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Palacio named to transition advisory committee created by new DNC chair Perez

Mar 15, 2017

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Former Colorado Democratic Party Chair Rick Palacio was among 29 Democratic strategists, activists and party officials named Wednesday to a transition advisory committee created by newly elected Democratic National Committee Chair Thomas Perez, the party announced. The committee is charged with advising Perez and his deputy chair, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, as they work to…

Colorado Democrats declare David Sabados winner by one vote in 1st vice chair race

Mar 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The Colorado Democratic Party announced Monday afternoon that David Sabados had prevailed over Gil Barela in the race for 1st vice chair of the state party by a single vote, bringing to a nail-biting conclusion an election that had been in limbo since Saturday’s state central committee meeting in Denver. Sabados, a Denver-based political consultant…

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, Special to Colorado Politics

…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…