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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(R) Marshall Dawson
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(D) Adam Frisch
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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August 11, 2010 07:07 PM UTC
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Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) was made law in the United States in 1995 as a result of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). Section 287(g) authorizes the Federal Government to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, permitting designated officers to perform immigration law enforcement functions, pursuant to a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), provided that the local law enforcement officers receive appropriate training and function under the supervision of sworn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Under 287(g), ICE provides state and local law enforcement with the training and subsequent authorization to identify, process, and when appropriate, detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity.
It’ll be a piece of cake for our local law enforcement agencies to put aside whatever nonsense they’re doing right now and get training “to perform immigration law enforcement functions.”
I’m sure Washington D.C. would be pleased as punch to have Colorado foot the bill for this.
Maybe we can hire back some of the 4,000 people Dan Maes is going to up and fire, as soon as he becomes governor, to perform these functions?
It’s so easy to run for any office when you don’t give a shit about the facts and reality. Winning and actually governing, though, is a little more difficult and unpleasant. Just ask Sarah Palin.
If Mr. Maes is going to divert local law enforcement officers away from their local duties (a Colorado governor has no authority to do that) then he needs to come up with the money to replace them with other officers who can take up the slack in crime fighting.
Second, in a different context four years ago in the Governors race, this same issue came up. Under the U.S. Consitituion only the federal government has the authority to regulate immigration, including the act of deporting an individual. Illegal aliens who commit crimes are already deportable, not because of the crimes they commit, but because they are illegal regardless of their behavior in the United States. On the other hand legal aliens are deportable only if they commit certain crimes, usually felonies.
When I worked at the U.S. Attorneys office here in Colorado, the Denver DA’s office would notify our office if an illegal alien was convicted of a crime or was in custody. The federal government sometimes would pick-up the illegal alien but many times would not for the simple reason Congress never appropriated enough money to ICE (INS in those days) to sufficiently staff the agency so they could pick-up and deport these individuals.
Taking Mr. Maes at his word, he has just endorsed new spending at both the local, state and federal levels.
It’s the jail space if the Feds don’t come and pick them up right away.
It’s all coming together nicely.
State and local law enforcement officials can already detain illegal immigrants for breaking the law. But they still cannot deport anyone — only Federal law enforcement officials can initiate a deportation.
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Maes is exactly right. Hmmm.
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He wants to sign us up for such a program. We’re already signed up and doing just what he proposes we should do.
Maes is making a fool of himself.
I also think Hick will win by a lot. But keep in mind Maes has been written off throughout. First he would be a blip at the caucuses and his campaign would end there. Then he was going to tank at the state assembly and the questions was would he hit 30%. Then it was no way does he win the primary.
Granted, McInnis followed the standard GOP statewide candidate plan of self-immolation. But still, Maes keeps winning when his chances are listed as impossible. I think Hick should worry.
The vote for Maes was more about Republicans not voting for McInnis than an approval of Maes as their candidate.
Very few Republicans were obtuse enough to vote for either McInnis or Maes Tuesday. About 5% of us who voted in the GOP’s senate primary didn’t vote in the gubernatorial primary.
With that under vote, we sent a strong message to the GOP that we will not support unethical and incompetent candidates, regardless. GOP leaders never will admit that they got the message, if they did or ever will.
This morning, Nathan Chambers, the former chair of the Arapahoe County GOP declared that Dan Maes is unqualified to be governor and that he is in over his head. That’s putting it mildlly, I think.
There are a lot of Mike Rosen groupies out there who put party above integrity and competence, but I think they’ll come around as they learn how unqualified Maes is.
On 850KOA this morning, former state treasurer, Mark Hillman, sat in for Rosen who mysteriously picked this week to do a cruise with some listeners. Hillman advised Maes to take a day or a week off to learn the issues. Maes is like McInnis. He’s never seen an issue book that he wanted in his old car, much less to read.
I’m looking for Maes to sink like a rock in the polls. Whether that will bring GOP leaders around to Tancredo or not, I can’t predict. Based on their current behavior, I’m not optimistic that the GOP establishment and groupies will every get it.
Meanwhile, I think Republicans will focus on electing Ken Buck, Scott Gessler and John Suthers. I worry that the party and its sugar daddies won’t get their act together and take back the legislature. Maybe they’ve got their act together, but, if so, it’s a big secret.
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The Maes victory is completely attributable to David Barnes and the crossover movement he led.
Fewer than 600 of the Maes votes were from real Republicans. The rest were Democrats who changed registration just to vote Maes. Just like the GOP did in South Carolina, voting for Alvin Greene.
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Such power in my fingertips.
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was just wandering who would be first. Ralphie wins!
There will be a lot of third-party money spent in this election to slime Hick. Having two opponents means double the slime.
be celebrating HickUNlooper’s win with made-in-the-USA sparkling wine. None of that foreign French stuff for me.
Roederer Estates L’Hermitage
I’d say that Maes has also had a whole lot of luck up to this point. The teabaggers are driving the GOP bus, so “establishment” ‘pubs are having a harder time of it than their Dem counterparts. Further, the McPlagiarist scandal broke at just the right time. Tanc’s foray is probably the only real bad luck he’s faced, as it ensures a split ‘pub vote in November.
But even without Tanc, I think Maes had reached the end of his line. He’s a nut and nowhere near the business success story he told people he was. And Hick may be the most popular politician Colorado has seen in a generation or two.
