bill armstrong
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Political veteran Dick Wadhams outlines ‘redprint’ for Republican victory in Colorado elections
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Dick Wadhams, who chaired the state Republican Party for two terms and had a hand in electing the statewide officials who set the tone for the Colorado GOP across three decades, has a message for the party: Republicans have never had it easy in Colorado. “This has always been a competitive state; this has never…
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YESTERYEAR: James Watt blasts critics, defends Interior policies in Grand Junction
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former U.S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall declared that Colorado was “back in the big leagues” as he introduced divisive Coloradan Interior Secretary James Watt at the annual Club 20 banquet in Grand Junction. Watt, who noted he carried a Navajo arrowhead to “be protected from newspaper…
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YESTERYEAR: Lamm threatens veto if GOP draws extremely favorable congressional maps
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … House Majority Leader Ron Strahle’s congressional redistricting plan was already drawing veto threats from Gov. Dick Lamm, who swore he would never accept a Republican-drawn map that guaranteed the GOP five safe seats with just one seat a Democrat might win. Instead, Lamm proposed aiming…
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Kopp: I am indebted to Bill Armstrong
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The admirers of Bill Armstrong are legion. They seem to share in common this deep sense of indebtedness to a man they saw as a giant but whom they knew as a friend. Yes, their gratitude abounds and it is spontaneous. It gushes forth with little perceived effort the way a brook swells in response…
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Baisley: The death of statesmanship
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On July 5, 2016, Bill Armstrong transitioned from Colorado’s most admired statesman to one of its most memorable, historical figures. My last real conversation with Bill was right after his first cancer diagnosis five years ago, when he declined my invitation to deliver the keynote to the Douglas County Lincoln Day Dinner due to the…
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A life devoted to faith, family and freedom: Bill Armstrong laid to rest
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Former U.S. Sen. William Armstrong was remembered as a towering figure who shaped Colorado politics across six decades at a funeral service on Friday at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch. But even beyond his influence in government, business and education, the hundreds who gathered to remember the Republican celebrated his Christian faith. Armstrong…
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At CCU, Armstrong was his very best ‘happy warrior’ and ‘servant leader’
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Conservative icon Bill Armstrong, who spent 20 years as a Colorado member of Congress and who died this month, took the reins in 2006 as president at Colorado Christian University, where he worked his celebrated brand of leadership to perhaps its best effect, according to Jeff Hunt head of the college’s Centennial Institute. “This year,…
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Smith: Bill Armstrong was courteous, thoughtful and a true statesman
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“Bill Armstrong is going to be your co-chairman,” Joe Shoemaker said. “Oh no,” I thought. “Not Bill Armstrong.” It was 1998 and former state Sen. Joe Shoemaker had asked me to co-chair a campaign to build an endowment for the Greenway Foundation called the Greenway Preservation Trust Foundation. He had an excellent relationship with then-Denver…
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BARTELS: Secretary Wayne Williams reflects on icons Bill Armstrong, Howard Gelt
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Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams crossed paths with Republican Bill Armstrong and Democrat Howard Gelt, political icons who died last week. Armstrong died July 5, Gelt July 8. Colorado mourned the deaths of both men, who made such an impact on the state. (Check out the Secretary of State blog for separate stories on Armstrong, the guy…
