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1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Adams County Politics, Candidates, Climate Change, Colorado politics, Debt/Deficit, Denver area politics, Economy, Education, Elections, Energy, Event, Immigration, Issues, Jobs, Liberal Logic, Meet and Greet, National politics, NSRF Business, NSRF Meetings, ObamaCare, PERA, TABOR, Taxes, Terrorism, Training, Transportation, Volunteering, War on Women 08.07.2021 No Comments
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We meet every month on the second Saturday from 9:00am-11:00am.This Saturday, July 10th, we’re meeting at a private home for a more intimate setting as we hear from new Colorado GOP Chair, Kristi Burton Brown.
You’ll hear her speak about current Colorado issues, like redistricting, and her plan to transform Colorado from blue to red.
She’ll also answer your questions.You don’t want to miss out on this important meet-and-greet!
See you there!The meeting address is 11611 Shoshone Way in Westminster.
Admission is $3 per person.
See the map below for a visual view of the meeting location.
Park on the street and then please proceed to the north side of the house.
This leads to the back deck where we’ll have plenty of chairs and bottled water.
Kristi Burton Brown
State Party Chairwoman
Email: kristi@cologop.orgKristi Burton Brown is the Chair of the Colorado Republican Party, a constitutional attorney, and a policy analyst. She helped to negotiate Sen. Tim Neville’s Free Speech on Campus bill and has testified for legislation in multiple states on behalf of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research and education arm of the Susan B. Anthony List. She is the author of “Do Justice: Practical Ways to Engage Our World,” and a wife and mother of two kids. Read more …
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1st Amendment, Adams County Politics, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Elections, Event, Fundraiser, Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, NSRF Business, POTUS, Site News 21.06.2021 No Comments
Conservatives gather in Denver to talk ‘Frontier Freedom’ and the battles ahead
Jeff Hunt, president of Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute, left, talks with U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert, Doug Lamborn and Ken Buck at the 2021 Western Conservative Summit, sponsored by the institute, on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Denver. In its 12th year, the two-day summit, sponsored by Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute, brought together hundreds of activists, politicians and scholars — joined by people who watched at least some of the proceedings online — to view conservative principles through what organizers called “the unique lens of the American West.”
Organized and planned before anyone knew whether pandemic restrictions would still be in place, this year’s summit was held at a hotel in downtown Denver across the street from the Colorado Convention Center, where attendees in previous years had filled cavernous exhibit halls.
Instead of the roughly 3,500 avid conservatives who flocked to the event at its height, this year’s affair capped attendance at 500, though its reach might have been much greater because the entire program was live-streamed online, with organizers counting tens of thousands of viewers across platforms.
Institute president Jeff Hunt introduced and interviewed the featured speakers on a main stage decked out to look a lot like the set of a late-night talk show.
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1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Adams County Politics, Ballot Issue, Candidates, Colorado politics, Debt/Deficit, Denver area politics, Economy, Education, Elections, Energy, Immigration, Issues, Jobs, Legal Issues, Liberal Logic, NSRF Business, NSRF Meetings, ObamaCare, PERA, Site News, TABOR, Taxes, Terrorism, Transportation, War on Women 10.06.2021 No Comments
June 12th is the second Saturday of the month and that means it’s time to gather with your friends at The Forum!
The Colorado Legislature ended the 2021 session Wednesday and they passed over 600 bills.
Most of them were to reduce your freedoms and increase your taxes (and fees).
Our speaker is Sue Moore from the Republican Liberty Caucus of Colorado (https://rlcco.org/)
They rate every bill and legislator with the following criteria:
“The Republican Liberty Caucus of Colorado produces an annual Liberty Scorecard. It is a measure of how our state lawmakers vote according to Constitutional Principles: Individual Rights, Free Markets and Limited Government.”
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Colorado website says they’re “The Conscience of the Colorado GOP.”
We meet at 1305 West 121st Avenue, in Westminster from 9:00am-11:00am this Saturday, June 12th. Admission is $3 per person. See the map further below.
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Colorado is a political action organization dedicated to promoting the ideals of individual rights, limited government and free markets by:
- Working within the State Republican Party and with other conservative organizations to identify, recruit and support candidates for state and local government who hold to our principles.
