pat schroeder
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BARTELS: “Strong Sisters” documents the role of women in Colorado politics
A who’s who of female politicians — including former House majority leaders Norma Anderson to Amy Stephens — showed up Sunday for the premiere of the documentary they starred in, “Strong Sisters,” which examines women and Colorado politics. The bipartisan film, produced by Meg Kruizenga Froelich and Laura Hoeppner, looks at the many firsts…
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BARTELS: Ghosts of Colorado caucuses past, from nuns to a naked boy
As a political reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, I asked a variety of politicos — from then-City Auditor Dennis Gallagher to U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard to former First Lady Wilma Webb — about their precinct caucus experiences. With Colorado Republicans and Democrats holding their precinct caucuses tonight, here’s that 2008 story: Ah, there’s nothing like memories of…
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Sunday Special Report: Former staffers recall ’84 run of Gary Hart
It doesn’t take all that long for anyone who knew Gary Hart back in the 1980s to utter some semblance of the same old phrase. He came so close to winning. Indeed, in the minds of many, Gary Hart is the subjunctive president, the man who should have been. Much has been made of Hart’s…
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InnerView with Pat Schroeder
By Jody Hope Strogoff & Ernest Luning for THE COLORADO STATESMAN Pat Schroeder — a Denver Democrat who served 12 terms in Congress and was briefly a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary in 1988 — was in town last week for the annual conference of the English-Speaking Union of the United States, an organization…