Tag: jeff crank
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Secretary of Energy, congressmen push for reliable power over renewable outside CSU coal power plant
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said Friday that the Trump administration would continue to fight against state efforts to close coal power plants, including the Ray Nixon Power Plant outside of Colorado Springs. Wright was joined by Colorado Republican Congress members Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans for a tour of Ray Nixon, the sole…
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Secretary of Energy, congressmen push for reliable power over renewable outside CSU coal power plant
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said Friday that the Trump administration would continue to fight against state efforts to close coal power plants, including the Ray Nixon Power Plant outside of Colorado Springs. Wright was joined by Colorado Republican Congress members Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans for a tour of Ray Nixon, the sole…
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EDITORIAL: Calling Dems to account for the DSA
Kudos to 5th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado Springs for pressing an essential question: Just how comfortable are Democrats with their party’s growing embrace of socialism? As Gazette news affiliate Colorado Politics reported, Crank passed a resolution Tuesday condemning socialism, largely along party lines, in the U.S. House. HR 1490 cleared the…
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House adopts Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s resolution condemning socialism, mostly along party lines
The U.S. House on Tuesday approved a resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank to condemn socialism in a largely party-line vote that the Colorado Republican characterized as a chance for lawmakers to “stand firm” against an ideology making inroads among Democrats. The nonbinding resolution, HR 1490, also included a call for the “enactment” of…
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House adopts Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s resolution condemning socialism, mostly along party lines
The U.S. House on Sept. 1 approved a resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank to condemn socialism in a largely party-line vote that the Colorado Republican characterized as a chance for lawmakers to “stand firm” against an ideology making inroads among Democrats. The nonbinding resolution, HR 1490, also included a call for the “enactment”…
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House adopts Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s resolution condemning socialism, mostly along party lines
The U.S. House on Tuesday approved a resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank to condemn socialism in a largely party-line vote that the Colorado Republican characterized as a chance for lawmakers to “stand firm” against an ideology making inroads among Democrats. The nonbinding resolution, HR 1490, also included a call for the “enactment” of…
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EDITORIAL: Crank’s accomplishments top his rival’s stale talking points
As anticipated, Colorado Springs U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s reelection rival lashed out at him with shopworn Democratic talking points in Thursday’s debate at the Pikes Peak Center. And as usual, it involved an attempt to tie him to our nation’s often-polarizing president. It was a misfire. Crank deftly and convincingly set the record straight. Even…
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Reflections on Colorado Springs candidate political debates | Tom Cronin
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The Gazette and news partner KOAA TV hosted two important candidate debates Thursday night. The first featured incumbent U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colorado Springs, who is just completing his first term representing El Paso County in Congress, and Jessica Killin, a Democrat who has served in the Army and has years of experience working in Washington,…
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Troops, taxes, war dominate Colorado’s 5th CD debate between Jeff Crank, Jessica Killin
Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank and Democratic challenger Jessica Killin on Thursday night clashed over the war in Iran, the federal budget and healthcare when they took the stage in Colorado Springs for a sold-out debate in the race to represent Colorado’s 5th Congressional District. The debate, which came just over five weeks before general…
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5th Congressional debate watchers hope for civility, truthfulness
A few hundred people watched Rep. Jeff Crank and veteran Jessica Killin square off in a debate for the 5th Congressional District at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday evening. Many of them sported campaign insignia in what they described as a pivotal midterm election in November. Crank is seeking re-election…