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Colorado’s Hickenlooper staffs up for possible 2020 bid
Associated Press ^ | December 5, 2018 | Nicholas Riccardi and James Anderson

Posted on 12/05/2018 10:53:27 PM PST by Olog-hai

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and his allies are taking new steps toward launching a presidential campaign, including interviews with dozens of potential staffers and hiring a pollster and national fundraiser, according to a person close to the Democrat.

He’s already launched a political action committee that allows him to raise money nationally and hired his 2014 campaign manager, Brad Komar, to run it. Since the PAC was formed in September, Komar has done 80 interviews with possible campaign staffers, the person said. Of those, Hickenlooper has conducted or participated in 30 interviews. The operation has hired Democratic veteran Anna Greenberg as its pollster and FK & Co. as national fundraisers; it raises money for Democratic senators including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Hickenlooper isn’t expected to make a formal decision on running for president until his term ends on Jan. 8. The person close to the governor requested anonymity because Hickenlooper hasn’t yet formally launched his campaign.

The moves come as potential presidential contenders step up efforts to get their campaign infrastructures into place. With as many as two dozen possible candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, there is a fierce competition playing out for talent.

Hickenlooper’s second term in Colorado has been consumed with speculation over a potential presidential run. But he has sounded less ambiguous in recent days. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: New York
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To: caww

That’s not his real hair.


21 posted on 12/06/2018 2:42:40 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: Olog-hai

Reminds me of that dope from Ohio. The mailman’s kid.


22 posted on 12/06/2018 2:46:57 AM PST by mindburglar (Don't bother. I don't debate.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hickenlooper is one of the worst people alive - his signature issue is disarming law-abiding citizens. I do not wish him well in his campaign or in any other area of his destructive and evil life.


23 posted on 12/06/2018 2:54:01 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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All these IDIOTS have no shot!


These IDIOTS think if they can just be the nominee, it will be soooooo easy defeating TRUMP because of Russia!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

24 posted on 12/06/2018 3:11:34 AM PST by KavMan
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To: Doofer
Not if you grew up with Harlow Hickenlooper hosting the Three Stooges.

He was awful with the shaving cream pie in the face gag.

25 posted on 12/06/2018 3:48:37 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Your Hatred for my white skin makes me a Racist how?)
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To: Olog-hai

Chickenpooper.


26 posted on 12/06/2018 4:00:34 AM PST by euram
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To: dowcaet
It will be a woman, and one of color, who will be the RAT nominee!

The Dems need to figure out how to win back the "Anyone but Hillary" voters who helped put Donald Trump in the White House. Kamala or Pocahontas ain't gonna do it. I'm betting they play it safe. 2020 won't be about breaking glass ceilings. It's going to be about winning. My money today is on Beto.

27 posted on 12/06/2018 4:06:08 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Olog-hai

Well, as governor Chickenlooper certainly carried the water for the east and west coast liberals. He worked very hard at playing the “see we can be just as stupid as you!” Game. He is a ‘rat pawn, not a leader. He’ll do what he’s told to do.


28 posted on 12/06/2018 4:35:35 AM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: dowcaet
My choice is Stacy AbramsShe owes $200,000 in personal debt showing that she has the Democrat approach to budgeting down pat. She has introduced gun confiscation legislation in the Ga general assembly showing she understands Americans' hatred of the right to keep and bear arms and their loathing of being able to defend themselves (or at least she has the NY, NJ, MA, MD, IL and CA attitudes understood.) She wants to make GA a sanctuary state where illegal invaders can do as they please and sign up for welfare immediately (at the expense of the those of us who actually work for a living) as long s they vote Democrat (and of course she wants everyone to vote regardless of whether or not they're here legally or not.

She blames her loss on racism, voter suppression (a mythical concept taught in black studies programs) male chauvinism etc. She wants to raise taxes on the "rich" i.e. anyone who actually works for a living. Like all Democrats who lose she NEVER considers the concept that the ideas she was selling are not what people want.

In short she's very much like 0bama except she lacks 0bama's honesty, his respect for the constitution and dedication to limited government, his firm commitment to the Bill of Rights, his fiscal responsibility, his skepticism of the global warming hoax, and his admiration of the qualities that make America great.

29 posted on 12/06/2018 4:45:55 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: KavMan

They’re going to defeat him with their voter fraud game plan. They got it down pat and nobody can stop them.


30 posted on 12/06/2018 4:54:01 AM PST by JZelle
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

If Jim Webb runs again he will win.


31 posted on 12/06/2018 4:59:36 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Trump20162020

Oh he’s looney enough. He comes across as a reasonable business man but he presided over turning Colorado from a red/purple state to a deep blue one. His same day voter registration clinched the deal. We now have vanloads of illegals going from polling place to pooling place, registering then voting.....


32 posted on 12/06/2018 5:04:03 AM PST by Mom MD ( .)
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To: Olog-hai

I think that the days when we might’ve seen someone named “Hickenlooper” ascend to the presidency are behind us.


33 posted on 12/06/2018 5:04:51 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: JZelle
They’re going to defeat him with their voter fraud game plan. They got it down pat and nobody can stop them.


TRUMP should've gotten Congress to pass Voter ID Nationwide & have the Supreme Court make it legal!

Wasted opportunity!

34 posted on 12/06/2018 6:00:01 AM PST by KavMan
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To: Olog-hai

“I won’t grab your guns until after I’m elected.”


35 posted on 12/06/2018 6:07:40 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: NormsRevenge

“Colorado .. Where Rocky Mountain High has a new meaning under Gub. Hockenlugers.”

Colorado..the Illinois of the mountain states.h


36 posted on 12/06/2018 6:17:26 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: NormsRevenge

“Colorado .. Where Rocky Mountain High has a new meaning under Gub. Hockenlugers.”

Colorado..the Illinois of the mountain states.h


37 posted on 12/06/2018 6:17:27 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: mindburglar

The mailman’s kid has one accomplishment. He’s seen to it that Dennis Kucinich is no longer the nuttiest Presidential candidate from Ohio.


38 posted on 12/06/2018 7:26:29 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: from occupied ga
She has called for destroying the Confederate statues at Stone Mountain. Maybe if she had stressed that issue more in the election she would have won.

/s

39 posted on 12/06/2018 7:28:19 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Olog-hai

I have posted it before, and will post it again:
The libs will run Hickenlooper/Kasich ticket and bill it as a “moderate” ticket - joining Conservatives with Progressives.

Personally, I see no conservatism in that lineup.


40 posted on 12/06/2018 7:32:04 AM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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