Word: colorado
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Lamm's victory would not have been possible without a dramatic change in the state's electorate. Over the past few years, Colorado has been invaded by Easterners and Westerners alike, anxious to escape urban blight and sprawl, and, ironically, more concerned than the natives to protect their state's natural beauties. For them, the environment is the overriding issue. A rather traditional booster who looked forward to Colorado's becoming the "energy capital of the world," Vanderhoof, 52, did not get the voters' message until fairly late in the campaign. Then he joined Lamm...
...future of their state than Democrats. "We're not saying 'no growth' or opting for a steady state economy," says Lamm. "But growth has to be controlled. What we're really demanding is that growth pay its way." Unless it does, he fears that Colorado will soon resemble the ravaged landscape of West Virginia. "We're all happy to be Americans," says this new-style states'-righter, "but we're not going...
GARY HART, 36, the manager of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, who defeated Colorado's two-term incumbent Republican Senator, Peter Dominick. A sort of "Marlboro man" turned politician, the Kansas-born Hart stumped the state for 18 months in an endless switchback between the vote-rich "front range" and the lightly populated western slope The party is over, the day of having it all is gone," he told Coloradans, pledging to conserve the state's energy resources and work against any damaging exploitation of Colorado's oil shale "We lave an energy-rich state...
...politics is particularly apparent at the state legislature level. According to one compilation, the number of women state legislators increased from 305 in 1969 and 470 in the past year to 587 as of last week. The women in the Georgia legislature rose from two to nine; in Colorado, from ten to 17; in Maryland, from eleven to 19; and in Hawaii, from four to ten. The results are obvious to anyone familiar with a U.S. statehouse. Four years ago, for example, the spittoons were removed from the Maine Senate chamber; a women's lounge was added. This month...
...director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman, 56, of Maryland, the first woman president of the National Association of Counties; Democrat Martha Keys, 44, of Kansas, McGovern campaign coordinator for Kansas in 1972 and sister-in-law of Colorado Senator-elect Gary Hart; and Republican Virginia Smith, 63, of Nebraska, a member of the board of the American Farm Bureau...