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.
TR was a Republican for most of his career. He ran unsuccessfully as a third-party candidate in 1912, against his Republican successor William Howard Taft. The new party was kâ¦nown as the Progressive Party or the Bull Moose Party.