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When news broke Monday that former Vice President Walter Mondale had died, Democratic strategist Mike Stratton was reminded of the time Colorado farmers and the state s two U.S. senators met with Mondale at the White House nearly 44 years ago.
The meeting took place in December 1977 in the Roosevelt Room to discuss the American Agriculture Movement and the nationwide farmer strike, recalled Stratton, who was 23 years old and attended as an aide to U.S. Sen. Floyd Haskell.
Others in attendance were U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, Baca County farmers Greg Schuler and Bud Bitner and Prowers County farmer and rancher John Stulp, who later served as a county commissioner, state wildlife commissioner, Coloradoâs commissioner of agriculture and state water policy adviser.
Every society has its myths the stories people tell one another, passing tales down through the ages.
Whether it’s Prometheus punished for all eternity for the crime of stealing fire from the gods or Robin Hood snubbing his nose at the crown, stealing from the rich to give to the poor Britain’s national myth, some say myths help a group of people make sense of their place in the world and figure out how to behave.
Here in Colorado, where the mountains meet the plains and city folk come to start life anew, untethered from the rigid customs of their former states helped along by catching a glimpse of it rainin’ fire in the sky, as the official Colorado state song puts it myths abound, nowhere more so than in the political world.
Every society has its myths â the stories people tell one another, passing tales down through the ages.
Whether itâs Prometheus punished for all eternity for the crime of stealing fire from the gods or Robin Hood snubbing his nose at the crown, stealing from the rich to give to the poor â Britainâs national myth, some say â myths help a group of people make sense of their place in the world and figure out how to behave.
Here in Colorado, where the mountains meet the plains and city folk come to start life anew, untethered from the rigid customs of their former states â helped along by catching a glimpse of it raininâ fire in the sky, as the official Colorado state song puts it â myths abound, nowhere more so than in the political world.
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