Colorado Gop

Colo. GOP Says Hickenlooper Has To 'Catch Up'

Posted 04.25.2012

On Tuesday Colorado's House Republican Representatives announced their plans to introduce a bill that has some Democrats wondering if it's a partisan ...

Colorado Rocky For Republicans In 2012

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 02.06.2012

DENVER -- Note to Republican presidential contenders: Colorado's political terrain is as rocky as its mountains. Once solidly Republican, the state t...

Why It's Difficult for Minorities to Return to the Republican Party

DeeDee Garcia Blase | Posted 02.10.2012

DeeDee Garcia Blase

I appreciate and know that Lenny is being well-intentioned when he asked me to come back to the Party. However, it struck a nerve.

Colorado Supreme Court Sides With Democrats' Map

Posted 12.05.2011

The Colorado Supreme Court heard arguments from Republicans Thursday challenging the November decision by District Court Judge Robert Hyatt who select...

Colorado GOP Likely To Shift 2012 Caucus Date

AP | Posted 11.24.2011

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A plan by Colorado Republicans to move up their 2012 presidential caucuses to the day after the Iowa caucus has won fi...

Perry's McInnis Endorsement Resurfaces Amid Strong Polling

Posted 10.16.2011

Texas Governor Rick Perry only announced his candidacy for U.S. President this past weekend, but his presence is already making waves. A Public Polic...

How Not to Pick Aurora's Mayor

Jessica Peck | Posted 09.19.2011

Jessica Peck

While the race for mayor of Aurora is basically among various flavors of Republicans, including one convert to the party and one defector from it, the race is not your father's GOP primary.

Is The Colorado GOP Starting To Eat Its Young?

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 09.10.2011

A mid-June article in the Colorado Springs Independent focused a magnifying glass on the Colorado GOP, specifically cluing in on El Paso County's old ...

Colorado GOP's Young Guns Threaten Establishment

Colorado Springs Independent | Chet Hardin | Posted 08.27.2011

Sarah Anderson is peculiar. For one thing, she's a Republican. At 22, that makes her a statistical anomaly, even in El Paso County. She spent her for...

Karl Rove Energizes GOP In Denver, Colo. Springs

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 08.02.2011

Former Bush administration strategist, Karl Rove, spoke to Colorado Republicans at a fundraiser in Denver at the Brown Palace Hotel and the annual Lin...

Colo. Rep. Tipton Apologizes For Daughter's Emails

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 07.27.2011

DENVER -- Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton has written a letter of apology to House ethics officers for emails his daughter sent trying to drum up busi...

Do Independent Voters Agree That Obama Thinks America Is Worse Than Iran?

Jason Salzman | Posted 07.20.2011

Jason Salzman

Caplis and Silverman were

Ryan Call Elected New Leader Of Colorado GOP

The Denver Post | Lynn Bartels | Posted 05.26.2011

CASTLE ROCK -- Republicans today elected Ryan Call as the new chairman of the state party, giving him a runaway victory that required only one round o...

Tea Party Activist To Run For Colorado GOP Chair

KDVR | Eli Stokols | Posted 05.25.2011

DENVER -- Matt Arnold, who led last year's effort to "Clear the Bench" of Democratic judges, is planning to run for chairman of the Colorado Republica...

GOP House Speaker Accused Of 'RINO' Behavior

Colorado Statesman | Ernest Luning | Posted 05.25.2011

The eyes of the conservative movement were on a gathering of several hundred Republicans at the fairgrounds in Castle Rock on Feb. 10. And when it c...

Race For Colorado GOP Party Chair Poised To Break Open

The Colorado Statesman | Ernest Luning | Posted 05.25.2011

The race for Colorado Republican Party chair was upended this week by two-term Chairman Dick Wadhams' unexpected withdrawal but the dust might not hav...

Colorado GOP Immigration Meeting Featured Radical Right Groups With White Supremacist Ties

The Colorado Independent | Scot Kersgaard | Posted 05.25.2011

Republican legislators Monday hosted an informational meeting to discuss immigration in Colorado, but the Colorado Independent has learned two of the ...

Arizona-Style Immigration Bill Introduced In Colorado Legislature

Posted 05.25.2011

Colorado Republican lawmakers introduced this week a piece of legislation inspired by Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law. SB 54, introdu...

Tancredo Returning To GOP; No Guarantee He'll Be Welcomed

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 05.25.2011

DENVER — Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo, who quit the party last year to run as a third-party candidate for Colorado governor, has r...

Wadhams Will Seek Third Tem

Posted 05.25.2011

Colorado Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams will seek a third term as leader of the state party, he announced Tuesday in an email to supporters. W...

Colorado's Tea Party Groups Look To Improve Vetting:

The Denver Post | Allison Sherry | Posted 05.25.2011

Smarting from losses in two of the state's largest races, Colorado's Tea Party and grassroots groups are already in regroup mode. In 2012, they pla...

Former Republican Congressional Candidate: 'The GOP No Longer Represents Me'

The Denver Post | Lynn Bartels | Posted 05.25.2011

Bob McConnell, who lost his congressional primary and then his bid to be appointed to a vacant Senate seat, has left the Republican Party....

Colorado GOP Moves To The Right With Senate Leadership Selections

Senate GOP leadership takes two steps to the Right | Jessica Fender | Posted 05.25.2011

Senate Republicans took a few steps to the ideological right in their leadership elections Thursday and celebrated an election that left the GOP with ...

GOP Deflecting Accusations That It's Capitulating On Drilling Regs

The Aspen Times | Steven K. Paulson | Posted 05.25.2011

DENVER -- Colorado Republicans who vowed to reverse oil and gas regulations that they claimed were strangling the industry and driving jobs out of sta...

Colorado Republicans Ignore Democrats' Budget Question

The Pueblo Chieftain | PATRICK MALONE | Posted 05.25.2011

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