Two people in politics who I had a lot of close dealings with over the years died in the past week, once again reminding me how much I miss the kind of people who once viewed public office and government service as noble callings and not something to sneer at and ridicule.
The first was former Bill Armstrong, a Republican who served in the Colorado Legislature and the U.S. Congress before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978.
In the 1970s, when I began my career as a political reporter at the Colorado Springs Sun, I covered Armstrong when he was in Congress and ran for the Senate. He was also my employer for a year or so when he and his family owned The Sun, where I started out. He was 79 when he died.
The other person we lost in recent days was Denver lawyer and Democrat Howard Gelt, who, like Armstrong, succumbed to cancer, at age 73.
The loss of these two individuals, I think, will continue to reverberate through political and legal circles around here for a long time.
Read the full report in the Denver Business Journal: http://bit.ly/29S8ZyJ.
