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Posts Tagged Ted Harvey

On Hot-Button Election-Reform Bill, It’s Gessler Versus the Clerks

By | 05.01.13 | 12:14 am

DENVER — Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler arrived late to testify at the Senate committee hearing, but he came prepared. A practiced courtroom lawyer, he began slowly. He threw in folksy asides. He answered his own rhetorical questions. And he smiled at the majority-Democratic committee members as he railed against the election-reform bill they all support and that he wants desperately to derail. It was a dramatic moment in Colorado politics that had been building since Gessler took office two years ago.

Colorado county clerks baffled by Gessler ‘non-citizen voter registration’ claims

By | 03.08.12 | 8:15 am

“I really have no idea what he is talking about,” Republican Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Sheila Reiner told the Colorado Independent.

Colorado lawmakers won’t push ‘proof of citizenship’ bill this session

By | 01.23.12 | 5:00 am

Colorado lawmakers who last year introduced legislation to address claims that perhaps thousands of undocumented residents had voted in the state will not re-introduce the legislation this year. Secretary of State Scott Gessler reportedly waved off the lawmakers, saying he felt he could address the issue outside the halls of the capitol with means available to him through his office.

DeGette rallies state civil rights activists to spotlight, counteract new GOP voter laws

By | 12.12.11 | 10:56 am

DENVER– Colorado Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGette and representatives of the state’s top civil rights organizations this weekend railed against efforts by Republican lawmakers and officials around the country to recast voter rules. Flooded with pale mountain sun on the west steps of the capitol, the speakers took turns detailing ways new registration and voting requirements and restrictions will make it more difficult for millions of Americans to cast ballots in presidential election year 2012.

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Gessler lawsuit launched against Denver County sounds voter-suppression alarm bells

By | 09.22.11 | 4:45 am

In filing suit yesterday against Denver County over its 2011 election plan, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has raised the specter for the second time since he took office in January that he is using his position as head of elections not to expand but to suppress voting in the state.

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Secure Communities participation won’t be forced by Colorado

By | 04.19.11 | 2:20 pm

A bill to force counties to participate in Secure Communities died in a Senate committee Monday. Opponents cited racism and opposition to forcing another unfunded mandate on rural counties.

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Gessler’s citizenship voter bill killed in Senate committee

By | 04.19.11 | 10:14 am

Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s bill to require proof of citizenship of all Colorado voters died Monday in a Senate committee–on a party-line vote. Proof the bill is needed just wasn’t there, Democrats said.

Miranda Aragon (left) and Is Chaker cheer on speakers at rally on CU campus to support ASSET. (Volckhausen)

ASSET bill passes Senate: faces uncertain future in House

By | 04.15.11 | 4:15 pm

After extensive and energetic debate, a bill which would allow undocumented students who attended high school in Colorado access to in-state tuition, passed second hearing in the Senate in a 20-13 vote. The bill passed on party lines.

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Ten legislators abandon controversial Republican Study Committee

By | 03.29.11 | 8:09 pm

Former Colorado Springs Senator Dave Schultheis is no longer holding forth on bills on the Senate floor in Denver, but he has continued to exert influence this year as the powerful force behind the conservative Republican Study Committee of Colorado. Now that influence may be waning. This week, a third of the RSCC flock quit the committee, rejecting the would-be radical-right revival.

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Colorado GOP Wadhams-Harvey feud now spotlighting Harvey finances

By | 03.21.11 | 11:44 am

The feud between outgoing state Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams and state Sen. Ted Harvey, who aims to succeed him, is exploding with revelations about Harvey’s financial history.

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