Tag: Sal Pace

State Representative Sal Pace, D-Pueblo, announced today that he will step down as the Democratic leader of the Colorado State House.

A nonpartisan watchdog group is blowing the whistle on U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and others in Congress who consistently advocate for tax breaks, subsidies and other giveaways to oil and gas companies.

Oil and gas money is greasing the wheels of U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton's reelection campaign, which more than doubled its fundraising bounty for the quarter that just ended, public records show.

Sal Pace, the Democratic candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, on Thursday announced that his campaign has raised $165,000 during the most recent fundraising quarter that concluded at the end of September.

Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch don't often see eye to eye with youngest brother Bill. On at least two things, though, they share common ground: A love for Colorado and an eagerness to fund Rep. Scott Tipton's campaigns.

The environment's relationship to the economy is a key theme for Sal Pace, minority leader in the Colorado House, as he challenges incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton for a seat in Congress. He says Tipton misses the connection.

It must be opposite day. Republicans, many of whom have pledged to not even consider any plan that raises taxes, are clamoring to raise the payroll tax. Democrats, many of whom have said the country can't be serious about cutting the deficit if taxes can't be raised, are fighting tooth and nail to keep this year's payroll tax reduction in place for at least one more year.

As Speaker of the House John Boehner prepares for a weekend fundraiser for Rep. Scott Tipton in Aspen, Tipton's Democratic challenger went on the offensive Tuesday, saying he's had it with a Republican Congress that publicly rails against any and all taxes while quietly working to end a small tax reduction enjoyed by workers for the past year.

It's that time of the election cycle again. Fundraising winners and losers are starting to separate from the pack. One Colorado congressman, Scott Tipton, seems to be drawing the wrong kind of attention, as The Washington Post Sunday named him as one of the quarter's losers, raising only about half what fellow Colorado freshman Cory Gardner raised.

Gov. John Hickenlooper announced today that Rep. Jim Riesberg, D-Greeley, will be the state’s new Commissioner of Insurance. Riesberg will resign his House seat on June 30 and start work on July 1.