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Littwin: Pure primary gold

  FIRST Mecca. Now the White House. Tom Tancredo, the self-admitted bomb thrower, is running for governor of Colorado by going all incendiary on Barack Obama,...

Littwin: Winning the coveted Cliven Bundy vote

  If Cliven Bundy is feeling abandoned, he should come to Colorado. If he's looking for someone who is apparently not all that appalled by his...

Littwin: Governor’s race ‘frontrunner’ follies

It has not been a good few days for Scott Gessler and Tom Tancredo, the Debate Dodging Duo and alleged frontrunners for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.

Rumor: Mike Kopp entered governor’s race this morning

Mike Kopp enters the GOP primary race for governor. Two questions: Who is he and why is h running?

Environmentalists blast Colorado’s new drilling task force as Trojan horse

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's intervention in the debate over whether the state or local jurisdictions should regulate oil and gas drilling is rankling environmentalists who, two days earlier, called him out for making misleading statements on groundwater contamination.

Arizona guv Brewer stumbles on air; Coloradans think ‘Maes’

Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes is a regular guy candidate backed by the tea party, which has no appetite for career politicians and...

Independent Jason R. Clark woos GOP voters in wake of McInnis...

In the wake of the over-the-top plagiarism scandal that is likely to sink the Republican gubernatorial candidacy of former Congressman Scott McInnis and in...

McInnis paid $300,000 by Hasan family for odd water research project

Over the weekend, the Hasan Family Foundation posted a series of articles on its website called “Musings on Water” authored by GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis. These are some of the articles the six-term congressman authored for a hefty $300,000 from the prominent Colorado conservative donor Hasan family for work to be completed in 2005 and 2006. It's a gig that would make even the few non-struggling writers in the state green with envy.

Maes tops McInnis for governor among GOP delegates

LOVELAND-- Both major Republican candidates for governor will be on the August primary ballot. Dan Maes edged out Scott McInnis 1741-1725, taking 49.35 percent of the vote. “Wow,” Maes said after hearing the vote announced. “This is about you. This is about the people standing up and making their voices heard, telling us what is important, telling us what you want from government and not the other way around. We are just getting warmed up,” he told the few hundred people who stayed to the end of the assembly at the Budweiser Event Center here.

Maes: Campaign finance irregularities reflect payment for early expenses

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes Monday said all of his campaign expenses are absolutely legitimate. Referring to a complaint filed against his campaign by a Republican activist from Grand Junction, he said, “It is frivolous and it needs to go away.” Maes said the reason his campaign has paid him $33,135 in mileage reimbursement since October is because when he began campaigning in March, 2009, he paid for most of his mileage out of pocket because the campaign had very little money.