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Demonaut

(8,911 posts)
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 12:03 AM Nov 2020

How low Colorado Republicans go


I received this email from the party, two died of covid


Fellow Republicans-

The Colorado Republican Party is sad to share the loss of two longtime party stalwarts, Joe and Lilly Nuñez.

For years, Joe and Lilly were deeply involved in Republican politics across Colorado. Joe was a decorated veteran who also served as a state representative from Douglas County and Lilly was our longtime RNC National Committeewoman, serving from June 2000 to July of 2016. Lilly also spent years working for former Republican Senator Bill Armstrong, as well as serving as Secretary of the Colorado GOP and Chair of the Republican National Hispanics Assembly of Colorado.

Both served as appointees during the Reagan and Bush Administrations and both proudly served as delegates to multiple RNC Conventions.

Joe and Lilly dedicated their lives to making our state a better place for all, they will both be dearly missed.

https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/149495/death-from-covid-of-nunez-a-wake-up-call-says-holbert
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How low Colorado Republicans go (Original Post) Demonaut Nov 2020 OP
Dead from COVID-19, Former state Rep. Joe Nunez of Douglas County and his wife, Lilly" Budi Nov 2020 #1
sad! Demonaut Nov 2020 #2
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. Dead from COVID-19, Former state Rep. Joe Nunez of Douglas County and his wife, Lilly"
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 12:12 AM
Nov 2020

"If anybody out there thinks that this can’t happen to them and their friends, the Joe-and-Lilly story really woke people up to, ‘Yeah, it can,'” said Chris Holbert, Colorado’s Senate Republican leader, expressing his sadness today over the death from COVID-19 of former state Rep. Joe Nunez of Douglas County and his wife, Lilly."

“It’s been a wake-up call for people who knew Joe and Lilly,” Holbert told the Colorado Times Recorder.
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