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Open to your suggestions of other Colorado politicos who exude joyfulness and friendliness. I’m sure I’m forgetting people

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I think people like to see joyfulness and friendliness from political leaders instead of just dour seriousness all the time. Not much of that in Colorado politics (either party). Hick used to have it. Cory Gardner had it. Mike Johnston is probably the best version of it now.

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VIEWER FEEDBACK: Do we have to ruin you completely?

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Victor Marx's Republican primary opponents told voters that he is a con man, a grifter, and a fraud. Now the GOP nominee for governor is making Colorado history with a record campaign finance violation fine. A hearing officer said Marx's campaign intentionally broke the law.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That tickle you feel in your nether regions is Denver reaching into your pocket to balance its budget deficit. We got a hold of the city's plans to massively expand its traffic ticket camera system.

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For perspective, Marx has been a prolific fundraiser for a Republican in Colorado (a longshot), raising $3.9M. But he only had $242,844 cash on hand as of Sep 21. This fine represents a quarter of the campaign's cash on hand.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In response to being caught taking illegal donations, Marx announced the launch of an "unlimited" purchase online merch store selling $1300 meetings with him. Marx still refuses to say where that money is going. That's the subject of a separate complaint. www.9news.com/article/news...

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx has been fined $57,647 for campaign finance violations, the largest such fine in state history. A hearing officer ruled that the Marx campaign intentionally took illegal contributions, writing: "the scale of the violations are without precedent."

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NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.

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Today, Victor Marx threatened legal action against journalists who have reported on his own past statements. "People are going to be held accountable," Marx told KNUS. "These spineless folks who hide behind a pen or a mic or an article, they have no clue who they're up against."

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Marx acknowledged throwing his toddler son across a room onto a bed in anger, but said the boy was not hurt. "I'm not proud of that," Marx said. KNUS' Jeff Hunt again reiterated: "No calls to police. No reports. No charges. No convictions related to any of that incident."

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Eileen Marx disclosed on KNUS that she was raised in a home with domestic violence. "So I know what domestic abuse looks like," Eileen Marx said. "That was nothing like domestic abuse."

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On KNUS, Victor Marx retold the story of slamming Eileen Marx into a door to teach her a lesson. "Remember, babe? It was our first little house," Marx said on KNUS. Marx's retelling differed from his original account. "She was fake crying. She wasn't really hurt," Marx said.

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This AM, Victor and Eileen Marx appeared on a KNUS-AM show that backs Marx's campaign. Eileen Marx said she does not believe that she is a victim of domestic abuse. "Victor is not a wife abuser," Eileen Marx said. KNUS host Jeff Hunt reinforced that Eileen did not press charges.

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Marx regales evangelical church crowds with a story about stopping illegal border crossers, saying: "We made them pay a price. We absolutely did." Marx used his frequent euphemism for violence, saying, "They got their feelings hurt." In our interview, Marx denied using violence.

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In referencing his "high risk missionary" work aboard, Marx has said "some people need to be shot" and "some people need to be killed." When I asked how many people he's personally killed, he said, "Does it matter?" Then said, "If I did, I wouldn't be telling a reporter."

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Marx has routinely bragged about his ability to inflict violence when he believes it is justified or necessary but also appears to enjoy intimidation for sport, once telling a psychiatrist "How does it feel to be in a very small close quarters office with a man who can kill you?"

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Full interview: Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx

Marx has a long history of explaining away, condoning, or even embracing violence. When I questioned Marx about this in our lone interview, he dodged, played word games, and flatly refused to say how many people he's killed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KywO...

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YouTube video by Next 9NEWS

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In 2014, Marx said there wouldn't be as much domestic violence if women would be happy with "where God has them." It appeared he was suggesting that women were too eager to be in relationships with abusers. Democratic nominee Phil Weiser condemned Marx's comments this week.

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Marx says "words and events can be taken out of context and presented in a way that creates a completely different impression." Here is an extended version of Marx speaking in 2022 about the time that he threw his toddler son across a room. Marx said the child was terrified.

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Marx says the video is out of context. Here's a longer version of the 2021 clip where Marx laughs about slamming his wife Eileen into a door so hard that she cried. Marx says he was teaching her a lesson that she needed self-defense training. Marx says she learned her lesson.

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GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx was mentioned only once at Democratic nominee Phil Weiser’s town hall on 9NEWS. Weiser claimed Marx made a comment appearing to blame women for the domestic violence they suffer. We found the tape. Marx said it in 2014.

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I was so nervous when she handed it to me that it wouldn’t fit. But it fit perfectly.

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I feel like Liberace’s country cousin in this jacket

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Shirl Garcia came up to me in Greeley with the most amazing jacket, asking if I would wear it on TV and tell her father’s story.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.

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TONIGHT: 9NEWS Town Hall with Dem Gov nominee AG Phil Weiser, live from Greeley, 6-7PM on KTVD (Ch 20) and streaming everywhere you find 9NEWS GOP nominee Victor Marx declined to debate or participate in a town hall with voters on 9NEWS

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i'll be tent camping in the area

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Join me in person in Greeley on Tuesday at 6pm for a 9NEWS town hall with Democratic nominee Phil Weiser. Weiser will be taking questions from Coloradans in the audience. I’ll be there to make sure he answers. Register at: www.9News.com/townhall

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Thursday, join me in Greeley at 6PM for a 9NEWS town hall in Colorado’s 8th. Rep. Gabe Evans (R) and Manny Rutinel (D) won’t debate or answer town hall questions on 9NEWS. We’ll hold the town hall without them. Voters in Adams and Weld counties deserve to have their voices heard

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Republican Victor Marx declined to debate or participate in a voter town hall on 9NEWS.

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This is it, man. This is the good stuff.

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A number of Colorado Democrats and Republicans are ducking questions this election year. We discussed why 9NEWS is still holding televised town halls in races where one or both candidates are declining to debate or answer voter questions.

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The group of 12 state prosecutors includes Colorado Democrat Phil Weiser who opted out of a key provision in the dropped antitrust lawsuit settlement involving a controversial editorial oversight board for the merged company: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...

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Colorado involved in media conglomeration settlement with Paramount, opts out of provision

The news behind the news in Colorado

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NEW: Denver is once again considering a mass surveillance system contract just under the amount that would trigger City Council review. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports:

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Hi. I'm a journalist. My job is to ask questions of people seeking public office then tell voters what they say.

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It's not too late to sign up to join our Colorado gubernatorial town hall with Phil Weiser in Greeley next Tuesday or our CO-8 town hall on Thursday: www.9news.com/article/news...

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