Author: Jody Hope Strogoff
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Call: No problem with RGA contributions
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The timing for State GOP Chairman Ryan Call couldn’t have been more precipitous last Wednesday when he bravely showed up at Garcia’s Mexican restaurant in the Denver Tech Center to address the 7 a.m. weekly meeting of the Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club. Less than 48 hours before, a story had broken in the Denver…
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Denver hosts, toasts RNC site selection committee
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The activities of the visiting members of the Republican site selection committee were ensconced in secrecy for much of their two-day visit to Denver, to the chagrin of local and national press who had experienced more access during the RNC’s first two trips to host contenders Cleveland and Kansas City a few days earlier. Don…
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Hopeful GOPs meet in smoke-filled room; seek senate takeover
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So, you think the days of conducting politics in smoke-filled rooms have fallen by the wayside? Not so, at least not on the evening of June 10 when the Senate Majority Fund held a reception featuring cigars, drinks and insight into the 2014 elections. The venue was the estimable Churchills at the Brown Palace Hotel,…
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A fond farewell to Leslie Oliver in U.S. Rep. Perlmutter’s office
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[Updated 6-17-14 to amend the incorrect gender of Aaron Greco’s daughter in one of the photos below.] It was a bittersweet occasion on June 4 when U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter and his staff gathered at the Uptown Tavern in Denver for a “passing of the baton” party for their longtime communications and policy director Leslie…
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Denver makes cut in 2016 RNC site selection process
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On Wednesday night, at the Wings Over the Rockies venue where president emeritus of the U.S. Olympic Committee Bill Hybl was being honored with the Mizel Institute’s Cultural Enrichment Award, State Republican Chairman Ryan Call could hardly contain himself. The Republican National Committee was set to announce the following day, he disclosed, that Denver had…
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Majority Leader campaigns for Lamborn
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, first elected to Congress in 2006, didn’t mince words when he told a bipartisan group of supporters at the Brown Palace Hotel on May 16 that his most important mission in Congress is to foster the all important U.S.-Israeli relationship. Lamborn, who serves as co-chairman of the bipartisan Israel Allies Caucus…
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Legacy of Paul Sandoval also includes a CU Cancer Center scholarship in his name
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Many accolades describe the late Paul Sandoval, the former Democratic state senator from Denver and iconic political figure who died two years ago of pancreatic cancer: he was considered the “godfather of Colorado politics,” known for making or breaking a political career with his blessing alone. He was a family man, a devoted husband, loving…
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Arizona Guv’s appearance brews up controversy
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When Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was relaxing in her room at the Westin Denver Downtown Hotel Thursday night, she discovered that the press in Colorado is indeed alive and kicking, especially after eyeing some of the left-leaning blogs and liberal websites which earlier that day had blasted her rumored appearance at a fundraiser for Republican…
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Martha Ezzard: Lawyer, journalist, Colorado elected official, and now wine grower in the land of sweet tea
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Many people will remember Martha Ezzard from her days as an elected state senator from Cherry Hills Village in the 1980s and her subsequent run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1986. Two years later, Ezzard was a candidate for Congress in the suburban 6th Congressional District, this time as the Democratic…
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Heavy hitters turn out pre-baseball season to pitch preservation of Guv’s Residence
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Gov. John Hickenlooper almost hit one out of the ball park Tuesday night at Churchill’s Bar at the Brown Palace Hotel. Commenting on the official opening of baseball season next Friday and the importance of Colorado Rockies star players Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzales staying off the disabled list, the sporting guv couldn’t emphasize it…
