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Colorado GOP primaries: Divisive or unifying?
With a crowded governor's race and congressional and legislative primaries, Republicans look for a balance between competition and cohesion.
GOP Assembly: Gardner takes Senate nomination, Kopp & Gessler make gov...
It's a four-way GOP race for governor, but the U.S. Senate battle begins now
On the Stump: State GOP Chairman Ryan Call
With the national party opening 12 Colorado field offices, the GOP is aiming to win in the fall.
DU citizen panel wades into campaign-finance swamplands
DENVER-- The University of Denver's "strategic issues panel of accomplished citizens" tasked with examining campaign finance regulations and making recommendations on how to improve...
CD3 candidate Casida fires back at GOP establishment
It seems like only yesterday that then-GOP Chair Dick Wadhams was scrapping with both the party's nominee for governor Dan Maes and third-party candidate for the job Tom Tancredo.
Colorado Republicans to hold presidential caucus one day after Iowa
Colorado’s GOP Central Committee gave final approval this weekend for its preliminary caucuses to be held on Feb. 7, 2012. Based on the current calendar approved by the national political parties, that would place the Colorado caucus one day following Iowa’s first-in-the-nation contest.
Colorado’s Rep. Coffman: In the district and off the farm
Colorado Sixth District Congressman Mike Coffman is making national headlines for trotting out a Glenn Beck-style Obama conspiracy theory on Denver talk radio. He said the president is secretly working to grant citizenship to millions of undocumented residents who will return the favor by voting for Obama next November. That's great radio except, as Colorado media watchdogger Jason Salzman points out, illegal residents can't become citizens until they're legal residents, and none of that could happen for any of them by anywhere close to Election Day. More than that, the theory dovetailed with a bill Coffman recently sponsored to strip languages other than English from voter ballots, the two taken together making Coffman seem provocatively anti-Latino. The "undocumented resident voter" theory isn't the only out-there bit Coffman has delivered lately. His handlers might have pulled in the reins after the loose nuggets he tossed out at a GOP fundraiser in Denver last week.
D’Souza lights up Colorado GOP fundraiser with ‘Obama against America’ theory
The Colorado GOP last week hosted bestselling politics author and rhetorical bomb-thrower Dinesh D’Souza. It was the second Capital Club luncheon the party has hosted since "moderate" state party Chair Ryan Call took the reins from Dick Wadhams in March. D'Souza told the crowd President Obama subscribes to an anti-colonial ideology that sets him against the unique American qualities that have made the U.S. great. D'Souza said Obama wants to "take the country down from being number one."
New ‘moderate’ state GOP Chair Ryan Call hosts red meat dinner...
In the heated race for Colorado Republican Party chair last month, GOP legal counsel Ryan Call won in an unexpectedly lopsided first-round vote. High-profile party figures like Attorney General John Suthers and state Senator Shawn Mitchell said they endorsed Call because he was the kind of down-the-middle conservative the party needed to attract moderate and independent voters. On Wednesday, Call hosted his first major Party function, no middle-of-the-road affair.
Ten legislators abandon controversial Republican Study Committee
Former Colorado Springs Senator Dave Schultheis is no longer holding forth on bills on the Senate floor in Denver, but he has continued to exert influence this year as the powerful force behind the conservative Republican Study Committee of Colorado. Now that influence may be waning. This week, a third of the RSCC flock quit the committee, rejecting the would-be radical-right revival.