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Doug Friednash

  • Shareholder and Chair, State and Local Government Relations, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
  • Columnist, The Denver Post
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Chair of State & Local Govt. Relations at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck; Opinion Columnist -The Denver Post. Opinions are my own.

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Democrats cannot ignore Graham Platner’s red flags and hold the moral high ground (Opinion)

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By Doug Friednash
| The Denver Post Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Democrats’ moral double standard is being exposed in Maine as the party prepares to nominate Graham Platner, an extremist Senate candidate with more baggage than Denver International Airport on Thanksgiving weekend. This is a must-win pickup race that could decide control of the United States Senate. Platner is a political dumpster fire and the epitome of their moral hypocrisy.
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Extreme candidate’s win in CD1 signals time to end caucuses in Colorado (Opinion)

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By Doug Friednash
| The Denver Post Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Caucuses are often romanticized as a crucial engine of grassroots democracy. In reality, however, the March 2026 Colorado Democratic caucuses demonstrated that they are actually an outdated, deeply flawed, and undemocratic way to select candidates or determine ballot access. If we’re serious about participation, fairness, and legitimacy, this must be the last time we rely on them — especially when the stakes are this high.
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Tina Peters clemency? Her sentence was drastically harsher than those of two Democratic lawmakers (Opinion) Original

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By Doug Friednash
| The Denver Post Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This column was published as a pro-con about clemency for Tina Peters. Read the other side of the issue here. The debate over accountability for public officials has sharpened nationally as Gov. Jared Polis has questioned whether justice was evenly applied when comparing the length of the sentence imposed on former Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters with the sentence imposed on former Democratic Colorado State Senator Sonya Jacquez Lewis last week.
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