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BREAKING: Booker and Hassan will speak
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We are excited to announce that Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) will be joining Senators Alex Padilla(D-CA) and John Ossoff (D-GA) as headliners at our annual Obama Gala this year!
Senator Booker attended Stanford University on a football scholarship and helped fellow students by working as a peer crisis counselor. Instead of pursuing a lucrative career after leaving Yale, Cory moved into Newark’s Central Ward, and eventually into a public housing project, where he lived for eight years. In 2006, he was elected mayor with 72 percent of the vote. A United States Senator since 2013, Cory has written and championed dozens of bills aimed at fixing our broken criminal justice system, expanding economic opportunity, and fighting for equal justice for everyone.
In 2016, Senator Hassan was elected to represent New Hampshire in the United States Senate, winning one of the most competitive Senate races in the country by 1,017 votes. She is only the second woman in American history to be elected as both Governor and Senator. During her first four years in the Senate, Senator Hassan introduced more than 50 bipartisan bills on everything from tax cuts for innovators to clean energy to supporting veterans’ transition to civilian life -- a number of which became law. |
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Have you secured your spot for the 2021 virtual Obama Gala on Saturday, April 24, 2021? Click here or the button below to buy your ticket today! |
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You nominated and voted -- here are the awardees of the 2021 Obama Gala Awards! Join us in congratulating these honorees, and buy your ticket TODAY so you can watch them accept these awards virtually! |
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Colorado County Spotlight! By Shelia Canfield-Jones, CDP Vice Chair of Rural Outreach |
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Bent County
Along the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado lies Bent County. To the north of Bent County you will find Kiowa County, to the west Otero County, to the east of Prowers and to the south of Las Animas and Baca Counties.
Bent County covers 1,541 square miles of the Great Plains and the fertile Arkansas Valley providing a large agricultural economy and grassy fields for cattle and horses. Las Animas, the only incorporated municipality, is the county seat for Bent County and home to most of the population. Established in 1874, the county is named for William Bent, the prominent nineteenth-century trader who established Bent’s Fort, a trading post on the Arkansas River just a few miles west of present-day Las Animas.
In the early 1540’s Bent County was part of the northern extreme of Spain’s New World Empire. By the 1720’s it became part of an expanding Comanche territory. Many Comanches settled along approximately 60 miles of the Purgatoire River, which they called “Big Timbers”, a plains oasis offering food and shelter. In the early 1820s the Santa Fe Trail was established cutting across the Comanche heartland and bringing more white American traders. William Bent and Ceran St.Vrain relocated their trading post to a large adobe fort on the Arkansas River just east of La Junta, in present day Otero County. By the late 1840s over hunting and a period of drought caused a decrease in trade. In 1849 a cholera epidemic ravaged every native group in the Colorado plains. With the decrease in trading, William Bent stocked powder barrels against the fort’s adobe walls and blew it up. Increasing disparity between the whites and Native Americans was responsible also for the decline in trading. He eventually leased, what was left of the fort, to the US Army which they renamed it to Fort Lyon in 1862. William Bent died of pneumonia on his Las Animas ranch in 1869.
In 1868, William Bent’s son Robert, along with Thomas O. Boggs (city of Boggsville founder) and John Wesley Prowers (county of Prowers namesake) built the first irrigation project, which provide 1000 acres of corn, wheat and potatoes to be cultivated. The 1870s brought the Kansas-Pacific and other railroads through the county and Las Animas was the final destination for livestock. In 1884 construction began on the Fort Lyon Canal, one of the largest irrigation projects in Colorado history. The canal supplied water to nearly 100,000 acres of farmland in Bent and Otero Counties. Today Bent County holds 676,505 acres of rangeland and more than 115,000 acres of irrigated and non-irrigated cropland. |
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Today Bent County, still a hub for agriculture and cattle ranching, it is also home of the John Martin Reservoir State Park, the 2nd largest body of water in Colorado. 400 different species of birds make their nests in Bent. You will also find Bent’s old fort to explore the rich history of the area.
Bent County Democrats chair is Jack Barrington. It has been a pretty red county but still holds hope for a blue wave revival. There are approximately 814 registered Democrats, 1,237 registered Republicans and 1,235 registered Unaffiliated voters. In 2020 82.23% of the voters turned out to be counted. If you would like more information about the Bent County Democratic Party, you can send a message through their Facebook page: Bent County Democrats.
