The Spot newsletter: Will Denver land the NFL draft?, Colorado legislature in its final sprint, a resolution in the Doug Lamborn ballot battle and more
Welcome back to The Spot, where The Denver Post’s politics team captures what’s happening this week — from the Colorado legislature to Denver city hall, with a stop through the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Greetings from this world of chaos that we call Colorado politics, where state lawmakers are rushing to pass major bills in the waning days of this year’s legislative session and the 2018 campaigns have been scrambling in court to get their candidates on the ballot.
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Meanwhile, pit bulls are allowed in Castle Rock now, school kids have been barred from a former nuclear weapons production site in the Denver area and the Denver NFL draft 2019 watch is, like, so underway.
Also — because we are everywhere at every moment — reporter John Frank literally witnessed Colorado Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne getting a very real and very permanent tattoo as part of her bid to become the state’s next governor. (Here’s who is running for governor.)
If you keep reading this newsletter, there’s even a video of the tattoo being administered (I think that’s the right word?) below.
Fresh news: The so-called “beer wars” are back. And without a truce, you won’t be able to drink beer in Denver parks.
Also: Thousands of residents across three metro-Denver counties are about to see the end of a longtime government fee.
ROLL CALL
COLORADO: THE STATEHOUSE & BEYOND
Time lapse of the growing teacher protest on the West Steps of the Colorado Capitol. Definitely Secretary thousand people out there. Business as usual inside. #coleg #copolitics pic.twitter.com/wYm3FLhrUn
— Jesse Aaron Paul (@JesseAPaul) April 27, 2018
Colorado’s Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne — an underdog candidate for governor — just made her campaign permanent in a tattoo https://t.co/cz8CAutq0A #copolitics #coleg #cogov pic.twitter.com/4IORXqhSuW
— John Frank (@ByJohnFrank) April 30, 2018
DENVER & THE SUBURBS
D.C. POLITICS FROM A COLORADO PERSPECTIVE
THE WIRE
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Current mood pic.twitter.com/lJubPYDYzj
— Jesse Aaron Paul (@JesseAPaul) May 2, 2018
My mood has remained the same: pic.twitter.com/nocn0IVLEk
— Jesse Aaron Paul (@JesseAPaul) May 2, 2018
Staff writers John Frank, Jon Murray, Mark K. Matthews and John Aguilar contributed to this newsletter.
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