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BARTELS: Jon Keyser’s term limits pledge
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A phrase under Jon Keyser’s name on the primary ballot for Republican U.S. Senate candidates is causing consternation among some voters. It reads: “Signed declaration to limit service to no more than 2 terms.” “Pretty blatant campaigning ON THE BALLOT,” one voter remarked to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. “Electioneering,” one woman complained…
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YESTERYEAR: Reactions vary widely to U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Amendment 2
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Elected officials had a range of reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Colorado’s Amendment 2, the ballot measure passed four years earlier by state voters, that would forbid “protected status based on homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation.” The court “rejected the equal rights…
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Romer vetoes bill outlawing same-sex marriages, Bain looks for GOP sweep
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Roy Romer wielded his veto pen “with open hands urging reconciliation and respect,” rejecting a bill that would have outlawed same-sex marriages in Colorado. Romer said he spent many hours studying the question and, despite an intense campaign waged by supporters and opponents, wound…
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BARTELS: Ghosts of Colorado caucuses past, from nuns to a naked boy
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As a political reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, I asked a variety of politicos — from then-City Auditor Dennis Gallagher to U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard to former First Lady Wilma Webb — about their precinct caucus experiences. With Colorado Republicans and Democrats holding their precinct caucuses tonight, here’s that 2008 story: Ah, there’s nothing like memories of…
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Hillman lists lessons learned in Senate minority, transportation gets a subcommittee
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Assistant Senate Minority Leader Mark Hillman shared the “Lessons of a minority senator” he said he’d learned after the Democrats took the gavel in the upper chamber in January for the first time in decades. “In my days as a sportswriter,” he wrote, “this was…
