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With deference to Ken Gordon, withhold your cheers… and your money, and your votes
The recent death of former state Sen. Ken Gordon was like that cold gush of wintry air that hits you in the face after you open the front door and get ready to leave your warm house. Unexpected, harsh and smarting for an instant. For me, it wasn’t because I was good friends with the…
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Perseverance pays off, Bowlen Wallace tells Colorado Women’s Alliance
Politics, like football, is a contact sport, some say, and on the evening of Nov. 12, members of the Colorado Women’s Alliance combined the two at a program featuring Beth Bowlen Wallace, director of special projects for The Denver Broncos. The well-attended event, held in a private home in Cherry Hills, brought together high powered…
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It was 1973 when Dick Lamm walked the state…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…