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Lynn Bartels, a venerable Colorado journalist for more than two decades who possessed a massive Rolodex that seemed to perpetually spin with the names of the state\u2019s biggest \u2014 and not so big \u2014 players in politics, died on Friday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear sister, Lynn Bartels,\u201d her family posted on Facebook shortly after noon Friday. \u201cWe are heartbroken. We have been overwhelmed by the love that all of you have shared. It will lift us through the coming days and will stay with us forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels became known for her tenaciousness as a political reporter at the Rocky Mountain News, then went to work for The Denver Post after the News closed in 2009. She had undergone surgery to remove a large brain tumor, her family posted on Facebook in late April, and her sister Kitty DiMartino said it was diagnosed as glioblastoma. She was 69.<\/p>\n

Plans for a memorial service were underway, the family wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cLynn was a born reporter. Long after she\u2019d left newspapering, she was sniffing out news and passing on tips,\u201d said Lee Ann Colacioppo, The Post\u2019s editor, on Friday. \u201cIt was part of her DNA. The Rocky, The Denver Post and Colorado journalism were lucky to have her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels spent 22 years working at Denver\u2019s two metro dailies \u2014 first at the News for 16 years, then at The Post for half a dozen more until she took a buyout from the paper\u2019s parent company during a round of staff cuts in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a delightful human being, and her loss will leave a hole in the universe,\u201d said former Mesa County Commissioner Rick Enstrom, who met Bartels 30 years ago when he served on the Colorado Wildlife Commission under Gov. Bill Owens. \u201cIf anyone deserves to lie in state at the Colorado Capitol, it is Lynn Bartels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gov. Jared Polis issued a statement Friday afternoon, saying he had known Bartels for more than a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLynn\u2019s infectious personality and ongoing quest for selfies made her someone that everyone wanted to know, and her sharp wit kept readers coming back for more,\u201d he said. \u201cI know that her passing will impact so many across Colorado, but we\u2019ve all learned something from Lynn that we can carry forward in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels regularly spent time with \u2014 and wrote about \u2014 the luminaries of Colorado politics, including governors, U.S. senators, members of Congress and state lawmakers of all stripes \u2014 often holding them to account in blunt and unforgiving ways but never dismissing their humanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe might grill them on the latest turn of the news wheel, or even openly point out their hypocrisy \u2014 citing a month, year and issue when they took the position they were now opposing,\u201d said Todd Hartman, a former colleague of Bartels\u2019 at the Rocky Mountain News. \u201cBut in the very same conversation, she would ask about their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels, he said, \u201cknew their family members, kids, pets and hobbies, and she was sincere in seeing them as just people, flawed and mostly trying their best like all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bartels\u2019 influence on political reporting went beyond Colorado.\u00a0In 2015, she was named a \u201clongtime stalwart\u201d by The Washington Post blog The Fix in its annual list of best state political reporters, according to a story in the Columbia Journalism Review. MSNOW\u2019s Rachel Maddow relied on Bartels as \u201cher political attache for the inside scoop on the Colorado midterm elections\u201d in 2014, the story said.<\/p>\n

Kevin Vaughan, an investigative reporter for 9News who sat just feet away from Bartels at both The Post and the Rocky for 15 years, said his colleague was fiercely fair in her coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t play favorites. It didn\u2019t matter what party you were in, or what issues were important to you \u2014 you were fair game,\u201d Vaughan said. \u201cIt might mean she\u2019d write a glowing piece about you. It might also mean she\u2019d write a tough one \u2014 one you wouldn\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she was always willing to face her subject the next day and hear out what they thought of her story, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big reason why she was universally beloved by people across the political spectrum,\u201d Vaughan said. \u201cSome of those people had been punched in the mouth by her in print, and they came to respect and love her anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner wrote on X Friday that Bartels covered him when he was a state lawmaker, and later a senator in Washington, D.C. Her work, he wrote, \u201cdefined Colorado politics, its leadership and the intrigue of power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Lynn was there every bit of the way \u2014 knowing where the ball was bouncing before any of us had even figured out there was a ball at all,\u201d Gardner wrote. \u201cShe was the Grand Dame of Colorado politics and political reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels, a native of Vermillion, South Dakota, grew up with two brothers and six sisters. She\u00a0attended Cottey College in Missouri in the mid-1970s before moving on to Northern Arizona University to study journalism.<\/p>\n

Her first newspaper job was with the Gallup Independent in New Mexico. She then moved two hours east to work for the Albuquerque Tribune, where she met John Temple, the eventual editor and publisher of the Rocky.<\/p>\n

