, mentioned early and often as a potential Democratic replacement for Gov. Bill Ritter -- who announced Wednesday morning he won't...

White plans to tweak FASTER bill this session

Easily one of the most divisive and hotly debated bills passed by the state legislature last session was SB 108, aka FASTER (Funding Advancements for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery). It was a hike in vehicle registration fees meant to raise $250 million a year to fix the 125 bridges around the state deemed structurally deficient, and it has become a rallying cry for Republicans around the state bent on recapturing seats in both the House and Senate next fall.

McInnis, Maes promise an oil and gas rig in every pot...

Scott McInnis and Dan Maes, the two remaining GOP gubernatorial candidates, won’t even wait to see how new, environmentally tougher oil and gas drilling...

Keystone straw-poll flap extends McInnis-Penry GOP bickerfest

Former six-term Republican congressman and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis continues to feud with Colorado Republican Party leadership -– this time over a Sept....

Penry plays Palin card, calls pledge story a ‘left-wing blog’ fiction

Did he sign it? Did he doodle on it? Did he go along with it only as a gimmick? What did The Penry Pledge...

Penry already breaking campaign pledges, says former State Senate opponent

When Democrat Dana Baker got Republican Josh Penry to sign a pledge in 2006 to serve out a full four-year term if elected, the "idea behind that was no one would be seeking another office or other work or other endeavors during that time, that we intended to serve out the term of that office." While Penry, now State Senate minority leader, isn't resigning, he's running for governor.

GOP state lawmaker: ‘Pitchforks about to come out’ over drilling regulations

State Rep. Laura Bradford says ranchers and landowners in and around Grand Junction and Mesa County are enraged by new, more environmentally stringent drilling regulations keeping them from fully developing their oil and gas mineral rights.

Associated Press Reports Exact Opposite of Truth

Associated Press reporter Steve Paulson is back on the imaginary governor's race beat. In late September, Paulson wrote a story indicating that the governor's...

Both Ways Bob Back Again

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez had a tough couple of days last week in the wake of his BeauprezGate scandal into negative ads running...

In For a Bumpy Ride

If reports in today's Denver Post and Colorado Springs Gazette ring true, then expect plenty more nasty attacks - notably from the Trailhead Group,...
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