Author: Rachael Wright
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A LOOK BACK | Arapahoe County GOP hits turbulence
Thirty Five Years Ago This Week: The Arapahoe County Republican Party gathered on Feb. 4 for its biannual meeting to elect new party officers, but the election was anything but straightforward after the race for county chairman ended in an exact tie, with 180 votes each going to Sue Thomas and Gary Tobey. GOP attorney…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado AFL-CIO leader accuses southern Dems of aligning with GOP
Sixty Years Ago This Week: At a Forum of the Denver Democratic Club meeting at the Farmers Union building, Herrick Roth, president of the Colorado Labor Council AFL-CIO, derided the “unholy alliance” between southern Democrats and northern Republicans. The alliance, Roth alleged, was designed to defeat aid-to-education, Medicare and President John F. Kennedy’s planned Department…
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A LOOK BACK | Dem House speaker argues GOP can’t fool voters with tax cuts
Sixty Years Ago This Week: “Is this surplus real or is it imaginary?” quipped House Speaker Albert Tomsic, D-Walsenburg. He was referring to millions of unspent dollars sitting in the Colorado general fund. They most assuredly are imaginary, said Tomsic. He told fellow Democrats at the Monday Forum of the Denver Democratic Club the present…
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A LOOK BACK | State ag dustup explodes, wheat leader resigns
Sixty Years Ago This Week: State Agriculture Commissioner Paul Swisher’s criticism of Tim Thornton, director of the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee, led to Thornton’s resignation. This followed the CWAC’s 4-4 tie vote on the committee’s movement of no confidence in his leadership. Pushing back, state Rep. Forest Burns, D-Lamar, commented on the vote. “It’s too…
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A LOOK BACK | Candidates line up for Denver Democratic Party offices
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: After weeks of running the numbers and weighing his options, Steve Katzman announced that he would seek re-election as chair of the Denver Democratic Party. Attorney and activist Katzman said he’d considered both the professional and personal factors involved with serving in the city’s top party role and decided to…
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A LOOK BACK | Denver businessman switches guv campaign support
Forty Years Ago This Week: Denver developer and Democratic activist Kenneth Good announced that he was supporting Republican Phil Winn’s gubernatorial campaign, a major switch that he said he hadn’t arrived at lightly. Good had been a former backer of Gov. Dick Lamm and a past member of the Lamm’s Front Range Project. But Good…
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A LOOK BACK | Republican guv candidate touts ‘warehouse banking’
Forty Years Ago This Week: John Grandbouche, founder of the National Commodity and Barter Association, announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for Colorado governor. Grandbouche, who had run for lieutenant governor in 1978 on the Tea Party ticket, said he intended to bring local constitutional government back to Colorado. He said one of…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado activist meets with Reagan, Bush
Forty Years Ago This Week: Arapahoe County Republican activist Freda Poundstone returned from a trip to Washington D.C. for what was a whirlwind trip of political meetings, and topping her agenda had been a meeting with President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush. Poundstone had been one of just three representatives from the…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado RNC committeeman vetted for U.S. ambassadorship
Forty Years Ago This Week: Boulder County Republican Party Chair Lynn Ellis told her fellow party members that he was considering running for Republican National Committeeman after learning the sitting committeeman would be stepping down to take a U.S. ambassador position. Keith Brown, who was then the sitting committee person for Colorado, was being vetted…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado oil man nominated as ambassador to Niger
Forty Years Ago This Week: Longmont Republican Bill Casey was nominated by the Reagan administration to serve as ambassador to Niger. Casey, a mining engineer, had worked in Niger for Conoco Oil from 1977 to 1979 and said that he felt familiar with the country, its resources and its problems. Casey was awaiting his Senate…