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Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Pam Anderson ran for election as Colorado Secretary of State on the Republican ticket. Anderson previously served as Wheat Ridge City Clerk (2003-2007), Jefferson County Clerk (2007-2015), and as a private business owner of Consilium Colorado, a government relations and nonprofit management consulting company. Pam has volunteered on a number of boards, including the Colorado County Clerks Association Executive Board, Colorado Secretary of State Bipartisan Election Advisory Committee, and the Center for Election Innovation and Research. Anderson lost against Democratic candidate Pam Anderson, garnering 43.7% of the vote to Griswold’s 53.6%.
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Subject: Colorado. Department of State, Republican Party (Colo.), Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Pam Anderson for CO Secretary of State
Type: Website
Date: 2022
Collection: Western History
Description: Lists and briefly summarizes the proposed constitutional amendments and citizen initiatives featured statewide in Colorado in 2022. This page also summarizes Colorado legislators’ referral votes by party on referred constitutional amendments, the process for getting a measure on the ballot, facts on the history of Colorado ballot measures, and measures that did not make it onto the ballot. A post-election version of the site added the final election results and a summary of campaign contributions for and against each measure.
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Subject: Society & Culture, Politics & Elections , ballot measures, Government – US States, Elections – Colorado
Collection: Western History
Description: This Ballotopedia.org page summarizes the 2018 Colorado Ballot Proposition 112, which was intended to establish minimum distance requirements for new Oil, Gas, and Fracking Projects. The proposition was intended to restrict the development of these new projects to within 2,500 feet from occupied buildings and other areas designated as vulnerable (such as schools and homes).
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Subject: Society & Culture, Politics & Elections , Science & Health, Ballot propositions, Natural gas – Law and legislation
Collection: Western History
Description: Summarizes the June 4 political debate between Colorado’s Democratic gubernatorial candidates for the 2018 election. The debate, hosted by 9news.com, featured former State Senator Mike Johnston, former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy, Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne and U.S. Representative Jared Polis. The page links to a YouTube video of the debate.
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Subject: Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Politics, Political parties, Democratic Party
Collection: Western History
Description: Denver's 2023 mayoral election had an unusually large number of candidates. This Denverite article outlines the 16 candidates who had filed to run as of December 2022. Brief biographies are included for each candidate.
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Subject: Society & Culture, Mayors – Elections, Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Ben Markus, denverite.com
Type: Online news article
Date: 2022
Collection: Western History
Description: Denver’s 2023 mayoral race had an unusually high number of candidates running. The local news site Denverite.com featured ongoing coverage throughout, often with a humorous twist. This article gamifies the “get to know your candidates” process by turning their biographiess into a version of the game “Guess Who.” The site quipped “this is a ploy to make you civically engaged.”
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Subject: Gamification, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Mayors – Elections, Civics -- Study and Teaching -- United States
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Kevin Beaty, Denverite.com
Type: Online news article
Date: 2022
Collection: Western History
Description: Denverite.com featured unique coverage of the 2023 mayoral election, in which seventeen candidates ran for the office vacated by Mayor Michael Hancock. In this article, journalist Kyle Harris interviews four prior Denver mayors– Federico Peña (1983-1991), Wellington Webb (1991-2003), John Hickenlooper (2003-2011), and Michael Hancock (2011-2023)-- about the personal qualities they believe are most important in a mayor. Several of the former mayors noted the need for patience, strategic thinking, and an ability to work with multiple players. Mayor Hancock identified the role as like being “the CEO of the city….You’re executing and overseeing a $3 billion operation….almost 12,000 city employees, including three units that are considered paramilitary….in partnership with one of the best public-health hospitals in the country….and you are also in charge of the third busiest airport in the world….”
