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Another lawmaker is leaving the General Assembly to join Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper's administration.
This time, though, it's a Republican - Al White of Hayden.
According to a report by the Denver Post's Lynn Bartels, White will direct the state's Office of Tourism.
He will resign his seat, to which he was elected in 2008, and a Republican vacancy committee in his Senate district will choose a replacement.
Showing posts with label state senate vacancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label state senate vacancy. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Denver Health doc chosen to replace Sen. Romer
A physician will replace resigning Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver.
Dr. Irene Aguilar, a champion of a single-payer health care system who has pushed for adoption of a bill creating one in Colorado, was chosen by the Senate district 32 Democratic vacancy committee.
According to the Denver Post, Aguilar beat Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, by a wide margin among the party activists who voted.
Romer is leaving office Dec. 31 to seek election as Denver mayor.
Since he was re-elected Nov. 2 to a second four-year Senate term that begins next month, Aguilar can serve until January 2015 before facing the voters.
Dr. Irene Aguilar, a champion of a single-payer health care system who has pushed for adoption of a bill creating one in Colorado, was chosen by the Senate district 32 Democratic vacancy committee.
According to the Denver Post, Aguilar beat Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, by a wide margin among the party activists who voted.
Romer is leaving office Dec. 31 to seek election as Denver mayor.
Since he was re-elected Nov. 2 to a second four-year Senate term that begins next month, Aguilar can serve until January 2015 before facing the voters.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Romer to leave Senate to seek Denver mayor's job
Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, is leaving the legislature.
Romer, who was elected to second term in the Senate Nov. 2, announced Tuesday that he will resign his seat so that he can seek election as Denver's mayor.
He made his announcement at a meeting of business advocates, promising to balance the city's budget.
Early speculation has Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, being the most likely replacement for Romer.
A district 32 vacancy committee will have to make that decision, and McCann won't be the only option the members have.
According to a report in Wednesday's Denver Post, Denver Democratic Party secretary Owen Perkins, former federal civil servant Jeff Hart, physician Irene Aguilar, and environmentalist Matt Royster may also seek the appointment.
If McCann is appointed to fill the remainder of Romer's term, which would expire in January 2015, she would also be replaced in House district 8 by a vacancy committee.
Romer, who was elected to second term in the Senate Nov. 2, announced Tuesday that he will resign his seat so that he can seek election as Denver's mayor.
He made his announcement at a meeting of business advocates, promising to balance the city's budget.
Early speculation has Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, being the most likely replacement for Romer.
A district 32 vacancy committee will have to make that decision, and McCann won't be the only option the members have.
According to a report in Wednesday's Denver Post, Denver Democratic Party secretary Owen Perkins, former federal civil servant Jeff Hart, physician Irene Aguilar, and environmentalist Matt Royster may also seek the appointment.
If McCann is appointed to fill the remainder of Romer's term, which would expire in January 2015, she would also be replaced in House district 8 by a vacancy committee.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Groff Appointment to U.S. Department of Education Post Announced
Senate president Peter Groff, D-Denver, is going to Washington, D.C.
U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan announced Friday that Groff, 45, has been appointed director of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Center, which is housed in the office of the secretary.
The press release does not indicate when the appointment is expected to take effect.
U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan announced Friday that Groff, 45, has been appointed director of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Center, which is housed in the office of the secretary.
The press release does not indicate when the appointment is expected to take effect.
Report: Groff to Resign, Accept Post in Obama Administration
Senate president Peter Groff, D-Denver, will resign soon to accept an appointment as an official in the U.S. Department of Education, according to a report in today's Denver Post.
The article, by the Post's veteran capitol reporter Lynn Bartels, says that Groff declined to answer questions about the appointment from President Barack Obama, which Bartels wrote was confirmed by two sources.
The veteran legislator, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2000, was appointed to the Senate in 2003 as a replacement for former Sen. Penfield Tate. He became the first African-American president of the Colorado Senate in 2007 and, this year, joined with Rep. Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, as the first African-American team leading both chambers of the General Assembly in the state's history.
Groff is a leading advocate for education reform and a strong supporter of charter schools.
Another Post article says that Sens. Betty Boyd, D-Lakewood, John P. Morse, D-Colorado Springs, Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, and Abel Tapia, D-Pueblo, are the leading candidates to replace Groff as Senate president if he does, in fact, resign his seat.
Groff was re-elected to his second full term in the Senate last year. That term is scheduled to expire in January 2013.
The article, by the Post's veteran capitol reporter Lynn Bartels, says that Groff declined to answer questions about the appointment from President Barack Obama, which Bartels wrote was confirmed by two sources.
The veteran legislator, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2000, was appointed to the Senate in 2003 as a replacement for former Sen. Penfield Tate. He became the first African-American president of the Colorado Senate in 2007 and, this year, joined with Rep. Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, as the first African-American team leading both chambers of the General Assembly in the state's history.
