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Coors Campaign Reserves $1.8 Million in Advertising For Fall

August 16, 2012
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Joe Coors is challenging incumbent Democrat Ed Perlmutter, who is running for his fourth term

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 »

Campaign to Repeal ObamaCare Steps Up Colorado Effort

July 10, 2012
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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 Back Pay Complaint Prompts Internal Review at Labor Department

June 5, 2012
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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 »

GOP Steps Up Efforts in Campaign for State Legislature

June 4, 2012
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Jesse Varner / Foter

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 »

Coors Campaign Launches Positive TV Ad

May 29, 2012
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Coors is challenging the three-term Democrat incumbent Ed Perlmutter for Congress

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 »

State, Local Officials Clash Over Energy Development

May 21, 2012
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Longmont City Councilman Brian Bagley is at the center of a controversy over energy development in Coloradomacdoogal / Foter

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 »

Coors Makes Contender Status With NRCC

May 17, 2012
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Coors, a businessman, is challenging incumbent Democrat Ed Perlmutter

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 »

Hard Hitting Billboards Feature Democrats, Iranian Dictator

May 10, 2012
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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.

The aggressive 28 billboard campaign is not Compass Colorado's first

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Staff Changes, Pay Dispute Roil Miklosi Campaign

May 7, 2012
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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 »

GOP Blasts Hickenlooper On Lower North Fork Fire Response

April 25, 2012
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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 »

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