Treasurer race update: Kennedy factchecks Stapleton ad

In the unusually high-profile treasurer’s race this year, the GOP challenger, real estate investor Walker Stapleton, has attempted to paint Democratic incumbent Cary Kennedy as a career politician cloistered from the world of business. In a new ad he argues that he “hasn’t spent a day of [his] career inside of government and my opponent hasn’t spent a day of her career outside of government.”

Kennedy keen to compare qualifications with Stapleton in treasurer race

Democratic State Treasurer Cary Kennedy landed the endorsement of the Denver Post Tuesday for the “steady hand” she has shown in investing Colorado tax revenues and generating positive returns over the last two years– no small feat given the…

Stapleton has injected more than $200,000 into his own campaign

Walker Stapleton, a member of the Bush family and the Republican nominee for Colorado Treasurer, has now given his own campaign cash and in-kind donations amounting to $214,212, according to his most recent filing with the Colorado Secretary of…

Stapleton tops Ament in GOP treasurer primary; Kennedy pounces

Republicans went with Walker Stapleton 51 percent to 49 for J.J. Ament in the GOP primary for Colorado’s state treasurer, and incumbent Democrat Cary Kennedy, unchallenged in the primary, wasted no time going on the offensive.

“Throughout this economic…

Highway funding fix still a tea party favorite with no solutions offered

Given the current political environment and ongoing sluggishness of the economy, there’s been virtually no appetite on either side of the aisle to talk about finding a permanent funding source for badly needed road and bridge upgrades and maintenance.

State…

Treasurer Kennedy running on platform of avoiding investment risk

Cary Kennedy said Monday night that she had led the state’s treasury through fiscally lean times in a way few states in the country had–positively. However, she noted running on a record she said was strong in fiscal responsibility and transparency may not be good enough in a state-wide race where opponents could personally finance there campaigns and in one case was drawing donation from 47 states as the cousin of George Bush.

Ament falling behind Stapleton in raising campaign cash

Widely seen as the front-runner for the GOP nomination for Colorado state treasurer, J.J. Ament has fallen badly behind Walker Stapleton in fund raising. As of the end of June, Stapleton had amassed more than $226,000 in cash to spend…

GOP race for Colorado Treasurer heats up as Hasan and Ament trade barbs

In advance of the GOP state assembly this weekend, where delegates will vote on the list of candidates for the August primary ballot, candidate for treasurer J.J. Ament, a financial adviser-investment banker money man, has become the target of…

Upbeat Romanoff rededicated to Senate run

DENVER– Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff minutes ago announced that he was rededicated to his primary campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. He told a crowd of roughly sixty people gathered outside his campaign headquarters here that he called this fraught press conference only to “clear the air,” explaining that he had received hundreds of emails and phone calls over the past week urging him to drop his Senate bid to run for governor in the wake of news that Gov. Bill Ritter would not seek a second term. Politics watchers in the state expected he might declare that he planned to run as lieutenant governor on a ticket topped by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Romanoff sought to put an end to any speculation along those lines.

“I am running for U.S. Senate,” he said. “I will not accept any other job offers.”

State Treasurer Kennedy squelches rumors of run by endorsing Hickenlooper

Cary Kennedy, Colorado’s popular treasurer, quashed rumors she was considering running for lieutenant governor on a ticket topped by U.S. Senate candidate and former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff. She sent out a press release an hour ago endorsing…