The year was 1984.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made her a columnist at The Tribune and she was incredibly popular,\u201d Temple said. \u201cPeople could relate to Lynn, which was one thing that made her such a great reporter and columnist.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Temple moved north, he hired Bartels as the night cops reporter at the Rocky, where she was charged with covering the shenanigans and hijinks of metro Denver\u2019s after-hours dwellers.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody could believe it at the time that someone would give up being a columnist to become a night cops reporter, but Lynn loved covering cops, and I loved working with her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Temple remembers the uniquely human touch Bartels employed in uncovering the details of a story.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople trusted her. They would talk to her,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was a people reporter. She wasn\u2019t a documents reporter. Nor did she like to write think pieces. Lynn was a true news reporter.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she eventually made her name covering state politics, Bartels wanted nothing to do with it at first, Temple said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne funny thing, given how much Lynn became part of Colorado political life, was that when we first asked her to go to the Capitol to cover the legislature, she cried,\u201d he said. \u201cShe didn\u2019t want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mary Alice Mandarich, a longtime political operative who served as chief of staff for the Colorado Senate Democrats, had known Bartels for 30 years and had her over to her home for backyard pig roasts and Thanksgiving meals over the years.<\/p>\n

She remembers Bartels making the trek to Kansas City to watch Mandarich\u2019s son get married, talking easily with people she had never met.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile being an iconic newspaper reporter, Lynn had an ability to lay that aside and be just small-town Lynn from Vermillion, South Dakota,\u201d Mandarich said. \u201cAnd I believe that background gave her the ability to engage effortlessly with people in many different walks of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

She remembers the two strengths that Bartels had that made her the reporter she was.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, she strongly guarded her sources, never betraying a confidence given on background,\u201d Mandarich said. \u201cSecond, she immersed herself in the maelstrom of political and government events. She was not one to report off of press releases and press conferences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dick Wadhams, a former Colorado Republican Party chair who managed U.S. Senate campaigns and Owens\u2019 run for governor, said Bartels \u201cknew something was going to happen even before the candidates and campaigns did.\u201d<\/p>\n

He recalled a moment in 2004 when he was considering whether to run the senatorial campaign of John Thune of South Dakota, who is now Senate Majority Leader. He kept putting Bartels off when she asked if he would be heading up the effort, not knowing if Thune was even running.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my plane landed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on a frigid January evening where I would start Thune\u2019s campaign, I turned my phone on and sure enough, there was a voicemail from Lynn saying \u2018I know you\u2019re in South Dakota. Call me.\u2019 Of course, she knew,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said Bartels always wanted to be in the middle of the action.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer idea of a good time was going on a bus tour of rural Colorado with a candidate and because of that she knew every county, town and wide spot in the road,\u201d Wadhams said.<\/p>\n

Marianne Goodland, the chief legislative reporter with Colorado Politics, regularly crossed paths with Bartels in their coverage of the state Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u201cLynn was the consummate reporter, and I learned a lot from her, mostly her ability to stand up to the folks in power without hesitation,\u201d Goodland said.<\/p>\n

Bartels, she said, would head from the Capitol office to \u201ccheck the traps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was code for talking to anyone \u2014 lobbyists, partisan and nonpartisan staff, and of course lawmakers \u2014 to see what was hot, what was coming,\u201d Goodland said. \u201cI started doing that when I joined Colorado Politics, and it has served me extraordinarily well over the past decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels\u2019 value continued after she left The Post in 2015, Goodland said, when she was a source for Goodland as spokeswoman for the Colorado Secretary of State\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

She worked several years for Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams after her newspaper career came to an end. She also did work more recently for state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, a Brighton Republican.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am heartbroken by the loss of Lynn Bartels. I loved that lady,\u201d Kirkmeyer wrote in a statement Friday. \u201cLynn was a dear friend, trusted colleague and a buddy who worked alongside me at the Colorado Capitol after an extraordinary career covering Colorado politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bartels, she said, \u201cbrought intelligence, humor, and an unmatched passion for public service to everything she did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams said Bartels \u201ctransformed government communications, changing it from reactive to proactive and even publishing a blog about Colorado elections and election officials that became famous and revered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe chronicled everything from conferences to elections to the day-to-day grist of the job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

DiMartino, Bartels\u2019 younger sister by 13 years, called her big sister the \u201cabsolute ringleader of the family.\u201d Bartels never married nor had children but she loved her nieces and nephews, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLynn was everyone\u2019s favorite sister,\u201d DiMartino said. \u201cShe was there for every single birth of her nieces or nephews.\u201d<\/p>\n

DiMartino, at age 5, remembers feeling crushed as her sister headed off to college in Missouri. After Bartels\u2019 freshman year came to an end, DiMartino remembered visiting her at her dorm and \u201crunning as hard as I could to jump into her arms because I loved her so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Journalism for her sister, she said, became bigger than just a collection of facts to pass along to others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt allowed for her to be forever curious, to get to know people and to really know them,\u201d DiMartino said. \u201cAnd to use those relationships not for personal purposes but to provide information to people on issues that were important in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have lost an outrageous sister, friend, colleague and human,\u201d she said of her older sister. \u201cLynn was outrageously funny, outrageously loyal and outrageously talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

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