Author: Ernest Luning
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Colorado’s 3 Republican gubernatorial candidates face off in heated primary debate
The three Colorado Republicans running for governor defended their qualifications, described their visions for the state and traded jabs over each other’s character at an often contentious televised debate that routinely veered into unusual territory Tuesday night in Denver. The 60-minute debate at the University of Denver, sponsored by 9News, The Denver Gazette and Colorado…
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Hickenlooper hits airwaves with 1st TV ad in Colorado’s Democratic US Senate primary
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper launched his reelection campaign’s first TV ad Tuesday, a week before Colorado voters start receiving primary ballots, with a spot taking aim at the Trump administration’s foiled plans to sell public lands. Hickenlooper is facing a primary challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat running at the incumbent from…
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Colorado Democrats slam Tina Peters’ release, while Republicans cheer
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Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted of breaching her county’s secure voting equipment, drew cheers from fellow Republicans upon her release from prison Monday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence. Other state Democrats, however, said remarks the 70-year-old Peters made in an online interview after leaving prison demonstrate that she lacks…
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Colorado Republicans elect software engineer Craig Steiner to fill vacant state chairman position
The Colorado Republican Party on Saturday elected Craig Steiner to fill the party’s vacant state chair position at a state central committee meeting in Buena Vista, just over a week before primary ballots go out to voters and five months before the general election. The former Douglas County GOP chair takes over from Eric Grossman,…
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Colorado’s Democratic attorney general candidates debate in Parker
The four Democrats running for attorney general in Colorado’s June 30 primary are slated to take the stage Thursday night in Parker at a debate sponsored by Colorado Politics, the Denver Gazette and Common Sense Institute. The primary election for the office held by term-limited fellow Democrat Phil Weiser, who is running for governor, features…
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Republicans Kirkmeyer, Bottoms say they won’t back Marx if he wins Colorado’s gubernatorial primary
Two of the Republicans running for governor of Colorado said Tuesday night in a debate that they won’t support the third candidate if he wins next month’s primary election. State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer and state Rep. Scott Bottoms said that Colorado Springs-based ministry leader Victor Marx, the race’s fundraising leader, won’t have their backing if…
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Democrat Evan Munsing suspends campaign in primary to challenge Gabe Evans in Colorado’s 8th CD
Democratic congressional candidate Evan Munsing announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans in Colorado’s most competitive U.S. House district, saying his bid to run as an outsider committed to reform has been drowned out by a flood of spending by Washington insiders. Munsing’s withdrawal less than two…
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Tina Peters thanks Polis for shortening her sentence, calls Colorado Democrats’ censure a ‘travesty’
Two days after the Colorado Democratic Party formally condemned Gov. Jared Polis over his decision last week to shorten Tina Peters’ prison sentence for tampering with election equipment, Peters heaped praise on the term-limited Democrat and slammed his party for what she described as an attempt to bury the truth. “I feel it is important…
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Attorney general candidate Doshi puts ‘Hetal to the metal’ in Colorado Democrat’s 1st TV ad
Democratic attorney general candidate Hetal Doshi makes clear how to pronounce her first name in the former federal prosecutor’s first TV and digital ad, which launched statewide on Friday, just over two weeks before ballots start going out to Colorado primary voters. “Colorado, it’s time to put the Hetal to the metal,” the ad’s narrator…
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Colorado Democrats formally rebuke Gov. Jared Polis for shortening Tina Peters’ prison sentence
The Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday formally censured Democratic Gov. Jared Polis for reducing the prison sentence of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of election-related felonies, and barred the term-limited governor from speaking or appearing as an honored guest at party functions until further notice. Nearly 90% of the Democrats’ state central…