Tag: Gary Hart
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New Colorado Springs exhibit features work by former Gazette political cartoonist
The news can feel like a soap opera. You stop watching for a few decades and when you tune back in, the same storylines are still chugging along. The same can apply to the headlines. When award-winning former Gazette political cartoonist Chuck Asay started looking back through his old work for a new Pikes Peak…
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Democratic leaders call party mates’ tactics to boost Ron Hanks, others during primary ‘unethical’
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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TRAIL MIX | When politics went tabloid: Film about Gary Hart’s 1987 campaign worth a fresh look
It’s about to get real. This, if you can believe it, is the lull. In another month or so, once the month-long holidays have passed, the Colorado General Assembly will be in session and the 2022 campaign year will be in full swing. In Colorado, a crucial U.S. Senate seat and the statewide executive offices…
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Lee Hart, wife of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, dies at 85
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Olthea “Lee” Hart, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, has died at 85 years old. She died Friday at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood after a brief illness. Hart was born Olthea Ludwig…
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YESTERYEAR: Lamm threatens veto if GOP draws extremely favorable congressional maps
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … House Majority Leader Ron Strahle’s congressional redistricting plan was already drawing veto threats from Gov. Dick Lamm, who swore he would never accept a Republican-drawn map that guaranteed the GOP five safe seats with just…
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Lamm undecided over third term as candidates emerge
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty-Five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Dick Lamm hadn’t decided yet whether he planned to run for a third term in 1982, but the Democrat conceded he could be unseated by Colorado Republicans, who had said their major goal in…