Westminster City Council member keeps seat after recall election
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Westminster city council member recall election surrounded by water, politics
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Evan Semón
In the late 1800s, Presbyterian ministers came up with the idea of establishing a “Princeton of the West” in the Denver area. Henry J. Mayham, a native of New York who’d moved to Colorado, realized that land he owned between Denver and Boulder might increase in value if a Presbyterian university was set up nearby, so he donated 640 acres of land to the Denver Presbytery.
Forty acres of that donation would be used for the campus of Westminster University, eighty acres for a farm to support and feed the school, and the rest divided up and sold for the predicted community that would develop around the project.
Liam Adams
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Scott Gessler, former Colorado Secretary of State and attorney for the Westminster Water Warriors, filed a lawsuit in January against the city of Westminster for disqualifying recall petitions. The Warriors’ right to try and recall members of Westminster City Council was “unconstitutionally hindered and violated,” the suit said.
Less than a month later, Gessler announced his candidacy for chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. Soon after, he began sending campaign emails to supporters bolstering the debunked claim that Donald Trump wrongfully lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud. “We must recognize that serious election fraud took place,” read an email dated Feb. 4.