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• Less Money Expected From ‘Sugary Drink’ Tax

  26-08-2017 23:33
  BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – The controversial soda tax in Boulder might not bring in as much money as previously expected.
  Last May, the city council approved the tax, which went into effect on July 1. It charges soda distributors two cents for every ounce of soda and other sweetened beverages.
  (credit: CBS)
  The city thought it would bring in $3 million dollars annually, but experts say they expect about half that in tax returns.
  City officials say that’s partly due to the fact
  
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• Stephen King Blocks Trump From Seeing ‘It’

  26-08-2017 23:27
  BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Stephen King is retaliating against President Donald Trump for blocking him on Twitter.
  In a post late Thursday, the Maine horror author said he would block Trump from seeing the upcoming movie “It” or the currently showing television series “Mr. Mercedes,” both based on his books.
  King’s tweet says “No clowns for you, Donald. Go float yourself.”
  Author Stephen King (credit: BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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• Food Truck Burns In Middle Of Intersection

  26-08-2017 23:20
  By Andrea Flores
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A food truck caught fire late Saturday morning at East Alameda Avenue and Crystal Street.
  Vicente Rueda was behind the wheel of the Chapina La Mexicana truck when it suddenly stopped before bursting into flames.
  “The next thing you know, we see the motor just flaming up,” Rueda said. “The first thing I thought was call 9-1-1 and move away from the fire.”11:10am #aurorafire responded to a food truck fire Alameda Ave/Crystal Str
  
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• Food Truck Burns At Aurora Intersection

  26-08-2017 23:20
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A food truck caught fire late Saturday morning at East Alameda Avenue and Crystal Street.
  There were no injuries, according to Tony Krenz of Aurora Fire Rescue.11:10am #aurorafire responded to a food truck fire Alameda Ave/Crystal Street no injuries under investigation #moveover give responders room pic.twitter.com/QgEApe4laJ
  — Aurora Fire Rescue (@AuroraFireDpt) August 26, 2017
  The fire appears to have started in the engine compartment.
  The Chapina La Mex
  
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• Hiker Deaths Prompt ‘Peak Awareness’ Program

  26-08-2017 23:11
  PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Search and rescue teams in Aspen plan to offer more safety education for hikers taking on Colorado’s tallest mountains.
  (credit: CBS)
  At least seven people have died this summer in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. The two most recent were Ryan Marcil and Carlin Brightwell.
  Carlin Brightwell and Ryan Marcil (credit: CBS)
  The couple fell while climbing Capitol Peak on Sunday. Their bodies were recovered at the bottom of the steep north side of th
  
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• 9 goals for Broncos against Packers

  26-08-2017 21:02
  KUSA—It’s a big day in sports.         
  
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• Violence In Charlottesville Leads To Soul-Searching At ACLU

  26-08-2017 20:24
  NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with an angry backlash for defending white supremacists’ right to march in Charlottesville, the American Civil Liberties Union is confronting a feeling among some of its members that was once considered heresy: Maybe some speech isn’t worth defending.
  Cracks in the ACLU’s strict defense of the First Amendment no matter how offensive the speech opened from the moment a counter-protester was killed during the rally in Virginia. Some critics said the AC
  
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• Black Range Rover Sought In Fatal Hit And Run

  26-08-2017 19:23
  DENVER, Colo. (CBS4) – Police are asking for the public help’s locating a vehicle — and, ultimately, its driver — that ran over a pedestrian near downtown Denver early Saturday morning.
  (credit: Denver Police Department)
  The Denver Police Department says a black Range Rover struck and killed a pedestrian at 20th and Blake streets just before 2 a.m.
  The vehicle bore a Colorado license plate, VXQ-677, according to witness, and should also have heavy front end damage.#TRAFFI
  
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• Trump’s First Pardon Spares Political Ally Arpaio

  26-08-2017 19:02
  PHOENIX (AP) — President Donald Trump spared former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio the prospect of serving jail time in granting the first pardon of his turbulent tenure, wiping away the lawman’s recent federal conviction stemming from his immigration patrols that focused on Latinos.
  The White House said 85-year-old Arpaio was a “worthy candidate” for the pardon, citing his “life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.&r
  
