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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 10’s Chris Hinds
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Newly elected Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds won’t have to wait until he is sworn in on July 15 to bring about change at City Hall. It’s already happening. Hinds, who defeated incumbent Wayne New in a June 4 runoff election, believes he will be the first-ever city councilman who uses a wheelchair to get…
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INSIGHTS | A decade after the DNC in Denver, the city says no thanks
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Barack Obama electrified a Denver stadium filled with 84,000 Democrats who were a mile high on hope and dreams on Aug. 28 a decade ago. The senator from Illinois had clinched the nomination the day before at the Pepsi Center, when one-time challenger Hillary Clinton interrupted the nominating roll call to move that Obama be…
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House Speaker Crisanta Duran’s high profile rooted in Colorado goals
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Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran, 37, is ending her House career at an age when many lawmakers are barely getting started. In the last two years, Duran’s national profile has risen dramatically, even before becoming the state’s first Latina speaker of the house. She won the Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award in March 2016 from…
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Joe Biden visits Denver on national book tour to share White House stories and hope
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, whose road to the White House in 2008 officially began in Denver, returned to the Mile High City Saturday night to talk politics and the Trump administration – and to promote a new book on the relationship with the son who died of cancer two years ago. Biden spoke for…
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YESTERYEAR: Howard Dean attempts to quell Denver DNC union rebellion; Buckley mired
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Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … When she was elected in 1994, Secretary of State Vikki Buckley became the first African-American woman to take statewide office in Colorado. She had spent 22 years working her way up through the ranks of the secretary of state’s office, and eventually became second in command…
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Group backing vets furious with Republicans for ‘demeaning’ Coffman challenger Crow’s military service
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A bipartisan organization that encourages veterans to run for office demanded an apology Tuesday for comments made by a national Republican campaign group about combat veteran Jason Crow’s announcement that he’s challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, also a combat veteran, in next year’s election. While no one apologized, the swiftly escalating war of words — centered…
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Denver attorney, combat veteran Jason Crow launches Democratic challenge to Mike Coffman
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Democrat Jason Crow, a Denver attorney and decorated Army Ranger veteran, announced Tuesday he’s running against U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in the battleground 6th Congressional District in next year’s election. “As a combat veteran and father of young children, I’m running for Congress because our political system is broken, and we’re not going to solve…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado represented in national party leadership, albeit controversially
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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 –…
