Kent Thiry first came to Colorado in 1973 for a high school student government conference. After the four-day event ended, the teen called his parents back in Wisconsin to ask for some money. He didn’t want to leave just yet.
“I drove down I-70, and I was blown away as I drove around the state — how beautiful it was,” he recounts now from the back patio of his mansion in Cherry Hills Village. “And right then I said, ‘I think someday I will live here.’ ”
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The Colorado Chamber of Commerce, which has long preferred moderate candidates in the Capitol, also supports Prop 131.
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