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Caldara submits signatures to land anti-‘Obamacare’ initiative on Nov. ballot

President of the Independence Institute Jon Caldara submitted roughly 130,500 signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office Friday in an effort to land...

Buck, Norton alarm media by trading gender barbs; real issue remains...

U.S. GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck mockingly told a crowd at an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms party this past weekend to vote for him...

Suthers likely to see little gain and lots of pain from...

Republicans running for office still talk stridently about opposing "Obamacare" health reform legislation, even though the heat around the new law among the general...

Lunchtime links: Colorado anti-Obamacare initiative struggling

Independence Institute President Jon Caldara's "anti-Obamacare " initiative, which aims to exempt Coloradans from the paying into the plan, is limping along, with only...

WATCH: Caldara to Romanoff: Really, why should Democrats vote for you?

The libertarian GOP-supporting Independence Institute's Jon Caldara interviewed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff for this week's edition of Caldara's politics talk show "Independent...

Norton yet to pledge to repeal Obamacare

U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton is feeling heat again on the right Monday. Although health care reform legislation passed Sunday, the battle against it...

Colorado Tea Partiers rally in capitol chambers and on the steps

DENVER--Members of Colorado Tea Party and 912 groups and the libertarian think tank Independence Institute attended a "grassroots session" and rally sponsored by Americans For Prosperity at the Capitol Wednesday. The activists met with GOP lawmakers for a strategy session in the Old Senate chambers and then gathered on the capitol steps. The rally lured a familiar group of Republican lawmakers, led this time by Yuma state Rep. Cory Gardner, who is also running to represent the Fourth Congressional district in Washington.

Denver Post muddles Colorado high court Dallman campaign finance ruling

It was an easy hook but it garbled Jessica Fender's Denver Post story. Fender was reporting the fact that the Colorado Supreme Court found...

State Supreme Court declares ‘clean government’ Amendment 54 unconstitutional

In a four to one vote, the Colorado Supreme Court this morning declared that so-called clean elections Amendment 54 unconstitutionally tramped on the right...

Caldara, conservative lawmakers, lead Colorado effort to block federal health reform

DENVER-- More than a hundred people gathered at a rally convened on the west steps of the capitol today to urge Colorado lawmakers to oppose federal health reform and to launch a state ballot initiative that aims to exempt Colorado from any version of the health legislation set to pass through Congress in the coming weeks. The move here reflects related efforts in states across the country.
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