frank defillipo
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YESTERYEAR: Lawmakers scramble to pass United Airlines deal in special session
Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Legislators were working overtime in a special session called by Gov. Roy Romer to put together an incentive deal to bring “a billion-dollar shower of money” to the Denver area by luring a United Airlines maintenance center, a reservations “megacenter” and expanded flight operations by…
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YESTERYEAR: Allegations surface that embezzlement scheme helped fund U.S. Senate petition drive
Thirty-Five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Some of the money allegedly embezzled from the Central Bank for Cooperatives in Denver by Eve Lincoln, a former coordinator for Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan’s 1980 Senate campaign, could have been used to help finance Buchanan’s petition drive to get on the ballot,…
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BARTELS: Folks call her Nancy Pelosi, but wrong party, wrong state, wrong pronunciation
When your name’s Nancy Pallozzi and you’re involved in Colorado politics, you’re bound to get asked about Nancy Pelosi, who’s involved in DC politics. “Every day I get asked about it,” said Colorado’s Pallozzi, who is running for state House District 28 in Lakewood. Hat tip to retired lobbyist Frank DeFillipo, who pointed out…