2012

Conservative group aims to ‘clean up’ voter rolls

By Ashley Lopez | 02.15.12 | 5:30 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

A right-wing group has announced it will “pressure states and localities” through lawsuits, if necessary, “to clean up voter registration rolls pursuant to Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).” The group claims that several states have voters on their registration rolls who are ineligible to vote.

Colorado civil unions debate rekindles old arguments for and against rights for gay couples

By John Tomasic | 02.15.12 | 4:47 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Denver state Sen. Pat Steadman’s re-introduced same-sex civil unions bill is being heard this afternoon in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Although the bill will be passed easily by the committee’s Democratic majority, the hearing will be the staging ground for this year’s arguments for and against it, drawing the More…

Immigration strategy proposed at CPAC: ‘Let’s put a wall around the welfare state’

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.13.12 | 2:59 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Panelists at the Conservative Political Action Conference spoke Saturday about immigration measures that would uphold conservative values and attacked federal action against immigration-enforcement state laws.

At CPAC, leaders urge steering birth control conversation toward abortion

By | 02.10.12 | 4:01 pm

Stop talking about birth control. That was the key message from some of the most prominent leaders of America’s anti-abortion movement, speaking Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. During a talk on how to advance the movement through messaging, an all-female panel discussed the Obama administration’s birth-control-coverage mandate and More…

(VIDEO) Peter Brimelow brings controversy to CPAC for nationalist views

By | 02.09.12 | 7:33 pm

The American Conservative Union has already taken heat early into this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference for banning a pro-gay conservative group while welcoming a speaker with controversial views against multiculturalism that progressive advocacy groups have branded “white nationalist.”

Bachmann backs Minnesota anti-gay marriage amendment, says same-sex marriage is like incest

By | 02.08.12 | 11:17 am

After a failed attempt at the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has returned to one of her signature causes: banning marriage equality for same-sex couples. On the radio show of Pastor Brad Brandon, Bachmann expressed satisfaction that a cause she once championed — More…

Santorum’s Tuesday primary victory closes with a win in Colorado caucuses

By John Tomasic | 02.08.12 | 9:20 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Rick Santorum won the Colorado Republican caucuses Tuesday, garnering roughly 40 percent support and defeating runner-up Mitt Romney by nearly 4,000 votes. As see-sawing caucus tallies trickled in after 11 p.m., it became clear Santorum would sweep the three primary contests held Tuesday and revive his flagging candidacy More…

Ahead of Colorado caucuses, influential tea party group endorses Ron Paul

By John Tomasic | 02.07.12 | 3:31 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

In advance of the Colorado Republican caucuses tonight, the Northern Colorado Tea Party– perhaps the most influential of the state’s many tea party groups– isn’t backing away from its constitutional conservative mission. Far from recommending members warm up to presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, the group has unofficially thrown its More…

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