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Wadhams pleads case for reelection as Colorado GOP chairman

By | 01.18.11 | 3:37 pm

Dick Wadhams announced Tuesday that he will run for a third term as Colorado Republican Party chairman. The news comes as little surprise to watchers of the proud party boss, but Wadhams will surely face strong opposition among Republicans who view this past election year as a mostly missed opportunity to regain control in purple state Colorado.

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Hotline: Wadhams backing Anuzis in RNC chairman race

By | 12.15.10 | 3:29 pm

In the race to elect the next Republican National Committee Chairman, Colorado GOP leader Dick Wadhams has reportedly thrown his support behind Saul Anuzis, who was state party chairman in Michigan from 2005 to 2009. Gimlet-eyed observers might call the endorsement sympathetic: Anuzis struggled with losses similar to those presided over by Wadhams in the last three years. Under Anuzis’ leadership, Michigan Republicans lost two Congressional seats and their majority in the state House.

Maes rolls out TV ad, garners support from Steele

By | 10.01.10 | 2:40 pm

Dan Maes rolled out a new television ad Thursday that was set to begin running in select markets today. The low budget ad has Maes standing outside pledging to roll back natural gas regulations, cut taxes and reduce…

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.

Gardner will likely accept RNC Steele’s ‘Congressional Trust 2010’ cash

By | 04.28.10 | 6:07 pm

State Rep and 4th District Congressional candidate Cory Gardner dissed Republican National Committee Chairman Michel Steele at a Fort Collins 9/12 group last week. Gardner told locals asking for the controversial Chairman‘s head to call Party leaders and…

Colorado’s Wadhams signs onto statement supporting RNC Chairman Steele

By | 04.10.10 | 1:13 pm

Colorado Republican Party head Dick Wadhams was one of 31 state GOP leaders to sign a statement in support of scandal-plagued party Chairman Michael Steele. That the statement was necessary is fairly damning but the wording of the statement…

Conservative donors see latest RNC scandal as ‘nail in the coffin’

By | 04.02.10 | 8:54 am

The “suggested amount” portion of the donation form is crossed out. There isn’t a box to check for no donation, so the would-be donor has simply drawn and filled in a new bubble and scrawled “NO.”

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…

RNC to woo low-end donors by stoking fear of socialism, of course

By | 03.03.10 | 8:53 pm

A copy of a secret special Republican National Committee presentation prepared by the party’s finance staff and delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a retreat in Boca Grande, Florida, last month was…

Looking to settle score, GOP seizes on Reid gaffe

By | 01.11.10 | 8:03 am

Moments before midnight on Friday, Marc Ambinder blogged at The Atlantic about some of the “juiciest revelations” in “Game Change,” a behind-the-scenes book on the 2008 presidential campaign by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. According to the authors, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was bullish on Barack Obama’s chances at becoming the first African-American president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”