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Subject: Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Mayors – Elections
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Kyle Harris, Denverite.com
Type: Online news article
Date: 2023
Collection: Western History
Description: Denverite.com featured ongoing coverage of the 2023 Mayoral and City Council elections, often with a humorous twist. This article reports on a poll that showed record low percentages of support for all candidates, including the fact that no mayoral candidate hit 8% support as of the end of February, 2023. The article also notes an across-the-board poor showing for outgoing Mayor Michael Hancock and city council, with the police department showing a higher approval rate, during a time of low support for police departments nationwide.
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Subject: Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Mayors – Elections, Local elections -- Colorado -- Denver., Denver City Council
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Kyle Harris, Denverite.com
Type: Online news article
Date: February 23, 2023
Collection: Conservation
Description: In 2023, Denverites voted on referendum 2O, intended to lift the city’s conservation easement on land in Northeast Park Hill that was formerly known as the Park Hill Golf Course. Westside Investment Partners had purchased the land between 35th and 40th, and Colorado and Dahlia, in 2019. Their development plan included lifting the conservation easement that restricts the property to serving as a golf course, and then constructing housing, retail spaces, and a park. The 2O referred measure was Westside’s third attempt to lift the easement, with each effort being voted down by Denver’s voters. This article examines the history of the 155-acre plot, from 1859 to 2023.
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Subject: Urban planning, Regional planning – Colorado, Parks – Colorado, Land use, Housing, Conservation of natural resources, City planning, Ballot measures, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Golf courses
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Denverites voted on Referendum 2O, intended to lift the city’s conservation easement on land in Northeast Park Hill that was formerly known as the Park Hill Golf Course. Westside Investment Partners had purchased the land between 35th and 40th, and Colorado and Dahlia, in 2019. Their development plan included lifting the conservation easement that restricts the property to use as a golf course, and then constructing housing, retail spaces, and a park. The 2O referred measure was Westside’s third attempt to lift the easement, against a community group that ran an opposition campaign. The opposition group, “Yes for Parks and Open Space,” hoped to protect the citizen-funded easement, and had hopes that the city would buy the property and build a large park. Ultimately, each of Westside’s three easement removal efforts were voted down by Denver’s voters. This article reports the final referendum results.
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Subject: Golf courses, Housing, Urban planning, Regional planning – Colorado, Parks – Colorado, Land use, Conservation of natural resources, City planning, Ballot measures, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Denverite.com, Kyle Harris, Nathaniel Minor
Type: Online news article
Date: 2023
Collection: Conservation
Description: In 2023, Denverites voted on Referendum 2O, intended to lift the city’s conservation easement on land in Northeast Park Hill that was formerly known as the Park Hill Golf Course. Westside Investment Partners had purchased the land between 35th and 40th, and Colorado and Dahlia, in 2019. Their development plan included lifting the conservation easement that restricts the property to use as a golf course, and then constructing housing, retail spaces, and a park. The 2O referred measure was Westside’s third attempt to lift the easement, against a community group that ran an opposition campaign. The opposition group, “Yes for Parks and Open Space,” hoped to protect the citizen-funded easement, and had hopes that the city would buy the property and build a large park. Ultimately, each of Westside’s three easement removal efforts were voted down by Denver’s voters. This article reports the final referendum results.
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Subject: Golf courses, Housing, Urban planning, Regional planning – Colorado, Parks – Colorado, Land use, Conservation of natural resources, City planning, Ballot measures, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Denverite.com, Kyle Harris, Nathaniel Minor
Type: Online news article
Date: 2023
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Ean Thomas Tafoya ran for election to the office of Mayor of Denver. Tafoya previously served as the Colorado Director of GreenLatinos (2019-2023), and is a community organizer involved in many local non-profit organizations and government task forces and agencies. He has volunteered on the board of the Rocky Mountain Public Banking Institute, as Co-Chair of the Colorado Latino Forum and the Colorado Environmental Justice Taskforce, and as a trustee with Historic Denver. The mayoral race in 2023 was a complicated one, featuring seventeen mayoral candidates on the ballot. Tafoya received 1.6% of the votes in the April election, as compared to first and second-place candidates Mike Johnston’s and Kelly Brough’s respective 24.5% and 20%. The race progressed to a June 6 runoff, which was won by Mike Johnston.
