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Penry reportedly dropping out of governor’s race

Reports surfacing in the last hour suggest State Sen. Josh Penry is set to announce he will be ending his campaign to unseat Gov. Bill Ritter. Penry campaign spokesman Andrew Cole did not confirm reports. Although Penry jumped into the campaign strongly this summer, winning "rising star" status from popular Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza, he has recently struggled.

Mike Britt file: Bad-acting Penry manager casts shadow on campaign

Josh Penry's gubernatorial campaign manager Mike Britt has been playing on the edges of the law again in the world of email. This time...

Penry email strategy garners increased scrutiny

Building from reports last month on a possible breach of campaign-finance regulations, Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a Colorado Opens Record Act request to determine whether the government-funded Colorado Senate Minority Office provided the gubernatorial campaign of Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) with email contact lists. Colorado law prohibits state agencies from providing contributions to a campaign. Ethics Watch contends the email lists are valuable and would amount to a campaign contribution.

Penry’s health-reform distortions mock Grand Junction Sentinel readers

Sen. Minority Leader and candidate for governor Josh Penry wrote an editorial for the Grand Junction Sentinel last Thursday in advance of the health-care...

News Nuggets, 14 Augut 2009: Penry’s Karl Rove

Dug up fresh, daily. MINI KARL: Senate Minority Leader and gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry has pitched himself as a new kind of Republican, one seeking...