‘You can pick up the phone and fix it’: Sonnenberg inspired to remain Eastern Plains commissioner
The phone rang Tuesday at almost dusk at Lauren Boebert’s Victory Headquarters. On the other end of the line was Jerry Sonnenberg.
The phone rang Tuesday at almost dusk at Lauren Boebert’s Victory Headquarters. On the other end of the line was Jerry Sonnenberg.
A brief heated exchange between Deborah Flora and Richard Holtorf highlighted what otherwise was a 4th District congressional debate which seemed to center on everything but those appearing on stage Saturday during the Republican Rumble here at the Grizzly Rose.
It is a largely rural area of Colorado, where cattle outnumber voters and where Donald Trump won by an 18.6% margin in his second bid for the presidency in 2020.
BURLINGTON — A handful of candidates vying to become Eastern Colorado’s next representative to Congress didn’t make one of the state’s bright, bright red counties a destination here Friday for the Kit Carson County Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner.
Jerry Sonnenberg, who served 16 years in the Colorado legislature and most recently as a county commissioner, has qualified for the Republican primary ballot in the crowded 4th District field for Congress.
PUEBLO — A week that began with an unexpected surgery ended with a pleaseant result for Lauren Boebert.
PUEBLO — It was an early Friday morning and a long day here for some residents of Eastern Colorado.
HUGO — Greg Lopez, who many years ago at age 27 became the mayor of Parker, was the last man standing here Thursday, as for the first time in 41 years Republicans’ Congressional Vacancy Committee met to nominate a single candidate in a special Congressional election.
A smaller collection of Republican candidates vying for the 4th District seat in the U.S. House offered potential delegates and voters an opportunity to get into more detail Wednesday here during the Douglas County Republican Women’s forum.