Denver November 2004 Election
Here's a background piece on Peter Coors from the Rocky Mountain News. From the article, "Millions of family dollars have flowed to Republican candidates and conservative groups in the past 30 years, starting with the formation of the Heritage Foundation think tank in 1973. Included are $1.8 million in federal donations since 1979 and another $625,000 in Colorado since 1994, the first year for which data are available electronically. Pete Coors alone has given $222,000, much of it to Republican committees and candidates such as Sen. Wayne Allard. This month, Coors took his family out of the back room of political financial support and onto a major campaign trail for the first time, when he stepped into Colorado's U.S. Senate race. Unlike his two major opponents for Senate - Democratic Attorney General Ken Salazar and former Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Schaffer - Pete Coors doesn't have a voting record. But his extensive political contributions show which candidates and causes are most important to him."
MakesMeRalph analyzes the Rocky article.
Denver Republicans have a candidate to run against Diana DeGette in the First Congressional District race, according to Peter Blake and the Rocky Mountain News [April 24, 2004, "Blake: Chicas is this year's GOP sacrificial lamb in 1st District"]. From the article, "This year's volunteer sacrifical lamb is Roland Chicas, 52. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he grew up to run his own financial consulting firm on Denver's 17th Street. It's not his first trip to the slaughterhouse. Two years ago he challenged state Sen. Ken Chlouber in the GOP primary but failed to make the primary ballot. He needed 30 percent of the delegate vote but captured just 28.4 percent."
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