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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged Mike Coffman

Perry’s Iowa flameout elicits whimper of response from Colorado team

By | 01.04.12 | 2:07 pm

Like a tumbleweed loosed in a storm, Texas Governor Rick Perry drifted out of Iowa after his humiliating fifth-place finish in the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses last night. To the dismay of Tea Party conservatives, Perry returned to the Lone Star state to reflect on whether or not he should continue his bid for the White House. News breaking on Twitter an hour ago, however, is that the campaign will continue, pinning its hopes on South Carolina’s January 21 primary. The Chair of the Perry campaign in Colorado, U.S. 6th District Congressman Mike Coffman, has yet to comment on the Perry loss, the plan going forward, or on the meaning for Colorado Republicans of last night’s historic Mitt Romney-Rick Santorum caucus-race photo-finish.

Report: Colorado’s Gardner stars in ‘most anti-environment House’ in U.S. history

By | 01.03.12 | 2:04 pm

U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., is among the legislative antagonists singled out in a new report (pdf) detailing the first session of what it calls “the most anti-environment House in the history of Congress.”

DeGette expresses ‘extraordinary frustration’ as GOP House leaders reject payroll tax deal

By | 12.21.11 | 10:04 am

Republican Colorado congressional members joined their House colleagues today in blaming the Senate for failing to pass a long-term extension of unemployment benefits and a payroll tax break, but senior Denver Democrat Diana DeGette scoffed at that notion on Tuesday.

Colorado business leaders plead for Tipton to reconsider sponsorship of roadless bill

By | 12.13.11 | 6:52 am

Over 30 Colorado business leaders are asking U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton to reconsider his support of the Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act saying it poses “a serious threat” to their bottom line.

‘Spine doctor with a backbone’ looking to battle Miklosi for chance to unseat Coffman

By | 12.09.11 | 1:01 pm

Perry Haney has been planning to run for Congress for a while and now, as reported by the Colorado Statesman today, he has decided to mount a serious primary challenge to Democrat Joe Miklosi in CD6, the former Republican stronghold represented by Mike Coffman but remade this year as one of the nation’s top tossup congressional districts.

VIDEO: Coffman called to answer for Perry’s anti-gay ad

By | 12.09.11 | 9:49 am

For Rep. Mike Coffman, R-CD6, signing on as Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s Colorado chairman probably seemed like a smart move back when Perry went from announcing he was running to being the front-runner in a matter of hours. Today, maybe not so much.

Polis leads Colorado delegation in net worth

By | 11.16.11 | 2:55 pm

Oh, it’s good to be in Congress. The annual ranking of the net worth of every member of Congress was released this week and once again Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, is the richest member of the Colorado delegation, with…

Defiant Coffman sure to turn to middle in new tossup 6th District

By | 11.15.11 | 10:09 am

In his more than 20-year political career, Colorado 6th District Republican Congressman Mike Cofffman has never lost an election. Before heading to Capitol Hill, he was a state representative and senator, then state treasurer and then briefly secretary of state. Among insiders, it has been accepted as a given that Coffman is planning to take a run in 2014 at Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Udall’s seat. Any future Coffman political plans, however, were complicated Thursday, when Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt put the 6th District GOP stronghold into play by paring off large swaths of mostly white suburbs south of Denver and including more urban, working-class and Latino regions to the north.

Coffman, Lamborn work to ban gay weddings from military facilities

By | 11.03.11 | 5:57 am

Colorado Republican Reps. Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman joined Rep. Michele Bachmann and 83 other members of the House as signers of a letter to the U.S. Senate urging that body to pass an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would prohibit gay members of America’s Armed Forces from using military facilities for marriage ceremonies.

Gardner, Lamborn, Coffman support litigation against Affordable Care Act

By | 10.31.11 | 9:04 am

Colorado U.S. Reps. Cory Gardner, Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman lent their names to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that the Supreme Court should rule the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.

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