Colorado Democratic Party
| Colorado Democratic Party | |
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| Chairman | Rick Palacio |
| Senate leader | Brandon Shaffer |
| House leader | Mark Ferrandino |
| Headquarters | 777 Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80204 |
| Ideology | Progressive Democrats Libertarian Democrats Moderate Democrats Conservative Democrats |
| National affiliation | Democratic Party |
| Official colors | Blue |
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| contact number (303) 623-4762 | |
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The Colorado Democratic Party is the state affiliate of the United States Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Colorado. Its chair is Rick Palacio, and its executive director is Alec Garnett.
The remaining officers are: Beverly Benevidez Ryken - First Vice Chair; Vivian Stoval - Second Vice Chair; Carolyn Boller - Secretary; Sherry Jackson - Treasurer.
The governing body of the party is the State Central Committee, which consists of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Democratic Party in each of Colorado's 64 counties, and "bonus" members for larger counties.
Each county party elects its officers between February 1 and February 15 of each odd-numbered year; the state party then elects its officers in March of odd-numbered years.
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[edit] Responsibilities
The Colorado Democratic Party is responsible for arranging and staging the state convention in Presidential years and the state assembly every two years. The state convention selects delegates to the Democratic National Convention and Colorado's two at-large Presidential electors. The state assembly designates candidates for statewide offices, including the offices of Governor, Attorney-General, Colorado, Treasurer, C.U. Regent At-Large, and United States Senator. The party also adopts its platform at the state assembly.
[edit] Principles
Based on their 2010 party platform, it is Democratic Party of Colorado's goal to respect all people, no matter of race, religion, sex, or ethnicity and pledge to them that they will build and maintain a nation that is secure and respected worldwide. With that in mind, the Colorado Democratic party promises to maintain the same, high standards for all international relations by supporting the equal right of all people to have freedom of expression, religion and the pursuit of happiness. Additionally, they promise a quality public education, a clean and safe environment, a healthy future, and a fair living wage. It is their goal to create an ethical government and society that is fair, open and accountable to all people. They vow to accept fundamental responsibility to all future generations and to pursue only policies that are sustainable and maintain or improve global well-being.[1]
[edit] Gary Hart, 1984 and 1988 presidential elections and scandal
In 1984 and 1988 a Democratic Senator from Colorado attempted to win the national party's nomination for presidential candidate. Gary Hart was Senator from 1975-1987.
In 1984, Hart and Walter Mondale were the party's top two candidates for the presidential bid. They battled it out through the early primaries, but eventually Mondale won. Hart then attempted to run for the vice presidency ticket but was not chosen. That year Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide. After the election, Hart and other members of the Democratic Party were proclaimed the future of the party.
In April 1987, Hart announced his bid to run for president again. Soon after, rumors began circulating that he was having an extra maritial affair with Donna Rice. He denied the rumors. In June 1987 the National Enquirer published a photo of Rice sitting on Hart's lap on the cover. One week later Hart dropped out of the race.
In 2002, Hart began testing the waters for another possible run at presidency, but instead, he backed candidate John Kerry. If Kerry would have been elected, Hart would have been a top candidate for the position of Director of National Intelligence, Secretary of Homeland Security, or Secretary of Defense.
All information from this section comes from Gary Hart's Wikipedia page.[2]
[edit] Current elected officials
[edit] Members of Congress
[edit] U.S. Senate
[edit] U.S. House of Representatives
[edit] Statewide offices
[edit] Legislative leadership
- President of the Senate: Brandon Shaffer
- Senate Majority Leader: John P. Morse
- House Minority Leader: Mark Ferrandino
[edit] See also
- Buie Seawell, former CDP chair
- Political party strength in Colorado
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