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Will Personhood backers pull support, taking cue from Buck?

By | 09.24.10 | 1:51 pm

In a KBDI Channel 12 debate Sept. 17, News4 reporter Terry Jessup asked Gualberto Garcia Jones of Personhood Colorado about GOP support for the Personhood initiative, Amendment 62.

“I mean there’s no one out there with the possible exception of

Arizona guv Brewer stumbles on air; Coloradans think ‘Maes’

By | 09.02.10 | 11:19 am

Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes is a regular guy candidate backed by the tea party, which has no appetite for career politicians and party insiders. But Maes is a pretty lousy businessman and doesn’t know much about

Maes on Steele: ‘Many in Colorado do support Arizona law’

By | 08.24.10 | 2:28 pm

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Monday said that Arizona’s stringent immigration law, SB-1070, is not representative of the Republican Party’s views as a whole, nor of the American view as a whole. Colorado Republican candidate for governor Dan Maes has said he would support a law similar to Arizona’s if he is elected.

Wadhams: GOP voters will ‘determine our nominees’

By | 07.15.10 | 5:26 pm

Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams issued the following statement Thursday amid reports the party is looking to replace former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis on the GOP gubernatorial primary ballot against Dan Maes on Aug. 10.

McInnis is embroiled…

Gridlocked Senate fails again to pass unemployment extension

By | 07.01.10 | 8:47 am

WASHINGTON– On Wednesday night, a bare-bones measure to keep federally funded unemployment insurance checks headed to the long-term unemployed failed in the Senate. Moderate Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine had signed on to vote for cloture on the $34 billion bill. But without Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who passed away earlier in the week, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — the majority leader who hails from the state with the worst unemployment rate in the country — once again found himself stuck at 59 votes. By the time Byrd’s replacement is in place, in mid-July, two million Americans will have lost their benefits, and the bill extending them will have languished for some 11 weeks.

GOP gamble? Failed unemployment bill means more unemployment

By | 06.28.10 | 10:57 am

The failure of the unemployment extension bill, which also included additional federal funding for Medicaid and many more important provisions, will not only mean hundreds of thousands of people around the country will go without unemployment benefits; it…

Maes tops McInnis for governor among GOP delegates

By | 05.22.10 | 3:31 pm

LOVELAND– Both major Republican candidates for governor will be on the August primary ballot. Dan Maes edged out Scott McInnis 1741-1725, taking 49.35 percent of the vote. “Wow,” Maes said after hearing the vote announced. “This is about you. This is about the people standing up and making their voices heard, telling us what is important, telling us what you want from government and not the other way around. We are just getting warmed up,” he told the few hundred people who stayed to the end of the assembly at the Budweiser Event Center here.

Colorado Republicans rallied by state assembly siege rhetoric

By | 05.22.10 | 10:09 am

LOVELAND– U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman brought the house down Saturday at the Colorado Republican Party assembly here when he stood foursquare with Arizona over immigration. “The people of Arizona have had enough of illegal immigration, they’ve had enough of a federal government that will not secure our borders. I can tell you this: My wife and I are planning a vacation in the State of Arizona…”

No record of McInnis donations to RNC

By | 04.28.10 | 9:00 am

GOP candidate for governor Scott McInnis, who is drawing heat this week for releasing only partial and sketchy details on his income and charitable giving, said on the Caplis and Silverman talk radio show yesterday that he gave generously to…

Concerned Women for America lashes RNC’s Steele and Obama’s gays

By | 03.30.10 | 11:32 am

Based on their media releases over the past 24 hours, it’s clear the conservative Concerned Women for America find two things to be absolutely beyond the pale.

One: The RNC paying for a night at a Hollywood bondage-themed…