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Democratic leaders call party mates’ tactics to boost Ron Hanks, others during primary ‘unethical’
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Issue One, a bipartisan group that works to lessen political polarization and limit the influence of big money over politics, issued a letter Monday with 35 prominent former Democratic elected officials, including a half dozen from Colorado, who criticized recent efforts by Democratic groups to intervene in Republican primaries. Signatories to the letter include former Gov.…
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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 chair proclaims tax structure drew Hewlett-Packard to Colorado
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Fifty Years Ago This Week: Democratic State Chairman Fred Betz Sr. told a gathering of the Loveland Jane Jefferson Club that good government was about bringing prosperity to Colorado. In his remarks, Betz aimed a few verbal barbs at Republican critics of the Democratic state administration, “They need help sharpening up their rearview mirrors,” Betz…
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COVER STORY: 10 milestones that shaped Colorado’s modern political world
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It’s been 50 years since Colorado turned the page on the post-War period and plunged into the state’s modern political era as a new generation of leaders took the stage to grapple with challenges confronting the rapidly changing state. Known as a politically balanced state for most of its history – long before TV newscasters…
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TRAIL MIX | When politics went tabloid: Film about Gary Hart’s 1987 campaign worth a fresh look
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It’s about to get real. This, if you can believe it, is the lull. In another month or so, once the month-long holidays have passed, the Colorado General Assembly will be in session and the 2022 campaign year will be in full swing. In Colorado, a crucial U.S. Senate seat and the statewide executive offices…
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A LOOK BACK | Hart vs. Buchanan election rhetoric intensifies
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A weekly dive into the pages of Colorado Politics’ predecessor, The Colorado Statesman, which started in 1898: Forty Years Ago This Week: Just when no one thought the two candidates for U.S. Senate had anything in common, Democratic U.S. Sen. Gary Hart and his Republican challenger, Mary Estill Buchanan, both bemoaned the same state of…
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4 ex-Colorado senators sign letter calling on Senate to defend democracy
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Four Coloradans are among 44 former U.S. senators who signed a letter in The Washington Post saying the Senate must stand in “defense of our democracy” as the nation enters “a dangerous period.” “As former members of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans, it is our shared view that we are entering a dangerous period,…
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TRAIL MIX | Politics as entertainment in the clickable era
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A movie that hit theaters this month tells the story of Gary Hart’s downfall, but “The Front Runner,” starring Hugh Jackman, also bring to life the moment when American politics changed forever – when the Colorado senator who almost became president was undone by a press corps that decided to give politicians the tabloid treatment.…
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TRAIL MIX | Was Gary Hart’s downfall orchestrated? It might not matter
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The events and images are the stuff of political legend. Gary Hart, the Colorado senator bound for the White House, saw his presidential ambitions evaporate overnight in 1987 when the Miami Herald “linked” the Democrat to a woman who wasn’t his wife, later identified as Miami model Donna Rice. Less than a week after the…
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WATCH: ‘Monkey Business’ revisited: Gary Hart/Donna Rice movie debuts at Telluride fest
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Too much monkey business? Evidently Hollywood doesn’t think so. It’s been 31 years since the lurid tale of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colorado) and his alleged dalliance with model Donna Rice dominated headlines and knocked the earnest, brainy Colorado Democrat out of the presidential race. As Paul Bedard of our sister paper Washington Examiner…
