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April 27, 2016 11:35 AM UTC

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (April 27)

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Get More SmarterIf you still have an old Gart Bros. gift certificate, you might want to hurry up and try to redeem that sucker. 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…

► It looks like we are going to have a Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump matchup in the race for President. Trump went 5-for-5 last night in the “Acela Primary,” or whatever the hell you want to call it. By winning in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island, Trump has likely created a scenario where next Tuesday’s Indiana Primary is the last real chance for anti-Trump forces to stop His Hairness from winning the GOP nomination.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had an awful night, finishing in third place in every state but Pennsylvania. Cruz says his campaign will make a “major announcement” this afternoon; there is some speculation that Cruz may announce a potential running mate for the GOP nomination that he is no longer mathematically able to win anyway.

 

► On the Democratic side of the Presidential equation, Clinton all but sealed the nomination with big wins in delegate-rich states on Tuesday. As NBC News reports:

With five Northeast states voting Tuesday, Clinton easily won the two biggest prizes of the night: Pennsylvania and Maryland. She also took home Delaware and Connecticut in tighter races. By 12:15 a.m. ET, NBC News put Clinton at 2,117 delegates and Sanders at 1,330. The nomination requires 2,383 delegates.

The added delegates create a virtually unbridgeable gap for Sanders, who had already moved on to West Virginia, which holds its primary May 10…

…Meanwhile, Sanders addressed more than 6,400 people and made it clear he has no interest in dropping out. Notably, he spoke about his campaign as a movement with more important goals than winning.

 

► Lawyers for Republican Jon Keyser were in a Denver courtroom on Tuesday making the case that their client deserves to appear on the Primary ballot even though his campaign failed to collect enough valid petition signatures before the April 4th deadline. There was no official ruling on Tuesday, though a judge said that a decision would come within 72 hours. Two more Republican Senate candidates — Robert Blaha and Ryan Frazier — are still waiting to hear from the Secretary of State’s office in regards to the validity of their own petitions.

 

 

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Denny Hastert is going to the clink. From the Washington Post:

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert to 15 months in federal prison — a term above what even prosecutors had recommended and one that clearly takes into account the sexual abuse allegations that generated the criminal case against the Illinois Republican.

The sentencing marked an ignominious moment in the life of a man who was once a revered high school teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois and who ascended into the highest ranks of American politics. Even before the hearing, prosecutors’ had revealed in court filings how Hastert allegedly had molested or inappropriately touched five teenagers affiliated with the wrestling team he coached decades ago. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin had indicated he would consider that in crafting an appropriate punishment…

…Hastert, who arrived at the federal courthouse this morning in a wheelchair, did not plead guilty to any sex crimes. Rather, he admitted in October that he had withdrawn money in increments that would allow him to avoid having to report it — itself a crime carrying a maximum five year sentence. The money, investigators would come to learn, was meant to buy the silence of a man who alleged Hastert had victimized him as a youth.

 

► Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen emerged victorious in one of the most-watched Senate primaries in the country. Van Hollen defeated Rep. Donna Edwards for the Democratic Senate nomination, and will likely cruise to a General Election victory in the fall.

 

► Colorado legislators continue to debate a bill that would get rid of our Presidential caucus system in favor of an actual Primary election.

 

► Congressman Scott Tipton (R-Cortez) continues to take criticism over his support for a measure that would open up more Western Colorado lands for oil and gas drilling. From Aspen Public Radio:

Representatives from the Wilderness Workshop and Thompson Divide Coalition had harsh words Tuesday for a proposed oil and gas lease swap. Meanwhile, Pitkin County commissioners expressed frustration that their input wasn’t considered in the latest proposal.

Good work, Rep. Tipton — you managed to anger both conservationists and Republican county commissioners.

 

► The Colorado Springs Gazette reports on funding for a new federal security facility in Colorado Springs:

A committee that holds the purse strings in Colorado approved spending $8 million Tuesday morning to renovate a building in Colorado Springs to house the National Cybersecurity Intelligence Center in Colorado Springs.

The money will predominately be spent renovating a vacant manufacturing plant near the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs that is currently being used as an exposition hall, said Rep. Millie Hamner, D-Dillon, sponsor of the bill.

Hamner said this was the most important bill of the session for her.

“It will put Colorado on the map as far as fighting cyber security threats,” Hamner said.

 

► The state Senate Judiciary Committee will hear the merits of HB-1311 today, a bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Salazar (D-Thornton) that is intended to limit the ability of authorities to place people in jail for personal financial problems. And you thought the term “Debtors Prison” applied only to old Charles Dickens stories.

 

► Legislation intended to make adjustments to some groundwater rights in Colorado was spiked by a Senate committee on Tuesday.

 

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Two Colorado congressional races figure prominently in a Roll Call analysis of Democratic efforts to win back the majority in the U.S. House this fall.

