phil winn
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A LOOK BACK | Hot debate over reapportionment process changes
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Fifty Years Ago This Week: Mike Swift, executive director of Voters Organization to Effect Reapportionment (VOTER) told The Colorado Democrat that he hoped to get seventy thousand signatures on his proposed amendment, which called for a commission to reapportion state legislative seats based on population. VOTER was backed by the League of Women Voters, the…
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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:…
