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A LOOK BACK | Newspaper publishers come to Aspinall’s defense
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: When Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Dominick, CD-2, and Colorado Republican Party Chair Jean Tool cast shade on the voting record of Democratic U. S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall, CD-4, going so far as to insinuate that he was a “communist” sympathizer, the reactions were strong and immediate. But newspaper publishers from…
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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: Nicholson draws fire from pro-lifers
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Twenty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson came under fire by an unlikely group of pro-life Republicans who compared his actions to those of Adolf Hitler. Nicholson, who considered himself pro-life, came under attack in early May 1997 by the American Constitution Party, the Colorado affiliate of the…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado represented in national party leadership, albeit controversially
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Different times, they were, but so much the same … Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Coloradans were in a proud position. The state’s very own were to head both of the nation’s major political parties. Gov. Roy Romer acknowledged that his new post as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee –…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado Supreme Court overturns death penalty statute
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … The lawyer who led a successful constitutional challenge against Colorado’s death penalty law said no one should have been surprised that the Colorado Supreme Court overturned the statute, pointing out that some legislators had warned it was defective when it passed. University of Denver law professor…
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Benson looks ahead to reapportionment, friends toast Armstrong’s career
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … State Republican Party Chairman Bruce Benson warned about the looming redistricting and reapportionment fight in a “message from the chairman” that led the Republican half of the Statesman’s traditional upside-down double issue, printed when the Republicans and Democrats held their state assemblies the same weekend.…
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Yesteryear: GOP gears up for ’96 presidential primary, Hairstreak Butterfly gets Senate nod
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … While the state was only in the “infancy stage” as a player in presidential politics, Colorado’s second presidential primary, in 1996, was shining a spotlight on a state that had been mostly ignored by presidential hopefuls. “Colorado got an enormous amount of attention from the…
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Yesteryear: Webb blasts new stadium name, school funding fights loom
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Denver Mayor Wellington Webb lamented a vote by the Metropolitan Football Stadium District board naming the new stadium “Invesco Field at Mile High,” saying “a piece of Denver history and tradition was lost despite the overwhelming public sentiment to keep ‘Mile High Stadium’ as the…
