Horses are iconic in Colorado. In reality, many older horses are abandoned or sold to slaughterhouses. @COHorseRescue saves horses and finds them loving homes. #HeyNext viewers have raised $40,000 to help. I'll match the next fifty $5 donations here: chr.org/word-of-thanks/
@CoHorseRescue Colorado Horse Rescue's goal is the best outcome for each horse with no judgment for the former owner. Two-thirds of the horses they take in are surrendered, the other one-third are saved from kill buyers at auction.
@CoHorseRescue As Colorado Horse Rescue notes, Coloradans don't euthanize dogs that are too old to hike with their owners, but some horses are discarded because they are no longer rideable. CHR works to find owners willing to take in those companion horses.
@CoHorseRescue Whimsy was a 20 year old mare rescued from a livestock auction last year. She began gaining weight at Colorado Horse Rescue and it was soon clear she was pregnant. Her foal, Flower, was born in April. CHR will help both find homes.
@CoHorseRescue Coloradans famously love animals. It's why shelter pets from other states come here. Most financial support for animal non-profits helps dogs and cats. This week's Word of Thanks microgiving campaign is extending that support to @CoHorseRescue. chr.org/word-of-thanks/
@CoHorseRescue Your Word of Thanks microgiving is a force for good in our state. Through 102 weekly campaigns, you've now raised $9,039,028 to support non-profits across our state. Have an idea of who could use our help next? Please DM me or email next@9news.com. 9news.com/article/news/l…
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UPDATE: GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Lopez said Denver is “taking away the popular vote” of rural counties in his first comments since 9News outlined Lopez’s plan to eliminate one-person one-vote in Colorado’s statewide elections. #copolitics
Lopez spoke Thursday on the KNUS talk radio show of former AG candidate @GeorgeBrauchler. In 2019, Brauchler suggested a similar electoral college type system for the Colorado Senate, which would have given Republicans a significant advantage.
“Denver is taking away the popular vote of La Plata County, Montezuma County, of other counties,” Lopez said. “One neighborhood in one suburb of Denver will outvote the voices of rural Colorado, say, La Junta. And those people are like, where are my voices?”
NEW: Republican candidate for Colorado Governor @LopezforCO proposes eliminating one-person one-vote for statewide elections. Lopez's plan for a state-level electoral college system would heavily favor Republicans. 9news.com/article/news/l…#cogov#copolitics
Lopez outlined his proposal to scrap the popular vote during a May 15 campaign stop in rural San Juan County. Lopez said counties should be allotted electoral votes based on turnout percentage, which would concentrate electoral power in small, rural counties.
The Lopez campaign did not answer questions about the details of his electoral college proposal. In 2018, @GovofCO Polis defeated @WalkerStapleton by 10%+. Our analysis indicates Lopez's plan would have created a +28 pt shift to Republicans. Stapleton would have won by 18%.
UPDATE: @washingtonpost reports today that Colorado’s Joe Oltmann had a high-level State Department meeting with a Trump-appointed assistant Secretary of State on Jan 6, the day of the Capitol insurrection. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…#copolitics
WaPo: “The meeting came as Trump’s allies were pressing theories that election machines had been hacked by foreign powers and were angling for Trump to employ the vast powers of the national security establishment to seize voting machines or even rerun the election.”
Oltmann had previously claimed he had high level State Department access on the day of the attempted coup but this is the first time I’ve seen it confirmed from inside the Trump State Department.
NEW: A win in court for Eric Coomer of Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems. A judge ruled Coomer's wide-ranging defamation suit can proceed against right-wing figures who claimed without evidence that Coomer rigged the 2020 election. First by @BenteBirkeland. 🧵#copolitics
The claim that Dominion worked with Antifa to rig the election against President Donald Trump appears to have started with Joe Oltmann, a conservative businessman and activist who still holds sway in the Colorado Republican Party.
Oltmann has suggested his political enemies should be hung for treason, including @GovofCO Polis, specific US Senators, and journalists. Oltmann was recently nominated for Governor at the @ColoGOP state assembly by State Rep @PatrickForCO. Oltmann declined the nomination.
NEW: Tonight is the only time the three Republican candidates for Colorado Secretary of State are expected to appear together. I'll thread highlights from Tina Peters, Pam Anderson, and Mike O'Donnell at the Foothills Republican Forum. #copolitics
The forum is being moderated by Chris Murray from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and the Lincoln Club of Colorado. "I am not Kyle Clark," Murray announced. "I will not engage in gotcha questions." (This was a very popular line with the audience.)
Tina Peters says she decided elections were rigged when a progressive candidate "with a mask" won in traditionally conservative Grand Junction.
NEW: A pediatrician running for Congress in Colorado is being attacked as an "abortionist." Republican opponent @lorisaine and talk radio host @DanCaplis haven't offered evidence to support their claim that Dr. @YadiraCaraveo (D) performs abortions. 9news.com/article/news/l…
@lorisaine@DanCaplis@YadiraCaraveo “Saine's claim is false,” said Caraveo campaign spokeswoman Elana Schrager. “Dr. Caraveo has never performed abortions.” Saine and Caplis were unable to produce evidence to back up their claim made on-air and on social media.
@lorisaine@DanCaplis@YadiraCaraveo Saine pointed to a Caraveo campaign email describing how Caraveo talked to a 14-year-old pregnant patient about her healthcare options. Caraveo's campaign says she has never performed, observed, or prescribed medications for an abortion.