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YESTERYEAR: Lamm threatens veto if GOP draws extremely favorable congressional maps
Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … House Majority Leader Ron Strahle’s congressional redistricting plan was already drawing veto threats from Gov. Dick Lamm, who swore he would never accept a Republican-drawn map that guaranteed the GOP five safe seats with just one seat a Democrat might win. Instead, Lamm proposed aiming…
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YESTERYEAR: Special session looms after high court tosses immigration initiative
Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Bill Owens threatened that he would be forced to call a special session on immigration matters later in the summer if the Colorado Supreme Court didn’t reverse its decision throwing out a proposed ballot measure that would deny government services to undocumented immigrants. “In…
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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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Lamm undecided over third term as candidates emerge
Thirty-Five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Dick Lamm hadn’t decided yet whether he planned to run for a third term in 1982, but the Democrat conceded he could be unseated by Colorado Republicans, who had said their major goal in the next year was retaking the governor’s mansion. “Oh, sure,”…
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Dale Tooley autobiography tops charts, political dinners proliferate
Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … I’d Rather Be in Denver — Dale Tooley’s Own Story, reached the top of the local best-seller lists just a few weeks after its release, according to both The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. The former Denver district attorney had completed his autobiography…
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Sunday Special Report: Former staffers recall ’84 run of Gary Hart
It doesn’t take all that long for anyone who knew Gary Hart back in the 1980s to utter some semblance of the same old phrase. He came so close to winning. Indeed, in the minds of many, Gary Hart is the subjunctive president, the man who should have been. Much has been made of Hart’s…