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A LOOK BACK | Local Dems encourage Schroeder presidential bid
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: In an effort to encourage a rumored announcement from Colorado U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-CD1, that she would be seeking the Democratic nomination for president, a bevy of Colorado political figures were putting together “Run-Pat-Run” parties across south-central Denver. “She’s very exciting and will lend a great deal of substance…
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Democratic leaders call party mates’ tactics to boost Ron Hanks, others during primary ‘unethical’
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Issue One, a bipartisan group that works to lessen political polarization and limit the influence of big money over politics, issued a letter Monday with 35 prominent former Democratic elected officials, including a half dozen from Colorado, who criticized recent efforts by Democratic groups to intervene in Republican primaries. Signatories to the letter include former Gov.…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado legislator repeals state’s anti-miscegenation law
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Sixty-Five Years Ago This Week: State Rep. Bob Allen, D-Denver, was sponsoring House Bill 57-1039 which would repeal Colorado’s anti-miscegenation law. The law stated, “All marriages between Negroes or mulattoes of either sex and white persons are declared to be absolutely void.” Fifteen years previously Colorado’s Supreme Court had ruled in Jackson v. Denver that…
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TRAIL MIX | Prognosticators from across political spectrum weigh in on 2022 election in Colorado
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Heading into the 2022 election year, it’s important to keep in mind a couple of indisputable political realities: Colorado tends to really like its governors, and Democrat Michael Bennet is one of the luckiest politicians on the planet. Those were among the nuggets dispensed by a tripartisan trio of veteran strategists who convened for a…
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Former Supreme Court Justice Greg Hobbs dies at 76
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Former Colorado Supreme Justice Gregory J. Hobbs Jr., the state’s preeminent authority on water law and its history, died Tuesday. He was 76, two weeks short of his birthday. His family released a statement Tuesday evening saying he died “peacefully with his family” after a pulmonary embolism. He is survived by his wife, Bobbie, and…
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At 80, CU’s Bruce Benson is too busy ‘running stuff’ to slow down for critics
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Bruce Benson turned 80 on the Fourth of July. He decided it was time to graduate into retirement after a glittering, sometimes tense, career in the oil business, Colorado politics and, for the last decade, education as president of the University of Colorado system. He plans to stay on until July 2019, once his replacement…
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PRIMARY PREVIEW: Races for treasurer, AG play out across parties’ fault lines
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The top-of-the-ticket primaries for Colorado governor have been hogging the spotlight, but Democrats and Republicans are also angling for nominations for state treasurer and attorney general. While the down-ballot primaries differ from each other in several ways, they all feature a battle between the parties’ mainstream and more hard-core versions, and strategists say the outcomes…
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Ken Salazar throws support behind Cary Kennedy in Democratic gubernatorial primary
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy on Tuesday won an endorsement from former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who said it’s time Colorado elects a woman governor. “Cary Kennedy is the best person to lead Colorado in the years ahead. She has a vision to protect our land, water and people,” Salazar said, invoking a campaign slogan…
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Roy Romer endorses Democrat Phil Weiser in attorney general race
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Democratic attorney general candidate Phil Weiser has been endorsed by former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, his campaign announced Friday. “Phil Weiser will be an attorney general who will serve all of Colorado and help protect our citizens,” said Romer, who served three terms as governor beginning in the 1980s, in a statement. “He will listen…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, April 8 edition
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STEP BY STEP … When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Donna Lynne, Colorado’s lieutenant governor and chief operating officer, announced plans to walk the entire 26-mile length of Colfax Avenue on April 8, the stratagem echoed a pair of signature campaign exploits that propelled a couple of Colorado’s most successful politicians in decades past, as well as…