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• Harvey Rolls Over Texas Coast, Smashes Homes And Businesses

  26-08-2017 17:59
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Hurricane Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see in front of them.
  The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life-threatening storm surges — walls of water rushing inland.
  The mammoth system made landf
  
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• Near Record Heat Possible Today

  26-08-2017 16:27
  By Chris SpearsDENVER (CBS4) – It’s going to be a hot day around Colorado with plenty of sunshine and highs running several degrees above normal for this time of year.
  In Denver we should top out near 95 degrees which is close to the record high of 97 degrees set on this date in 2015.
  There is a very small chance for a few pop up showers or storms over the mountains and foothills and there is a slight chance for a strong to severe storm on the far eastern plains.If you are heading to
  
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• Latest Forecast: Near Record Heat Possible Today

  26-08-2017 16:27
  By Chris SpearsDENVER (CBS4) – It’s going to be a hot day around Colorado with plenty of sunshine and highs running several degrees above normal for this time of year.
  In Denver we should top out near 95 degrees which is close to the record high of 97 degrees set on this date in 2015.
  There is a very small chance for a few pop up showers or storms over the mountains and foothills and there is a slight chance for a strong to severe storm on the far eastern plains.If you are heading to
  
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• 25 French Bulldogs rescued in Denver

  26-08-2017 15:52
  These adorable little balls of fur will be up for adoption soon - you could own your very own Frenchie!       
  
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• Downtown hit and run kills one overnight

  26-08-2017 15:24
  Denver Police are searching for a black Land Rover, wanted in connection with a fatal hit and run in downtown Denver.       
  
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• Rock ‘n’ Roll Races Run Through Downtown Denver

  26-08-2017 14:55
  DENVER (CBS4) – The Transamerica Rock ‘n’ Roll Denver Half Marathon is coming back to Downtown Denver on Sunday, October 15th. This is the 8th year for the event which include a 5K race on Saturday, October 14th, and a 10K and half marathon on Sunday. Runners who run in the 5K on Saturday, and then do either of the races on Sunday can get the Remix Challenge medal.
  LINK: Register for the Transamerica Rock ‘n’ Roll Denver Races
  The half marathon will once again tour
  
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• Gorka, a fiery nationalist and Bannon ally, abruptly exits White House

  26-08-2017 08:05
  
  WASHINGTON – Sebastian Gorka, a controversial White House staffer who served as a fiery spokesman for President Donald Trump on national security matters, abruptly left the administration on Friday as his nationalist faction was being silenced, four people briefed on Gorka’s exit confirmed.
  Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president, is a close ally of former chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who departed the White House last week. Together they saw their roles as enabling and promoti
  
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• Naked man on Maine nature trail says he’s sunbathing; gets summons

  26-08-2017 07:59
  
  WATERVILLE, Maine — A naked man who startled a mother and her children on a nature trail in Maine has been issued a summons by police.
  Officers say 67-year-old Ricky Thompson told them he was sunbathing when the family spotted him in Waterville on Thursday.
  The woman described to police a “naked elderly man” with a walker. So police went to the scene assuming there was a medical issue.
  Deputy Chief Bill Bonney tells the Morning Sentinel that Thompson was still naked when office
  
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• RNC condemns white supremacy but makes no mention of Trump’s remarks

  26-08-2017 07:47
  
  The Republican National Committee on Friday approved a resolution condemning racism and white supremacy at its summer meeting in Nashville – but don’t call it a rebuke of President Donald Trump.
  “This has nothing to do with the president,” said the resolution’s sponsor, Bill Palatucci, an RNC committeeman from New Jersey. “This is the RNC saying that racism and bigotry have no place in America.”
  Palatucci, an attorney who served as general counsel to Tru
  
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• Top adviser condemns president’s Charlottesville remarks

  26-08-2017 07:34
  
  WASHINGTON – An unprecedented rebuke of President Donald Trump by National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn reverberated through Washington on Friday, forcing the White House to respond to harsh, public criticism from one of the president’s top advisers.
  Cohn lashed Trump’s comments earlier this month blaming the violence in Charlottesville on “both sides,” saying in an interview with the Financial Times that “citizens standing up for equality and freedom c
  
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• Columbine runs by Jeffco rival...

