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BIOGRAPHY  Nick Gradisar was born & raised in Pueblo City.  Nick Gradisar was born in 1949, approx. 69 years ago. Nick Gradisar is the eldest of the 5 children of Lila and Tony. Lila was an administrator at the State Hospital and the Pueblo Regional Center. Tony Gradisar was a steel worker and an entrepreneur. His parents used to bake bread, & now Nick bakes his own bread as a family tradition. Nick graduated from South High School in 1967, approx. 47 years ago.  Nick Gradisar worked at the Sears warehouse in Pueblo as a young man.  Gradisar graduated from Southern Colorado State College (now Colorado State University-Pueblo) in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Sciences. Before enrolling in Law School, he spent two years working for a federally funded parent-child center in La Junta, Colorado. Nick graduated with honors from Drake University School of Law in 1976. While in law school, Nick was a member of the Law Review, clerke...

The first moment I talked to Larry, he came outside after a City Council meeting, & introduced himself, which I appreciated, & was impressed by. He asked what I wanted, & I told him I wanted an end to poverty & homelessness. He seemed perplexed, said that he worked on stuff, but thought it was a continuing issue. I told him that there's 22 empty houses per homeless person in the USA, & that homelessness was really just a societal coordination failure. Then we parted after that. BIOGRAPHY Larry Atencio got a Masters Degree in Public Administration. Larry Atencio was the President of City Council not too long ago, during his earlier stint as City Councilman, from 2006 to 2011. Larry Atencio is currently 1 of 7 City Council members of Pueblo City, representing District #2. His term began January 1, 2016, and it ends at the end of next year, December 31, 2019, which means, Larry Atencio has 1 more year of City Counciling before he'll have to campaign f...

Dennis Flores, Mark Aliff, & Bob Schilling all won their city council seats in 2017 by a plurality of votes. Only Ed Brown won a majority of votes. Ed Brown was the only City Council candidate to become a majority-backed victor in Pueblo City's 2017 City Council elections.   Dennis Flores did win a respectable 44% of the Pueblo Citians who voted (10,518 of 23,952) , but 44% isn't a majority, at all, now is it? There's 2 levels of a failed democracy here: 1) 35% turnout rate, &; 2) Plurality "winners". 1st, Pueblo City's turnout rate was only 35%. Schools teach 100% compliance, & that's one reason why only 35% of Pueblo votes. They're not supposed to participate in power. If only 35% of Pueblo City voted, then that means 65% of the people of Pueblo City do not participate in their own democratic government, at all. If one doesn't vote, then you're not following political careers & legislation, or anything else political, so th...