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Subject: Indigenous politicians, Hispanic American politicians, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Mayors – Elections
Collection: Western History
Description: Michael B. Hancock is an American author and politician serving as the 45th Mayor of Denver, Colorado since 2011. He was the second African American man to hold the position. A member of the Democratic Party, he was in his second term as the Denver City Councilor from the 11th district at the time he was elected to the mayorship, and served three terms as mayor. Hancock was raised in Denver, earned a B.A. from Hastings College and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver. Prior to turning towards politics, he began his career at the Denver Housing Authority and the National Civic League. In the campaign documented here, his second reelection campaign, he won in a runoff against Jamie Giellis, receiving 56.3% of the vote to Giellis' 43.7%.
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Subject: Mayors – Elections, Elections – Colorado, Society & Culture, African American politicians., Politics & Elections
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Jena Griswold ran for reelection as Colorado Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket. Griswold was first elected to the office in 2018. Prior to serving as Secretary of State, Griswold worked for President Obama's 2012 campaign as a voter protection attorney, served as the Director of Governor Hickenlooper’s Washington, D.C. office (2013-2015), and ran her own private legal practice in Louisville, CO (2015-2018). She made history as the youngest person elected Secretary of State in the United States. Griswold won against Republican candidate Pam Anderson, garnering 53.6% of the vote to Anderson’s 43.7%.
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Subject: Colorado. Department of State, Democratic Party (Colo.), Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture
Collection: Western History
Description: Lisa Calderón ran for election as Mayor of Denver in 2019 and 2023. In 2019, she was full-time faculty at Regis University, teaching Criminal Justice and Sociology courses. Calderón was born in Denver and received a BA in English from Metropolitan State University; an MA in Liberal Studies, focusing on Native American Studies, from the University of Denver; a JD from the University of Colorado Boulder School of Law; and an Ed.D in Education from the University of Colorado. In the 2019 mayoral election campaign, Calderón ran against five other candidates. With close results, the race went to a runoff between incumbent Michael Hancock and Jamie Giellis, with Hancock winning with 56.3% of the vote. In 2023, Calderón ran for Mayor a second time. The mayoral race in 2023 was a complicated one, featuring seventeen mayoral candidates on the ballot. At the time, she was Executive Director of Emerge Colorado, which recruits and trains democratic women to run for office, and remained a faculty member at Regis University and CU Boulder. Calderón came in third in the April election, with 18.2% of the vote, as compared to first and second-place candidates Mike Johnston’s and Kelly Brough’s respective 24.5% and 20%. The race progressed to a June 6 runoff, which was won by Mike Johnston.
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Subject: Politics & Elections , Mayors – Elections, Elections – Colorado, Society & Culture, Women politicians -- United States., African American politicians, Hispanic American politicians
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Michael Bennet ran for reelection to the U.S. Senate on the Democratic ticket. Bennet is an attorney, education leader, and public servant. Prior to his appointment to the Senate in 2009 and subsequent election in 2010, he served as Superintendent of Denver Public Schools (2005-2009), Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor Hickenlooper (2003-2005), and managing director for Anschutz Investment Company (1997-2003). Bennet won against Republican candidate Joe O’Dea, garnering 54.3% of the vote to O’Dea’s 42.9%.
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Subject: United States. Congress -- Elections, Democratic Party (Colo.), Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Mike Johnston ran for election to the office of Mayor of Denver. Johnston previously served as a teacher and high school principal (1997-2009), in the Colorado Senate for Northeast Denver (2007-2019), and as CEO and President of of Gary Community Ventures (2020-2023). He served as an education advisor to President Barack Obama (2007-2008), and ran for the Governor’s office in 2018. 2023 was a complicated campaign year, featuring seventeen mayoral candidates on the ballot. After no candidates received a majority of votes in the April round, the election went to a runoff between Johnston and Kelly Brough. Johnston won on June 6, garnering 54.1% to Brough’s 45.9% of the vote.