  26-08-2017 07:27
  Fans showed up to Jeffco Stadium on Friday night expecting a game of high school football. What they got instead, was 'Rebelball.' Columbine routed Jeffco rival Ralston Valley 21 to 7 in each team's first game of the 2017 season.       
  
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• What you can and can’t say about climate change and Hurricane Harvey

  26-08-2017 07:18
  
  With a major hurricane forecast to make landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2005, we may be fated for another debate about how climate change does, and doesn’t, affect these kinds of events.
  It would be strange to ignore the role of a changing climate when it comes to hurricanes, since they themselves have a climatology – that is, certain conditions make them more likely to form and also to worsen. But it’s August, and the Gulf of Mexico can certainly sustain fierce h
  
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• Longmont Emergency Unit may deploy volunteers to Texas for Hurricane Harvey

  26-08-2017 07:11
  
  Longmont’s Emergency Unit is on standby to deploy four water rescue volunteers to Texas, where people are bracing for catastrophic storming from Hurricane Harvey.
  Bryan Flansburg said he, Steve Tart, Matt Marre and Tom Dell were alerted at 8 p.m. Thursday that they should start packing up their rescue gear in preparation of the call for go time.
  If deployed, they could be there helping with water rescues or assisting with dives as certified divers for up to two weeks, Flansburg said.
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• Local sports psychologist questions...

  26-08-2017 06:24
  A local sports psychologist would like the recent controversy surrounding a cheer coach at East High to spark a bigger conversation about coaches nationwide.       
  
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• Colorado memorial gets new glass pane

  26-08-2017 06:21
  The Colorado Freedom Manual will get a new glass pane after it was smashed back in July during Independence Day weekend       
  
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• Cheer coach fired for 'forced splits'

  26-08-2017 06:21
  DPS Superintendent says Coach Ozell Williams has been fired.       
  
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• Sparked by running back Theorius Robison, No. 3 Pomona cruises to Week 0 win over No. 4 Mullen

  26-08-2017 06:01
  
  ARVADA — No Max Borghi, no problem.
  Borghi, a Washington State commit who is widely considered the most electric playmaker in the state, did not play in the Panthers’ much-hyped Week 0 season opener Friday night against Mullen as he continues his rehabilitation from last season’s ACL tear.
  Class 5A No. 3-ranked Pomona nevertheless cruised by the fourth-ranked Mustangs 52-22, sparked by four rushing touchdowns from junior Theorius Robison as well as a defense that cinched down a
  
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• Emergency Responders Square Off On The Softball Field

  26-08-2017 05:57
  SALIDA, Colo. (CBS4) – A Colorado mountain community came together to raise awareness and help prevent domestic violence- on the softball field.Firefighters, paramedics and police took their places on the softball field for the “Badges Vs. Bugles” charity softball game Friday night under the lights.CBS4’s Matt Kroschel throws out the first pitch (credit: CBS)
  CBS4 Mountain Reporter and Salida native Matt Kroschel threw out the first pitch.
  Badges Vs. Bugles Benefit Softba
  
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• Silt police officer indicted by state grand jury in alleged insurance scam

  26-08-2017 05:47
  
  A Silt police officer has been indicted by a Colorado grand jury in an insurance fraud case.
  Michael Taylor also faces charges of felony forgery and felony theft, according to the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.
  The indictment follows an investigation by the AG’s office, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
  “Insurance fraud is a crime that affects everyone in Colorado by driving up premiums and creating red tape for our hardworking and h
  
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• Man Shot, Killed Near Light Rail Station Identified

