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Pace steps down as House minority leader

State Representative Sal Pace, D-Pueblo, announced today that he will step down as the Democratic leader of the Colorado State House.

While oil and gas industry gushes over Tipton, radio campaign calls...

A nonpartisan watchdog group is blowing the whistle on U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and others in Congress who consistently advocate for tax breaks, subsidies and other giveaways to oil and gas companies.

Slick campaigning: Tipton taps oil and gas sector to fill coffers

Oil and gas money is greasing the wheels of U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton's reelection campaign, which more than doubled its fundraising bounty for the quarter that just ended, public records show.

‘Underdog’ Pace trumpets fundraising progress in 3rd Congressional District

Sal Pace, the Democratic candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, on Thursday announced that his campaign has raised $165,000 during the most recent fundraising quarter that concluded at the end of September.

Koch family feud finds common ground in funding for Tipton

Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch don't often see eye to eye with youngest brother Bill. On at least two things, though, they share common ground: A love for Colorado and an eagerness to fund Rep. Scott Tipton's campaigns.

Challenger Pace says Tipton threatens recreation-based economies

The environment's relationship to the economy is a key theme for Sal Pace, minority leader in the Colorado House, as he challenges incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton for a seat in Congress. He says Tipton misses the connection.

Republicans want to raise taxes; Democrats don’t

It must be opposite day. Republicans, many of whom have pledged to not even consider any plan that raises taxes, are clamoring to raise the payroll tax. Democrats, many of whom have said the country can't be serious about cutting the deficit if taxes can't be raised, are fighting tooth and nail to keep this year's payroll tax reduction in place for at least one more year.

Sal Pace rails against raising payroll tax

As Speaker of the House John Boehner prepares for a weekend fundraiser for Rep. Scott Tipton in Aspen, Tipton's Democratic challenger went on the offensive Tuesday, saying he's had it with a Republican Congress that publicly rails against any and all taxes while quietly working to end a small tax reduction enjoyed by workers for the past year.

Tipton could have his work cut out for him

It's that time of the election cycle again. Fundraising winners and losers are starting to separate from the pack. One Colorado congressman, Scott Tipton, seems to be drawing the wrong kind of attention, as The Washington Post Sunday named him as one of the quarter's losers, raising only about half what fellow Colorado freshman Cory Gardner raised.

Riesberg named commissioner of insurance

Gov. John Hickenlooper announced today that Rep. Jim Riesberg, D-Greeley, will be the state’s new Commissioner of Insurance. Riesberg will resign his House seat on June 30 and start work on July 1.
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