Groff is a leading advocate for education reform and a strong supporter of charter schools.
Another Post article says that Sens. Betty Boyd, D-Lakewood, John P. Morse, D-Colorado Springs, Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, and Abel Tapia, D-Pueblo, are the leading candidates to replace Groff as Senate president if he does, in fact, resign his seat.
Groff was re-elected to his second full term in the Senate last year. That term is scheduled to expire in January 2013.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
It's Sen. Lundberg, R-Berthoud
Rep. Kevin Lundberg of Berthoud got a promotion today as a Larimer County GOP vacancy committee appointed him to replace former Sen. Steve Johnson, R-Fort Collins.
The vote was 86-42, with Lundberg outpolling Army veteran and businessman Mike Lynch.
The veteran legislator from rural Larimer County was chosen despite opposition from Johnson, Rep. Don Marostica, R-Loveland, and many local elected officials, who maintain that the Republican party must move toward the center to regain the political edge in the state.
But the GOP activists at the vacancy committee meeting rejected that view.
Quoted in a story by the Fort Collins Coloradoan, Sue Rehg said the GOP needs to stay on the right.
"Right on schedule, several groups of GOP centrists started wagging their fingers at values voters, blaming them for every lost opportunity on Nov. 4," Rehg said. "The answer, they claim, is not to become a more conservative, Reagan-esque party, but to acquiesce on the GOP's core issues in favor of energy and environment. Republicans are in the wilderness not because they spent the last six years embracing (limited) government and moral values, but because in so many areas the two parties have become almost indistinguishable."
So did several state senators, including Greg Brophy, R-Wray.
"His experience, common sense and fiscally conservative approach to problem solving is exactly what these times call for," Brophy said. "He will make a difference.”
Lundberg himself urged the vacancy committee to appoint him because of his conservative views.
"The problems our party has experienced have not been because our principals need to change, but because we haven't lived up to them," he said. "Some say that we should run to the middle to get ahead of the crowd. I disagree."
Lundberg, who is an evangelical Christian, denies that human-caused global climate change is occurring, opposes legal abortion and domestic partnerships and marriage rights for gay couples, is an advocate for tax reduction, and argues for expanded production of oil, oil shale, and other petroleum products. He was a leading opponent of Referendum C, which gave the state a five-year break from the revenue ratchet-down effect of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, in 2005.
Lundberg, who has been a member of the House since January 2003, was in his last term as a representative. He had previously made an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1998 and served for six years as a member of the board of directors of Colorado Christian University.
His appointment creates a vacancy in House District 49. A GOP selection committee from that district will meet next weekend.
Ray Walter of Windsor and BJ Nikkel of Berthoud have announced their desire to be chosen as Lundberg's replacement.
The vote was 86-42, with Lundberg outpolling Army veteran and businessman Mike Lynch.
The veteran legislator from rural Larimer County was chosen despite opposition from Johnson, Rep. Don Marostica, R-Loveland, and many local elected officials, who maintain that the Republican party must move toward the center to regain the political edge in the state.
But the GOP activists at the vacancy committee meeting rejected that view.
Quoted in a story by the Fort Collins Coloradoan, Sue Rehg said the GOP needs to stay on the right.
"Right on schedule, several groups of GOP centrists started wagging their fingers at values voters, blaming them for every lost opportunity on Nov. 4," Rehg said. "The answer, they claim, is not to become a more conservative, Reagan-esque party, but to acquiesce on the GOP's core issues in favor of energy and environment. Republicans are in the wilderness not because they spent the last six years embracing (limited) government and moral values, but because in so many areas the two parties have become almost indistinguishable."
So did several state senators, including Greg Brophy, R-Wray.
"His experience, common sense and fiscally conservative approach to problem solving is exactly what these times call for," Brophy said. "He will make a difference.”
Lundberg himself urged the vacancy committee to appoint him because of his conservative views.
"The problems our party has experienced have not been because our principals need to change, but because we haven't lived up to them," he said. "Some say that we should run to the middle to get ahead of the crowd. I disagree."
Lundberg, who is an evangelical Christian, denies that human-caused global climate change is occurring, opposes legal abortion and domestic partnerships and marriage rights for gay couples, is an advocate for tax reduction, and argues for expanded production of oil, oil shale, and other petroleum products. He was a leading opponent of Referendum C, which gave the state a five-year break from the revenue ratchet-down effect of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, in 2005.
Lundberg, who has been a member of the House since January 2003, was in his last term as a representative. He had previously made an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1998 and served for six years as a member of the board of directors of Colorado Christian University.
His appointment creates a vacancy in House District 49. A GOP selection committee from that district will meet next weekend.
Ray Walter of Windsor and BJ Nikkel of Berthoud have announced their desire to be chosen as Lundberg's replacement.
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