Democrat John Hickenlooper and Republican Dan Maes may be starring in one of Colorado’s strangest Gubernatorial races ever. But politics took a back seat to the issues when they met for a major Western Slope debate this weekend. Outside the meeting, ACP candidate Tom Tancredo protested his exclusion.
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