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Stapleton has injected more than $200,000 into his own campaign
Walker Stapleton, a member of the Bush family and the Republican nominee for Colorado Treasurer, has now given his own campaign cash and in-kind...
Tancredo outraises Maes 4-1; RGA done giving GOP pick money
Democratic candidate for governor John Hickenlooper continues to rake in the cash, bringing in more in August than his two opponents combined.
Meanwhile, American Constitution...
GOP heat is on to get Maes out of gov’s race...
Will GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes step down? Pressure is mounting. Wednesday former U.S. Sen. Hank Brown withdrew his endorsement of Maes.
At the same...
Top Colorado primary race results may be hazy for weeks
** Updated below with new numbers
The hot primary contests for U.S. Senate pitting Michael Bennet against Andrew Romanoff on the Democratic side and Ken...
Buescher: GOP criticism on MOVE Act military voting ignores reality
Secretary of State Bernie Buescher Monday night told the Colorado Independent he was way ahead of his Republican critics on what needed to happen in Colorado to comply with a new federal law dictating the speed of mailing overseas ballots to members of the military, but lawmakers dragged their feet because of election-year politics.
Constitution Party yet to designate Tancredo as guv candidate
As of today, the American Constitution Party has no candidate for governor in Colorado. Original nominee Ben Goss filed a notice to withdraw from...
New scam takes advantage of Secretary of State’s business filing system
DENVER - Secretary of State Bernie Buescher and Attorney General John Suthers Thursday announced they're teaming up fight a new form of impersonation: business identity theft. Both officials explained the decade-old Secretary of State's business filing system, which has no password or PIN protections, has been exploited criminals changing contact names of at least 25 companies in Colorado, allowing the perpetrators to create and use those companies' lines of credit and steal more than $750,000.
Buescher issues statement on GOP gubernatorial primary
DENVER - Secretary of State Bernie Buescher Thursday issued a statement in response to "speculation related to the gubernatorial candidates running in the Republican...
Dems watching GOP elite to make sure Maes is the man
Despite claims by Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis on his facebook page that he's staying in the race in the wake of plagiarism allegations,...
Ethics Watch: SOS staffers gave bad advice to Clear the Bench
Clear the Bench, a group campaigning to replace Colorado Supreme Court Justices, took what looks like bad advice from Secretary of State staffers last spring when it decided to file with the state as an issue committee rather than as a political action committee. The distinction may sound esoteric but it's exactly the distinction Colorado citizens voted into place in 2004 with Amendment 27 because they believed it could head off the kind of corruption that can swing legal rulings that affect everyday issues-- the safety of drinking water, for example, the outlines of labor rights, the frequency of tax hikes.