Author: Megan Schrader
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Poll: Senate candidates Bennet, Glenn not well-known in Colorado
A recent poll in Colorado’s Senate race indicates Republican challenger Darryl Glenn is six points behind Sen. Michael Bennet, and oddly indicates 42 percent of Colorado voters would be less likely to vote for Hillary Clinton if Gov. John Hickenlooper was her vice presidential running mate. The poll was conducted by Harper Polling, a company…
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Bennet-Glenn campaigns reveal a David and Goliath funding disparity
El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn is a financial underdog in this year’s race for U.S. Senate. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign released his second quarter campaign finance numbers Monday, saying the incumbent Democrat will have about $6 million going into the third quarter. Bennet raised $2.7 million between April 1 and June 30. He…
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Libertarians see Democrat, GOP woes as chance to shine
Loyal Libertarians across the nation hope this could be the year for a speck of gold on an electoral college map that for almost the past five decades has been red for Republicans and blue for Democrats. “To break the stranglehold of the two-party system, it’s going to take a situation where we couldn’t possibly predict,…
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Sen. Cory Gardner, two former rivals join candidate Darryl Glenn on GOP ‘unity tour’
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner threw his support behind Darryl Glenn on Saturday up and down the Front Range as the two Republicans stumped for each other in what was billed as a “unity tour.” “Darryl Glenn understands what it takes to grow this economy. He understands what it takes to share the values of limited…
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Backers abandon Colorado ballot initiative to restrict marijuana potency
Backers of a proposed ballot measure that would have put a number of marijuana regulations in to the Colorado constitution, including strict potency limits, announced Friday they were withdrawing their effort to gather signatures and put the issue on the November ballot. “We simply couldn’t go toe-to-toe with the marijuana moguls who committed tens of millions…
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Colorado GOP Senate candidate Darryl Glenn to conduct unity tour Saturday
Darryl Glenn will be on a unity tour on Saturday with Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, as Glenn works to ramp up his campaign. Glenn, an El Paso County commissioner, won the GOP nomination last month, but now goes into the race against Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet trailing in the polls and in fundraising. “There’s…
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Numerous Colorado ballot questions proposed for November election
A group behind a proposed $315 million increase in tobacco taxes launched its campaign on Wednesday to gather 98,492 valid signatures in the next month and get the tax increase before voters on the November ballot. The Campaign for a Healthy Colorado isn’t alone in this eleventh-hour blitz to gather signatures. Records indicate as many…
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Glenn talks race, Christian conservatism before summit crowd
El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn spoke to several thousand people at the Western Conservative Summit Saturday night. Glenn is riding a whirlwind tour following his victory in the GOP primary to become the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate. Last year he had a booth at the convention but was not a main-stage speaker. At…
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Trump tells Denver crowd he will win Colorado, presidency
DENVER – Donald Trump said Friday that he would build a wall, but he also boasted about how well he does with evangelicals and how well he’ll do in Colorado without a “rigged” caucus system in place for the presidential election. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was talking to about 3,000 of the West’s most…
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Colorado Springs’ Darryl Glenn has big day at summit – without being on stage
DENVER – Darryl Glenn, Colorado’s Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, wasn’t on stage at the Western Conservative Summit on Friday, but he had a big day anyway. Sarah Palin, the one-time vice presidential candidate, praised Glenn in front of thousands at the Denver Convention Center moments before she introduced the presumptive GOP presidential pick Donald…