Article by Ed Quillen
1996 election – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Incumbents look safe in Saguache County
by Ed Quillen
For Saguache County, the ’96 election sounds about as exciting as watching grass grow. The only local race is for two county commission seats.
“We’ve got two incumbents, one from each party, and each has an opponent from the other party. Pretty much the same old same old,” said Dean Coombs, publisher of the Saguache Crescent.
Article by Jim Little
1996 election – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
3-way race for a parking place at the Custer County Courthouse
by Jim Little
In spite of the problems our quiet Valley is having with National Guard zoomies in our skies, a soft cattle market on our ranches, and a whole slew of newcomers fighting over who can pay the most for the remaining 40-acre ranchettes, we now have our diversions turned to the most popular contact sport of the season, a three-way county commissioner race.
Article by Ed Quillen
1996 election – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
In Leadville and Lake County, it’s the school bond that matters
by Ed Quillen
In Lake County, the hot item on the ballot is an $8.9 million school bond issue. Letters pro and con have covered acres of the Leadville Herald Democrat in recent weeks, and editor Grant Dunham says “It’s the thing everybody’s talking about.”
Article by Chris Dickey
1996 election – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
All signs point to a close race in Gunnison County
by Chris Dickey
It’s not difficult to determine that there is a local political race in progress, with Gunnison yards, businesses and cars transformed into a sea of brightly colored billboards espousing one candidate or another. If an impromptu inventory of this signage has any merit, the races for two Gunnison County Commission seats could be close ones.
Article by Ray James
1996 election – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
No matter who wins, Chaffee will be conservative
by Ramòn Diego
Conservatives are destined to take Chaffee County District 1 and District 2 county commissioner seats next January regardless of who wins the Nov. 5 voting. Both the Republicans (in 1, Ron Leyba of Buena Vista, and in 2, incumbent Frank McMurry, Nathrop) and the Democrats (in 1, incumbent Jim Thompson, who lives just outside Buena Vista, and in 2, Jerry Leewaye, Salida) reside on the fiscally and politically conservative wings of their respective parties.
Article by Daniel G. Jennings
1996 election – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Democrats could get majority on Park County Commission
by Daniel G. Jennings
Although Park County is traditionally Republican, there’s a good chance two Democrats will be serving on the Board of Commissioners in 1997.
Two of the three commission seats are up for election this year and both are in the Bailey area where most of our county’s population lives. In District Two incumbent Eunice Takatloglou, a Republican, lost the nomination at the Republican Party Convention in April, but was able to get on the primary ballot by petition. Takatloglou came in third in the primary behind Steve Benninghoven and Rosie Wiley.
Article by Ed Quillen
1996 election – November 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
For the Statehouse…
by Ed Quillen
Central Colorado doesn’t fit well into any known political subdivision. It is in one congressional district, the third, but that stretches a long way past Central Colorado.