- Monitoring legislative activity to hold elected Republicans accountable to the principles on which they campaigned.
- Encouraging our members to participate in the Republican party organization and promote membership in RLCCO among party leadership.
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1st Amendment, Adams County Politics, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Fundraiser, Issues, Legal Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, NSRF Business, Site News 08.06.2021 No Comments
That’s a question countless people across the country started asking in 2012, when Jack Phillips told two men who walked into his Masterpiece Cakeshop that he couldn’t create a custom cake for their same-sex wedding. And the question only grew more urgent as Phillips had to defend himself first before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and then numerous courts—losing at every step of the way until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor in June 2018.
Why not just make the cake? Submitting would have been less frightening than facing relentless harassment and death threats. It would have been less costly than losing a major portion of his business when the state demanded that he design cakes for same-sex weddings or none at all. And it would have been easier than a decade of fighting for his rights—and his livelihood—in court, a fight he has been forced to continue even after his victory at the Supreme Court.
But for Jack Phillips, there are deeper principles at stake—principles too precious to abandon for the sake of convenience and safety. These principles should be of concern to every American, including Jack’s adversaries. If the freedoms Jack has sought to protect are lost, they may never be regained.
Why not just make the cake? In this inspiring book, Jack answers that question in his own words, hoping his story will inspire and strengthen the many who will encounter challenges, however fearsome, to living out their faith.
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1st Amendment, Editorial, Energy, Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, PC Police, Videos and Photos 04.06.2021 No Comments
David Ramsden-Wood, Hitachi Vantara O&G Business Development; #hottakeoftheday, Author, Observer of intellectual inconsistency and caller of BS as required
It’s… about …. time.
For far too long, the oil and gas industry has gone along to get along. The substantial platforms of our majors and their marketing budgets and trade associations have placated, instead of attacked, and been quiet, passive, and accepting. If we learned anything as a society in 2020, it’s that the media is propaganda tool for those pushing an agenda. Narrative is controlled and bought. Full stop.Before we get to the #hottakeoftheday “Hero of the Year” award (hint, it’s Chris Wright of Liberty Oilfield Services), let’s look at Engine No. 1’s proxy battle with Exxon. Here is a hedge fund that owned 0.02% of ExxonMobil’s stock, or roughly 8.5 mm shares and bought at roughly $40/share (~$340 mm). Their proxy battle cost $30 mm which represents ~9% cost on the total position.
Do we REALLY think that Engine No. 1 paid for that? They have 3 new directors, with a press machine and a “hedge fund” behind them that is happy to spend money to influence the energy transition narrative and investment outcomes.
Which brings us to Chris Wright and the battle the industry has had with The North Face, a VF Company. A CEO is in a unique position to use their platform to counteract one narrative with another.
Me? I love energy. Our life is enabled by energy. And the virtue signaling of those that don’t want to acknowledge the role oil and gas plays in our economy is getting really old. So… Chris. Thank you.
The video is below, and I encourage you to watch it and share it. He says it better than I ever could.
It’s…. about…. time.
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Ballot Issue, Colorado politics, Elections, Issues, Liberal Logic, Site News, TABOR, Taxes 21.05.2021 No Comments
House Bill 1321 comes as progressives have all but given up on doing away with TABOR, the 1992 constitutional amendment that has served as a third rail in Colorado politics ever since its passage
One of the most effective parts of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights when it comes to stopping tax-raising ballot questions in Colorado is a requirement that voters be informed, IN CAPITAL LETTERS, about the eye-popping sum they are deciding whether to allow the government to collect.
“SHALL STATE TAXES BE INCREASED $766,700,000 ANNUALLY FOR A TWENTY-YEAR PERIOD?” Proposition 110, which was focused on raising money for transportation projects, scream-asked voters in 2018. (It failed.)
Now, Democrats are trying to adapt that potent TABOR transparency tool for their own purposes.
House Bill 1321, a measure introduced at the Capitol this week, would require voters to be informed of which programs would be affected by ballot questions decreasing taxes.
The legislation would require the following language be attached to tax-reducing ballot measures: “Shall funding available for state services that include, but are not limited to, (the three largest areas of program expenditures) be impacted by a reduction of (projected dollar figure of revenue reduction to the state in the first full fiscal year that the measure reduces revenue) in tax revenue…?”
