GOLDEN – The campaign of 7th Congressional District challenger Joe Coors has reserved $1.8 million in advertising for the fall campaign, a source tracking media buys tells The Colorado Observer. Read more »
GOLDEN – The campaign of 7th Congressional District challenger Joe Coors has reserved $1.8 million in advertising for the fall campaign, a source tracking media buys tells The Colorado Observer. Read more »

The campaign is part of a broader national effort, with AAN spending $1.2 million in 35 U.S. House districts on robocalls, print advertising and direct mail
DENVER — Only weeks after the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare as a constitutional tax increase, the issue is hitting mailboxes, phones and newspapers across Colorado.
Yesterday, the center-right American Action Network announced it was launching a campaign to encourage Colorado Republican Congressmen Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton “to continue fighting to repeal Obamacare and its massive taxes.” Read more »

Miklosi, pictured above, listed payments to his ex-finance director as "salary" in filings with the Federal Election Commission, raising questions about his claim that the former staffer wasn't an employee
DENVER — The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) is undergoing an internal review of its policies after the release of information surrounding a back pay complaint filed against State Rep. Joe Miklosi’s Congressional campaign by the campaign’s former finance director. Read more »
BROOMFIELD — Young Guns has come to Colorado. No, not the movie about Billy the Kid with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. In this case it’s a Colorado version of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) successful candidate support program known as “Young Guns.” Read more »
DENVER – The Joe Coors for Congress campaign is up with their first TV ad of the election cycle, with a humorous introduction to the former Coors Tek CEO using the tag line “I’m not a beer.”
It follows a previous radio ad using the same theme and slogan to familiarize voters with the candidate from the well-known family brand. Read more »

LONGMONT — A fight is brewing over oil and gas development along the Front Range, with the most recent front opening in the city of Longmont; only in Longmont the battle is more over process than policy. Read more »
GOLDEN, CO — In a race most observers didn’t think would be competitive this cycle, Joe Coors Jr continues to prove the skeptics wrong.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced today that the Golden businessman and Republican candidate for Congress had reached “Contender” status in the NRCC’s “Young Guns” program. Read more »
DENVER, CO — A conservative group in Colorado is attempting to push energy to the forefront of the political conversation in a billboard campaign that is drawing cheers and jeers.

Miklosi's former finance director told The Observer that she has filed a complaint against the embattled campaign with the labor department over back pay
DENVER – Democratic state Rep. Joe Miklosi’s Congressional campaign has undergone some major staff changes since he announced his bid in July 2011, including a recent change of campaign managers and the departure of a finance director that resulted in a dispute over pay. Read more »

The fire, which started as a controlled burn by the Colorado Forest Service, led to three deaths and destroyed some two dozen homes
DENVER, CO — Legislative Republicans slammed Governor Hickenlooper’s response to the Lower North Fork Fire as inadequate at a press conference on Tuesday, saying they plan to introduce legislation to set up a commission to help compensate victims of the tragedy. Read more »