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Gardner scores CD4 endorsement from former rival Brown

By | 03.17.10 | 5:32 pm

Fort Collins City Council member Diggs Brown has endorsed state Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, in the 4th Congressional District race, according to Fort Collins Coloradoan Editor Bob Moore. Brown ranked second in the 4th CD race among GOP caucus voters…

Buck and Romanoff notch caucus wins

By | 03.17.10 | 9:19 am

The Associated Press described last night’s caucus results as a measure of anti-establishment sentiment but that’s a stretch. The results suggest voters’ feelings were mixed, that there are no clear frontrunners, and that Coloradans should be prepared for heated campaigns for months to come.

Caucus Night Colorado

By | 03.16.10 | 4:40 pm

Tonight is Caucus night in Colorado. Thousands of political junkies and activists will turn out to elect delegates to represent candidates at the party state assemblies in May.

Tea Partying Diggs Brown on global warming: ‘Dinosaurs weren’t driving cars’

By | 03.15.10 | 2:30 pm

Nothing goes over at a Tea Party forum quite like jokes about Al Gore and global warming. National Guardsman Diggs Brown, who is running for Betsy Markey’s 4th District Congressional seat, drew laughs Thursday at the Northern Colorado Tea

Speeding Tea Party rhetoric bangs against Ref C guardrail in Loveland

By | 03.15.10 | 12:59 pm

At last week’s 4th congressional district candidate forum in Loveland, theoretical anti-tax anti-government consensus broke down briefly during discussion of Referendum C, Colorado’s 2005 voter-supported “TABOR timeout,” which has become a litmus-test topic for state Republican candidates this year.

Afternoon News Nuggets: 20 July 2009

By | 07.20.09 | 6:22 pm

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POLITICS AS USUAL: GOP Candidate for governor Josh Penry is not quitting the senate. He’s going to fulfill his obligations as Senate Minority Leader while crisscrossing the state campaigning and raising cash. Poor Penry,…

UPDATED: Gardner tossed into CD 4 rumor mill to challenge Markey

By | 05.07.09 | 9:38 am

From the Worst Kept Secret Department:

Roll Call.com reports today that Yuma Republican and House Minority Whip Cory Gardner is set to announce his bid to challenge Fourth District U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey in 2010.

Former PolitickerCO reporter parses Markey opponents in new daily blog

By | 02.09.09 | 3:05 pm

Former PolitickerCO.com reporter Jeremy Pelzer — whose daily postings on the now-defunct site were must-reads for Colorado’s politically attuned — lands this week at Elevated Voices, 5280′s everything-to-know-about-Denver blog. Monday’s posting examines potential challengers to Rep. Betsy Markey, who unseated three-term Republican Marilyn Musgrave and became the first Democrat to represent the sprawling 4th Congressional District in more than three decades.