wayne aspinall
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A LOOK BACK | Aspinall rejects GOP’s socialism claims during election season
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Fifty Years Ago This Week: U.S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall, D-CD4, was honored by the Mesa County Jane Jefferson Club in a special “Wayne Aspinall Night” meeting. Speaking to around 85 Mesa County Democratic women, Aspinall said that “Republican charges of increasing socialism in the federal government are unfounded.” Of the entire federal budget, he argued,…
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A LOOK BACK | Newspaper publishers come to Aspinall’s defense
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Sixty Years Ago This Week: When Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Dominick, CD-2, and Colorado Republican Party Chair Jean Tool cast shade on the voting record of Democratic U. S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall, CD-4, going so far as to insinuate that he was a “communist” sympathizer, the reactions were strong and immediate. But newspaper publishers from…
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Former Interior boss Gale Norton says Easterners don’t get Western Colorado
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GRAND JUNCTION – People in the East just don’t get the West, former U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton told the audience at Club 20’s 65th birthday party Friday night on the Western Slope. “Club 20 helped educate me about the issues that are important to Colorado and to the West,” she said. “This was especially important…
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YESTERYEAR: James Watt blasts critics, defends Interior policies in Grand Junction
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former U.S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall declared that Colorado was “back in the big leagues” as he introduced divisive Coloradan Interior Secretary James Watt at the annual Club 20 banquet in Grand Junction. Watt, who noted he carried a Navajo arrowhead to “be protected from newspaper…
