Author: Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Buchanan’s consideration by White House for FTC causes GOP ruckus | A LOOK BACK
Forty-five years ago this week: While Republicans back in Colorado were fuming over the fact that Mary Estill Buchanan’s divisive campaign had impeded them from defeating Democrat U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, the former Colorado secretary of state was nonetheless certain she was still in the running for chairman of the Federal Trade Commission as she attended…
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Colorado Politics Calendar May 18-24
CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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State legislator seeks to criminalize display of sexually explicit material to children | A LOOK BACK
by Rachael Wright Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: Legislation sponsored by Rep. Bev Scherling, R-Aurora, sought to prohibit sexually explicit material from being distributed to minors. Scherling’s House Bill 81-1310 stated that the “sale, loan, or display to persons under the age of 18 of depictions of sexually explicit material would be a class 2…
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Colorado Politics Calendar May 11-17
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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NRA carves out early success story battling 1981 Colorado gun legislation | A LOOK BACK
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: After House Bill 81-1542, which would have mandated detention for juveniles carrying concealed weapons, cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Paul Powers, R-Denver, said he had received 45 letters per day denouncing the legislation. And the House of Representatives’ Clerk, Sue Allen, reported an average of 300 calls a day.…
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Colorado Politics Calendar May 4-10
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Gov. Lamm scolds own party over losing modernization battle against GOP | A LOOK BACK
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “The Democratic Party lost the battles of ideas and political technology last November,” Gov. Dick Lamm told the Boulder County Democratic Party at the annual Harry S. Truman Memorial Dinner. Lamm argued that the Democratic Party had been riding the tide that had carried the elections of 1928, 1932 and…
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Domestic violence rises in Colorado, state rep. seeks to fight back | A LOOK BACK
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: A bill sponsored by Rep. Jeanne Faatz’, R-Denver, House Bill 81-1336, was the final compromise bill intended to counteract the rising tide of domestic violence in Colorado. According to FBI figures, 40,000 women in 1980 were the victims of domestic violence. Every 18 seconds, a domestic violence incident was reported,…
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Colorado Politics Calendar Apr. 27-May 3
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Mysterious letter causes uproar, investigation in Mesa County GOP | A LOOK BACK
Twenty Years Ago This Week: An unregistered activist group calling themselves ‘The Colorado Republican Caucus’ mailed letters to at least 160 Republicans in Mesa County calling various Grand Junction Republicans “turncoats” and “traitors.” “The danger was that the letters were mailed by a group, with an official-sounding name, and many people thought it was from…