Denver November 2004 Election
Campaign events 3/1/04 - 3/7/04
From Mike Miles website:
3/1/04
- Garfield 1200 Glenwood spgs
- Garfield 1500 Battelement Mesa Meet and Greet at the activity center.
- Garfield 1800 Glenwood Springs Meet and Greet Old Court House Rm 402, 109 8th St .
3/2/04
- Mesa 0830 Breakfast meet and greet Main Street Bagels
- Mesa 1730 Grand Junction Meet and Greet TBD
- Mesa 1900 Grand Junction Civic Group Keynote Borders Bookstore, Hwy 6 @ 50th st , shopping center
3/3/04
- Statewide 1900 Dean Meetup See local listings for your area
3/4/04
- Adams 1930 Open Forum for Democratic Adams Cty Hdgters 7290 Samuel Dr.
3/5/04
- El Paso 1630 Democratic Party Fundraiser, Melat and Pressman Law Offices , S. Tejon st.
3/6/04
- Denver 1000 Red Earth Women's Alliance March Auraria Campus
- Denver 1300 Coffee: Alan Polonsky host 1115 Glencoe, Denver .
- Denver 1600- Coffee: Kirsten Heckendoft host 5441 Nassau Circle, Englewood
- Adams 1830 Adams County Dems St. Patricks Pipefitters Hall
Mr. Miles is the only candidate with events listed for this week. I guess you have to call the campaign(s) to get event information. You can find contact information by visiting Coyote Gulch's coverage of the Denver November 2004 Election. I cover candidates and issues that Denver voters will be helping to decide.
Here's an article about Colorado's new candidate for the U.S. Senate, Rutt Bridges from the Denver Post [March 1, 2004, "Bridges enters race, rips partisan politics"]. From the article, "entrepreneur Rutt Bridges jumped into the U.S. Senate race Sunday, embracing a centrist message and vowing to protect Colorado's working families. 'I am running for office because I am tired of the grip that partisan ideologies, Democrats as well as Republicans, now have on the American political process," the Democratic candidate said to a crowd inside the Colorado History Museum in Denver. 'We need to create jobs, fix our highways, educate our kids and provide affordable access to health care in a fiscally responsible manner.' Clad in jeans and a blue blazer, Bridges, 52, made his announcement surrounded by his two sons, his fiancée, Annie Cleaver, and his ex-wife, Barbara Bridges, who said she thinks he would make a "great" senator. Also attending the event were Mayor John Hickenlooper and wife Helen Thorpe, state Rep. John Salazar of Manassa, who is running for Republican U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis' empty seat, and Mike Feeley, the Democratic candidate who narrowly lost the 7th Congressional District race in 2002."
Here's another story about Rutt Bridges from the Rocky Mountain News [March 1, 2004, "Bridges makes his Senate run official"]. From the article, "'If I'm going to have any chance to win this Senate seat, I have no choice but to invest some of my own resources,' he said. 'But I expect Ben Campbell to outspend me in the race.' Bridges said he wouldn't take any money from political action committees and will work hard to raise campaign donations in 'every county and every town in Colorado.' Bridges said he is a fiscal conservative, but is opposed to "cutting taxes for rich people while running up a record national debt." He believes new jobs will come mostly from small business and not from governmental programs. He opposes federal mandates for education without federal funding. Bridges said that if he is elected to the Senate, he won't pay any attention to whether legislation is sponsored by Democrats or Republicans. He said as senator he would work with Republicans to find answers to health care and environmental problems and wants to make sure Colorado gets its fair share of federal tax dollars. On Iraq and the Middle East, Bridges promised, 'I won't be anyone's rubber stamp. I'm not going to just shrug my shoulders and get along. I'm in this thing to ask the tough questions and find the right answers.' Bridges said he would gather petitions to get on the ballot instead of going through the caucuses. In 2002, he financed a ballot measure that would have kept political parties from using the caucus system to put candidates on the ballot. Voters rejected the proposal. Miles said Bridges' candidacy will probably spur interest in the race. 'I think it will also be a defining moment for our party,' Miles said. 'There will now be a race between the rank-and-file Democrat and the candidate they support and a candidate who tries to buy his way onto the ballot. Democracy is hard work. It's not like valet parking - you can't buy it or let someone else do it for you.'"
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