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Donna Lynne lists high-profile women backing her race for governor
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Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne has some of the state’s best-known women in business, education and other civic life backing her race for governor. The campaign released of 87 “Trailblazers” endorsing the Democrat from Denver Monday. “This campaign is about bringing people together and getting things done for all Coloradans.” Lynne, who also is the state’s…
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House panel rejects what some called an Amendment 2 repeat
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DENVER – A bill many feared would take Colorado back to its 1992 reputation as the “hate state” failed in a state House of Representatives committee Tuesday night on a party-line vote. House Bill 1206 would have allowed those with “sincerely-held religious beliefs” to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals, according to witnesses who testified on the…
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Lucia Guzman, John Hickenlooper among One Colorado’s Ally Award winners
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Two Capitol Democrats with a history of blazing trails for LGBTQ equality are among the recipients of One Colorado Education Fund’s annual Ally Awards, the advocacy organization announced this week. Gov. John Hickenlooper is one of three Ally Award winners, and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, a Denver Democrat, is slated to receive One Colorado’s…
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VIDEO: Former Sen. Pat Steadman receives One Colorado’s lifetime achievement award
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LF0pZkmsvU Pat Steadman, the former state senator and public citizen extraordinaire, was honored with a lifetime achievement award last weekend at One Colorado Education Fund’s annual Ally Awards, which honors those who have worked for the rights and good of LGBTQ Coloradans and their families were: Term limits kept Steadman from running again last year.…
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One Colorado to honor Pat Steadman, Jean Dubofsky, Rathod Mohamedbhai and Kaiser
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Twenty-one years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s Amendment 2, One Colorado Education Fund is honoring two attorneys who played key roles in the case – former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky and former state Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver – at the LGBT-rights organization’s annual Ally Awards fundraising event. Dubofsky, the first woman…
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YESTERYEAR: Romer takes on Union of Taxpayers’ chief over TABOR refunds
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Thirty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … On election night, 1987, incumbent Mayor Federico Peña went on to capture 79,674 votes for 51 percent of the total vote compared to challenger Don Bain’s 49 percent. The highlight (or lowlight) of the evening, was Peña’s sweltering downtown headquarters where 1,000 people crammed into…
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Denver attorney Brad Levin joins crowded Democratic primary field for Colorado attorney general
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Attorney Brad Levin, a Denver Democrat, plans to announce on Monday that he’s getting in the race for Colorado’s attorney general in next year’s election, he told Colorado Politics. “The office of attorney general should be about protecting all Coloradans, no matter what their station in life may be,” Levin said. “My 35-year legal practice…