Right now, Maes needs a huge stroke of luck to even contend – a Hickenlooper scandal on par with McInnis’, or even worse. I know the smear machine is trying to use that “he hired an illegal alien murderer” angle, but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – on average, Americans don’t care that much about illegal immigration. Tanc and the GOP have mostly riled up the xenophobes, but that achievement is countered by the fact that they’ve alienated this country’s Hispanics, a largely socially conservative group who was starting to go over to the GOP in significant numbers until Tanc and the Minutemen reared their ugly heads. If Maes feels he has to compete with Tanc on this, he’ll only make sure that the number of Hispanics voting GOP in Colorado is miniscule.
“I also think Hick will win by a lot. …I think Hick should worry.”
Here are some signs of passive-aggressive behavior:
–Ambiguity or speaking cryptically: a means of engendering a feeling of insecurity in others
–The passive aggressive often cannot trust. Because of this, they guard themselves against becoming intimately attached to someone.
–Making chaotic situations
–Obstructionism
Following your bizarre Bennet/Romanoff switch, now you plow into the Hickenlooper race? You’ve been blogging quite a lot today. I think it’s time to go back to work, David.
Yes we seem to have been handed the Governorship. But still, in this climate I worry.
Will Tancredo shoot down Maes as impossibly naive?
Or will Tancredo smack his meaty forehead and say: “Gee, you’re right, Dan: I never thought of that before! I guess I’ll quit my own campaign and support you from now on!”
he’ll just say, “welcome aboard the Tancredo Train.”
Just as Hickenlooper has sat by while McInnis and Maes imploded, I think that Tancredo will ignore Maes and let him continue to self-destruct.
The media and bloggers will stay on the Maes case, I suspect. He’ll never get off the defensive.
All of Tanc’s effort will be based on Hickenlooper being the real enemy, not the GOP candidate.
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laughing quietly to myself
Did you really just make that up yourself?
JUST KIDDING!!! Don’t answer me!
one or two other persons in my life who were deranged enough to come up with the things I come up with.
Don’t believe me? Just ask my brother, Rollie.
bangs the immigration drum, the more votes he drives to Tancredo. Not a winning strategy.
As someone on this board deftly observed, why assume conspiracy when stupidity provides an obvious explanation for a given action?
I’m suddenly starting to believe we could walk out of this with Governor Tancredo large and in charge.
According to Denver Post honcho Dean Singleton on Jon Caldara’s KOA show last night.
Audio clip here.
h/t Ralphie
Though I don’t know whether to thank you or hate you for making me listen to an hour of Caldara’s show.
It’s worth listening to hate radio now and then. Gotta know what they’re saying.
I thought Bartels’ segment (after Singleton) was hilarious. Except I wasn’t laughing with her…
the nomination period for best signature line has passed–I think you would have won!
After the last several weeks here, I figured I needed the sig line equivalent of a Romo-borg deflector shield.
Where is Maes going to find the $$ for such a program in the state or federal budget?
A report by the Center for American Progress says it will cost $285 billion to find, apprehend, detain, legally process and transport the almost 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and maintain current enforcement levels at the border and interior for five years.
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$285 B is precisely what we plan to spend to keep 50,000 soldiers in Iraq over the same period.
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That’s a lot of money if we stop pretending that troops, drones and the tanc on the border really do anything and occupation/nation building in a place that has eaten every occupation/nation building army/country that ever invaded it are worth that much (and I think a lot more).
Pretty soon it starts adding up to real money.
if he wins the senate race. After all, he acts like he’s going to go in there and just do whatever he wants even though he’d only be a freshman senator…
Anyone else relieved that we don’t have to look at McInnis’ mustache anymore?
I’d think he was gunning for a spot as Tancredo’s Lieutenant Governor. After all, he’s been the nominee for less than 24 hours and he’s already beating Tancredo’s drums for him. Maybe he thinks “addressing” immigration will encourage Tancredo to feel comfortable dropping out, but that ain’t happening. When have we ever known the Tanc to be a quitter? Shoot, he didn’t even quit Congress on the date he promised to do so.
He said illegal immigration was by far the #1 issue for people he talked to. That’s the base that won him the primary.
I think it’s a non-starter in the general, but that is the horse that got him this far.
It’s hardly smart to “Me too!” that single issue immediately after becoming the nominee.
Then again, those are the kind of renowned smarts that “successful small business owner” Dan Maes used to earn less than minimum wage.
During the primary, Dan Maes said “me too” to almost everything Scott McInnis said. He’ll “me too” Tancredo as well.
I’ve never heard a creative thought from Maes, but I’ve heard some pretty ill informed ones.
monkey at the typewriter.
He got lucky.
I wonder if the voices in his head haven’t forgotten to tell him the Republican primary is over.
Long time lurker, first time poster.
And as much as it pains me, Dan Maes actually is talking about something that is not some “pie in the sky” idea.
The program is called “Secure Communities” and gives the Federal Government access to local community fingerprint and arrest records. It has been used in other cities to help the Federal Government deport people.
Governor Ritter is considering making Denver part of the Secure Communities program. This is likely what Maes is talking about.
But, why didn’t CrazyDanВ® say that instead of “a program”?
Why? Because he is clueless.
He doesn’t remember what it’s called cause he read it somewhere, kind of like the whole bycycle conspiracy came from “some woman who handed him a folder of information.”
PS: I drove by some of those “shared bicycles” today and I’m pretty sure several of my personal freedoms flew out the car window!
Keep posting – you’re good! 🙂
Because, of course, no administration has ever deported so many non-citizens (documented and undocumented alike, if you must know) on the grounds that those non-citizens have been convicted of crimes.
I’m glad that Maes is such a supporter of bipartisan approaches to policy issues.
He’ll be fine once he has a crash course in how the government works. here’s a good starting point for him:
Next step: Join a DPS middle school class on a tour of the State Capitol.
Do you think Maes realizes that Tancredo Rs pushed him over the top on Tuesday?