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A LOOK BACK | Dems attack ‘questionable political morality’ of attorney general
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Fifty Years Ago This Week: In what some Republicans saw at the time to be a partisan election stunt, the Colorado Democratic Party issued a scathing “key issue statement,” charging Republican Colorado Attorney General Duke Dunbar with mismanagement of state funds in the operation of his office. The statement, signed by the Democratic candidate challenging…
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A LOOK BACK | Dems offer Love $500 to debate McNichols
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FIfty-Five Years Ago This Week: Gov. Steve McNichols and his Republican rival, Colorado Springs attorney John Love, held their first debate at Editors Day at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Commentators said McNichols had held his own, but several others interviewed following the end of the debate felt the governor had already “flunked out…
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A LOOK BACK | Democrat Betz, Republican Considine deliver remarks on key issues of their time
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: With election season in full swing, Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Fred Betz fired back at Republican Chairman Jean Tool over a spate of negative advertisements from the GOP. “In his desperation to produce a 1962 victory for his party,” Betz said, “Chairman Tool has adopted a policy which gives no…
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A LOOK BACK | Top-ticket Dems make announcements; Schroeder mulls run for president
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Sixty-Five Years Ago This Week: Colorado Gov. Steve McNichols and U.S. Sen. John A. Carroll had each announced in separate press events that they would be seeking reelection, eliciting a collective sigh of relief from many fellow Democrat. Statewide Democratic candidates had been saying for weeks that they felt sidelined because of the absence of…
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A LOOK BACK | Dem state chair lauds work by Kennedy, McNichols, Carroll
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Fred M. Betz Sr. spoke at the Colorado Young Democrats’ annual convention in Pueblo, warning his young colleagues that “the fallout from the carping, creeping conservatism of Republican Party oratory can cause hardening of the political arteries.” Betz urged the Young Dems to be on the…
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YESTERYEAR: Postmasters point toward safer, more effective mail delivery
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Fifty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Top officials with the Post Office Department – including Acting Assistant Postmaster General Sidney W. Bishop, a Denver native – unveiled major new Postal Service programs before an audience of 2,700 delegates to the 57th annual National Association of Postmasters Convention in Denver. The department would…
