Tag: Americans for Prosperity

Another outside group steps into Colorado's hot U.S. Senate race featuring Sen. Mark Udall and Rep. Cory Gardner.

Candidate fundraising will be only part of the picture, with outside groups expected to spend tens of millions on Colorado's competitive U.S. Senate race.

The Democratic ad buy is at least $112,000; it means total Colorado TV ad purchases this month probably top $1 million.

It was just one more skirmish in the war over education policy being waged in the state, where clashes now seem to come at a regular clip.

DENVER -- Conservative political groups hosted a training session at the on Tuesday night for citizens looking to testify on legislation at the Capitol this year.

It was a clean sweep for the public education "reform" movement in Colorado this week, as market-based school-choice candidates prevailed in the Denver and Douglas Counties school board races being watched by education wonks around the nation.

A court ruling in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening may put a stop to the epidemic of secret donors who bankroll political groups that now fill the airwaves with vague and often specious election campaign ads.

He isn't the fifth Beatle. But Herman Cain just may be the fifth Koch brother. The former Godfather's Pizza CEO received a rock star ovation at an Americans for Prosperity summit in Washington, D.C., on Friday night when he declared he feels a deep kinship with the Koch brothers.

A radio version of The Colorado Independent's story Monday on the Koch brothers influence in environmental politics has now been aired on more than 400 radio stations in more than 30 states. The radio story was produced by Kathleen Ryan for Public News Service.

LONGMONT-- The right and left protesters and counter-protesters gathered here off a sprawling suburban four-lane road and around a wall-less field house at the Boulder County Fairgrounds agreed on at least two things: that the group hosting the gathering, Americans for Prosperity, is suffering an image problem and that government subsidies to oil and gas companies have got to end.