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• Doug Lamborn would collect a pension for life after leaving Congress

  24-04-2018 19:32
  As near as we can figure, Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, is entitled to a congressional pension of $52,200 a year for life if he leaves office at the end of this term in January 2019, according to formulas outlined in a report by the Congressional Research Service.That could happen due to a Colorado Supreme Court ruling on April 23 that bumped him off the June 26 Republican primary election ballot. (Lamborn is now challenging Colorado election law in an effort to get added back onto the
  
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• Reader: The money is there, so let's go after it

  24-04-2018 09:00
  LettersIt's a shame to watch the endless year-after-year struggle, as lawmakers and government planners on all levels fret and wrangle over who gets what in the next budget, amid conflicting and very legitimate claims for funds — highways, education, health care, prisons, and all the rest. They end up saying, "The money isn't there."…
  
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• UPDATE: Doug Lamborn promises he'll appeal in effort to get onto primary ballot

  24-04-2018 01:17
  UPDATE:Bill Rhea, a retired judge from Texas who's on the primary ballot for the Republican nomination in the 5th Congressional District, says he believes Lamborn should be placed on the ballot.In a statement provided to the Indy, Rhea says, in part: The key issue in that federal court proceeding will be whether circulators are involved in “core political speech” in their activity of collection ballot access petitions.…
  
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• Doug Lamborn promises he'll appeal in effort to get onto primary ballot

  24-04-2018 01:17
  The attorney who brought an action to have Doug Lamborn removed from the primary ballot met with reporters on April 23 to essentially take a victory lap after the Colorado Supreme Court deemed 269 signatures collected by an out-of-state circulator ineligible on Lamborn's petitions.Michael Francisco told reporters, "In this expedited appeal under section 1-1-113(3), the Supreme Court addresses whether the Colorado Secretary of State may certify incumbent Rep. Doug Lamborn to the 2018 Republican p
  
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