A statewide recount of votes cast in last month’s Republican primary for secretary of state will be conducted after candidate Tina Peters paid more than $250,000 for the results to be tabulated for a second time. Peters, the indicted Mesa County clerk known for being a 2020 election denier, lost the primary by nearly 90,000 […]
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Colorado Republican primary losers Ron Hanks and Tina Peters ask again for a recount
Two Republicans who baselessly suggested their losses in last month’s GOP primaries in Colorado may be due to fraud filed their second round of requests for recounts on Tuesday. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and State Rep. Ron Hanks both echoed former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election during their own races for […]
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Heidi Ganahl wants to eliminate Colorado’s income tax, which accounts for about a third of the state’s budget
Heidi Ganahl, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, is campaigning on a bold promise to eliminate Colorado’s 4.55% individual income tax, the largest source of revenue for the state’s general fund, during her first four-year term. “I will take us to zero income tax,” she told Republican voters during a candidate forum in April. But Ganahl, a […]
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New arrest warrant issued for Tina Peters after she allegedly violated protection order, bond conditions
An arrest warrant was issued Thursday afternoon for indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters — the second in as many weeks — after she allegedly violated a protection order and the conditions of her bond by sending an email seeking a recount of votes in the Republican primary for secretary of state last month, which […]
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Colorado voters will decide in November whether to decriminalize magic mushrooms
Colorado voters will decide in November whether to decriminalize the possession and use of “magic” mushrooms and allow the creation of “healing centers” where people would be allowed to purchase and consume those substances. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Thursday that the supporters of Initiative 58 had turned in enough signatures to qualify […]
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Michael Bennet begins campaigning in earnest with first TV ad as Republicans focus more on Colorado’s Senate race
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet began campaigning for reelection in earnest Thursday with the launch of his first 2022 television ad, a reintroduction to Colorado voters touting his work to get big money out of politics. “Washington could learn a lot from Colorado,” Bennet says in the ad, which highlights the Democrat’s efforts to ban members […]
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We now know which Democratic group spent $4 million to influence Colorado’s Republican U.S. Senate primary
The Senate Majority PAC, a group aligned with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, was behind the shadowy, $4 million campaign to encourage voters in Colorado’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate last month to back state Rep. Ron Hanks. Hanks, an election conspiracist and hard-line conservative, lost by a wide margin to […]
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Two Republican primary losers in Colorado requested recounts but then did not pay for them
By Nicholas Riccardi and Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press Colorado’s secretary of state’s office on Wednesday said it has told two candidates who lost their Republican primary races last month that it will not conduct a recount of those races because they failed to pay the required amount by the deadline. The office informed Mesa […]
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Heidi Ganahl selects Danny Moore, Navy veteran who was removed as head of redistricting panel, as her running mate
Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl on Monday announced Danny Moore as her running mate, a Navy veteran and entrepreneur who stoked controversy last year when he was removed as head of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission over his social media posts about the 2020 presidential election. “Danny is a wonderful addition to our winning team,” […]
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Colorado congressional candidates who faced tough primaries head into general election low on cash
Colorado congressional candidates who won their primaries last month finished June low on money, giving their general election opponents — many of whom are incumbents — significant cash cushions heading into the Nov. 8 contest. Some successful primary candidates also still owe vendors hefty sums, according to campaign finance reports filed Friday with the Federal […]