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Denver politics is getting weirder and weirder (I should do an entire diary on all the hasty job appointments and humiliating resignations/firings under the Hancock Administration).
But in an unrelated development:
Frankly, McCann has a much better record of trying to humanize our justice system. I'll definitely support her again.
Surely there is a competent, interested Democrat who is able to improve the Denver DA's office.
Morrisey is NOT a dream alternative to "independent" McCann.
McCann is not an independent. she was a democratic legislator. She has, to her credit, launched Denver's first adult diversion program.
As Denver's first woman DA, she has shown both a brain and a heart. I am very proud to have helped elect her.
Mitch was ok in his day, but it's past time to be "tough on crime" and time to be smart on crime. That's the McCann difference.
A deisre
B+ effort
C- execution
She's just not very good at doing it.
Not much better than the last guy- but different.
I'm with JID – someone must be good at this
That deisre thing counts!
A shout-out is due to “Modest Mike” Bowman, who published a good historical overview of current industrial hemp issues, in “Green Entrepeneur”.
Leading the Revolution: My Hemp Journey
Thanks for the kind words. It’s been a great journey. If not for Governor Polis’ leadership in the House in the summer of ‘13 and Michael Bennet in the Dec.‘13 Conference Committee, ultimately securing 7606 in the 2014 Farm Bill we’d be nowhere near where we are today.
Despite all the bluster from our #BlueGrass counterparts the Centennal state is once again poised to be the #1 hemp state in the nation 🌱 🚜🇺🇸
#TeamHemp
PS: a great story here on a new crop of young farmers in Colorado. We're bucking the national trend; while this article doesn't focus on the emerging hemp industry, Colorado's leadership on bringing the plant back is having a positive impact on a lot of rural communities (ie: enticing young people back to the farm).
Who Are Colorado’s Next Generation of Farmers?
Is there anything you can't do with hemp?
I don't think we've found the outer boundaries yet
(although I'm not sure it can remove stains from blue dresses)
Speaking of….where is our little beauty queen?
Per the construction material aspect (and the hemp lignin super capacitor notwithstanding) hempcrete is one helluva product.
Could hempcrete replace concrete for streets, driveways, highways and runways? That would help the heat problem quite a bit I would think.
It's slightly porous although there is probably an overlay that would work to fix that problem. It's generally used in building/structures right now. I've been in two homes built from the product and they are really nice. Check this kid out – he's killing it right now.
Thanks MichaeI. I just sent that link to our nephew. He's an apprentice architect so I thought I'd put a bug in his ear about it.
He'll look back at that link someday and thank you for your career advice!
Similar to mushrooms.
Unfortunately, as suitable for the building trades as these materials are, the market is saturated with mature technologies, and the cost of entry to scaling up to a cost-effective size has limited them to artificial leather.
There is a really cool speciality packaging company on the Hudson River upstream from NYC that uses mushrooms to make their containers.
Of all the positive outcomes you generate, Michael, with your tireless work, this one is particularly encouraging and pleasing. I grew up (partly) on a family farm. The more families who stay connected to the land, the better.
Corporate food is, in general, inferior to food grown on family farms, in resilient soils, by human hands.
Thanks, Duke. That article is encouraging; a hint that we're doing a lot of things right in Colorado!
In other legal news:
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
Biden at his worst is still much better than Trump at his "best."
Absolutely correct
As should have been obvious at the time of the Kavanaugh hearings, Deborah Ramirez told the truth. I normally post the article title, even when it sensationalizes the content in a way I think is inappropriate, but this one from the NYT fucking takes the cake, so…nah.
Multiple people the FBI failed to follow up with confirmed Ms. Ramirez's story and also Kavanaugh apparently made a habit of sticking his junk in people's faces
Always fascinating to me that the resources of the New York Times are able to find stories and get people to speak on the record, but somehow, the White House, the FBI background check, and the Senate Judiciary Committee somehow missed those people.
So while the Chicken Hawks, led by Cadet Bone Spurs, amp up the volume on war with Iran, might we talk about the fact that only 11% of our imports come from Saudi Arabia? Or that if we’d taken a fraction of the trillion-dollar-plus giveaway to the upper crust that we could have financed an entire advanced biofuel infrastructure, converting our 1.2 billion tons of ag waste (annually) into more than twice that amount??
We’re entering #WagTheDog territory…
Ran into two of these assclowns at my local King Soopers today . . .
https://www.coloradocitizenvoters.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjaDZgtnT5AIVtR6tBh1l-wu8EAAYASAAEgIV__D_BwE
. . . when I told them that non-citizens are already prohibited by law from voting, and that this was simply a way to make it harder for every citizen to vote, they just looked at me with a blank stare.
