Idaho Springs voters will decide early next year whether to oust Mayor Michael Hillman from office after signatures gathered by the effort to recall him were verified by the city on Friday. The City Council during its next regular meeting, on Jan. 13, will pick a date for a special recall election. The election must […]
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Colorado’s recall fever arrives in Idaho Springs, where leaders fear damage to their town’s renaissance
IDAHO SPRINGS — Up here the air may be thinner, but the political drama brewing is thicker than the crust of the famously dense pizza sold at Beau Jo’s on Miner Street. Recall fever, sweeping across the state from the governor’s mansion on down, has come to Idaho Springs, one of Colorado’s most economically stalled […]
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Nicolais: Here’s why we ought to be outraged with outrage in politics
A few weeks ago I ran into former Colorado Speaker of the House Frank McNulty at a fundraiser for Foster Together Colorado. As we talked, McNulty joked, “I’m really outraged with all the outrage in politics today!” His good-humored jest came back to me this week when I read about former President Barak Obama denouncing […]
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Campaign to recall Colorado Senate President Leroy Garcia fails, decides not to turn in all of its signatures
The campaign to recall Colorado Senate President Leroy Garcia failed on Friday afternoon after the group decided to turn in just a fraction of the signatures that they collected. Friday was the recall campaign’s deadline to turn in 13,506 valid signatures from voters in the Pueblo Democrat’s Senate District 3 to force a special election […]
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Nicolais: Recall efforts exposed an existential crisis for Colorado Republicans
Following a disastrous week for recall efforts, the Colorado Republican Party finds itself not only in disarray, but in existential crisis. Over the next year the party’s actions will determine if it will have any relevant future in Colorado politics. Recall efforts to date have only laid bare the utter electoral weakness the Republican Party […]
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Attempted recalls of Democratic state senators dead after proponents decide not to turn in signatures
For the second time in a week, efforts to boot elected Democrats from office in Colorado have fallen short. The campaigns to recall Democratic state Sens. Pete Lee, of Colorado Springs, and Brittany Pettersen, of Lakewood, told the Colorado Secretary of State’s office on Tuesday that they will not be turning in the signatures they […]
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Interest in reforming Colorado’s system to recall elected officials is building — on both sides of the aisle
With attempted recalls of elected officials continuing to sweep across Colorado, interest in reforming the state’s system for ousting people from elected office is growing and early ideas are being debated for possible legislation to be introduced during the 2020 lawmaking term. The push for change — which may have to be approved by voters […]
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Jared Polis recall backers say they don’t have enough signatures to force election to oust Colorado’s governor
Backers of the effort to recall Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced on Friday morning that they did not collect enough signatures to force a special election on whether to boot the Democrat before his first year in office ends. Friday was the end of a 60-day period during which supporters of the recall needed to […]
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The top Democratic and Republican pollsters in Colorado agree: 2020 is not looking good for the GOP
The state’s most prominent Democratic and Republican pollsters, in independent surveys of likely 2020 voters conducted a month apart, came to a consensus about the political mood in Colorado. President Donald Trump gets low marks. Gov. Jared Polis is popular. And people lean toward thinking that the state is headed in the right direction. But […]