  26-08-2017 05:44
  DENVER (CBS4)– The man shot and killed by two transit security guards after he pointed a gun at them, has been identified.Armando Vigil, 43, was shot and killed on Wednesday night outside a parking garage at the light rail station at 9th and Sheridan. (credit: CBS)
  Police say Vigil pulled a gun on them after they confronted him about sleeping in the grass. (credit: CBS)
  One of the guard was rushed to the hospital for treatment but police say it was not related to a gunshot wound. (credit:
  
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• Rockies Fall To Braves 5-2, Atlanta Snaps Home Losing Streak

  26-08-2017 05:40
  ATLANTA (AP) — All Julio Teheran needed to snap an Atlanta-record home losing streak was a visit from the Colorado Rockies, one of his favorite opponents.
  Teheran won at home for the first time in four months, Matt Kemp and Kurt Suzuki hit home runs and the Atlanta Braves beat Chad Bettis and the Rockies 5-2 on Friday night.
  Teheran (8-11) snapped his streak of nine straight home losses, the longest in Atlanta history, as he limited Colorado to two runs and five hits with no walks in 7 1/3
  
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• Heating Up & Drying Out For Weekend

  26-08-2017 05:39
  By Ed Greene
  DENVER (CBS4) – Another hot late August day as Denver reached a high of 90 officially at the airport, while downtown Denver reached 91.  Isolated storms were sprinkled across the state of Friday and that was about it.
  Looks like more of the same for Saturday as our high will reach into the low to mid 90s.  A weak cold front pushed through on Sunday and that will bring our high down to the low to mid 80s with a chance for a few isolated storms.
  We’ll start next
  
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• Driver of minivan tries to entice 11-year-old Parker student to take ride

  26-08-2017 05:32
  
  Parker PoliceA sketch of the suspect.Parker police are looking for a man who tried to entice an 11-year-old student walking home from school to get into his minivan.
  The incident happened at about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday on Bradbury Ranch Drive near East West Regional Trail, according to a police department news release.
  The driver asked the girl if she needed a ride and he then tried to entice her into the van, police said. The student ran away and last saw the van turning on to Firebrick Drive.
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• Loveland, Westminster Officers Investigate Possible Links Between 3 Smash & Grabs

  26-08-2017 05:26
  WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4)– Police hope surveillance video will help them capture smash-and-grab thieves who targeted the Shane Co. jewelry store in Westminster and also help determine whether it was linked to another two smash-and-grabs that same night.
  The surveillance video shows the Jeep backing through the front doors of the Shane Co. store about 2 a.m. Thursday. Investigators are working with detectives in Loveland where two jewelry stores were targeted in a similar smash-and-grab jus
  
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• ‘What Happened Was Wrong’: Cheer Coach Behind Forced Splits Fired From DPS

  26-08-2017 05:24
  By Melissa Garcia
  DENVER (CBS4)– Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg says that the district was “wrong not to have acted in June” when some East High School employees learned of forced splits.
  The coach, Ozell Williams, and four other school employees were placed on leave while the Denver Public School District conducts as investigation alongside Denver police.
  (credit: Kirsten Wakefield)
  On Friday evening during a news conference, Boasberg said that Williams was
  
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• Hurricane Harvey slams into Texas as lethal Category 4 storm

  26-08-2017 05:06
  
  By Tim Craig, Mary Lee Grant and Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Residents of the Gulf Coast hunkered down late Friday amid dire warnings of a major natural disaster as Hurricane Harvey, having intensified rapidly into a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds, roared ashore just to the northeast of this South Texas city.
  The National Hurricane Center reported at 10 p.m. CDT that the center of the eye of the cyclone had just crossed the Texas shoreline over the nort
  
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• Hurricane Harvey now Category 4 as it nears Texas coast

  26-08-2017 05:06
  
  By Tim Craig, Mary Lee Grant and Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Hurricane Harvey intensified into a Category 4 storm as it churned toward what was certain to be a devastating landfall near this city by early Saturday morning.
  The storm was on track to be the first major hurricane to hit the United States since Wilma in 2005. Forecasters and government officials warned of a full-blown natural disaster, with catastrophic flooding, ferocious winds up to 125 miles
  
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• Threat of closure for JeffCo...

