The Times They Continue to be A-Changin', Part II. - Colorado Democrats oust state party leader.

A 3-6-05 post was captioned in part:

" The Times They Are A-Changin'. - 1st USA with Howard Dean; then Arkansas; then North Carolina; which state is next to have "bottom-up reform?"

Apparently the answer appears to be Colorado.

The 3-9-05 Denver Post reports:

Colorado Democrats have ousted party chairman Chris Gates in an upset organized by activists angered by his handling of Mike Miles' failed bid for the U.S. Senate.

Party insiders said Gates' defeat came as a shock, given Democratic wins [in Colorado] in November.

Gates' apparent ouster comes less than a month after former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean won the national Democratic chairmanship, promising to return the party's power structure back to its liberal roots.

Dean's message caught on in North Carolina and Arkansas, where state Democrats recently elected insurgent newcomers as chairmen instead of more establishment candidates.

[One person who voted to replace Gates] said, "I didn't feel like I was a member of the state party." [Another said,] "People are ready for a change."