joe rogers
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A LOOK BACK | Dems offer Love $500 to debate McNichols
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FIfty-Five Years Ago This Week: Gov. Steve McNichols and his Republican rival, Colorado Springs attorney John Love, held their first debate at Editors Day at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Commentators said McNichols had held his own, but several others interviewed following the end of the debate felt the governor had already “flunked out…
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Stapleton taps running mate — but plans to keep selection secret for awhile
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Walker Stapleton has a running mate, but the Republican gubernatorial nominee is in no hurry to let anyone know who it is. After winning the four-way GOP primary a week ago, the two-term state treasurer has “offered the position to a well-qualified candidate,” a Stapleton campaign spokesman told Colorado Politics on Tuesday, and the candidate…
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YESTERYEAR: Top Colorado politicians sworn into office
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… Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Diana DeGette is sworn in as a new member of Congress. The newly elected DeGettehosted more than 300 of her supporters, family and closest friends at her ceremonial swearing-in as the 19th representative for the 1st Congressional District. DeGette replaced retiring Democratic Rep. Pat Schroeder, who had served…
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YESTERYEAR: Bush clears brush, raises big bucks during Colorado visit
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … More than a year before the midterm elections, President George W. Bush made a stop in Colorado – his first since assuming the presidency – as part of his “Heartland” tour, signaling the start of the political season. Before attending an enormous fundraiser for U.S.…
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YESTERYEAR: Lamm flirts with presidential run on Ross Perot’s Reform Party ticket
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former Gov. Dick Lamm was remaining a Democrat – for the time being – but would be working hard to help Ross Perot’s Reform Party get its presidential candidate on the ballot in Colorado, and Lamm might be that candidate. “I think it’s really important…
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YESTERYEAR: Reactions vary widely to U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Amendment 2
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Elected officials had a range of reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Colorado’s Amendment 2, the ballot measure passed four years earlier by state voters, that would forbid “protected status based on homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation.” The court “rejected the equal rights…
