Public TV pundits ponder new name for Colorado Democrats' annual fundraising dinner [View all]

Maybe the Colorado Democrats should rename the party’s big annual fundraising dinner after Donald Trump, since their enmity toward the Republican president could be the only thing that unites them. Or, if the party is looking to past presidents who didn’t own slaves and are unsullied by sex scandals, how about honoring Grover Cleveland and Harry Truman instead of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, as one local pundit suggests?

Colorado Public Television’s public affairs discussion show Colorado Inside Out opened Friday with a brief spin around the table to weigh in on a conundrum Colorado Politics first reported last week. After ditching the name of the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner a couple of years ago and settling for the Annual Dinner, state Democrats have been seeking suggestions for a less generic name. The Inside Out panelists had some thoughts. (Watch a clip of the show below.)

“Strike up the bland,” Westword co-founder and longtime editor Patty Calhoun said, “because there is just no personality left.”

She did propose an alternative, however: the John C. Calhoun Dinner, named after her “very, very” distant relative, who, she said, “was a slave-owner, so I suppose I should be changing my name now too, though he was very pro-states rights, so for pot purposes, I suppose I’ll have to keep it.”

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