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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...
Cagey Stapleton dogged by lingering DUI questions
The incomplete records available from candidate for treasurer Walker Stapleton's 1999 DUI arrest have raised questions the week before Election Day that Stapleton has only partly addressed. As more details of the case emerge, Stapleton's fudging and partial responses play into assertions made by Democratic incumbent Cary Kennedy that voters are right to question her opponent's commitment to transparency in a race that will decide who will manage billions in tax payer cash in the coming four years.
Kennedy ad: Unfolding Stapleton DUI story suggests lack of candor
Colorado Treasurer Cary Kennedy has released an ad calling into question her GOP opponent Walker Stapleton's fitness for office based on his 1999 arrest...
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...
As treasurer race tightens, more Stapleton DUI details emerge
At 2:30 in the morning on a deeply sloping downtown street in San Francisco in 1999, Walker Stapleton, now GOP candidate for state treasurer, drove his SUV through a red light, smashing into a cab and sending it into a 360 degree whirl. He injured a passenger in the taxi and apparently one other person and was charged with driving under the influence and attempted hit and run or fleeing the scene of an accident.
Stapleton’s DUI ‘doo-doo sandwich’ gets sloppier to swallow
Progressive activist coalition Campaign for a Strong Colorado has dug into GOP candidate for treasurer Walker Stapleton's 1999 San Francisco DUI arrest and found...
Lefty nest Aspen increasingly infiltrated by GOP operatives
ASPEN -- Aspen isn't just a haven for liberals. Conservatives network, plot and stuff their war chests here too. A few recent A-list functions, at least two of them deeply shrouded in secrecy, underscore Aspen's importance to the Grand Old Party and the conservative ideologues who pull its purse strings.
Treasurer race update: Kennedy factchecks Stapleton ad
In the unusually high-profile treasurer's race this year, the GOP challenger, real estate investor Walker Stapleton, has attempted to paint Democratic incumbent Cary Kennedy as a career politician cloistered from the world of business. In a new ad he argues that he "hasn’t spent a day of [his] career inside of government and my opponent hasn’t spent a day of her career outside of government."
Kennedy keen to compare qualifications with Stapleton in treasurer race
Democratic State Treasurer Cary Kennedy landed the endorsement of the Denver Post Tuesday for the "steady hand" she has shown in investing Colorado tax...
Stapleton has injected more than $200,000 into his own campaign
Walker Stapleton, a member of the Bush family and the Republican nominee for Colorado Treasurer, has now given his own campaign cash and in-kind...