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Boebert’s Permissive Attitude Towards Teen Pregnancy Raises Concerns for Voters in Both CD3 and CD4
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Boebert’s Permissive Attitude Towards Teen Pregnancy Raises Concerns for Voters in Both CD3 and CD4

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM Colorado Representative and now carpetbagger Lauren Boebert's recent comments about teen pregnancy and her own experiences with contraception have sparked controversy and raised questions about her permissive attitude towards this issue. Both have drawn criticism from conservatives who believe in promoting responsible behavior and traditional family values. During a House Oversight Committee hearing in May 2023, Boebert shared a personal story about the conception of her third son. She revealed that she couldn't afford her birth control prescription and decided to forgo it, leading to her unintended third pregnancy. https://www.youtube.com/embed/lvJGyRd0EJA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 May 23, 2023 "My staff is probably going to talk to me about...
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Trump campaign names former legislator Justin Everett as Colorado state director
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Trump campaign names former legislator Justin Everett as Colorado state director

By Ernest Luning | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Donald Trump's presidential campaign has hired former state Rep. Justin Everett as its Colorado state director, the Colorado Republican Party announced Friday, The move comes less than a month before mail ballots are set to go out for Colorado's March 5 presidential primary, where Trump is set to face three other Republicans in a vote to determine how the state GOP will apportion delegates to the Republican National Convention. On Sunday, the state Republican central committee formally endorsed Trump in an unprecedented break from the party's longstanding practice of staying neutral in primaries. After representing a Jefferson County house district for three terms, from 2013-2019, Everett lost a primary for state treasurer ...
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A lot of people want to run for office in Colorado this year. Here’s what it takes to actually get on the ballot.
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A lot of people want to run for office in Colorado this year. Here’s what it takes to actually get on the ballot.

By Sandra Fish, Colorado Sun The 2024 general election is less than 11 months away and a wave of candidates are filing paperwork to run in Colorado’s eight congressional districts, 16 state Senate districts and 65 House districts. But jumping into a race doesn’t guarantee someone a spot on the ballot for the June 25 primary, let alone the Nov. 5 general election. Candidates must spend big money to qualify for the contest, or they can try to pick up enough support from members of their political party through what’s called the caucus and assembly process. The mad dash to make the ballot is underway, as the primary ballot must be set by April 26.  READ FULL ARTICLE ON COLORADOSUN.COM
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Former President Trump Challenges Supreme Court Decision in Colorado Ballot Case, Warns of ‘Chaos and Bedlam’
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Former President Trump Challenges Supreme Court Decision in Colorado Ballot Case, Warns of ‘Chaos and Bedlam’

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM Former President Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Thursday, challenging a decision by Colorado's highest court to remove him from the state's 2024 ballot. Trump urged the justices to swiftly and decisively end efforts to disqualify him from the presidential ballot in Colorado. Trump argues that these efforts not only threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans but also have the potential to unleash ‘chaos and bedlam’ across the nation. In his main filing to the court ahead of the oral arguments on February 8, Trump seeks to overturn a bombshell decision by a Colorado court that could keep him off the state's ballot due to his alleged connection to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Despite the upcoming argu...
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Tim Scott will endorse Donald Trump in blow to Nikki Haley
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Tim Scott will endorse Donald Trump in blow to Nikki Haley

By Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) will endorse former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Friday in a blow to his fellow South Carolinian, former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Scott, who ended his own presidential bid in the fall, plans to endorse Trump at a rally in New Hampshire, just days before the state's first-in-the-nation primary, a source familiar confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The choice to back Trump rather than Haley is particularly significant, given Haley and Scott's history. When Haley was governor of South Carolina, she appointed Scott to the Senate in 2012 to replace former Sen. Jim DeMint. READ FULL ARTICLE ON GAZETTE.COM
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Colorado’s Flawed Vacancy Committee System Raises Concerns Over Representation As Democrats Choose New Representative For HD31 By Just 9 Votes
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Colorado’s Flawed Vacancy Committee System Raises Concerns Over Representation As Democrats Choose New Representative For HD31 By Just 9 Votes

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM Once again showing the flaws in Colorado's vacancy committee system, former Thornton City Council member Julia Marvin has been chosen to represent Colorado House District 31 by just nine votes. This Thursday night tiny election highlights the undemocratic nature of a system that allows just a few political party insiders to handpick a representative for hundreds of thousands of Coloradans. Colorado State House Representative-select Julia Marvin Marvin, who currently serves on the Thornton City Council, won with a 9-7 vote over Jacque Phillips. The decision by just nine votes that she will now “represent” such a large district demonstrates the flaws in Colorado’s vacancy committee system. Marvin is the 29th member of the current Legislature initial...
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Trump urges US Supreme Court to reverse Colorado ballot disqualification
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Trump urges US Supreme Court to reverse Colorado ballot disqualification

By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyers urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a judicial decision disqualifying the former president from Colorado's Republican primary ballot as the justices prepare to tackle the politically explosive case. Trump's lawyers in court papers presented the former U.S. president's main arguments against a Colorado Supreme Court Dec. 19 ruling barring him from the primary ballot over his actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The justices have scheduled oral arguments in the case for Feb. 8. Trump's lawyers urged the court to "put a swift and decisive end to these ballot-disqualification efforts," noting that similar...
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Socialist Democrats endorse radical muppet for Colo state House
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Socialist Democrats endorse radical muppet for Colo state House

SOURCE: COLORADO PEAK POLITICS The Denver chapter of socialist Democrats has endorsed Tim Hernandez, the poster child of misplaced radicalism, to represent the city’s fourth district in the state House. Hernandez was appointed by Democrat Party bosses through a vacancy committee recently to fill the term through November 2024, after Democratic state Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierre abandoned her seat midterm to run for Denver City Council. That’s how Democrats are subverting democracy these days, through the vacancy committee process, whereby they appoint favored Democrats to expired terms and as a bonus they block Republicans from competing. But we digress. The Democrat Socialists of America announced its endorsement this week, citing Hernandez’s frontline struggle against rac...
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McConnell joins 45 GOP senators backing Trump in Colorado ballot fight
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McConnell joins 45 GOP senators backing Trump in Colorado ballot fight

By Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE The fate of former President Donald Trump's primary ballot access in Colorado got a boost Thursday from 46 Republican senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), calling on the Supreme Court to keep him on the ballot. More than two dozen amicus briefs have been filed to the public docket for the Supreme Court case over whether Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2024 presidential election, is disqualified from appearing on the Centennial State's primary ballot under a 14th Amendment provision barring anyone who engaged in insurrection from holding office again. In the latest brief, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), 177 Rep...
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Adams County Democrats to pick successor to former Rep. Said Sharbini
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Adams County Democrats to pick successor to former Rep. Said Sharbini

By Marianne Goodland | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS A Democratic Adams County House District 31 vacancy committee will meet Thursday evening to choose a successor to Rep. Said Sharbini, D-Adams County. Sharbini, who served one year in the House after being elected to his first term in 2022, resigned in December, citing financial pressures and the toxic environment of the state House. The vacancy committee will meet at 5:45 p.m. for a candidates' forum and then at 6:30 p.m. for the election. The election is expected to conclude by 7 p.m. due to other party business on the agenda. There are at least two candidates in the running: Julia Marvin and Jacqueline Phillips. Both have filed to run for the seat in the 2024 primary election. READ FULL ARTICLE ON COLORADOPOLITICS....
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