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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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A LOOK BACK | Kennedy marks historic Colorado water project; legislator comments on party switch
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: Seventy-five thousand Coloradans arrived in Pueblo to join President John F. Kennedy as he marked the successful completion of a 30-year campaign for congressional approval of the FryingPan-Arkansas Project. The $171 million project involved importing spring snowmelt and runoff from the Western Slope to the Arkansas River-Basin on the Eastern…
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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…
