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.
[citation needed] The phrase Republican in name only emerged as a popular political pejorative in the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s. The earliest known print appearance of the term RINO was in the Manchester, New Hampshire newspaper then called The Union Leader.