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Pair of Colorado Democratic Party vice chair elections unresolved after party reorganization

Mar 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democrats couldn’t pick the party’s two state vice chair officers – 1st vice chair and 2nd vice chair – at a reorganization meeting on Saturday in Denver after one race resulted in a tie and the other failed to produce a winner after three rounds of balloting. Democratic officials – including the party’s new…
YESTERYEAR: General Assembly toys with corporate, military law

Mar 2, 2017

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Rachael Wright

…Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The Colorado General Assembly seemed to have lawmakers’ heads stuck in the corporate law section of the Colorado Revised Statutes. At the start of the 1997 legislative session, the Colorado Bar Association pushed two measures in the Legislature that would have far-reaching impact in corporate law,…
Hickenlooper praises Perez as DNC chair, shrugs off notion of ‘party of no’

Feb 27, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Sunday morning was shown national love as a politician who has won in down Democratic years and as a potential 2020 presidential candidate. Hickenlooper spoke during an appearance on “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd,” where he was asked about the direction of the Democratic Party. Sadness for Democrats stemming from…
Palacio comes up short in bid for Democratic National Committee vice chair

Feb 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio fell short Saturday in his bid for a vice chair position on the Democratic National Committee at the party’s winter meeting in Atlanta, but he cheered the newly elected chair’s embrace of his chief rival in an attempt to bring Democrats together. Democrats voted in former Labor Secretary Thomas Perez as…
Colorado Democrats seek nominations for awards at annual fundraising dinner

Feb 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The state Democratic Party’s annual fundraising dinner is fast approaching, and the deadline to nominate party stalwarts for a slew of awards is arriving even sooner. The party is accepting nominations through Friday, Feb. 10, in four award categories, including a new honor that will be handed out for the first time this year, according…
DNC vice chairman candidate Palacio warns against Gorsuch confirmation

Feb 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio says the stakes are profound but it’s also personal whether Judge Neil Gorsuch winds up on the U.S. Supreme Court. Palacio, the first openly gay man to chair a major party in Colorado, says he’s only able to marry his partner – they’re engaged right now – because of…
Who knew Rick Palacio was running for #DNCViceChair? Apparently, all of Twitterspace

Jan 27, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Either Rick Palacio threw a Twitter party, and nobody came – or we weren’t invited. While Colorado media have been reporting this afternoon that the outgoing state Democratic Party chair is now seeking the national party’s vice chairmanship, we couldn’t help notice he already has been tweeting about it for some time. Since Inauguration Day, in fact. Yet, it…
Palacio mounts campaign for Democratic National Committee vice chair

Jan 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio is campaigning for a vice chairman position with the Democratic National Committee after serving three terms running the state party. On Friday, he announced the endorsement of a number of elected officials and party luminaries from across the country. Palacio, who holds the distinction of being the first Latino…
YESTERYEAR: Colorado represented in national party leadership, albeit controversially

Jan 19, 2017

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Rachael Wright

Different times, they were, but so much the same … Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Coloradans were in a proud position. The state’s very own were to head both of the nation’s major political parties. Gov. Roy Romer acknowledged that his new post as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee –…
May: Lost in cyberspace

Jan 19, 2017

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Clifford D. May

Cyberespionage is a concern, but cyberwarfare is far more serious Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee was mischievous. Did it change the outcome of the 2016 elections? No evidence suggests that and the intelligence community isn’t claiming that. So those who are may be presumed to have an agenda: to establish the narrative that…