 

► Legislators are still discussing attempts to use funds from the so-called “Hospital Provider Fee” to help Colorado pay for needed infrastructure projects.

 

ICYMI

► The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times calls the Federal Election Commission (FEC) “worse than useless”:

It’s useless because it rarely produces a majority ruling. And it’s worse than useless because its failure to enforce campaign finance laws encourages law breaking while making suckers of candidates or donors who, for reasons of conscience, opt to respect the law. Any system that rewards the law-breakers and penalizes the law-abiders is corrupt.

 

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17 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Wednesday (April 27)

    1. And guns, don't forget the guns.   Without guns how can you defend yourselves against marauding bands of gays who want to rob your stash of wedding cakes and pee in the girl's bathroom?

      1. As long as you realize it's not gay males who want to use the girls bathrooms but female identifying transgender folks.

        I'm also wondering how anyone knows that a person who looks and is dressed like a woman in the women's bathroom is trans? Peek over the divider to see? Check out the equipment? Is it OK if the equipment has been surgically altered? Is it OK to be peeking? It's not like women's bathrooms have urinals where anything gets wiped out in public. You'd have to do some pretty nosey investigating. 

        1. You'd have to do some pretty nosey investigating. 

          Keep in mind you are talking about folks in the political party who gave us Larry Craig (and countless others) reaching under the partition in an airport restroom.

          Moddy, where are you? Don't you wish to defend the honor of your party of traditional values?

        2. That's why the Ted Cruz platform calls for the new cabinet-level DUD, Department of Urination and Defecation.   You have to do something to employ the millions of health insurance employees that universal medicare will throw out of work.  As to urinals in the women's room, Donald Trump says we should build them and make Mexico pay for them.

  1. BTW, while Connecticut was close at points earlier on last night it wound up not so close after all. HRC won by 8 points. Not yuuuge but not a squeaker.

     

  2. CNN did a really good job on Connecticut.   While Bernie was still leading, John King went to his magic wall and pulled up pro Bernie districts and found they were mostly in.  Then he went to areas were Hillary was leading and found they had many more to report.  Long before Hillary took the lead, King made it clear that she would probably be the winner.

    1. Especially since Fairfield County – home to all those notorious Wall Street crooks Bernie's wants to jail – was late in reporting results.

      1. I for one join Bernie in wanting to jail Wall Street Crooks. It’s not just about a nomination. It’s a movement, baby. Supporting HRC for the nod doesn’t mean you can’t be on board with a whole lot of the Sanders agenda. I think Bernie is of the most value leading from outside the WH. Pretty sure Warrn sees herself as most valuable that way too.

        1. It's not even so much of his agenda as his presentation. He ran a TV commercial which said, "The American people bailed out the banks a few years ago. Now it's time for the banks to return the favor."

          I agree with those statements and there is stuff they should be required to do. But it's all the bombastic ranting that loses me. 

          I get that Trump has demonstrated that by shouting outrageous stuff to (or at) people, it can get you attention and get you votes. But it also costs a candidate credibility.

          1. Which is why Bernie's more valuable bringing attention to and keeping attention focused on righting wrongs, leveling the playing field for the people, social justice, promoting old fashioned high wage middle class prosperity, resurrecting the democratic process to take back government from the oligarchy and put the self back into our self governing by the people system, etc. Not so much for being an effective President or cajoling. charming, wheeling and dealing his agenda though to fruition. Too grumpy and self righteous for that.

  3. One less Republican pedophile running around loss this afternoon….

    Denny Hastert was given 15 months in prison for covering up the hush money he paid to those kids he raped when he was wrestling coach.

    In reading the Times piece about his sentencing, they pointed out his historical rise to the speaker's post after Bob Livingston had to step down after being selected as Newt's replacement due to Livingston's extra-marital affair.

    Hindsight is 20/20. Did they call that one wrong. They would have been better off with the philandering hypocrite than with their smiling child molester.

    BTW, Tom Delay spoke at sentencing as one of Hastert's character witnesses. (You can't make this stuff up.) I guess Mark Foley was unavailable.

     

    1. Let the record show that more Republican speakers of the House have been convicted of crimes against children (one) than transgendered women (zero.)

  4. I, too, want a "woman card"!

    Ladies, the #womancard gives you a 21% discount on your salary.

    — Laurie Kilmartin (@anylaurie16) April 27, 2016

    Will my #womancard earn me frequent flyer miles?

    — rachel dory (@racheldory) April 27, 2016

    I wish the #womancard gave discounts on tampons and bras.

    — mazzie (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (@mazzie) April 27, 2016

    Where does one find this #womancard that #Trump says #Hillary is playing? I want one too.

    — Sophie Lui | 呂婉謀 (@sophielui) April 27, 2016

    @sblackmoore If women have the woman card, and minorities have the race card, what do racist white men get? The Trump card.

    — Effie Seiberg (@effies) February 18, 2016

     

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