Idiot: “Uhhhh, . . . No it’s not.”
Me: “You should really be ashamed of yourselves.”
Other Idiot: “My dad works for the Republican party.”
Me: “He should be ashamed of himself, too.”
There are certain modest exceptions to the citizen voting requirement. I am permitted to vote in some property tax elections in Phillips County because I own property there, though I am a full time resident of Denver.
I know I have seen proposals to allow legal resident non citizens, green card holders, to vote in school elections. I certainly don't object to that.
Poor things. They're desperately casting about for an excuse as to why they can't win elections anymore. Lousy candidates and bad legislation can't possibly be the reason. Just ask them, they'll swear to it.
Can't they just find someone else to recall to raise some money, spend it on themselves, and then disband without submitting petitions?
In a larger sense, the inexorable marginalization of the T***p Troglodytes by demographics, is likely to generate all sorts of goofy and, at times, dangerous behavior.
When they don't think they can win simply by cheating….it could get ugly.
The Citizen Voter Initiative is the Republican Party’s latest attempt to be relevant. George Athanasopoulos, failed candidate for COGOP Chair, and for Perlmutter ‘s HD 7 seat, is in charge of getting124,000 signatures for this hateful monstrosity onto the ballot. 55 % of voters would have to approve it for it to become law.
Even though the initiative is supposed to have no fiscal impact, it could well be interpreted to suppress the vote by demanding that voters show citizenship documents before being allowed to vote. In Colorado, only new voters would be affected, and new voters already must show a copy of a state ID to register for a mail ballot. But the language itself is meant to intimidate and suppress voting: “Only a citizen” may vote.
A dark money group of Trump supporters is pouring millions of dollars into similar efforts in 14 states. “Dr” Gina Loudon , a conservative media star and national Chair of Women for Trump, led the effort in Florida.
The Citizen Voter goals are to boost conservative turnout, suppress Latino and new-citizen votes, and to embarrass Democratic candidates who come out against the patriotic-sounding initiative.
Good on you for speaking up about it, Dio.
So under this proposal is Caldara considered an alien when he votes in CoSprings?
Here in darkest Mesa County, the trogs have been beating this drum for years. But they have no answer when I ask how this measure of theirs will work with mail ballots.
Is this Joseph Stengel any relation to the former state representative from Littleton?
Yes, the very same Joseph Stengel who billed taxpayers for his Hawaii vacation while he was House minority leader, and resigned under that ethics scandal, is the registered agent for the Citizen Voter Issue Committee in Colorado. See the committee’s September 3 filed report of non-monetary contributions for the Citizen Voter Inc info.
The other registered agent is Michele Austin, of RedMap consulting, who owned “Save Our State.net” and launched a scurrilous telephone pop-up ad campaign last year to paint Jared Polis as a pedophile who wanted to a) recruit kids to a gay lifestyle, or b) impose Sharia law in the schools, possibly both. Those gay Sharians are so sneaky, doncha know.
George Athanasopoulos, once an outspoken “Never Trumper”, is one of the a designated representatives of the I76 initiative itself, the signature gathering being funded solely by Trump donors. .
They have until 11/12/19 to collect 124,000 + signatures. They also have $462,958.60 in non-monetary contributions to pay signature gatherers already, even though they just filed on September 3, 2019.
The $463K came from Citizen Voters, Inc, a Florida business owned by close Trump allies (John and Gina Loudon) . The Loudons are also spokespeople. Citizen Voter a is part of a national unofficial GOP project, with millions of dollars in dark money and coordination in several states.
So to recap: We have a former Never-Trumper and 2X failed GOP candidate (Anathasopoulos) as registered agent for the ballot initiative. We have a former House Republican leader (Stengel) who had to resign in disgrace for ethics violations as the committee agent; and a GOP operative (Austin) who published lies and conspiracy theories on social media as the other committee agent.
The signature gathering effort is funded solely by Trump donors and associates (the Loudons) running a gigantic non-profit out of Florida that is trying hard to suppress the votes of supposed “non-citizens” in 14 states.
I wondered whatever became of him. Now we know. Thx!
What are "non-monetary contributions"? When I got to that word I immediately thought, "in-kind donations", but those wouldn't pay staff, so I'm lost.
In this case, it means that the Loudons’ Florida nonprofit, Citizen Voters, Inc, is paying directly for all of the signature gathering to get Initiative 76, the “Citizen Voters Amendment” on the Colorado ballot. This is spelled out in the Committee Contributions report on the Secretary of State site.
In general, it does mean in kind donations. My guess is that the Loudons have some sweetheart deal with their preferred signature gathering vendor. David Munger is listed as the petition entity for #76.