Gary Hart

‘Tis the season for year-end campaign donation drives and candidates are pulling out the big guns. Robert Redford sent out a note on behalf of Gov. Bill Ritter today and the Robert Redford of Colorado politics, former U.S. senator and present-day blogger Gary Hart, made a pitch for Sen. Michael Bennet.
Redford says Ritter [...]

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is working to end the 16-year-old “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy signed into law by Pres. Clinton that requires gay and lesbian servicemen and women to keep their sexuality a secret. Udall sent a letter to Pres. Obama yesterday urging him to repeal the law and “replace it with [...]

Last Sunday, U.S. Senator-turned author and university department chair Gary Hart began blogging his experience as an international observer for the Afghanistan elections at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs website mattersofprinciple.com. Hart is an informed optimist, who gains insights on U.S. politics from Afghan events.

The tributes are pouring in to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who died late Tuesday night at age 77 at his home on Cape Cod from brain cancer. Here are some reactions from Colorado political leaders:

I would go listen to former Colorado Senator Gary Hart give a lecture on just about anything, even sea slugs, but I don’t think my editors would let me write about it. Luckily, today the Obama campaign hosted a “round table” with Hart and Congressman Ed Perlmutter on national security, a more palatable topic for a political column. Hart has become something of a well respected elder statesman and Perlmutter has quickly established himself as one of our delegations go-to guys on the issue, so you can imagine that as a former Military Legislative Assistant I really enjoyed this forum.

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In her second solo campaign appearance in the Lower 48, Sarah Palin revved up a crowd at an indoor rodeo in Golden with well-worn excerpts from her acceptance speech and fresh applause lines about the banking crisis that dominated the news Monday morning.