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First reapportionment commission meeting held after passage of Amendment 9 | A LOOK BACK
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Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: 1981 marked the first year, following the passage of Amendment 9 years earlier, that the newly formed reapportionment commission would meet. According to the amendment, the commission had to hold its first meeting no later than Aug. 1 and would have 90 days to publish its preliminary plan for reapportionment…
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YESTERYEAR: Lamm threatens veto if GOP draws extremely favorable congressional maps
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … House Majority Leader Ron Strahle’s congressional redistricting plan was already drawing veto threats from Gov. Dick Lamm, who swore he would never accept a Republican-drawn map that guaranteed the GOP five safe seats with just one seat a Democrat might win. Instead, Lamm proposed aiming…
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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:…
