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YESTERYEAR: Colorado represented in national party leadership, albeit controversially
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 –…
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May: Lost in cyberspace
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…
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Pelosi to Ryan: Don’t use hacked documents in campaigns
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday to keep Republican candidates from using hacked Democratic documents in this year’s election campaigns, the latest political twist in a summer of revelations of digital break-ins believed linked to Russia. “Russia’s cyber attack is an unprecedented assault on the sanctity of our democratic process,”…
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Clinton campaign halfway to $1 billion fundraising goal
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is halfway to its goal of raising a billion dollars for the 2016 race, according to her finance director. Dennis Cheng announced the achievement on Thursday in a meeting with staff at the campaign’s headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, according to a campaign aide who was present for the meeting but wasn’t authorized to…
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Hacker posts personal info of House Democrats and staff
After receiving a deluge of obscene voicemails and text messages, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi informed her fellow Democrats on Saturday of “an electronic Watergate break-in” and warned them not to allow family members to answer their phones or read incoming texts. The breach targeted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democratic Party entities,…
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Sources: CEO at Democratic National Committee resigns
The chief executive of the Democratic National Committee has resigned in the wake of an email hack that embarrassed the party on the eve of its presidential nominating convention. That’s according to three Democratic strategists familiar with Amy Dacey’s decision to leave her job. The people spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not…
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YESTERYEAR: Special session looms after high court tosses immigration initiative
Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Bill Owens threatened that he would be forced to call a special session on immigration matters later in the summer if the Colorado Supreme Court didn’t reverse its decision throwing out a proposed ballot measure that would deny government services to undocumented immigrants. “In…