“Her steadfast approach to common-sense land preservation, particularly agricultural land, has helped save thousands of threatened acres across the state.” “Sue is a quiet but effective advocate for land conservation,” Duke noted. Ben Duke III and held at the History Colorado Center. The honor was bestowed at a reception chaired by Joanne Sinclaire and H. A rancher, philanthropist and mentor, Sue Anschutz-Rodgers has poured considerable time and resources into land conservation efforts in Colorado and beyond, something that was publicly celebrated when Colorado Open Lands gave her its 2012 George E. Her love of wide open spaces began in her native Kansas and continued with her move to Colorado as a young adult. It turned out not to be that sinister, but I didn’t know that when I was being told they wanted to burn all gays.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu “And I had an incident where someone got my phone number and made threats. I’ve had a lot of ‘string her up by a lamppost’ type stuff ‘unionists, turncoats, traitors’,” she said.

I came out to one member of my very close family, it didn’t go well, so I didn’t come out to the rest for two years.”ĭavidson said she could get up to 1,000 abusive tweets a day when she was Scottish Tory leader. “I didn’t know for ages, which is surprising, looking back. “I was in my mid-20s – quite late,” she said. In the interview published on Sunday, she also spoke about coming out to her family as gay and about the homophobic abuse she has received as a politician. She campaigned to stay in the European Union in the 2016 referendum and had been open about her reservations about Boris Johnson’s leadership of the Conservative party before her resignation. It’s just some things are more important than politics.”ĭavidson is considered the most successful leader of the Scottish Conservative party since devolution. But at the moment, I’ve got four or five years when my son isn’t at school and that is not a time that I’m contemplating moving 450 miles away for the majority of the week.

“If someone tapped on my door and asked me to help, I’d be there in a heartbeat. “I’ve probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.

“It may well be that my time in politics doesn’t come again until we’re in opposition,” she said. In an interview for the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine, the MSP for Edinburgh Central hinted that she could re-enter politics when her one-year-old son was older.

A Heart in Politics by Sue Davidson