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Dave Williams will not seek second term as Colorado GOP chairman
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Dave Williams will not seek second term as Colorado GOP chairman

By Brian Porter | Rocky Mountain Voice Dave Williams will become the fifth straight one-term chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, announcing the decision in an email to members Friday not to seek re-election. "After much prayerful consideration, I have decided not to seek re-election as chairman of the Colorado Republican Party," he announced. Williams was elected in 2023 to succeed Kristi Burton Brown as chairwoman, bringing in what he had described as a "grassroots majority" era of the party. He was the fifth in a string of one-term party leaders, including before Burton Brown: Ken Buck, preceded by Jeff Hays, preceded by Steve House. Ryan Call, who preceded House, was the last two-term party leader. A chairman's term is two years, with elections in odd calendar years. ...
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Colorado GOP petitioning Trump to ‘revoke and rescind illegal pardon’
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Colorado GOP petitioning Trump to ‘revoke and rescind illegal pardon’

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice The Colorado Republican Party is petitioning President-elect Donald J. Trump to revoke and rescind the pardon of Hunter Biden, issued Sunday by his father, President Joe Biden. In a link shared through Twitter on the party's official account, Republicans are asked to sign the petition requesting Trump "revoke and rescind the portions of this pardon that are illegal and unconstitutional after he is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025." The webpage includes an image of the pardon with Joe Biden's signature. "Joe Biden issued a far sweeping and, quite frankly, illegal pardon for his criminal son Hunter Biden," the webpage begins. "This is not only a clear and corrupt conflict of interest that highlights the double standards of radical Democrats and the...
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Griswold’s office response to GOP concern lacks detail requested by Williams
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Griswold’s office response to GOP concern lacks detail requested by Williams

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice In response to an inquiry made by the Colorado Republican Party, the office of secretary of state Jena Griswold claims only partial passwords to certain components of the Colorado voting systems were improperly made available in a public area of the website she manages. "This does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted," a statement from her office reads. The statement received by the Rocky Mountain Voice did not include comment from Griswold in a long explanation of election security measures, which never addressed how the passwords were placed in a public area of the website and by whom. In fact, the statement failed to address much of the concern from Colorado Republican...
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Colorado GOP: Hundreds of voting system passwords were publicly shared by secretary of state’s office
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Colorado GOP: Hundreds of voting system passwords were publicly shared by secretary of state’s office

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice More than 600 BIOS passwords for voting system components in 63 of the state's 64 counties were publicly shared in a file on Secretary of State Jena Griswold's website, a news release email from the Colorado Republican Party reads. An unnamed state official "discretely removed" the passwords on Thursday, Oct. 24, the release states. "The passwords were not encrypted or otherwise protected – this means they were available for public consumption," the Colorado Republican Party's email reads. The file may have been posted publicly since August, with the amended file posted Oct. 24. BIOS passwords allow access for "knowledgeable users to fundamentally manipulate systems and data" and to remove trace evidence of doing so, the Colorado Republ...
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Judge invalidates faction’s vote to remove Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams
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Judge invalidates faction’s vote to remove Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams

By Jesse Paul | Colorado Sun Opponents of Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams didn’t have enough support when they voted to remove and replace him at a meeting in August, a judge ruled Wednesday night. The ruling invalidating the votes all but guarantees that Williams will remain chairman through the November election and that Eli Bremer, who claims to have been elected to replace Williams at the meeting last month in Brighton, is standing on unsteady legal ground. Even if an appeal is launched, there’s likely not time before Election Day — Nov. 5 — for it to be resolved. El Paso County District Judge Eric Bentley ruled that Williams’ opponents did not have the necessary votes — 60% of the roughly 400 members of the Colorado GOP central committee — to remove Williams fro...
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Outcome of Saturday meeting showed equal support for Williams as Brighton opposition days earlier
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Outcome of Saturday meeting showed equal support for Williams as Brighton opposition days earlier

By Heather Willard | Fox 31 News  Colorado Republican party infighting continued throughout Labor Day weekend with a contingent of the party’s central committee meeting Saturday in Castle Rock and voting to retain Dave Williams as chairman. The meeting comes exactly a week after another group of Colorado Republicans gathered in Brighton to vote Williams out of his position — 77 party members gathered for the meeting, alongside 104 proxies. Party members moved to oust Williams after he sent an email from the state party stating that “God hates flags,” and then posting to X that Americans should “Burn all the #pride flags this June.” Both sides appear to be boycotting the other’s meetings, and Williams touted in a Colorado GOP email that 191.5 votes wer...
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Claiming Colorado GOP chairmanship, Eli Bremer asks court to declare Dave Williams was properly removed
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Claiming Colorado GOP chairmanship, Eli Bremer asks court to declare Dave Williams was properly removed

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics One of the two Colorado Republicans who lay claim to the title of state GOP chairman sued the other on Wednesday, escalating a battle for control of the party just weeks before ballots start going out to voters. In the days since a group of the party's central committee members met to oust Dave Williams, the incumbent chairman, and elect Eli Bremer as his replacement, both men have insisted that they are the Colorado GOP's rightful leader while comparing the other to an illegal squatter. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Republicans oust leadership in meeting Chair Williams calls ‘fraudulent’
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Republicans oust leadership in meeting Chair Williams calls ‘fraudulent’

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice BRIGHTON -- About 77 Republicans and another 105 by proxy gathered at a church here for the second time in a month Saturday to decide the future leadership of the party. At issue for some was the leadership of Chairman Dave Williams, along with Vice Chairwoman Hope Scheppelman and Secretary Anna Ferguson. In decisions which are sure to be disputed by others in the party and certainly its leadership, all three elected leaders were taken out by the faction and replaced by well-known rivals of Williams during what his allies have termed a "so-called" meeting that is "illegal". Michael Allen, the 4th Judicial District attorney, accused Williams of attacking other Republicans, abuse of position to divert party funds to his personal campaign and...
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In continuing saga, judge lifts order, allowing adversaries possible vote to remove GOP chair; Dueling meetings might exist again
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In continuing saga, judge lifts order, allowing adversaries possible vote to remove GOP chair; Dueling meetings might exist again

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics A district court judge on Tuesday paved the way for a vote to remove Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams by lifting a temporary restraining order that blocked a group of Colorado Republicans from holding a meeting to consider whether to fire the party boss. Following an hour-long virtual hearing held earlier the same day, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Thomas W. Henderson reversed an order he issued last month that prohibited Williams' critics from convening a meeting, writing that the court lacked jurisdiction in the internal party dispute. In response to Henderson's new order, the Republicans who have been attempting to oust Williams all summer almost immediately scheduled a meeting on Aug. 24 at a church in Brigh...
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‘Embarrassing to watch’: Rep. Boebert rips ‘infighting,’ calls on Dave Williams to support GOP candidates or be removed
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‘Embarrassing to watch’: Rep. Boebert rips ‘infighting,’ calls on Dave Williams to support GOP candidates or be removed

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert on Friday called on Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams to publicly demonstrate that the state GOP is supporting candidates up and down the ballot or potentially face removal from office. Calling recent infighting within the state GOP "embarrassing to watch," Boebert said in a post on social media that Colorado Republicans risk missing a "golden opportunity" to flip seats in November because rival party factions have been obsessed with duking it out with each other. "The past month of public dissension and infighting in the Colorado Republican Party has been embarrassing to watch as we have a golden opportunity this November to flip seats at every level of government," Boebert said in a post on Facebook. ...
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