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Governor
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(D) Joe Neguse
(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
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Att. General
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(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
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Sec. of State
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(D) George Stern
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(R) Sheri Davis
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State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
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(D) Jerry DiTullio
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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90%
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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February 02, 2008 11:16 PM UTC
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I like the whole list, but my favorites are:
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“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Legislature is in session”
Ouoted by Will Rogers, it is a classic political phrase that popularly began with a New York court decision in 1866. The phrase has been applied to the legislatures of other states as well.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. -Benjamin Franklin
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” – Barry Goldwater.
“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” – Barry Goldwater.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.” – Barry Goldwater.
reading the Bentley Battle diary.
William Clayton was a scribe (Secretary) to the Profit Joesph Smith during the Nauvoo period 1840-1844. He wrote the 132nd section of your doctrine & covenants as dictated by JS. He attended the sealing of his friend “Roxie” in 1843. Her friends called her Roxie, you know her as Elisa R. Snow.
After the profits death, he was with Brigham Young in the first company to cross the ice covered Mississippi river and start the trek for the west. He invented the first crude odometer fixed to the wheel of his wagon to measure the distance.
Assigned to write a guide and road map for future parties of saints to follow, he wrote “The immigrants guide” a book so valuable in its day it is said that those that used it on the trek to SLC would not have taken $50.00 to part with it before safely in Zion.
A copy of the guide is in the reference section at the main pikes peak library.
He played in a band and their performances in the towns the saints traveled through helped make friends and earn supplies and money for the travelers with the non Mormon residents of the towns they traveled through.
His 16 year old wife Diantha was pregnant and too far along to go with him and his extended family. She remained back in Nauvoo with her parents to travel at a later time.
About 3 weeks after leaving Nauvoo with the first wagon train, a rider came in to the camp with news from Nauvoo. He was the father of a healthy baby boy. He celebrated with his friends around the camp fire that night. The next morning as he watched the wagon train pack up to move west again, he wrote a poem, Called All is well. You know it as the LDS hymn Come Come Ye Saints.
The thing that always strikes me about that song is that when it was written, not a single LDS person had every seen the Salt Lake Valley.
They were only 3 weeks into the trip. Winter Quarters and “this is the place” were months, many months ahead.
Every time I hear that song, I think of that new father, full of faith, dreaming of the place he could raise his family, far away where none shall come or make afraid.
It is a moving inspiring song that was sung by many tired pioneers that needed to “Fresh courage take” along the Mormon trail.
So yes, I do know a little bit of LDS history. Not an expert by any means.
as I re-read this, that you are LDS and probably know all this and much more. I didn’t mean to be presumptuous.
You asked why I was drawn to him or what I liked about WC.
Well, first that he left a day by day account (diary) that gives a peek into 1840-50’s life in his community. It helps to understand LDS , Missouri and Illinois history with the Mormon’s to see his perspective on all this.
Clayton is an unsung little known average guy hero of Americas pioneer period.
He is a favorite Mormon prophet from his time period. I know, he is not a prophet, in the called by God, official church prophet sense.
But he is in the dictionary sense of prophet. …”one gifted with more than ordinary spiritual and moral insight;
especially : an inspired poet” or ” one who foretells future events”
Whether you are a member of the LDS church or just a student of history, If you know Clayton’s story, and happen to be in SLC on Temple square on a warm summer night when the doors to the Tabernacle are open and the voices of the Choir are echoing off the tall buildings, its hard not to think of his profound prophecy’s.
Speaking of the destination of his party that we now know as the SL valley, he said:
(Confidently)We’ll find the place (were we can live in peace)(If we die trying, we did all that was expected of us, happy day)(But if, when, we succeed)
“We’ll make the air with music ring”
” Oh how we’ll make this chorus swell, All is well All is Well”
At the time he penned these words, the saints were thought to be a defeated group of less than a few thousand soon to be scattered to the fringes of history. But that chorus has “swelled” to over 15 million members in well over 100 countries.
I know that Clayton himself had only a very little to do with it, he was just a foot soldier in the Mormon story.
But I was on Temple Sq on such an evening taking a visitors tour with my family when it hit me that this obscure man who’s diary I had read in his own penmanship years before, his prophecy had in fact come true.
You kind of never forget little moments like that.
I really appreciate you sharing that, I really do.
Even though I’m a member, you taught me something today-for one I never knew that that song was penned before WC got to the Salt Lake Valley.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget the experience you shared. It’s changed the meaning of that hymn for me.
I suspect you have guessed by now that I love history, and enjoy sharing what little I have learned.
Thanks for listening.
Is all of the people quoted:
1) Lived over 200 years ago discussing a much smaller country with very localized economies.
2) Were guessing as they had just created the first democracy in over 1,000 years. Most of them figured that the odds of the U.S. being successful were well under 50%.
3) With the exception of Thomas Paine, every person quoted was a member of the top of the power structure. Life tended to be better for them than the average person.
Not to say there’s not a lot of wisdom in the above, it’s just that when someone looks only to the wisdom of 200 years ago, they are way too mired in the past to address the problems of today.
thank you
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. -Benjamin Franklin
And I still claim that on some things they got it wrong.
And yet the supreme court with it’s ability to find laws unconstitutional, while not always getting it right, has tended to protect our constitutional right from legislation that would abrogate them.
Look at history. The 3/5 compromise was there for a reason. Does it make it right? Not really-but it was a necessary evil at the time.
Take a look at constitutional history and it’ll make sense.
I’m just saying that we should not take statements from the founding fathers as gospel that is always correct even now 200 years later in a very different world.
One of the biggest things they missed, understandably so, was corporations that not only spanned all states, but spanned the globe. Big difference in where the federal government needs to stick it’s nose in.
In fact, I can’t think of one that’s not. That’s not to say that the government needs to be run in the exact way that it was in it’s early days, but the fact that government can be intrusive, that we can help each other better than government could ever help us, that we maintain peace through strength, and that liberty should be the foundation of our country hold as true today as it ever did.
Some of them actually sound like they could have been written in our time. For instance, the poor among us today are a lot less poor than those who exsisted in the times of these quotes, however the push to make people easy in poverty as opposed to helping them escape it sounds right in line with our time.
I offered these statements as they were originally presented to me: a macro explaination of what drives conservativism.
Just out of curiousity and were there any that you liked?
and most of them a lot. I just don’t find them all perfect.
I do think it’s the job of government to try and provide decent opportunity for all – but that does mean as you said enabling people to work their way out of poverty, not to make it comfortable.
You liked them, even to some degree, even if you don’t think they’re perfect. 🙂
because I like Haners and he’s innocent where this is concerned. But most of the rest of you cons have it coming…
Kum-by-ya, lord, Kum-by-ya….
Love,
Aristotle