Tag: Vickie Tonkins
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Colorado GOP chair Brita Horn loses ‘no-confidence’ vote, vows to refocus on ‘mending that divide’
The Colorado Republican Party’s state central committee approved a resolution expressing “no confidence” in state chair Brita Horn in a landslide late Monday night near the end of an online meeting marked by rancor and confusion. Almost 80% of the state GOP’s governing body voted for the symbolic measure at a meeting Horn called in…
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The Colorado Republican Party needs an exorcism | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Now that Democrats have tightened their blue-knuckled grip on state offices more tightly than ever before, and the expected national red wave turned out to be more of a pink ripple, where does the Republican Party go from here in Colorado? How can this setback…
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El Paso GOP chair attacks Lamborn after he cites ‘troubling irregularities’ in assembly process
Long-simmering tension between competing factions in the local Republican Party spilled into public view on March 31 when El Paso County GOP Chairwoman Vickie Tonkins tore into U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in a combative email denouncing the Colorado Springs Republican as dishonest and corrupt after Lamborn accused Tonkins and her allies of rigging the nomination…
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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…
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El Paso County Republicans consider banishing members accused of bucking GOP
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Crossing the party line could take on a new meaning in El Paso County if local Republicans adopt a proposed rules change to allow for “formal censure and removal” of party members who cross the GOP. In a move some local Republican officials are comparing…