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Subject: Mayors – Elections, Elections – Colorado, Society & Culture, Politics & Elections
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Jared Polis ran for reelection as Governor of Colorado on the Democratic ticket. Polis is a tech entrepreneur, philanthropist, education leader, and public servant. Prior to serving as Governor, Polis served on the State Board of Education from 2001 to 2007, and as U.S. Representative for Colorado's 2nd Congressional district from 2009 to 2019. He was first elected governor of Colorado in 2018, and made history several times as the first openly gay man elected governor to a U.S. state, the first Jewish governor of Colorado, and the first U.S. governor in a same-sex marriage. He is unusual in being a Libertarian Democrat.Polis won against Republican candidate Heidi Ganahl, garnering 57% of the vote to her 40.8%.
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Subject: Society & Culture, Politics & Elections , Elections – Colorado, Democratic Party (Colo.), Governors – Elections
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Coloradans for Affordable Housing Now put forward Proposition 123, which proposed setting aside 0.1% of state income tax revenue for affordable housing programs, to help ease the state’s affordable housing crisis. The measure was anticipated to earmark about 2% of income tax revenues, or nearly $300 million in its first fiscal year. It would include aid to develop more housing and provide assistance for certain renters and home buyers. The measure would leave the state’s income tax rate unchanged, but would reduce the amount refunded to voters under TABOR provisions. Fiscal conservatives, including the TABOR Foundation, were opposed to the measure, seeing it as a hidden tax reducing refunds to taxpayers. The measure passed with more than 52% of votes in favor.
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Subject: Fiscal policy -- Colorado (State), Housing policy -- United States., Home ownership – Colorado – Denver, Housing, Elections – Colorado, ballot measures, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Lauren Watson, KKTV.com and thetaborfoundation.org
Type: Online news article
Date: 2022
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Chris Hansen ran for election to the office of Mayor of Denver. Hansen previously served in the Colorado State Legislature (Senate 2020-2023, House 2016-2020), as co-founder of the Colorado Energy + Water Institute, and in various directorial roles at renewable energy and electricity company IHS (2005-2015). Hansen has volunteered on a number of boards, including the executive committee of the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation Board, the executive committee of the Central City Opera Board, and the advisory board for the University of Colorado, Denver Business School. The mayoral race in 2023 was a complicated one, featuring seventeen mayoral candidates on the ballot. Hansen received 4.8% of the votes in the April election, as compared to first and second-place candidates Mike Johnston’s and Kelly Brough’s respective 24.5% and 20%. The race progressed to a June 6 runoff, which was won by Mike Johnston.
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Subject: Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Mayors – Elections
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Debbie Ortega ran for election to the office of Mayor of Denver. Ortega previously served as Denver City Councilwoman-at-large (2011-2023), executive director of the Denver Homeless Commission (dates), City Councilwoman (1987-2003), and for the offices of City Councilman Sal Carpio, U.S. Senator Floyd Haskell, and Lieutenant Governor George Brown. Ortega has volunteered on a number of boards and committees, including the Del Norte Neighborhood Development Corporation, Denver Women’s Commission, Healthy Foods for Denver Kids, Opioid Abatement Council, and Denver’ Crime Prevention & Control Commission. Ortega also co-chaired Denver’s 2020 census. The mayoral race in 2023 was a complicated one, featuring seventeen mayoral candidates on the ballot. Ortega received 4.5% of the votes in the April election, as compared to first and second-place candidates Mike Johnston’s and Kelly Brough’s respective 24.5% and 20%. The race progressed to a June 6 runoff, which was won by Mike Johnston.
