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Candidate Tancredo mocks GOP guv candidates, refers to McInnis as ‘poor Scott’

By | 07.30.10 | 1:43 pm

Constitutional Party candidate for governor and right-wing icon Tom Tancredo gave the Colorado Statesman a breezy interview Tuesday that posted today. Tancredo dishes with abandon on state politics and politicians. He mocks his GOP opposition as pathetic and unelectable.…

State Latino leaders warm to Ritter, dismiss top Republicans

By | 12.16.09 | 3:03 pm

DENVER– Gov. Bill Ritter shored up support with the state’s growing number of Latino voters Tuesday, appearing with a group of roughly 40 of the community’s leaders, who came to the downtown Auraria campus to endorse him as the best choice for governor in 2010. In discussions with the Colorado Independent, Latino leaders at the event made it clear that Ritter has been working hard to smooth relationships with the community and to address grievances. They also made it clear that Ritter’s Republican rivals have moved in the opposite direction, their recent efforts further alienating Colorado Latinos.

Colo. GOP ‘Platform’ covered by Wall Street Journal, panned by readers

By | 12.01.09 | 10:14 am

The conservative national paper of record, the Wall Street Journal, reported on the Colorado Republican Party “Platform for Prosperity” today, describing it as a “bold move” to win over the “restive tea party activists.” The tea partiers interviewed…

Governor’s office harshly critical of GOP ‘Platform’

By | 11.25.09 | 2:03 pm

The Colorado Republican Party “Platform for Prosperity” introduced with fanfare Monday by gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis has drawn fire for its lack of specifics. Analysts on the left and right have noted the platform fails to provide funding mechanisms for its proposals. Governor Bill Ritter’s office was harshly critical of the platform in discussions with the Colorado Independent, calling hypocritical. Advocacy groups saw the plan as divorced from reality and misleading.

The Colorado Republican ‘Platform for Prosperity’

By | 11.24.09 | 10:08 am

Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, former gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry and almost gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo pow-wowed last week and at some point drafted a powerpoint-type document meant to guide their efforts to defeat Gov. Ritter and turn the state Republican…