Colorado’s GOP weighs in before Garden event By Leigh E. Rich Intra-party squabbling continues to dog Colorado Republicans, even as Gov. Bill Owens serves as a co-chair of the national party’s platform committee the week before the Republican National Convention in New York. Owens left for the Big Apple early this week to head the […]
08.27.2004
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08.27.2004
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Nephew George P. Bush talks up his uncle By Leigh E. Rich George Bush isn’t new to politics. George P. Bush, that is. The nephew of President George W. Bush, grandson of former President George H.W. Bush and son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has proudly pinned the family appellation to his political lapel during […]
08.20.2004
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‘Eeking’ out a new political party By Leigh E. Rich Can a revolution occur gradually? Or must it actually involve a … revolt? It’s difficult to say when it comes to social clines. Social mores can erode or assemble with the slow, subtle means that mark the movements of mountains or the construction of a […]
08.20.2004
Greens pledge independence from greenbacks By Leigh E. Rich It really isn’t that easy being Green. If you’re not being mistaken for Ralph Nader or swallowed like a pesky fly by the bullfrogs that are the two mainstream political parties, you’re being accused of handing the state of Florida and, in essence, the 2000 presidential […]
08.20.2004
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First Lady Laura Bush remarks on the economy By Leigh E. Rich What wasn’t quite touted as a campaign stop by the Office of the First Lady was nothing but a stump for her husband, George W. Bush, and his leading campaign promises to make his tax cuts permanent in the next four years, to […]
08.13.2004
With outliers out, Senate race could loiter in margin of error By Leigh E. Rich Easily cleaving the ideological outliers from both camps, what was predicted to be a close-call primary has metamorphosed into a battle of the moderates. Tuesday’s primary—though promising a tight match between Republicans Bob Schaffer and Pete Coors and a Democratic […]
08.13.2004
Salazar skids into driver’s seat for Senate By Leigh E. Rich It was practically a political roll call of the former and the future Tuesday night, as Colorado Democrats gathered to support and congratulate their U.S. Senate candidates for a primary well run. Bearing no resemblance to the bitter four-month battle on the Republican side, […]
08.06.2004
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A boot-kicking, and Kerry-kicking, good time By Leigh E. Rich Tax breaks, the war on terror, and taking to task Sen. John Kerry topped Vice President Dick Cheney’s rally cries this week at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Like Kerry’s recent courting of Colorado, it could be said that Wednesday’s visit by the veep was a […]
08.06.2004
Secretary of State hoping for higher than usual vote participation By Leigh E. Rich “We count every ballot. Every ballot counts,” Colorado Secretary of State Donetta Davidson promised at a press conference Tuesday, held with the intention of reminding voters of the federal and state election laws that will take effect in next week’s primary […]
08.06.2004
Cheney event cast in bright light … of the Almighty By Leigh E. Rich At times reminiscent of a rodeo and at one point resembling a revival, Dick Cheney’s campaign stop Wednesday took enough of a religious turn to make even the worst constitutional scholar squirm. The backdrop of the vice president’s visit, held in […]
07.30.2004
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Noteworthy 2004 DNC wedded to happily every after By Leigh E. Rich Now that the biodegradable balloons have been dropped and the recycled confetti has been tossed like rice at the happy couple, there is no doubt the Democrats hope for a happy honeymoon. And they just might get it. With the seats all empty […]
07.30.2004
The Kerry convention from Colorado: Coloradans, a Canadian and a culinary competition By Leigh E. Rich He’s a veteran and she’s an immigrant. They’ve only been married a few years, patching together a modern American family. And they’re both concerned with making Colorado count in this year’s election. It’s no wonder Mark and Alana Randol […]