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Subject: Hispanic American politicians, Women politicians -- United States., Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Mayors – Elections
Collection: Western History
Description: Denver’s 2023 mayoral and city council races featured an unusually large number of candidates— seventy-six candidates plus eight write-ins – who were running to replace term-limited outgoing Mayor Michael Hancock, and a number of vacating city council positions. There were also three council-referred measures, including a controversial measure about the Park Hill Golf Course conservation easement. Denver’s Elections Division site tracks all of the candidates, including links to individual candidate affidavits, and includes the title language forms for all ballot measures.
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Subject: Denver City Council, Ballot measures, Mayors – Elections, Elections – Colorado, Society & Culture, Politics & Elections
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Denver Elections Division, City and County of Denver
Type: Website
Date: 2023
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Heidi Ganahl ran for Governor of Colorado on the Republican ticket. Ganahl is an entrepreneur, author, and public speaker who founded Camp Bow Wow, a pet care franchise; the charity Bow Wow Buddies Foundation, which helps to rehome dogs; SheFactor, a digital community designed to empower young women; and Moms Fight Back and the Fight Back Foundation, both of which address issues facing children. Prior to running for office, she also served on the University of Colorado Board of Regents, chairing the finance and audit committees, and the search committee for the new university president. Ganahl lost against Democrat incumbent Jared Polis, garnering 40.8% of the vote to his 57%.
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Subject: Governors – Elections, Republican Party (Colo.), Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Joe O’Dea ran for election to the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket. O’Dea is the founder and CEO of CEI Constructors, a construction company based in Colorado, and owner of the Mile High Station and Ironworks event centers. O’Dea lost against Democrat incumbent Michael Bennet, garnering 42.9% of the vote to Bennet’s 54.3%.
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Subject: United States. Congress -- Elections, Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Republican Party (Colo.)
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, John Kellner ran for election as Attorney General for Colorado, on the Republican ticket. Kellner is the Arapahoe County District Attorney and a Lieutenant Colonel with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Prior to running for attorney general, he served as district attorney for the 18th Judicial District (2021- ), as Chief Deputy District Attorney and head of the 18th district’s Cold Case Unit (2013-2021), as a prosecutor in the Boulder District Attorney’s office (2011-2013), and in active duty as a judge advocate with the U.S. Marines (2006-2011). During his active duty, he deployed to Afghanistan to help local government leaders resolve conflicts, and assist with military operations and local elections. Kellner lost against Democratic candidate Phil Weiser, garnering 44.7% of the vote to Weiser’s 53.2%.
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Subject: Colorado. Attorney General's Office., Republican Party (Colo.), Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Kelly Brough ran for election to the office of Mayor of Denver. Brough previously served as a legislative analyst for Denver’s City Council (1990-1997), director for Denver’s Career Service Authority (2003-2005), Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (2006-2009), CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce (2009-2021), and Chief Strategy Officer of Metropolitan State University of Denver (2020-2021). Brough has volunteered on a number of boards, including the Denver Public Schools Foundation, the Denver Zoo, and Visit Denver. 2023 was a complicated campaign year, featuring seventeen mayoral candidates on the ballot. After no candidates received a majority of votes in the April round, the election went to a runoff between Kelly Brough and Mike Johnston. Brough lost against Johnston on June 6, garnering 45.9% to Johnston’s 54.1% of the vote.
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Subject: Mayors – Elections, Elections – Colorado, Society & Culture, Politics & Elections , Women politicians -- United States.
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Leslie Herod ran for election to the office of Mayor of Denver. Herod previously served as a Representative in the Colorado House of Representatives (2017-2023), where she was elected as the first LGBTQ+ African American in the Colorado General Assembly’s history. She also worked for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, and as a program officer with the Gill Foundation. Herod has volunteered on a number of boards and committees, including as Governor Ritter’s appointee to the Judicial Performance Commission, as mayoral appointee to Denver's Cultural Affairs Commission, on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, on the Board of Directors for Urban Peak, and as President of Colorado Black Women for Political Action. Herod also served as President Barack Obama’s Deputy Political Director in Colorado during his 2012 Reelection Campaign. The mayoral race in 2023 was a complicated one, featuring seventeen mayoral candidates on the ballot. Herod received 10.7% of the votes in the April election, as compared to first and second-place candidates Mike Johnston’s and Kelly Brough’s respective 24.5% and 20%. The race progressed to a June 6 runoff, which was won by Mike Johnston.
