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Fifth District race getting weird as it goes down to the wire

By | 06.21.12 | 1:55 pm

The race for the Republican nomination for the Fifth District congressional seat, centered in Colorado Springs, grows weirder by the day. You’ve got three-term incumbent Doug Lamborn waging a war of words not only with the district’s biggest and most important newspaper, The Gazette, but also with his predecessor in Congress, Joel Hefley.

Charlie Duke And The Good Old Days

By | 10.03.07 | 8:00 am

Note: This is the first in a two-part post.

It’s been nearly a decade since Charles Duke held office under the golden dome in Denver. And still, not a month goes by without someone wondering aloud what happened to…

Lamborn’s Check Returned to Gambling Group without Date, Signature

By | 09.04.07 | 5:45 pm

A controversial $1,000 campaign contribution that a gambling company made in January to Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn arrived back in the company's offices more than six months later wrapped in a plain piece of paper with a handwritten…

Gun Bill Approved

By | 09.07.06 | 3:56 pm

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote one of the three National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed bills-H.R. 5092-that has the backing of most of the Colorado Republican congressional delegation along with Democrat Ken Salazar.

According…