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► We’re one day away from the big Republican Presidential debate in Boulder, and students at the University of Colorado are still trying to figure out why they’ve gotten stiff-armed at the Coors Event Center. As Sarah Kuta reports for the Boulder Daily Camera:
Students are accusing University of Colorado administrators of dragging their feet in response to an open records request they filed earlier this month for correspondence and documents related to the Republican presidential debate being held this week on campus.
The students filed their request under the Colorado Open Records Act on Oct. 1 and say the university has been slow to release letters, emails and documents between campus officials and the Republican National Committee, the state Republican party and CNBC, the cable news network producing the debate. They have also asked for all communications between CU employees about the debate…
“This is a huge opportunity that students are being excluded from,” said freshman Dylan Robinson-Ruet. “CU is being used as a facade for the GOP and CNBC. It comes from a desire to know why we’re being used as a facade and why they’re not letting students in.”
Oh, you released 50 more tickets. Well, then, nevermind!
“This notion of everyone suing all the time every time you disagree with a specific remedy, a specific statute, is part of what makes people so frustrated with government,” Hickenlooper, who supports the plan, said in a meeting with The Denver Post’s editorial board.
The Democrat says he is particularly worried about Coffman’s lawsuit because it could impede the state’s ability to develop and execute strategies to meet the emission plan’s mandates. He said the Republican’s decision politicizes the issue and amounts to her trying to derail the initiative.
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► Supporters of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gathered at the North Denver home of former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Monday. Megan Schrader has more for the Colorado Springs Gazette:
The house was packed with current and former lawmakers including Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, former Gov. Roy Romer and former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb.
Gov. John Hickenlooper also spoke to the crowd trying to rally them around Clinton’s record of working across the aisle to get things done whether it was as the First Lady or a senator…
…The event represents a get-out-the-base strategy that is important for Colorado’s caucus when turnout is usually much lower than the general election.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Clinton’s National Latino Outreach Director Lorella Praeli both highlighted the importance of the Latino vote during the March 1 caucus meetings and in the general election.
► Supporters of a proposed 2016 ballot measure to create a “single-payer” healthcare system in Colorado received some words of encouragement from Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. From the Colorado Independent:
This week, proponents of a new initiative called ColoradoCare say they turned in enough signatures to a put a question before voters that, if passed in November 2016, would make Colorado the first state in the nation with a universal health care system.
The move has already drawn a response from Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is running for president as a Democrat.
“Colorado could lead the nation in moving toward a system to ensure better health care for more people at less cost,” Sanders said in a statement to The Colorado Independent. “In the richest nation on earth, we should make health care a right for all citizens. No one should go bankrupt or skip getting the care they need because they cannot afford it.”
► Eli Stokols takes an inside look at the inside of Republican Jeb! Bush’scampaign for President. As Stokols reports for Politico, all is not well in Bushville:
But as George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush draw supporters together under gray skies and unrelenting rains, the gathering has become a rescue operation for a candidate who looks unable to meet the expectations of the family brand.
“The patient is either in intensive care and in need of some good doctors who can save him or being put into hospice and we’re going to see a slow death,” said one K Street lobbyist supporting Bush.
Indeed, the man who, it was expected, would be leading the Republican field by a mile, who raised astounding sums in his first months as a candidate, is now on life support, according to people inside the two-day meeting. With the campaign gasping for air, slashing costs and narrowing a national strategy to a New Hampshire approach, investor confidence is cracking.
► The Durango Herald catches up with former U.S. Senator Wayne Allard, who now makes his living working for the American Motorcycle Association.
► A Colorado Naval Veteran has filed a lawsuit alleging “intersex” discrimination. We’ll let the Denver Post try to explain:
A civil lawsuit filed Monday by a U.S. Navy veteran who is neither male nor female accuses the U.S. Department of State of discrimination for refusing to give the person a passport.
The lawsuit by Dana Alix Zzyym, 57, names Secretary of State John Kerry and Sherman Portell, director of the of Colorado Passport Agency of discrimination, after refusing to give the U.S. Navy veteran a passport.
Here's a doozy regarding our "official" El Paso county election paper explaining the issues. The "for" arguments are clean and concise, then you get to the "against" arguments. Whoa! Come to find out, our genius derpy county doesn't vet any responses under 500 words, so ours is full of Douglas Bruce rants. WTF is wrong with this town and county?! I want out!
The problem here is with the City of Colorado Springs, not El Paso County. For municipal issues that are on the coordinated election ballot run by the county, the county simply prints the information supplied to it by the municipalities. What the City of Colorado Springs provides is according to its city charter–specifically the Taxpayers Bill of Rights that Doug Bruce got into the city charter the year before he got TABOR into the Colorado Constitution. Long story short, that provision requires the city to print pretty much whatever is submitted to it. In this case, the only opposed comments were those of Bruce–full of lies–and that is what the city had to submit and what the county had to print and mail.
The remedy will require a change to the city charter, which means changing some of the language of Bruce's sacred city TABOR.
Cory Gardner on Morning Joe today: "Colorado's issues are energy, economy, and getting government out of the way. " Um, no. At least not in the fossiized way Cory Gardner promotes energy. Gardner gave a shout out to exporting oil.
Joe Scarborough eats it up. Gardner is Presidential material, he implies. Gaak.
No doubt setting the stage for his affirmative support to McConnell's Congressional Review Act that seeks to stop POTUS' Clean Power Plan. I suspect he's lining up behind AG Coffman on this issue.
October 27, 2015 12:03 PM UTC
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Politics isn't about who you love. It's about who you fear.
A study suggests people are more likely to vote for their party the more they hate the other one.
Here's a doozy regarding our "official" El Paso county election paper explaining the issues. The "for" arguments are clean and concise, then you get to the "against" arguments. Whoa! Come to find out, our genius derpy county doesn't vet any responses under 500 words, so ours is full of Douglas Bruce rants. WTF is wrong with this town and county?! I want out!
http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-mayor-shocked-to-learn-that-voter-information-pamphlet-claims-dont-have-to-be-true/article/1560829
The problem here is with the City of Colorado Springs, not El Paso County. For municipal issues that are on the coordinated election ballot run by the county, the county simply prints the information supplied to it by the municipalities. What the City of Colorado Springs provides is according to its city charter–specifically the Taxpayers Bill of Rights that Doug Bruce got into the city charter the year before he got TABOR into the Colorado Constitution. Long story short, that provision requires the city to print pretty much whatever is submitted to it. In this case, the only opposed comments were those of Bruce–full of lies–and that is what the city had to submit and what the county had to print and mail.
The remedy will require a change to the city charter, which means changing some of the language of Bruce's sacred city TABOR.
Cory Gardner on Morning Joe today: "Colorado's issues are energy, economy, and getting government out of the way. " Um, no. At least not in the fossiized way Cory Gardner promotes energy. Gardner gave a shout out to exporting oil.
Joe Scarborough eats it up. Gardner is Presidential material, he implies. Gaak.
Hey — look at what that term, "presidential material" actually means in today's Republican party . . .
. . . Senator Slimey is some kind of material, that's for sure!
No doubt setting the stage for his affirmative support to McConnell's Congressional Review Act that seeks to stop POTUS' Clean Power Plan. I suspect he's lining up behind AG Coffman on this issue.