reapportionment
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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:…
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Progressives file new district map-drawing proposals
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As the next census year approaches — 2020 — someone will soon have to go to the drawing table to redraw Colorado’s legislative district maps. The question is not when, but who will complete the task. While still nearly four years out, several groups want to be proactive and change the process this year at the ballot…
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Valdez: What problem are they trying to solve with 107?
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The proposed Amendment 55 has been rewritten and is now Proposed Amendment 107. Proponents of the amendment are saying they want to prohibit gerrymandering in Colorado. What gerrymandering? Let’s examine the record for our great state since the citizens changed the constitution in the 1970s to take away the responsibility of reapportioning legislative seats from…
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Benson looks ahead to reapportionment, friends toast Armstrong’s career
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … State Republican Party Chairman Bruce Benson warned about the looming redistricting and reapportionment fight in a “message from the chairman” that led the Republican half of the Statesman’s traditional upside-down double issue, printed when the Republicans and Democrats held their state assemblies the same weekend.…
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Tool: Initiative 107 will restore power to voters
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In his final State of the Union address, President Obama lamented that partisan division and polarization had increased during his tenure. He laid part of the blame on gerrymandered congressional districts, stating, “In America, politicians should not pick their voters; voters should pick their politicians.” Here in Colorado, a bipartisan group of leaders has come…
