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Kristi Burton Brown elected as next Colorado GOP chair, vows to bring “a new generation of leadership”

Kristi Burton Brown was selected Saturday as the next chair of the Colorado GOP, vowing to bring a “new generation of leadership” to an embattled state Republican Party. “Republicans are facing the battle of our lives,” she said in a speech before her win.  Burton Brown, 33, is the first woman to lead the Colorado […]

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4 of the 5 candidates running to lead the Colorado GOP are still casting doubt on the 2020 election results

Four of the five candidates running to be the next leader of the Colorado GOP continue to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election. That’s despite all of them admitting there is no evidence of a level of fraud or wrongdoing that would have changed the outcome.  “I believe down deep in […]

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Colorado restricts where Medicaid patients can get an abortion. Democrats want to end that.

A group of Colorado Democrats want to make it easier for low-income people in Colorado who have experienced rape, incest or a life-threatening pregnancy to access abortions by eliminating state restrictions on the types of facilities where abortions are covered by Medicaid.  “Every patient who is a survivor of rape or sexual assault has gone […]

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Out of 100 Colorado lawmakers, only 7 are Republican women. The state GOP wants to reverse the trend.

Two decades ago, Republican women outnumbered their Democratic counterparts in the state legislature. Today, there’s just one Republican woman in the state Senate and six in the House. That compares with 37 Democratic women in the two chambers. The Colorado Republican Party is looking to reverse the trend. The party on Wednesday announced a new […]