Tag: Stan Garnett
Stapleton tops Kennedy; Gessler beats Buescher; Suthers downs Garnett
9News late Tuesday night called the Colorado treasurer race for Republican challenger and political newcomer Walker Stapleton by 52 to 48 percent margin over...
Garnett and Suthers take off the gloves in final debate
In their last debate before the election, the candidates for Colorado attorney general lashed out at each other over incumbent Attorney General John...
Poll shows Hickenlooper winning big, Senate in a dead heat
A poll conducted last week by 9NEWS and the Denver Post shows the Senate race between incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken...
Judge rules that health care reform is constitutional — could effect...
Thursday, a federal judge in Michigan became the first to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care reform package. Judge George C....
In debate, Garnett calls Suthers ‘attorney general for the tea party’
Candidate debates can be boring. Once in awhile, though, the fur flies.
That was the case yesterday in Loveland, according to the Reporter Herald, when...
Suthers payday donations spark interest in campaign finance restrictions
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is unabashed about having taken campaign cash from the payday loan industry. The donations and his refusal to return them have spurred disgust among Democratic lawmakers and on the part of Suthers' campaign opponent, Democrat Stan Garnett, who have suggested future laws might head off the kind of relationship Suthers appears to have entered into with payday lenders and their lobbyists.
Suthers campaign cash hangs over payday loan hearing
Attorney General John Suthers is not writing the new rules that will govern the payday loan industry in Colorado. That's why he is playing down the $10,000 in campaign donations he has received from the industry, saying the cash won't influence the final contours of the new state regulations. The person writing the rules, Laura Udis, has worked in the attorney general's department of consumer protection for more than two decades. She told the Colorado Independent that Suthers has so far not been involved in her work on the path-breaking payday legislation that was passed in the spring and that she expects Suthers to remain uninvolved.
Ament falling behind Stapleton in raising campaign cash
Widely seen as the front-runner for the GOP nomination for Colorado state treasurer, J.J. Ament has fallen badly behind Walker Stapleton in fund raising....
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...
First attorney general debate reveals battling approaches to the office
In the first face-to-face showdown between Colorado Republican Attorney General John Suthers and Democratic challenger Stan Garnett last night, Suthers batted back charges that he used the office for partisan purposes and Garnett said he would be more proactive in educating Coloradans on how to fight criminality, including environmental criminal behavior.