With a 33-32 majority in the Colorado House, Republicans gained more than a one-vote advantage on floor votes. Victory in the election earned the GOP a room with a view, an increased staff budget and other perks, The Pueblo Chieftain reports.
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Legislative Majority More Than Just A Number
Posted on 22 November 2010.
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Post: Curry Concedes HD-61 Race To Wilson
Posted on 17 November 2010.
Democrat Roger Wilson this afternoon claimed victory in the race for the five-county House District 61 race against incumbent Rep. Kathleen Curry.
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See You Tonight At Capitol Rock!
Posted on 17 November 2010.
Help put the party back in party politics.
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JBC Names Hodge As New Chair, Succeeding Ferrandino
Posted on 10 November 2010.
A Joint Budget Committee evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats settled on Sen. Mary Hodge, D-Brighton, as its chair for the 2011 legislative session.
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McNulty Names Committee Chairs For New GOP House Majority
Posted on 09 November 2010.
Incoming House speaker Frank McNulty has picked committee chairs for a newly GOP-controlled House of Representatives.
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GOP’s Frank McNulty Leading House In Split Legislature
Posted on 08 November 2010.
Frank McNulty was cheered by collegues who had helped him orchestrate the Republicans’ successful bid to regain a majority–albeit by only one vote.
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Legislation Pending To Head Off Air Force Flyovers
Posted on 29 October 2010.
Proposed military-training flyovers in southern Colorado could face a legislative challenge this January should the Air Force move forward with its plans, says a southern Colorado lawmaker.
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Colo. Senate GOP Makes Pitch For Transparency, Trust
Posted on 28 October 2010.
Trust in government is at an historic low, minority Senate Republicans said today, and, they say, they have a plan to restore that trust—through amplifying accountability and transparency in government.
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Another Ritter Budget Balancing Act
Posted on 25 October 2010.
Republicans have maintained that the Democrat governor is not cutting enough from the budget, but Ritter points out that the Democrat-controlled Legislature has cut more than $4.3 billion from the budget over the past three fiscal years, including a $260 million cut to public schools in the current fiscal year.
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Denver Credit Union Strips Facebook Page Of Campaign Barbs
Posted on 21 October 2010.
A Denver credit union, Bellco, has removed from its Facebook wall pages of negative customer comments criticizing the company for spending $50,000 to attack incumbent Rep. Joe Rice, a Democrat, in his race against Republican Kathleen Conti.
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