The latest from the Colorado Republican Party:
GREENWOOD VILLAGE – Colorado Republican State Chairman Dick Wadhams today asked Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman to confirm whether or not he was aware of a threat to candidate Bill Ritter during the 2006 campaign.
The controversial nominee for United States Attorney, Stephanie [...]
Maybe John McCain should focus less on "remaking the party in his image" and a bit more on making sure he still has a job in 2011.
Rasmussen: 2010 Arizona Republican Primary
John McCain 45%
J.D. Hayworth 43%
Chris Simcox 4%
Full text of Penry statement follows:
Dear Friends,
This morning in a small park in Grand Junction I endorsed Scott McInnis to be the next Governor of the State of Colorado.
Experience and new energy are now on the same team, and that's good news for our state, our party, and [...]
The McInnis campaign and other Republican leaders have been working to unify the party in order to take back Colorado from Democrat control. Mike Rosen writes about this in the Denver Post.
The agenda, modeled on the winning reform recipes of Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell in their New Jersey [...]
Worth watching if you plan to wade into the neverending caucus/assembly/primary process beginning in a few short months.
Denver GOP Caucus And Assembly Intro
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The Obama Administration continues its campaign of transparency and competence with their wonderfully transparent web [...]
Adam Schrager reports at 9News that Josh Penry has been carrying on a number of high-level discussion with Scott McInnis and Tom Tancredo in an effort to defuse a potentially destructive gubernatorial battle.
Within the last few days, Penry has attended two meetings with McInnis and potential challenger Tom Tancredo [...]
Immediately after the special elections earlier this month, a nationwide conference call of conservative activists across the country was held. The call was put on by RedState.com founder Erick Erickson and Sen. Jim DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund. Thousands of activists participated and the main agenda was getting feedback on' [...]
State Representative Scott Tipton is entering the race for the 3rd Congressional District joining Martin Beeson and Bob McConnell in the primary to unseat incumbent John Salazar. Rep. Tipton told the Pueblo Chieftain Salazar's support of the health care bill pushed him into the race.
Tipton said [...]
Rep. Scott Tipton has just announced that he intends to run against John Salazar in CD-3. Republicans now have top-tier challengers in CD-4, CD-7, and CD-3 with a clear possibility of taking back all three. The Montrose Daily Press reports:
Tipton, R-Cortez, said he had initially ruled out running against [...]
ABC 7 ran an interesting report on transparency in congressional offices. The news station went around to members of Colorado's congressional delegation and made the seemingly simple request to see detailed expenditure reports. These offices spend quite a bit of taxpayer money and it seems reasonable to see where [...]
As was first reported here, Tom Tancredo is moving forward with plans to run for governor. An exploratory committee is being filed and it appears that Tancredo is actually getting into the race this time.
[...]As Josh Penry prepares to suspend his campaign for Governor, former Congressman Tom Tancredo may be preparing to deny Scott McInnis a clear path to the nomination.
This would not be a move without precedent. Tom Tancredo's gubernatorial intentions were made clear in the months following the 2008 elections when [...]
Josh Penry is set to exit the race for Governor. This will leave Dan Maes and Scott McInnis as the sole remaining GOP candidates. The Washington Post was the first to break the story:
Colorado state Sen. Josh Penry (R) plans to end his gubernatorial campaign and endorse former Rep. [...]
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As I wrote earlier this year, after Californians approved the definition of marriage being between a man and a woman, reporters felt the need to show Focus on the Family’s contributions to the effort. However, all reporters failed to include the Tim Gill [...]
Sen. Dave Schultheis recently announced that he would not be seeking re-election to SD-9 in 2010. As Ben DeGrow reports, conservative Rep. Kent Lambert may be announcing his candidacy for the seat later today.
Lambert will be the de facto nominee if he declares his candidacy. While Schultheis was facing [...]
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There is a saying, “give the people what they want, and they'll come out for it.” It appears the citizens of Douglas County, CO wanted to see Big Labor’s hand' [...]
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Election Day Winners and Losers
What a night! Does anyone else feel excited to be a conservative right now?! Last night’s results mean a lot both here and across the nation, and there were a lot of winners and losers last night. I wanted to take [...]
The good news in local races in Colorado continues to pour in. As of this writing, Katie Witt appears to be poised to win a seat on the Longmont city council.
Right-leaning candidates are faring extremely well tonight in Colorado.
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The New Jersey governor race can now be called for Republican Chris Christie who defeats incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine. Christie has a 6-point lead at this time with the cast majority of votes counted.
The last Republican to win this seat was in 1993 and was a [...]
The Republican Party backed slate of candidates for the Douglas County School Board have taken an early lead and will likely win barring a massive turnaround for their opponents.
John Carson, Dan Gerken, Doug Benevento, and Meghann Silverthorn are all leading in their respective races.
[...]Initial returns from Denver indicate that charter school proponent Mary Seawall is on track to crush union-backed candidate Christopher Scott by at least a 2-1 margin in the Denver Public Schools board at-large race.
Initiative 300, a proposal to increase penalties for driving without a license, appears [...]
Barack Obama made a number of trips to Virginia and New Jersey to help out Democratic gov. candidates Creigh Deeds and Jon Corzine, but exit polling of the races out tonight shows that Obama's trips were a wash with voters in deep-blue New Jersey and may [...]
While polls have only been closed for 25 minutes in Virginia, the margin of Republican Bob McDonnell's lead among early returns and exit polls has already prompted several media outlets to declare him the winner.
Early results show that incumbent Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and the [...]
Two Republican challengers have announced for State Senate District 5. The district is nearly evenly divided between Republican and Democrat voters and is currently held by Gail Schwartz (D).
The challengers announced so far are are former CD-3 candidate Wayne Wolf and Bob Rankin (who has a website compete with an [...]
Election Day Coverage: Tune into RMR this evening for live coverage of local elections in Colorado and the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.
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The McInnis for Governor campaign launched a new version of their website late last night complete with a new layout and a nice count down to Ritter's last day in office. This site's graphics and functionality is much better than the original version [...]
The Chris Christie for Governor campaign in New Jersey needs help making GOTV phone calls in the final 24 hours of the campaign. Sign up at their website, you don't need to be in New Jersey to help this campaign.
This race is coming down to the wire. Incumbent Jon' [...]
The Red Dawn Project is a new initiative to help promote viable, conservative challengers seeking offices currently held by Democrats in Colorado. Candidates will automatically be added as they fulfill basic criteria of holding fiscally conservative views, raising enough funds to demonstrate they are capable of [...]
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The Obama Administration has put up a web site, recovery.gov, to show Colorado citizens what they did with the money spent in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. A walk down memory lane will show that our President claimed [...]
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