Authors
Adam Schrager Adam Schrager covers politics for KUSA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Denver, Colorado. In twenty years in the business, he has won numerous broadcast journalism accolades, including more than fifteen Emmy awards. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University. Schrager’s first book, The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story, has been praised by historians and politicians nationwide. The biography, which chronicles former Colorado governor Ralph Carr’s defense of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, led state lawmakers to name the state justice center and a Colorado state ...
Advance Praise
“You may not know the names Pat Stryker and Tim Gill, but you should. They are the deep-pocket Democrats who led the left’s takeover of the center-right Rocky Mountain state. They and their team developed, funded, and executed a political strategy that undid a decade of Republican domination of Colorado politics and which is now being franchised across the country. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Rob Witwer and Adam Schrager’s book is all the intelligence every conservative needs on how to match and defeat such plans. They have reverse engineered “the blueprint” so everyone can learn ...
Excerpt
Excerpt from "The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care" (Fulcrum 2010) Copyright: Fulcrum Publishing, Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer For six days in August, it felt more like Cannes than Denver. Not that the Starz Green Room was terribly glamorous – quite the contrary. The converted art-house theater is just one wing of a sprawling 19th century red brick building called the Tivoli Center, which doubles as the student union for three community colleges. If you wanted action, the Pepsi Center across the street seemed a better bet. But appearances can be deceptive. During the 2008 Democratic ...
