The newly elected party chair is mum on whether the state GOP has employees or is just using volunteers. It’s the first time in at least 20 years the party hasn’t paid anyone.
Colorado Democratic Party
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: Rep: Froelich: No-drama Dems made big gains for Colorado in 2023
One legislator’s recap of the 2023 General Assembly from the Democratic Party perspective.
Posted inPolitics and Government
How much money are candidates for Colorado GOP and Democratic Party chair raising and spending? We’ll never know.
There’s no state law or party bylaw that requires candidates for state party chair to report their fundraising and spending
Posted inPolitics and Government
Colorado Democratic Party, GOP prepare for intraparty reorganizations that will have big influence over their future
Both parties will have new chairs, and how leadership elections go on the county and congressional and legislative district levels will play a big role
Posted inElection 2022
The Colorado Democratic Party outspent the Colorado GOP this year, highlighting a broader fundraising gap
The Colorado Democratic Party reported spending more at both state and federal levels than its GOP counterpart
Posted inElection 2022
Democrats will keep their majority in the Colorado state Senate, blocking GOP foothold at Capitol
Democrats were poised to win all seven competitive state Senate races this year in a drubbing of the GOP
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: The Big Lie’s big objective is to weaken Colorado election system
Americans are witnessing an unprecedented right-wing ideological attempt to undermine confidence in our American elections. We have watched as other states and Washington, D.C. have faced attacks on our election security — all led by the Republican Party. And now it’s come to Colorado. Over and over again, we’ve seen the Colorado Republican Party throw […]
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Opinion: Crime is up, and Democratic lawmakers aren’t helping
In 2020, riots wreaked havoc across the country. In Denver, rioters lit fires around the state capitol and smashed windows like those of the popular sandwich chain Quiznos. As cities were burned and looted, far-left Democrats pushed the dangerous and wildly out-of-touch effort to “defund the police.” In Colorado, violent crimes in 2020 increased 6.5 […]
Posted inBusiness, News, Politics and Government
Colorado AFL-CIO will withhold donations to Democratic campaign committees through May 2022, saying unions have been “excluded”
The Colorado branch of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of unions, will not donate to Democratic legislative campaign committees until at least May 2022 in protest of what the organization sees as the party’s exclusion of labor interests from state policy discussions. “We have … been excluded from caucus discussions about policy creation in […]
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Two southern Colorado Democrats are running to unseat Lauren Boebert. But they may no longer live in her district.
Congressional redistricting in Colorado may complicate the political ambitions of two Democrats running to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert next year. Under a preliminary map of the new districts released Wednesday, state Rep. Don Valdez, of La Jara, and Pueblo community activist Sol Sandoval would live in the 4th Congressional District, rather than the […]