Tag: Colorado Gop
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Rep.-elect Jarvis Caldwell calls out Colorado Republican leadership for lack of support
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Updated 11/14/24 Not long after winning District 20 in the state House, Republican Rep.-elect Jarvis Caldwell took to social media to call out party leadership for what he described as its failure to support GOP candidates in this year’s election. Caldwell won the June El Paso County House District 20 primary by a 30-point margin.…
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Colorado Republicans vote to oust Dave Williams as state party chair, but he rejects meeting as ‘illegal’
A group of Colorado Republicans voted Saturday to remove Dave Williams as chairman of the state party at a meeting denounced by Williams and his allies as “fraudulent” and “illegal.” Republicans cheered when results were announced at a church in Brighton, where Williams’ opponents gathered in defiance of state GOP warnings that the proceedings lacked…
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Republican congressional candidate rejects Colorado GOP’s endorsement over call to burn Pride flags
Valdamar Archuleta calls state GOP’s’ echo of notorious anti-LGBTQ slur ‘disgusting and offensive’
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Democrats push 3 bills to bolster abortion rights in Colorado
Democratic lawmakers moved closer toward making Colorado a sanctuary state for abortion access on Thursday, announcing the introduction of three bills that seek to bolster abortion-right laws. If passed, the bills would shield abortion patients and providers from interstate investigations, expand insurance coverage for abortion care, and prohibit what supporters claim to be deceptive advertising…
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Republican leaders vow to keep fighting as new legislative session begins
Only 31 Republicans filled the seats of the Colorado General Assembly on opening day for the 2023 legislative session — the fewest the state has seen in more than 80 years. Republican leaders, however, remained optimistic. After Democrats flipped seven seats from red to blue in November, Democrats are set to dominate the state Capitol this…
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Republican Marc Catlin reappointed vice chair of Colorado House ag, water panel
For the third legislative session in a row, Rep. Marc Catlin will be the only Colorado Republican to hold a committee leadership position. The Montrose Republican was this week reappointed to again serve as vice chair of the House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee. The appointment comes after the November election increased Democratic dominance in the state House…
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Republicans lose ground in more than half of state legislative committees
Republicans in the Colorado legislature lost influence in more than half of the General Assembly’s committees for the upcoming legislative session after Democrats dominated in the November election. Democrats flipped seven seats from red to blue in November — two in the Senate and five in the House — creating a 69-31 Democrat-Republican split in…
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PERSPECTIVE: Republican leader hopes to balance Colorado
Democrats control 100% of Colorado’s government and hold all statewide offices, with the exception of one at-large seat on the Democrat-controlled University of Colorado Board of Regents. Republicans hope to change the balance in November. The Gazette’s editorial board met with Colorado Republican Party Chair Kristi Burton Brown to discuss how her party hopes to…
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El Paso County GOP mulls punishing Republicans deemed insufficiently Republican
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save El Paso County Republicans plan to decide whether the local party can censure its members for violating its platforms or getting crosswise with GOP leaders. The county GOP’s central committee — made up of precinct leaders, party officers and elected officials — is scheduled to…