Keep Colorado Wild!
Shelia Canfield-Jones Vice Chair Rural Outreach Colorado Democratic Party |
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Opportunities with the Colorado Dems |
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Join our Letter to the Editor Campaign! |
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Colorado is home to over 100 newspapers across the state in our 64 counties, and Letters to the Editor are one of the best ways to communicate to voters!
That's why the CDP is launching a revamped, improved Letter to the Editor campaign! The purpose? To hold Republicans like Lauren Boebert, Ken Buck, Patrick Neville, and others accountable in the local press!
Want to sign your name to letters? Draft letters? Both?
Then this program is for you! Click here or the button below to join the LTE campaign! |
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Join the Rapid Response Team! |
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Owning the message is a big step in winning campaigns, and one of the ways we can own the message in 2021-2022 is through rapid response, and that's why we're re-launching the CDP Rapid Response Team!
Whether you want to show up to protest, share content on social media and help it go viral, call elected officials, or testify at the Colorado State Capitol, this is how you can lift up all the good work Colorado Dems have delivered on, and how you can help defeat Republicans!
Click here or the button below to sign up for the Rapid Response Team! |
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Hickenlooper, Bennet unveil sweeping Immigration Reform with Senate Colleagues |
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Hickenlooper, Bennet, Coalition to Introduce Immigration Reform Legislation Pagosa Daily Springs
US Senators John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet joined over twenty of their Senate colleagues and dozens of members of the House of Representatives to introduce the bicameral U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. The comprehensive immigration reform bill is modeled after President Biden’s bold, inclusive, and humane framework for the future of the United States immigration system.
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Rep. Joe Neguse Wants Wildfire Prevention To Be A Feature In Biden’s Infrastructure Plans CPR News
United States Rep. Joe Neguse has seen his political profile skyrocket since the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. The sophomore Congressman from Boulder served as Democrats’ youngest impeachment manager in history. His clear presentation prompted some pundits to wonder if the 36-year-old congressman could be bound for a higher post.
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Crow reintroduces bill for 'global war on terror' memorial Colorado Politics
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow has reintroduced a measure that would establish a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to those soldiers who served in the global war on terrorism.
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CPR News
“These old laws are keeping people from participating in the full economic recovery that we know we need right now, as we hopefully start to come out of the COVID pandemic,” said Democratic Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis of Longmont, who will be one of the main sponsors of the professional licensing bill, which is expected to be introduced later this week.
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Rep. Diana DeGette To Lead Meeting To Speed Up Vaccine Production Across The Country CBS Denver
The goal is to get updates on when states will get more vaccines.
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Colorado Sun
On Tuesday, Attorney General Phil Weiser urged the FCC to consider his separate petition to address the divide that became more evident when students were sent home during the coronavirus pandemic. Weiser is leading the effort with Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson. Weiser has the support of 29 AGs in other states, Washington, D.C., and Guam. The FCC, in seeking comments to Weiser’s petition, noted that Colorado’s request was one of 11 asking permission for E-Rate funds to be used for remote learning.
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Governor Jared Polis Reflects on His Leadership During a Once-in-a-Century Pandemic 5280
Colorado Governor Jared Polis remembers exactly how he felt when COVID-19 cases began popping up all over America last February. “It was just a feeling of dread,” he says. “We knew it was only a matter of time until it was here.”
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Senate panel rejects GOP voting bill Colorado Politics
A Senate panel on Tuesday killed an election reform bill from a Republican lawmaker after the legislation received near-universal scorn from election officials and advocates.
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Rep. Ken Buck Doesn’t Know How Anything Works Colorado Pols
We have to think that at some level Rep. Buck is aware of this, just like he should know that the price of natural gas in Colorado peaked in 2006 and has been in decline ever since–and that is the biggest reason by far why Colorado is not “drill baby drilling” for oil and gas all over the state.
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GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert was slammed on Twitter for bungling the basics of the Constitution Business Insider
Freshman GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado has made headlines as a vocal and provocative defender of gun rights, but on Friday she was slammed by Twitter users for bungling a basic civics lesson.
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CO Republican Lawmakers Are Trying to Make Abortion a Felony Again Colorado Times Recorder
Every year, Colorado’s most socially conservative lawmakers run an extreme anti-abortion bill that would make abortion illegal under essentially any circumstances. Every year, the bill fails.
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