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A LOOK BACK | Democrat Betz, Republican Considine deliver remarks on key issues of their time
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: With election season in full swing, Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Fred Betz fired back at Republican Chairman Jean Tool over a spate of negative advertisements from the GOP. “In his desperation to produce a 1962 victory for his party,” Betz said, “Chairman Tool has adopted a policy which gives no…
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YESTERYEAR: Election official warns moving primary to August could dampen vote
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Legislators should be “ashamed” of moving the primary election from September to August, wrote Susan Duncan, president of the Denver Election Commission, in a guest commentary. “These are the dog days of August, when sensible people are paying attention to baseball – not politics,” she…
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YESTERYEAR: Lamm threatens veto if GOP draws extremely favorable congressional maps
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … House Majority Leader Ron Strahle’s congressional redistricting plan was already drawing veto threats from Gov. Dick Lamm, who swore he would never accept a Republican-drawn map that guaranteed the GOP five safe seats with just one seat a Democrat might win. Instead, Lamm proposed aiming…
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YESTERYEAR: Reagan, Bush visit Denver for separate speeches at conventions
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Assessing the nearly completed legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Ralph Cole, R- Littleton, said that Minority Leader Regis Groff, D-Denver, did a good job. “I admire him. He’s not unduly sensitive about the fact he’s a Black. He’s very able.” Groff returned the mixed compliment:…
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Dale Tooley autobiography tops charts, political dinners proliferate
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … I’d Rather Be in Denver — Dale Tooley’s Own Story, reached the top of the local best-seller lists just a few weeks after its release, according to both The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. The former Denver district attorney had completed his autobiography…
