natalie meyer
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A LOOK BACK | Congressional candidate calls government growth ‘unavoidable’
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Fifty-Five Years Ago This Week: Speaking to concerned farmers, ranchers and campaign supporters in the City of Limon, Conrad McBride, Democratic candidate for Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District, said that there was “an obvious price squeeze between static farm prices and inflated land prices today,” and added that – short of perfect cooperation – would require…
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A pleasant surprise — and quite an honor — for a longtime elections maven
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Remember Natalie Meyer? Who could forget Colorado’s longest-serving secretary of state? The Republican was elected to the first of her three terms in 1982 – it was before term limits – and served through 1994. In her time in office she was widely respected across the partisan divide for keeping a steady hand on the…
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YESTERYEAR: Howard Dean attempts to quell Denver DNC union rebellion; Buckley mired
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Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … When she was elected in 1994, Secretary of State Vikki Buckley became the first African-American woman to take statewide office in Colorado. She had spent 22 years working her way up through the ranks of the secretary of state’s office, and eventually became second in command…
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YESTERYEAR: Democrats defend Hillary Clinton as Bill nominated for second term
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Democrats dispelled any preconceptions that their 1996 national convention would mirror “the GOP’s tightly controlled production” that relied on “cheerleading youth to generate enthusiasm and whips to silence dissenters,” The Statesman reported from Chicago, where delegates nominated Bill Clinton and Al Gore for a second…
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BARTELS: Kathy Packer packs it up after spending 31 years at Colorado Secretary of State
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When Kathy Packer started working at the age of 18, Dick Lamm was governor of Colorado, Federico Peña was mayor of Denver and Secretary of State Natalie Meyer was her boss. “Natalie was a very classy, professional lady, always very poised and put together,” Packer recalled. Packer would go on to work for seven more secretaries of…
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Yesteryear: GOP gears up for ’96 presidential primary, Hairstreak Butterfly gets Senate nod
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … While the state was only in the “infancy stage” as a player in presidential politics, Colorado’s second presidential primary, in 1996, was shining a spotlight on a state that had been mostly ignored by presidential hopefuls. “Colorado got an enormous amount of attention from the…
