Republican power couple Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman filed for divorce over the weekend, splitting of marriage.
“After much soul-searching we have made the painful decision to get a divorce,” the former couple said in a written statement released by a spokeswoman. “This has been a difficult choice for both of us and we ask our friends and supporters for their understanding. We have a great deal of respect for each other and will remain each other’s strongest supporters in whatever we do in our continued service to the people of Colorado.”
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, and his wife, Cynthia Coffman, takes the stage during the Colorado RepublicanÊElection Night party at the DoubleTree Hilton in the Denver Tech Center, November 08, 2016.
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Rep. Mike Coffman speaks to the crowd at a GOP election night gathering in Denver Nov. 4, 2014.
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman at the State Supreme Court Chambers at the Colorado State Judicial Building in Denver on Oct. 22, 2015.
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman.
In this Aug. 12, 2015 file photo, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman speaks during a news conference in Durango. Boulder County and Coffman are on the brink of a showdown over the county's moratorium on oil and gas drilling. Coffman, a Republican, has set a Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, deadline for the county to rescind the moratorium, saying it contradicts a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that only the state can regulate the industry.
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman speaks at the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Building in Denver, August 16, 2016.
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U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman, R-Colo. and Diana DeGette, D-Colo.
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Congressman Mike Coffman joined a group of lawmakers who introduced legislation that would shield from deportation young immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children.
Cynthia Coffman, Attorney General of Colorado, talks about what she hopes the EPA will do to assist residents after the spill Aug. 12, 2015 at Rotary Park. The Attorney Generals of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah held a joint press conference to talk about the Gold King Mine spill that has affected the waterways in their states and what they are hoping with come from the EPA in months to come to provide their residents assistance.
DURANGO, CO - AUGUST 12: Cynthia Coffman, Attorney General of Colorado, talks about what she hopes the EPA will do to assist residents after the spill August 12, 2015 at Rotary Park. The Attorney Generals of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah held a joint press conference to talk about the Gold King Mine spill that has affected the waterways in their states and what they are hoping with come from the EPA in months to come to provide their residents assistance.
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman.
Congressman Mike Coffman led a town-hall style meeting about health care in Castle Rock Monday evening, Aug. 17, 2009. Karl Gehring/The Denver Post
In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 file photo, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman, foreground, speaks during a news conference to announce arrests in a far-ranging heroin distribution sweep in Denver. A lawyer for the Colorado Republican party has met with prosecutors about an alleged attempt by the Coffman and others to blackmail Steve House, the party chairman, into resigning his post, a spokesman said Tuesday, June 23, 2015.
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman
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Mike Coffman listens as a fellow representative gives their response.
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, and his wife, Cynthia Coffman, takes the stage during the Colorado RepublicanÊElection Night party at the DoubleTree Hilton in the Denver Tech Center, November 08, 2016.
The called the decision “mutual and private.” The split was first reported by
The pair , just days before the then state treasurer deployed with the Marines to the Sunni Triangle of Iraq. The marriage was the second for both.
The Coffmans dated for about seven years before their marriage.
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Cynthia and Mike Coffman in 2005.
The couple shared a golden retriever — — who became a mainstay in the state treasurer’s office when Mike Coffman held the post overseeing the state’s taxpayer dollars. When Mike and Cynthia married and he deployed, Cynthia continued to bring the dog to work at the treasurer’s office.
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Mike Coffman represents Aurora in the U.S. House. Cynthia Coffman was elected attorney general in 2014 and has been rumored to be weighing a 2018 run for governor.
Both Cynthia Coffman and Mike Coffman are facing re-election next year.
A spokeswoman for the pair did not say where the divorce petition was filed.
