Author: Lynn Bartels
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BARTELS: Pueblo a home of heroes and a harmonious legislative delegation
Pueblo’s up-and-coming leaders met with their lawmakers and other elected officials, including Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams, during a visit to the state Capitol on Thursday. The visitors are part of the Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Pueblo 2016 class that began in January with a two-day retreat in Trinidad and ends in May. Lobbyist…
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BARTELS: Secretary Wayne Williams helps honor legendary civil rights attorney
Williams voted for attorney Fred Gray of Alabama to receive the National Association of Secretaries of States’ Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award for political courage. Gray was recognized at NASS’ winter conference in Washington D.C. last week for his lifelong service to civil rights. “I proudly accept this award on behalf of all the clients…
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Lakewood High School students see “our government in action”
Lakewood High School students who traveled to Washington, D.C., as part of the Close Up program gave the experience high marks. The students had appointments to see U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner, a Republican, and Michael Bennet, a Democrat, along with their congressman, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Jefferson County. They weren’t planning on meeting Colorado Secretary…
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BARTELS: Colorado shares ideas with Wyoming
There aren’t any border wars when it comes to elections, just ask Colorado and Wyoming. This week, Colorado’s deputy elections director, Hilary Rudy, and Larimer County Clerk Angela Myers met with Renea Vitto, president of the Wyoming County Clerks Association and the clerk of Natrona County, in Cheyenne. Wyoming asked to talk with Colorado about…
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BARTELS: Tom Brokaw, along with Reps. Diana DeGette, Fred Upton, honored
Legendary newscaster Tom Brokaw shared the stage tonight in Washington D.C. with two lawmakers, Colorado’s Diana DeGette and Michigan’s Fred Upton, where they received Courage Awards for their efforts involving cancer. Brokaw in 2013 with diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer. He talks about his journey in his memoir “A Lucky Life,…
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BARTELS: Lakewood High students meet Secretary Wayne Williams, U.S. senators
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams turned the annoyance of being trapped in a slow-moving security line outside the Russell Building into something fun this morning when he realized the students standing in front of him were from Lakewood High School. Yes, that Lakewood High School, where the Tigers lip-synced to Katy Perry’s famous “Roar.” Williams was…
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BARTELS: Secretary of State Wayne Williams proves you can go home again
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne William often tells the story of how there was no high school graduating class of 1959 in the Virginia town where he got his political start. That’s because elected officials closed it rather than integrate it. Williams on Wednesday night returns to the Shenandoah Valley as the keynote speaker…
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BARTELS: Secretary Wayne Williams’ Denver Broncos shirt elicits cheers in D.C.
Secretary of State Wayne Williams missed today’s Super Bowl parade in Denver, but he got a warm welcome in Washington, D.C., with his Denver Broncos championship T-shirt. The parade route went right by Williams’ office at 1700 Broadway — he captured a good picture of the orange- and blue-stripe painted on the street for…
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BARTELS: Denver Broncos season full of twists, turns and an amazing conclusion. Sound familiar?
“I’ll never forget Elway with the guys carrying him on their shoulders and all the confetti. He was crying. That was about the point it hit me.” One of my favorite stories about the Denver Broncos’ first Super Bowl win in 1998 was written a decade later, looking back at the wild run that ended with…
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BARTELS: Secretary of State Wayne Williams unloads 674 pounds of food as part of Super Bowl bet
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ bet that the Denver Broncos will beat the Carolina Panthers in Sunday’s Super Bowl netted in 674 pounds of groceries being dropped off this morning at Food Bank of the Rockies. And more food is coming. Today’s food was donated by Enstrom Candies, who got in on the secretary’s bet.…