Associated PressIvan MorenoJune 24, 2014 DENVER - Republican voters on Tuesday opted for U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in November, pinning their hopes to end a long electoral drought in Colorado on a candidate who lost his previous gubernatorial bid by 17 points.Beauprez, a buffalo rancher who grew up working

The Colorado ObserverValerie Richardson June 10, 2014 DENVER — The same Democratic group that picked up the tab last year for Gov. John Hickenlooper at an Aspen conference is reportedly now running campaign ads on his behalf, but members of the state’s ethics commission say that’s not a problem. The Independent Ethics Commission agreed Monday

Law Week ColoradoJune 10, 2014 Compass Colorado’s legal team filed a motion to supplement the record in the ethics complaint it filed in 2013 against Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper on Monday. In April, the Independent Ethics Commission voted to dismiss Compass Colorado’s complaint against Hickenlooper, but the IEC has not yet issued its order formalizing

5280 Eli StokolsJune 2014 A trio of fratty-looking bros doing a keg stand was probably the last thing you’d have expected to see in an advertisement highlighting the Affordable Care Act’s benefits on the eve of its rollout last year. That is, unless you knew the ad was the work of ProgressNow Colorado, which has been jolting

The Denver PostLynn BartelsMay 7, 2014 Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper crushed his GOP gubernatorial opponents in fundraising for the first four months of this year, outraising all four of them combined. In addition, Hickenlooper has $1.6 million on hand for his re-election campaign, while the Republicans appear to be short of funds to win the

The Daily CallerGreg CampbellApril 1, 2014 An ethics investigation opened into Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is accused of wrongly allowing the Democratic Governor’s Association to pay for his expenses at a conference in Aspen last year.Conservative group Compass Colorado filed the complaint with the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission last year, alleging that by allowing

Valerie RichardsonThe Colorado ObserverApril 1, 2014 DENVER—Those who suspect the Independent Ethics Commission of harboring a pro-Democrat bias probably didn’t change their minds at Monday’s hearing on the complaint filed against Gov. John Hickenlooper. Lawyers for Compass Colorado, the conservative group that filed the ethics complaint, were surprised to learn that the Democratic governor’s legal

Lynn BartelsThe Denver PostMarch 20, 2013Republicans had a field day today with news that U.S. Sen. Mark Udall’s campaign was hit with a tax lien for failing to pay unemployment insurance to the state of Colorado.The Denver Business Journal reported that Mark Udall for Colorado Inc. owed $458. The lien was filed on Feb. 4,

Mark HardenDenver Business JournalMarch 7, 2013A lawsuit seeking to overturn Colorado's restrictions on spending and taxation in the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights can go forward and be tried on the merits of the case, the Denver-based U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.The appeals court upheld a 2012 ruling by U.S. District Judge William Martinez that the 33