Author: Rachael Wright
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A LOOK BACK | Hart pledges stronger second presidential campaign
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: “I guarantee you that I’ll make mistakes,” former Sen. Gary Hart said of his second presidential campaign. “I’m talking about campaign tactical errors, not mistakes on issues.” Hart, who declined to seek re-election at the end of his second term as U.S. Senator, was returning to the presidential race after…
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A LOOK BACK | Farmers organize convoy protest over financial practices
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: A convoy of approximately 20 tractors and trucks driven by Colorado farmers had just begun a three-day rally outside the Farm Credit Corporation of America’s Greenwood Village office. The assembled farmers were protesting unfair farm banking policies, asserting that the farm credit bureau was “responsible for current low land values…
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A LOOK BACK | Environmental group cited as mayoral election ploy
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Denver mayoral candidate Don Bain called the newly-formed Denver Environmental Coalition “a sham and transparent attempt to provide the mayor with another endorsement.” The DEC was headed by Tim Atkeson who also happened to be the chairman of Mayor Federico Peña’s Task Force on Environmental Affairs, and had been formed…
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A LOOK BACK | Dem chief tears into effort to unseat Aspinall
Sixty Years Ago This Week: In a inter-party skirmish over a centrist politician perhaps less common for the time period, Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Fred Betz Jr. told reporters that across the Western Slope he was finding community members who were shocked and outraged at Colorado Republican Party Chairman Jean Tool’s plans to pour money…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado GOP activist provides insights on USSR ‘peace’ proposal
Thirty-five years ago this week: Colorado Republican activist Mort Marks told The Colorado Statesman that he “didn’t trust the Soviet Union’s latest ‘peace’ proposal” in which the USSR proposed that both sides eliminate their medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. According to the terms of the USSR’s proposal, over 1,000 missiles would be eliminated from Europe,…
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A LOOK BACK | Evidence Russia accumulating gold, industry leader tells legislature
Sixty Years Ago This Week: Merrill E. Shoup, president of the Golden Cycle Corporation, testified in front of the state Senate Minerals subcommittee that “the Russians are stimulating their gold production and accumulating gold.” Shoup represented 10 mining and milling operators in the Cripple Creek area with the goal of restoring gold and silver production in…
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A LOOK BACK | Dems group attacks ‘anti-republic’ reapportionment process
Sixty Years Ago This Week: Colorado’s General Assembly had been unable to draft a feasible solution to reapportionment, even after constant demands from the public that representation around the state be made more equitable. Colorado Young Democrat Leader, Lowell Stephens, told The Colorado Democrat, “How can ‘all government originate with the people’ when a majority…
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A LOOK BACK | State Dems irate over GOP congressman’s blocking of Kennedy initiative
Sixty Years Ago This Week: Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Fred Betz Sr. was out voicing his “significant disappointment” to anyone who would listen that U.S. Rep. Peter Dominick, R-CD2, had “turned his back” on the overwhelming problems facing his district. Dominick had voted against President John F. Kennedy’s proposed Department of Urban Affairs while quoting…
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A LOOK BACK | Attorney Hornbein remembered by bipartisan multitude
Sixty Years Ago This Week: Republicans and Democrats alike came forward to pay their respects to Philip Hornbein Sr., a Denver attorney, philanthropist and civil rights campaigner who died at the age of 83. Hornbein passed the state bar exam in 1902 and spent his entire career practicing law in Colorado. He represented the Western…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado Dems defend infrastructure spending, social programs against GOP tax cuts
Sixty Years Ago This Week: Colorado state Senate Majority Leader Jim Mowbray unleashed a bevy of criticisms toward his Republican colleagues after the GOP showed fierce opposition to the Democratic Party’s economic plans. “The Republican minority,” Mowbray, D-Delta, said, “— particularly in the House — set a new record for irresponsibility of the legislature.” Mowbray told…