The bill would also mandate that ballots containing tax questions highlight how many people in which tax brackets would be most affected by tax hikes or decreases, and require that ballot titles for tax increases state that the aim is to “increase or improve levels of public services” and then list those services.
“It’s an attempt to provide more information and level the playing field,” said Carol Hedges, who leads the liberal-leaning Colorado Fiscal Institute, which supports the measure. “Currently, the all-caps language focuses people’s attention only on the size of state government. We know that the size of state government is not the only factor people should be considering.”
Scott Wasserman, who leads the Bell Policy Center, a liberal advocacy organization, called the measure “a great idea” that seeks to offset what he sees as the manipulative aspects of TABOR.
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Adams County Politics, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Immigration, Issues, Liberal Logic, National politics, NSRF Business, ObamaCare, Taxes, Training 15.05.2021 No Comments
Senate Bill 199 would repeal language barring immigrants in the U.S. illegally from accessing state and local public benefits. It’s among several bills that would affect Colorado immigrants.
The Colorado State Capitol in Denver is pictured during the first day of the General Assembly’s 73rd regular legislative session on Jan. 13, 2021. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun) State lawmakers this year are advancing a historic slate of legislation aimed at assisting the estimated nearly 200,000 Coloradans living in the U.S. illegally, including through measures to shield them from federal immigration authorities and granting them access to state-funded benefits and services.
The bills would also remove requirements that people prove legal residency to receive professional and business licenses, and create a state program to provide free birth control care and counseling for low-income immigrants without legal status.
The Colorado Sun identified 11 bills debated at the legislature this year focused on immigrants, including four that have already been signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis.
“Not even a decade ago, it was considered a win to be able to pass one immigration-related bill in an entire legislative session,” said state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat and one of the fiercest immigrant advocates in the Colorado legislature. “Because of the work that’s happened outside of this building, because of the activism of undocumented people sharing their stories and speaking for themselves, there has been a sea change.”
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1st Amendment, Adams County Politics, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Issues, Liberal Logic, NSRF Business, Site News 15.05.2021 No Comments
House Minority Leader Hugh McKean, a Loveland Republican, defended the list, saying it was created at the behest of a member who wanted to know how to best navigate the Capitol media landscape.
A list of media outlets handed out by House Republican leadership to its members. The list included a column denoting whether an outlet is “friendly” or “not friendly.” (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun) A few weeks ago, leadership in the Colorado House Republican caucus handed out a list of media outlets to their members. But instead of just titles, mediums, phone numbers and email addresses, there was an untitled column with one of two descriptors: “friendly” and “not friendly.”
Six outlets, including The Colorado Sun, The Denver Post, Colorado Public Radio, Axios Denver, Colorado Newsline and 9News, were listed as unfriendly, according to a copy of the list obtained by The Sun’s politics newsletter, The Unaffiliated.
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2nd Amendment, Adams County Politics, Colorado politics, Denver area politics, Issues, Liberal Logic, NSRF Business, Terrorism 13.05.2021 No Comments
Even without the waiting-period measure, the 2021 legislative session in Colorado will be one of the state’s most significant with regard to gun control.
Eagles Nest Armory gun shop seen on March 24, 2021, in Arvada. (Hugh Carey, Special to The Colorado Sun) Democratic state lawmakers have shelved efforts to pass a bill imposing a gun-purchase waiting period this year, as they had planned before the 2021 lawmaking term began.
State Rep. Steve Woodrow, a Denver Democrat, was slated to be the prime sponsor of the measure. He said the massacre at a Boulder King Soopers reshaped lawmakers’ gun-control plans this year and they decided to focus on other policies.
“After the shooting we worked diligently to craft a package of bills that will have the most impact and that’s the package we’re moving forward with this session,” he said in a written statement.
State Rep. Tom Sullivan, a Centennial Democrat whose son was murdered in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, said the waiting-period bill could be introduced at the Capitol next year.
“It’s a work in progress,” he said. “We’ll keep working on it.”
Sullivan said lawmakers next year may also try to raise Colorado’s minimum age to purchase high-powered rifles. Currently anyone over 18 and older can purchase a rifle or shotgun while anyone 21 and older can purchase a handgun.
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