a look back
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U.S. Rep. Brown running a ‘green-scam’ claims opponent | A LOOK BACK
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: “It’s a green-scam pure and simple,” said Ali Webb of the League of Conservation Voters. “Hank Brown is trying to fool the voters into believing that he has a pro-environment record. U.S. Senate candidate Josie Heath, along with the League of Conservation Voters, sent an 11-page report to The Colorado…
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U.S. Rep. Skaggs’ seasoned experience shows in CD2 debate | A LOOK BACK
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Republican candidate Jason Lewis started off the Northglenn Rotary Club’s 2nd Congressional District debate with sweeping promises of a balanced budget, term limits, and enactment of the death penalty. His opponent, incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. David Skaggs, slipped into the event and ended up apologizing for being late. He’d just…
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A LOOK BACK | Coors Brewery future questioned during years-long strike
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Forty Years Ago This Week: A four-year AFL-CIO directed strike against Coors Brewery that had resulted in stagnant sales led Bill Coors to write in a company-wide publication, “Due to organized labor, a number of beer consumers dislike us enough to discontinue buying our beer.” Colorado labor leaders had called for the strike after being…
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A LOOK BACK | Hart vs. Buchanan election rhetoric intensifies
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A weekly dive into the pages of Colorado Politics’ predecessor, The Colorado Statesman, which started in 1898: Forty Years Ago This Week: Just when no one thought the two candidates for U.S. Senate had anything in common, Democratic U.S. Sen. Gary Hart and his Republican challenger, Mary Estill Buchanan, both bemoaned the same state of…
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YESTERYEAR: Mock convention held to crack open Colorado’s Constitution
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Thirty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman: An advisory board, which consisted of four dozen office holders, journalists, business leaders, as well as the governor and chairmen of both the state Democratic and Republican Parties, proposed a model constitutional convention to be held in Denver. The purpose of the “mock” convention was to evaluate…
