Colorado officials clash on how to finance public employee retirement

Over the course of his first year in office, Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton has targeted the state’s public-employee pension plan, known as PERA, underlining its billions of dollars in liabilities and arguing that it should be reworked to reduce the state’s obligations in part by giving over money to contributors to invest themselves. He brought his case to the state’s House Finance Committee on Thursday and predictably ran up against deep Democratic skepticism.

Cary Kennedy named deputy mayor of Denver

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock today announced the appointment of Cary Kennedy as Deputy Mayor for the City and County of Denver. Currently serving as the city’s chief financial officer, Kennedy will stand second in the mayoral line of succession, acting as chief executive when the mayor is unavailable.

Stapleton tops Kennedy; Gessler beats Buescher; Suthers downs Garnett

9News late Tuesday night called the Colorado treasurer race for Republican challenger and political newcomer Walker Stapleton by 52 to 48 percent margin over incumbent Cary Kennedy, a rising star in the state Democratic party.

Other constitutional offices also…

Cagey Stapleton dogged by lingering DUI questions

The incomplete records available from candidate for treasurer Walker Stapleton’s 1999 DUI arrest have raised questions the week before Election Day that Stapleton has only partly addressed. As more details of the case emerge, Stapleton’s fudging and partial responses play into assertions made by Democratic incumbent Cary Kennedy that voters are right to question her opponent’s commitment to transparency in a race that will decide who will manage billions in tax payer cash in the coming four years.

Hickenlooper bus rolls into Idaho Springs

IDAHO SPRINGS — People began gathering at least 30 to 40 minutes early in and around a small storefront in Idaho Springs Wednesday evening.

The Hickenlooper campaign bus was expected soon. The bus drove slowly past the Majestic…

Kennedy ad: Unfolding Stapleton DUI story suggests lack of candor

Colorado Treasurer Cary Kennedy has released an ad calling into question her GOP opponent Walker Stapleton‘s fitness for office based on his 1999 arrest for drunk driving. In the new ad and in the release she sent to…

Prominent Democrats pick… Michael Bennet for Senate

If Democratic Senator Michael Bennet knows anything, it’s that getting women to the polls could be the key to victory next week against Republican challenger Ken Buck.

Monday, his campaign organized a group of women to vote early. While there…

Poll shows Hickenlooper winning big, Senate in a dead heat

A poll conducted last week by 9NEWS and the Denver Post shows the Senate race between incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck to be a tie, with 47 percent saying they will vote for each of…

As treasurer race tightens, more Stapleton DUI details emerge

At 2:30 in the morning on a deeply sloping downtown street in San Francisco in 1999, Walker Stapleton, now GOP candidate for state treasurer, drove his SUV through a red light, smashing into a cab and sending it into a 360 degree whirl. He injured a passenger in the taxi and apparently one other person and was charged with driving under the influence and attempted hit and run or fleeing the scene of an accident.

Stapleton’s DUI ‘doo-doo sandwich’ gets sloppier to swallow

Progressive activist coalition Campaign for a Strong Colorado has dug into GOP candidate for treasurer Walker Stapleton’s 1999 San Francisco DUI arrest and found the case to be more complicated than Stapleton let on at a debate last…