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Colorado lawmakers pushing hard for bipartisan reform in Congress

By | 01.28.11 | 9:10 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Maybe it’s something in the water, but Colorado lawmakers are increasingly leading the charge on the wave of bipartisanship that’s sweeping Washington. Whether it will continue – or result in any substantial change in what many deem a badly broken system – remains to be seen.

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to speak at Colorado Dems Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner

By | 01.14.11 | 11:21 am

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will speak at the Colorado Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on March 5. Gov. Patrick — who won re-election last November despite so-so approval ratings and being seen as all but dead after Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s surprise win in January — is More…

As Conservative Groups Release New Campaign Ads, Watchdog Groups Ask IRS to Investigate

By | 10.05.10 | 2:16 pm

Two groups conceived by Karl Rove and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie have new independent expenditure ads today in two U.S. Senate races, opposing Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and supporting Florida candidate Marco Rubio (R). The ads appear as campaign finance watchdog organizations wrote a letter to the IRS More…

Reports: Kennedy, Bennet Top Picks for Vacant Senate Seats

By | 01.02.09 | 2:31 pm

The successors to the two remaining Senate seats that opened up when President-elect Barack Obama tapped their current occupants for cabinet positions — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s seat in New York and that of Sen. Ken Salazar in Colorado — could be named shortly, according to news reports.