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I never noticed before that Wyoming smelled all that bad? . . .
Fine guys. Take your ball and go home because you're getting your regressive way less and less.
Go home? Does anyone really think that Wyoming (population 580,000) would want to be swamped by those Weld County liberals (population 305,000)?
Do they need help packing?
Love it! It's a very direct acknowledgement that Rs can't compete on their ideas in general elections right now, so all they have is to threaten secession or recalls. Plus, Weld-to-Wyoming would saddle their O&G producers with higher severance tax, and it would be easier for Ds to win statewide elections in Colorado because more Rs would go to our already-really-red neighbor to the north.
This is a non-issue. While a majority of Coloradans MIGHT vote to give a slice of eastern Colorado to Nebraska and Kansas if an appeal were made to our sense of fairness and what is best for everyone, but Weld County to Wyoming? No. I would expect such a proposal at the ballot box to go down 70/30 against or more.
It would cause too many tax and regulation avoidance problems. Bad enough all the idiots from Denver can drive 1 hour and 20 minutes to the firework stands just across the border, but these sore losers want to make Erie Colorado a border town? Never. Weld is half Denver metro suburbs. It makes no sense.
If they hate being in the same state as Denver so much they need to move elsewhere.
Give us back our wind turbines!
Wait, what are they going to do about the Weld County Urban corridor from Greeley through Brighton, Fort Lupton, Longmont, Northglen, and Thornton?
Tee hee. Let em go north. Wyoming has stiff severance taxes and the bastards would finally have to pay their fair share!
Nah, they should move to their imagined pro-conservative paradise of Australia. Where real men are manly men digging coal and eating cute endangered animals. Or to New Hampshire as part of the "Free State Project". It would be funnier.
Yeah. Too bad for them Australia has strict gun laws.
Oh, well then they should try Singapore. They've got the death penalty and are pro-business so surely it is like Republican candy land. They should pack now and get their tickets. No time to wait and check on the laws. Move, move, move! Take your guns before the crazy Denverites get them with the UN Blue Helicopters!
(Shhh! If we can get even one gun nut to try this it would be better than the Onion..)
Actually, NH is blue.
Both house of the legislature and the Executive Council.
Only the governor is a GOPer.
(Shhhh! Stop giving away my game.)
2nd Amendment true believers! The Free State Project worked! New Hampshire is a libertarian paradise with no regulation! Move today! Save yourself from the liberal hellhole Colorado will become in January! You, Negev! Head for New Hampshire before it is too late! Eleventy!!!
Wyoming would love the tax revenue, considering how desperate their budget is. But then again, it would just perpetuate their dependence on revenue from taxing fossil fuels.
They'd love the population and climate too. More people live in the City and County of Denver than in the whole state of Wyoming presently.
Weld would almost put them over 900,000. But not quite.
It would be like Canada getting to annex the balmy southern climate of Michigan.
They won't get to take their immigrant (documented, undocumented, and refugee) population from 20 different countries. This is only fair since the secessionists hate immigrants and basically anyone of a different culture, language, or skin color.
They'll have to pack their own meat, pick their own veggies, and wash their own sheets. Also dig their own pipelines and build their own houses. For fair wages. GLWT, Senator Cooke!
Honestly, I thought Senator Cooke had more sense than to propose such a thing. Wonder how Jerry Sonnenberg feels about it?
I'll repeat what I've said on some other threads. Any seceding counties will owe the rest of the state big money for the infrastructure subsidized for them by the rest of the state. Let's start with all the buildings on campus at University of Northern Colorado.
Gilpin County has split school districts with the children in the north part of the county going to Nederland and the Boulder Valley School District. This was done in the 50's when the school was in Central City and it was closer to go to Ned.
A deal was struck so that money from taxes paid by the operator of the Moffat Tunnel would go the BVSD. Fifty years later, folks wanting to reintegrate the county have to come up with something like twenty million to pay their share of the bond indebtedness. Like Brexit, withdrawal has it's costs.
Bye Felicia.
Someone needs to remind the kind folks in Weld County that Dave Young is the first statewide constitutional officer from Weld County in at least 50 years, and the first statewide election winner since Hank Brown.
Oh, and Young represented Greeley as a Democrat, just like Jim Riesberg before him and Rochelle Galindo after him. Sigh.
Maybe we can work out a trade? Colorado gets the Democratic trending counties in Wyoming (Teton and Albany) and a land bridge for geographic contiguity. That would isolate a few southwestern Wyoming counties, so perhaps they could join Utah.
Of course, that would put the U of Wyoming in Colorado, but we could work out details in WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education) to allow students to attend at "in-state" tuition.
Um, last time I checked, out-of-state tuition at UW is less than in-state tuition at CU. But the Wyoming legislature is busy gutting the UW budget and all the best faculty are fleeing, so you get what you pay for.
Any alt right republicans can feel free to leave, it's a lot easier to move to Wyoming than to pull a county out of a state. Colorado is a centrist blue state not a liberal state. The republican party will continue to shrink until they move away from the far right and even then it's going to take years. Stop pissing and moaning and do something about the takeover of the republican party by alt right white nationalist or move to one of the very few states that welcome that type of leadership.
Agreed but that assumes the Dems don’t overplay their hand and try to turn Cooorado into so type of socialist paradise.
It assumes people like Cooke aren't at least alt-right sympathizers.
Why is Cory smiling in that photo?
1. He knows he is having a conversation with an idiot. Literally.
2. He plans to cut your Medicare and Social Security.
Remember the time Mr. Andrews wrote an entire study on 'grass roots government' touting the 'Weld County model' and how those boot-strappers up north were something we should all aspire to be? It turns out Mr. Andrews Weld County fantasy had a lot in common with his mythical Backbone, CO….(and an interweb search for his much-touted study leaves one empty-handed).
Can the residents of the mythical 51st-state just stop with their rugged independence schtick and start celebrating the unique and beneficial interdependence between rural and urban Colorado?
Didn't his story about Brokeback, CO feature a talking cat? I thought Blue Cat was the only feline who could carry on a conversation.
Gawd I miss TurquoiseFeline. Are you confusing JA's talking cat with our rabid (currently AWOL) basement-dwelling troll?
No, comparing Moderatus to a cat – even John Andrews' cat – is offensive. To cats.
True….but you have to see the likeness in our little troll and this feline…
lol …. I could hear him now, "You libs got nuthin" as he tumbles to the floor.
Aww, keep tryin' little one. You'll get there someday. Can't say the same for poor ol' Moddy. I keep putting him in the window but he's still dropping leaves.
😂
You don't think she is yet here in an alter ego, Michael?