Aurora, Colorado - History. 1  Aurora originated in the 1880s as the town of Fletcher, taking its name from Denver businessman Donald Fletcher who saw it as a real estate opportunity.
For other uses, see Rino. Republican In Name Only is a pejorative term used by conservative members of the Republican Party of the United States to describe Republicans whose political views or actions they consider insufficiently conservative. The acronym RINO emerged in the 1990s. 1 Origins.
Why are a donkey and an elephant the symbols of the Democratic and Republican Parties? With the donkeys on the right and the elephants on the left, these sculptures are a bit out of place symbolically. Mordecai is slated to be the first official live mascot in the history of the Democratic Party.