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Subject: Gay politicians., African American politicians, Women politicians -- United States., Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado, Mayors – Elections
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Phil Weiser ran for reelection as Attorney General for Colorado, on the Democratic ticket. Weiser was initially elected to office in 2018. Prior to his time as attorney general, he served as dean of the University of Colorado School of Law (2011-2016); in the Obama administration as deputy assistant attorney general, and as senior advisor for technology and innovation for the White House; and in the Clinton administration’s Department of Justice Antitrust division. Weiser clerked for Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Weiser won against Republican candidate John Kellner, garnering 53.2% of the vote to Kellner’s 44.7%.
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Subject: Colorado. Attorney General's Office., Democratic Party (Colo.), Elections – Colorado, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2022, Coloradans for Affordable Housing Now put forward Proposition 123, which proposed setting aside 0.1% of state income tax revenue for affordable housing programs, to help ease the state’s affordable housing crisis. The measure was anticipated to earmark about 2% of income tax revenues, or nearly $300 million in its first fiscal year. It would include aid to develop more housing and provide assistance for certain renters and home buyers. The measure would leave the state’s income tax rate unchanged, but would reduce the amount refunded to voters. The measure passed with more than 52% of votes in favor.
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Subject: Housing policy -- United States., Housing advocacy, Home ownership – Colorado – Denver, Housing, Elections – Colorado, ballot measures, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Housing subsidies -- Colorado
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Coloradans for Affordable Housing Now
Type: Website
Date: 2022
Collection: Western History
Description: In 2023, Denverites voted on Referendum 2O, intended to lift the city’s conservation easement on land in Northeast Park Hill that was formerly known as the Park Hill Golf Course. Westside Investment Partners had purchased the land between 35th and 40th, and Colorado and Dahlia, in 2019. Their development plan included lifting the conservation easement that restricts the property to serving as a golf course, and then constructing housing, retail spaces, and a park. The 2O referred measure was Westside’s third attempt to lift the easement, with each effort being voted down by Denver’s voters. Prior to the 2O measure in 2023, a group of community members and politicians created an opposition campaign: “Yes for Parks and Open Space.” Through op-eds, yard signs, leafleting, community meetings, and this website, the Yes for Parks and Open Space group argued against lifting the easement, and for protecting the large open space in an undeveloped state.
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Subject: Urban planning, Regional planning – Colorado, Parks – Colorado, Land use, Conservation of natural resources, City planning, Ballot measures, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Yes for Parks and Open Space, Harry Doby
Type: Website
Date: 2023
Collection: Conservation
Description: In 2023, Denverites voted on Referendum 2O, intended to lift the city’s conservation easement on land in Northeast Park Hill that was formerly known as the Park Hill Golf Course. Westside Investment Partners had purchased the land between 35th and 40th, and Colorado and Dahlia, in 2019. Their development plan included lifting the conservation easement that restricts the property to serving as a golf course, and then constructing housing, retail spaces, and a park. The 2O referred measure was Westside’s third attempt to lift the easement, with each effort being voted down by Denver’s voters. Prior to the 2O measure in 2023, a group of community members and politicians created an opposition campaign: “Yes for Parks and Open Space.” Through op-eds, yard signs, leafleting, community meetings, and this website, the Yes for Parks and Open Space group argued against lifting the easement, and for protecting the large open space in an undeveloped state.
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Subject: Urban planning, Regional planning – Colorado, Parks – Colorado, Land use, Conservation of natural resources, City planning, Ballot measures, Politics & Elections , Society & Culture, Elections – Colorado
Group: Elections and Ballot Measures
Creator: Yes for Parks and Open Space, Harry Doby
Type: Website
Date: 2023
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