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Colorado GOP ousts reporter from event, claiming ‘unfair’ coverage

April 9, 2024 at 2:51 a.m. EDT
Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish, left, turns over media credentials to a Pueblo County sheriff's deputy and an arena security staffer on Saturday. (Ernest Luning/Gazette/AP)
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As a veteran journalist in Colorado, it wasn’t Sandra Fish’s first time reporting on the state GOP assembly. But it was her first time getting kicked out.

The Colorado Republican Party expelled Fish from its event in Pueblo, Colo., on Saturday after she was told the party chairman finds her reporting “very unfair.”