Author: Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado GOP members plot out busy election seasons
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Arapahoe County Republican activist Mort Marks was perpetuating a rumor among politicos that state Sen. Martha Ezzard, R-Englewood, was going to launch a bid for Congress against incumbent Rep. Dan Schaefer. This even though the media had repeatedly asked Ezzard about her plans for the future and she had consistently…
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A LOOK BACK | Farmers organize convoy protest over financial practices
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: A convoy of approximately 20 tractors and trucks driven by Colorado farmers had just begun a three-day rally outside the Farm Credit Corporation of America’s Greenwood Village office. The assembled farmers were protesting unfair farm banking policies, asserting that the farm credit bureau was “responsible for current low land values…
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A LOOK BACK | Dem chief tears into effort to unseat Aspinall
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: In a inter-party skirmish over a centrist politician perhaps less common for the time period, Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Fred Betz Jr. told reporters that across the Western Slope he was finding community members who were shocked and outraged at Colorado Republican Party Chairman Jean Tool’s plans to pour money…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado GOP activist provides insights on USSR ‘peace’ proposal
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Thirty-five years ago this week: Colorado Republican activist Mort Marks told The Colorado Statesman that he “didn’t trust the Soviet Union’s latest ‘peace’ proposal” in which the USSR proposed that both sides eliminate their medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. According to the terms of the USSR’s proposal, over 1,000 missiles would be eliminated from Europe,…
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A LOOK BACK | State ag dustup explodes, wheat leader resigns
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: State Agriculture Commissioner Paul Swisher’s criticism of Tim Thornton, director of the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee, led to Thornton’s resignation. This followed the CWAC’s 4-4 tie vote on the committee’s movement of no confidence in his leadership. Pushing back, state Rep. Forest Burns, D-Lamar, commented on the vote. “It’s too…
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A LOOK BACK | Candidates line up for Denver Democratic Party offices
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: After weeks of running the numbers and weighing his options, Steve Katzman announced that he would seek re-election as chair of the Denver Democratic Party. Attorney and activist Katzman said he’d considered both the professional and personal factors involved with serving in the city’s top party role and decided to…
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A LOOK BACK | Denver businessman switches guv campaign support
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Forty Years Ago This Week: Denver developer and Democratic activist Kenneth Good announced that he was supporting Republican Phil Winn’s gubernatorial campaign, a major switch that he said he hadn’t arrived at lightly. Good had been a former backer of Gov. Dick Lamm and a past member of the Lamm’s Front Range Project. But Good…
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A LOOK BACK | Republican guv candidate touts ‘warehouse banking’
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Forty Years Ago This Week: John Grandbouche, founder of the National Commodity and Barter Association, announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for Colorado governor. Grandbouche, who had run for lieutenant governor in 1978 on the Tea Party ticket, said he intended to bring local constitutional government back to Colorado. He said one of…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado activist meets with Reagan, Bush
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Forty Years Ago This Week: Arapahoe County Republican activist Freda Poundstone returned from a trip to Washington D.C. for what was a whirlwind trip of political meetings, and topping her agenda had been a meeting with President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush. Poundstone had been one of just three representatives from the…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado RNC committeeman vetted for U.S. ambassadorship
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Forty Years Ago This Week: Boulder County Republican Party Chair Lynn Ellis told her fellow party members that he was considering running for Republican National Committeeman after learning the sitting committeeman would be stepping down to take a U.S. ambassador position. Keith Brown, who was then the sitting committee person for Colorado, was being vetted…
