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Paul Schauer, former Colorado lawmaker and regent, dies at 80
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Former state Rep. Paul Schauer, R-Littleton, died on Oct. 18 at the age of 80. Schauer served 20 years in the state House, including as Speaker Pro Tem from 1987 to 1990. Schauer was first elected to the House in 1979, mainly representing Arapahoe County. His bills focused mainly on financial and tax issues, including…
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YESTERYEAR: Astronaut turned would-be Colorado congressman memorialized
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Twenty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … A statue of Jack Swigert, Apollo 13 astronaut, was unveiled in Washington D.C., memorializing the fallen Coloradan in Statuary Hall. Swigert died from cancer in 1982 just days before he was to be sworn in as Colorado’s first elected Congressman from the newly created 6th…
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Q&A w/Nancy Spence: Her path was politics; her mission remains education
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Throughout her 14 years representing a broad swath of Arapahoe County in the General Assembly – three terms in the House, two terms in the Senate – Nancy Spence was something of a rarity among her peers at the Capitol. A Republican woman – a bit unusual in its own right at the legislature – who voted against the grain of her…
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BARTELS: Honoring “The Lady of the House”
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Lawmakers past and present showed up Tuesday to pay tribute to Lee Bahrych, the former chief clerk of the state House who loved the Capitol as much as she despised the pranks rowdy lawmakers were prone to pull. Former staffer Donna Acierno recalled how Bahrych once got so annoyed with Rep. Scott McInnis she…
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YESTERYEAR: Allegations surface that embezzlement scheme helped fund U.S. Senate petition drive
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Thirty-Five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Some of the money allegedly embezzled from the Central Bank for Cooperatives in Denver by Eve Lincoln, a former coordinator for Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan’s 1980 Senate campaign, could have been used to help finance Buchanan’s petition drive to get on the ballot,…
