faye fleming
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YESTERYEAR: Legislator’s party flip infuriates local union
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Thirty Years Ago this Week in the Colorado Statesman … State Rep. Faye Fleming, D-Thornton, switched her party affiliation from Democratic to Republican Feb. 14, 1987, only six weeks after she took office. One of her campaign contributors, United Steel Workers Local 8031, threatened to sue her for misrepresentation. The influential union also took to the…
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From lobbying to campaigns, Fofi Mendez devoted to protecting vulnerable
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Twenty-five years later, lobbyist Fofi Mendez, the principle at Mendez Consulting, Inc., says the memory still sends a shiver down her spine. She had an established career in Colorado working in the anti-violence realm, directing victim’s services for the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program – now known as the Blue Bench – starting in the…
