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November 03, 2015 11:55 AM UTC

Get More Smarter on Election Day (Nov. 3)

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Get More SmarterToday is Election Day. If you haven’t voted yet, turn off your computer and get to a polling place. Now. Go. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► DON’T MAIL THAT BALLOT!!! If you still have your ballot for the 2015 election, do NOT put it in the mail. Instead, click one of the following links for more information on ballot drop-off locations. If you never received a ballot, follow the links below for information on Provisional Ballots.

Visit GoVoteColorado.com to check your voter registration status or to print out a sample ballot. You can also check out JustVoteColorado.org for more information. For more details on local school board elections, check out ProgressNow Colorado’s voter guide.

The Ft. Collins Coloradoan has published a handy “procrastinator’s guide to voting.” We also asked Colorado Pols readers to weigh in on how they suspect things will turn out when the ballots are counted in the Jefferson County School Board recall.

 

► The Colorado Secretary of State has published voter turnout numbers by county. As of this morning, 911,365 ballots had been returned statewide. Turnout for the last off-year election, 2013, was about 1.4 million. In the most closely-watched race of 2015 — the Jefferson County School Board recall election — 136,554 ballots had been returned as of this morning (total turnout in 2013 was about 176,508 in Jeffco).

 

► Governor John Hickenlooper outlined his new budget proposal on Monday, as John Frank reports for the Denver Post:

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday outlined a $27 billion budget proposal for the 2017 fiscal year that features $373 million in spending cuts and $189 million in taxpayer refunds.

The  fiscal paradox — a result of more moderating economic growth and restraints in the state constitution — sets the stage for a major budget battle in the 2016 legislative session, as evidenced by the sharp reaction to the Democrat’s plan.

“If this is not the fabled death by a thousand cuts, it comes pretty close,” said Rep. Millie Hamner, the top Democratic budget writer…

Hickenlooper’s plan represents a 0.4 percent decrease in spending compared with the current 2016 fiscal year budget, with the cuts hitting hardest on higher education, hospitals and state building maintenance. The reductions are needed to offset increased costs in K-12 education and Medicaid, the health care program for the poor — as well as to cover a projected deficit in the current year budget that could reach  as high as $220 million.

You suck, TABOR.

 

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Four people were killed by bullets fired from guns in a Colorado Springs shooting on Saturday, and Mother Jones magazine wonders if Colorado’s open-carry laws might have actually slowed police response to emergency calls:

On Monday, a troubling detail came to light in a Denver Post report suggesting that police may have had a chance to intervene before the slaughter began—but that a police dispatcher may have reacted without urgency to a 911 call about Harpham because of Colorado’s open carry law…

Proponents of open carry laws argue that the ability for citizens to take firearms with them in public isn’t just a right but makes communities safer. We don’t yet know, but the law allowing guns to be carried on display in Colorado may have just done the opposite.

Jesse Paul of the Denver Post reported on Monday that a 911 dispatcher may have been unsure how to respond to emergency calls because of Colorado’s open carry laws:

Bettis said she recognized the gunman as her neighbor—whom she didn’t know by name—and that before the initial slaying she saw him roaming outside with a rifle. She called 911 to report the man, but a dispatcher explained that Colorado has an open carry law that allows public handling of firearms. [Pols emphasis]

Is it too soon to politicize this shooting? At this point, it’s never to soon — our elected officials need to take action ASAP to curb the outbreak of gun violence in this country.

 

► Senator Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) became the first sitting Senator to endorse a Republican candidate for President on Monday when he threw his support behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Gardner then had to weave through a litany of questions about Rubio’s lax attendance in the U.S. Senate and similar criticisms lobbed by Gardner at then-Sen. Mark Udall in 2014.

 

► Three Western Slope legislators want to revisit a bill that would require drivers on I-70 in the Mountains to use chains or heavy snow tires in bad weather conditions.

 

► Colorado residents who live near oil and gas drilling operations now have a state number they can call to report health concerns. The new hotline is part of Colorado’s Oil and Gas Information Response Program.

 

The Colorado Independent reports on a new study that shows Colorado still maintains a sizable gap in income inequality between men and women.

 

► Garfield County in Western Colorado is cutting funding for local Planned Parenthood programs. The headline makes the move sound worse than it is — though the decision is no less ridiculous; the total amount cut by Garfield County is about $1,500.

 

► As he prepares to begin his 12th and final year as Denver District Attorney, Mitch Morrissey speaks to Bill Husted in an interview published by the Denver Business Journal.

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Colorado isn’t the only state with a lot at stake today; voters in Kentucky will choose a new Governor and Attorney General. Democrats are hoping to hold onto the Governor’s office with Attorney General Jack Conway maintaining slight polling leads entering Election Day.

 

► There are few jobs in America which require less time at the office than Congress, and that looks to change even more in 2016. According to a new calendar released by House Majority Leader Kevin “Benghazi” McCarthy, the House will adjourn from July 15-Sept. 6, and will work until Sept. 30 before adjourning until Nov. 14th. Congressional Republicans have been oft-criticized for trying to prevent the government from working, and it’s hard to argue when they aren’t going to bother doing much of anything for most of 2016.

ICYMI

► Ohio voters could help the entire country take a great leap forward in Democracy if they vote today to ban partisan gerrymandering in the state.

 

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3 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Election Day (Nov. 3)

  1. Some good old fashioned bipartisanship from Radical Anti-Government, Pro-Bankster Republicans in the House:

    House Republicans are angling to slip two pieces of bank deregulation into a major highway funding bill that is expected to pass with broad bipartisan support.

    According to a source familiar with discussions, Republicans are trying to remove tighter regulations that were imposed on banks with at least $50 billion in assets after the 2008 financial crisis. They also are aiming to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), which has worked to prevent big banks, payday lenders and other financial firms from ripping off households.

    The GOP doesn't need Democratic votes to pass the broader highway bill — it has a wide majority in the House. But while securing federal highway funding is a top Democratic priority, controversial riders like the bank deregulation items may prompt a veto from President Barack Obama that would be impossible to override without Democratic aid. The riders could also serve as a potential test of new House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and his willingness to use major legislation to ram through conservative priorities.

    It's not clear whether the House Freedom Caucus would choose to hold Ryan's feet to the fire on bank-friendly legislation, however. The group of hardline conservatives frequently bemoans "crony capitalism," and one of its most prominent members, Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), consistently votes against Wall Street.

    The move to weaken the CFPB is deeply unpopular with Democrats. The legislation, authored by Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas), would eliminate the bureau's single director and replace it with a bipartisan panel of commissioners. 

    And we shall all believe that Paul Ryan is a moderate and if it's bipartisan, it's good.

  2. Not a hoax -Springs  NAACP bomber sentenced to five years.

    UPDATE 11/3/15

    Thaddeus Murphy has been sentenced to five years for the bombing of the NAACP building in Colorado Springs. His weak attempt to avoid a hate crimes charge: "I was mad at my accountant for not returning my calls".  However, there hadn't been an accounting office at the bombed building for years. Per Rick Sallinger's reporting on KKTV news:

    But the NAACP believed then and now the device was intended for them, not a tax firm that was long gone at the time of the explosion.

    Thaddeus Cheyenne Murphy

    Thaddeus Murphy, courtesy Department of Corrections

     

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