  26-08-2017 05:01
  Parents won't have to worry about any Jefferson County elementary schools closing at least until the 2019-20 school year, per a letter sent to family by Superintendent Jason Glass.       
  
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• BYOP: Bring your own pot

  26-08-2017 04:53
  The license would grant stores a designated consumption area (DCA) for pot to be used by customers 21 and older.        
  
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• CU MED instructor mocks cheerleaders

  26-08-2017 04:36
  A senior instructor at the University of Colorado Medical School took to Twitter to mock teenage cheerleaders who were seen screaming in pain while being forced into the splits.       
  
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• Parents wait to hear from superintendent

  26-08-2017 04:33
  East High School cheerleading parents want to know what kind of vetting process the school or district used to hire cheerleading coach Ozell Williams.       
  
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• Colorado Football Program To Retire Rashaan Salaam’s Number

  26-08-2017 04:30
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The University of Colorado football program will retire No. 19 in honor of Rashaan Salaam, who killed himself last December at age 42.
  It will be the first number retired by the program in 47 years. The ceremony will take place during Colorado’s homecoming game against Cal on Oct. 28.
  A tribute to Rashaan Salaam at the Champion Center (credit: CBS)
  Salaam won the school’s only Heisman Trophy in 1994 when he also won the Doak Walker Award and was a unanimou
  
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• Rockies fall to Braves as August continues to be full of dog days

  26-08-2017 04:26
  
  ATLANTA — Already trending toward their worst month this season, an annual June Swoon delayed two months into the dog days of August, the Rockies on Friday flubbed through a 5-2 loss to the Braves that typified malaise.
  Colorado right-hander Chad Bettis threw 76 pitches before he was pulled after five innings. Most of his pitches were adequate. Two of his fastballs floated to the plate on a slugger’s path for home runs.
  Rockies hitters strung together as many as two hits in an inning
  
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• Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler part of logjam at Northern Trust

  26-08-2017 04:26
  
  OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. — Two swings cost Dustin Johnson the lead. It wasn’t long before Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler caught up to him in The Northern Trust, setting up a weekend of star power in the opening FedEx Cup playoff event.
  Johnson, finally looking like the No. 1 player who looked unstoppable in the spring, appeared on the verge of building a big lead at Glen Oaks Club until consecutive tee shots wound up on the wrong holes and forced him to scramble just to escape with bogey.
  
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• Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor easily make weight for big fight

  26-08-2017 04:17
  
  LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather weighed in at a trim 149 1/2 pounds Friday for his boxing showdown with Conor McGregor, who also made weight at 153 pounds.
  The undefeated boxer and the two-division UFC champion were comfortably below the 154-pound limit when they stepped on the scales before a raucous crowd at T-Mobile Arena, which will host the so-called Money Fight on Saturday night.
  The enthusiastic turnout included thousands of McGregor’s vocal Irish fans, who sang and waved flags.
  
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• Denver East High School cheerleading coach fired amid forced splits controversy

  26-08-2017 04:17
  
  A Denver East High School cheer coach has been fired after cellphone videos surfaced showing him forcing cheerleaders to do splits, pushing the students even though they were in severe pain, protesting and crying.
  Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg announced Friday that Ozell Williams has been fired. A criminal investigation of the incident is ongoing by Denver police.
  Boasberg called the video footage “deeply disturbing.”
  “What happened was wrong,” he 
  
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• Gov. Hickenlooper & Gov. Kasich: A Unity Ticket?

  26-08-2017 04:16
  By Shaun Boyd
  DENVER (CBS4)– Gov. John Hickenlooper says he can’t even imagine a unity ticket with his republican counterpart, Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
  “He would demand I had to be the Vice Presidential candidate and I would demand that he had to be the Vice Presidential candidate,” Hickenlooper joked.
  Gov. John Hickenlooper (credit: CBS)
  Social Media blew up Thursday when CNN ran a story saying the two were in discussions, citing a source.
  Hickenlooper, however, told CBS4,
  
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