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June 29, 2009 03:37 PM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”

–Titus Livius

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  1. From the Denver Post- http://www.denverpost.com/poli…

    The fact that “we are obligated to balance the budget each year has actually protected Colorado,” Saliman said.

    He never mentioned TABOR by name, but Saliman also credited “constitutional budget provisions that rein in spending.” The 1992 Taypayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR amendment, controls taxation and spending.

    Saliman is a former JBC member and is the Budget Director.  

    So TABOR has made it better.  This will set the Budget reform groups back a little.  

    1. not gaff, but the point that even TABOR’s harshest critics admit there are some benefits from the amendment? That’s hardly news. It’s called an honest assessment of the issues and the politics. You should try it sometime.

  2. Interesting article in today’s New York Times:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06…

    DURANGO, Colo. – For the first time since territorial days, rain will be free for the catching here, as more and more thirsty states part ways with one of the most entrenched codes of the West.

    Precipitation, every last drop or flake, was assigned ownership from the moment it fell in many Western states, making scofflaws of people who scooped rainfall from their own gutters. In some instances, the rights to that water were assigned a century or more ago.

    Now two new laws in Colorado will allow many people to collect rainwater legally. The laws are the latest crack in the rainwater edifice, as other states, driven by population growth, drought, or declining groundwater in their aquifers, have already opened the skies or begun actively encouraging people to collect.

    “I was so willing to go to jail for catching water on my roof and watering my garden,” said Tom Bartels, a video producer here in southwestern Colorado, who has been illegally watering his vegetables and fruit trees from tanks attached to his gutters. “But now I’m not a criminal.”

    1. .

      we’re taxed for the amount of impermeable surface, as an indicator of runoff, for a Stormwater Enterprise Fund.

      Indirectly taxed for NOT collecting rainwater, while explicitly prohibited from doing so.

      .

      1. You heard it here first, folks.

        That’s just a joke.

        A most informative example of a vexing Catch-22, Barron. Thanks for pointing that out.

  3. I just got this email…

    The question is…what office is he running for?  Is he going to roll this money into his Governor fund under the illusion that he is running for re-election to his state Senate seat?

    Please read below…

    Dear Friends:

    I am sending this special request to ask you to please join me for an evening with Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry.

    Josh is looking forward to meeting you to talk about his role as Minority Leader of the Colorado Senate, and this past session’s

    issues. It is also our opportunity to thank Senator Penry for his leadership and efforts on our behalf.

    As you know Senator Penry worked hard each and every day of the session on behalf of the business community.  I know the summer

    months are tough to schedule and it’s hard to pull out your wallet anytime but this is REALLY IMPORTANT.  

    Bob Moody has graciously opened his home to meet with Senator Penry.

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009

    5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    Moody Residence

    local address in Denver

    Denver, CO  80224

    A suggested donation of $400.00

    Please make donations payable to Penry for Senate

    (Individual or PAC donations only, please)

    Please RSVP to 303.xxx.xxx or email address

    If you can’t make it please send your contribution which I will be sure gets to Senator Penry.

    Micki Hackenberger

    Axiom Strategies, Inc.

  4. The Minnesota Supreme Court hear oral argument in Franken vs. Coleman on June 1.  I think the delay signals a very divided Court and hope for Coleman.  Normally election contests are decided very quickly.  

      1. Maybe it was a message written in April, and AA2 left it open and forgot to hit the “Post” button until now? Happens to me all the time.

    2. There is no “normally” in judicially tried election cases.  This is, AFAIK, the first time the Minnesota elections process has been used for a Federal office, and one of the closest election counts.

      The trial schedule was, in fact, accelerated.  And 1 month is actually a very short turnaround for a state supreme court ruling.  Considering the threat of an appeal to the SCOTUS, a very thorough ruling is a requirement.

      Given that every past ruling for this contest has been unanimous against Coleman, I doubt the MNSC will be making any kind of departure from the case record.

      The “delay” is almost certainly a matter of crossing Ts and dotting Is.  “Rumor” has it that a ruling is coming this week – Thursday, 10:30am CDT.

    1. No, but it’s not certain that’s Penry’s domain — last year, the Schaffer campaign registered all kinds of Udall-named domains and had attack sites set up for unsuspecting browsers. Just sayin’.

      1. regaling in recurring Republican racist rhetoric.  Which seems to never cease.

        As reported by Alex Coppelman

        First there was Kim Hendren, a state senator exploring a run against Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Hendren thought that he could get off the hook for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” by explaining that he was just espousing “traditional values,” Andy Griffith-style.

        Now, according to Jason Tolbert (who also got the Hendren story), potential candidate Curtis Coleman has had to come up with his own entry in the “least plausible excuse for racist comments” category. Coleman recently said that someone traveling to southeast Arkansas “might as well get a visa and shot.” (A simple look at the demographics of the state shows exactly who that remark is aimed at, and why it’s offensive.)

  6. Winner Editor’s Choice for best blog in 5280’s Top of the Town issue.

    http://www.5280.com/issues/200… (scroll down)

    Often the criticism leveled at Jason Bane’s ColoradoPols.com is that it’s driven by a liberal bias and trades in too much gossip. Well, duh. Welcome to the blog-osphere, where anyone can pretty much write anything he damn well pleases. Sure, ColoradoPols.com is infused by a Democratic agenda, and there’s plenty of sophomoric mudslinging, but despite those facts, ColoradoPols.com is chock-full of valuable analysis about the politics of politics in Colorado.

    TheDenverEgotist.com won Readers’ Choice.

    http://www.thedenveregotist.com/

  7. from TPM

    The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that a fundraiser for Francine Busby, who previously ran for the deeply-Republican Fiftieth District and came close to winning in the 2006 special election and subsequent regular election, was raided by sheriffs after an unnamed neighbor made a noise complaint. Busby now calls it a “phony” noise complaint, and the article says that multiple neighbors said there was no great noise at all.

    …

    As one neighbor told the paper: “We didn’t hear anything until the sheriff came, with eight patrol cars and a helicopter.”

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