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It was 1973 when Dick Lamm walked the state…
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Photos of the Lamm 40th reunion are available for purchase. If you order them by Dec. 18, we will get them to you before Christmas. Please contact Maggie at The Colorado Statesman, 303-837-8600 or maggie@coloradostatesman.com. The idea to get everyone together had been percolating for a while, years actually, but it may have been the…
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Bo Cottrell roasted and toasted for a good cause
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If you’ve been around politics in Colorado for any length of time, the name Bo Cottrell is clearly recognizable. Bo knows, and it seems everyone knows Bo. He’s been chairman of the Arapahoe County Republican Party, an avid supporter of GOP causes and candidates over the years, and even ran for the Statehouse himself back…
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Birthday boy Romanoff makes a political wish
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On the way to his 47th birthday celebration at Bicentennial Park in Aurora on Aug. 24, one of Andrew Romanoff’s friends asked him whether he was ever going to have a birthday party where he didn’t actually charge guests. “I thought about that for a moment and I said, ‘No.’ So next year it’ll be…
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Denver Republican Women’s pancake breakfast also features political items on menu
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Who gets up at the crack of dawn on a weekend morning and drives to a park for pancakes, sausages and scrambled eggs and to hear candidates speak roughly 14 months before the actual election? In this case it was a few dozen Denver Republican Women, whose Breakfast in the Park attracted devoted early risers…
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Carolyn Metzler, Republican activist and party volunteer
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Longtime Denver Republican stalwart Carolyn Jean Metzler passed away on July 24 after a long illness. Fortunately, her friends and family got to shower her with love up to the time of her death. And in 2011, the Lincoln Club of Colorado displayed their affection by bestowing on her their lifetime achievement award. Carolyn was…
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Bipartisan support for a former House colleague
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It isn’t often [never!] when the two major party’s legislative campaign fundraising organizations rally together on a joint project. But that’s what happened on Wednesday, August 7, when a large bipartisan group of state lawmakers and lobbyists gathered across the street from the Capitol to help former state Rep. Ken Summers, who remains hospitalized in…
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Panel examines the balancing of civil liberties and national security
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The topic of threats to domestic security and how they are balanced with civil liberties was addressed last week at the University of Denver during a well attended forum sponsored by the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (CELL). The panel of leading experts was moderated by Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, dean of the Josef Korbel School…
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Ken Salazar is welcomed back home by friends, family
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It was a grand party that brought together friends and associates spanning some 30 years, but they all were united on the evening of June 7 to welcome home Ken Salazar, the recently retired Secretary of the Interior who has returned to Colorado to practice law. Hosted by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Salazar’s successor in…
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Salazar passes torch to eager young Latinos
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It was almost as if Ken Salazar, the golden boy of Colorado Democratic politics, was staring at the future. In front of him, seated on chairs in an informal circle in a large meeting room on the first floor of the Wells Fargo office building downtown, were about a dozen and a half young people…
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Stephens ‘considering’ 2014 U.S. Senate race
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Colorado Republican State Chairman Ryan Call on Wednesday dangled out the names of four potential candidates to run against Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Udall in 2014. But only one — state Rep. Amy Stephens, R-Monument — sounded as if she might take the bait, although former Congressman Bob Beauprez acknowledged that he “can’t help but…
