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Judge invalidates vote to remove Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams
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Votes in favor of removing Williams as GOP Chairman, out of roughly 400 central committee members
A vote by Colorado Republicans to remove Dave Williams as the GOP chairman was thrown out Wednesday by a judge, who ruled that the vote relied on a misreading of ambiguous wording in the party’s bylaws about the votes required to remove Williams. The ruling all but guarantees that Williams, whose controversial actions have put him at odds with many Republican leaders and candidates, will remain chairman through at least the November election. Jesse Paul has more.
OUTDOORS
Colorado’s U.S. senators introduce one of the most ambitious public lands bills in decades
The Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act — or GORP Act — took the better part of a decade to craft, and lands at a moment when increases in federal land protections, including in Colorado, have been vehemently opposed by leaders in Congress. The act would protect more than 730,000 acres in the Gunnison River Basin and transfer nearly 20,000 acres to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to manage. Jason Blevins reports.
BALLOT EXPLAINER
Amendment K: Colorado election officials would have more time to prepare ballots
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Local taxing districts that elections officials have to consider when putting together ballots
Amendment K, which will appear on the November statewide ballot alongside 13 other initiatives, asks voters to decide whether to move up a number of filing deadlines in future elections to give county clerks more time to prepare ballots. The measure was requested by election officials, who say that the current timeline gives them about four days to print hundreds of different ballot combinations and send them to military and overseas voters on deadline. Brian Eason explains.
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Jim Morrissey finds an apt metaphor for the state’s ozone violations in the beloved characters from the classic Charles Schulz comic.
In “What’d I Miss?” Ossie and Myra consider why politicians are exaggerating debunked gang fears around an Aurora apartment complex.
Drew Litton imagines the retiring Charlie Blackmon as a ballplayer whose devotion to the Colorado Rockies his entire MLB career may have been about more than baseball.
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