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July 07, 2015 04:09 PM UTC
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In response to contemporary political events both nationally and here in Colorado, Republican message operatives have started off the week…well, badly. We’ll take just a brief moment to correct two laughably inaccurate opinion pieces from the last 48 hours–the first being 
Au contrare, I'm completely fine if they want to keep parachuting in overpaid idiots.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone, Colorado Pols.
Pretty sure ColPols is without the sin of knowing when who was guv when in recent times. If they had any doubt about one from the past pretty sure they'd bother to check. Weak tea, modster. Once again, you've got nothing but whining.
Pols has made mistakes and corrected them too. That's all I'm saying.
Moderatus, as a fellow conservative, I'll offer you this. "…..lamenting the Colorado Supreme Court's refusal to take up a case challenging the 2009 FASTER road and bridge fees…….." Exactly how are our roads and bridges supposed to be maintained, especially since the Federal Highway Fund is in process of completely running out of money? I wouldn't mind hearing Mr. Lockwood's answer to that question. I'm not holding my breath waiting.
Three words, two hyphenated…..market-based solutions.
Read Moddy’s lips: no new taxes (or users’ fees).
Oh I'm sure Mr. Lockwood could come up with plenty of solutions to raise money — raise the sales tax on anything wealthy Republicans wouldn't dream of buying — used cars, used clothes, charge a tax on rent payments, oh, and naturally, a surtax on payday loans!
See — money is falling from trees to maintain our roads if you just give people enough incentive to not stay poor!
We could stop the irresponsible expansion of social program giveaways and fund what matters to a free society?
By social program "give aways" I suppose you mean feeding children, treating poor people who get sick, providing child care, job training, housing assistance stuff like that? We kind of think those things are important to a free society and also save us lots of money. But don't take it from a liberal. Check out conservative Republican Utah where they've discovered housing the homeless, a free give away, saves everyone money and actually leads to people getting jobs and becoming self sufficient. See Kansas for how well your ideal works. They put into practice every screwy cut/austerity/government shrinking thing your side believes works and they can't even afford to keep their public schools open for a full term.
Turns out, those "give aways" are actually investments with good returns and without them everything goes to hell pretty quick. Turns out conservative economics really is voodoo garbage.
The "border fence" would do at least as much good if it were placed around Kansas.
The Dickensian ideal is being realized by our neighbors. Mudlark, tosher and 8 year old factory workers are becoming youth job descriptions. For conservatives (ie. Moderatus and AC but not you, CHB) people begging and dying in the streets is a good thing.
As far as investment in education goes, it's against conservative best intrests. Uneducated people vote for the Republicans of the world.
Social programs for businesses that pollute our environment and send our industry and jobs overseas are just fine, however.
Jennifer Kerns has been a frequent on-air guest of the KLZ Liberty Lineup (aka The Teabagger Troika). With their welcome departures, her platform in Colorado is severely diminished. Good riddance.
Dumb question, but I never listen to talk radio. Who is/was the "Teabagger Troika?"
The three who were just booted from the air over the whole Coffman/Tancredo/House debacle, Randy Corporon, Kris Cook, and Ken Clark, I believe.
Nice job, Pols.
Lockwood claims that he's "not cashing any checks from Generation Opportunity", and that the "Kochs don't pay Advancing Colorado's bills", but then if you have direct deposit, you don't have to cash checks. Also, Advancing Colorado has no expenses other than staff salaries, and minor office and website expenses – its address is a residential Denver apartment.
Lockwood worked for the Charles Koch Institute in 2014, was Generation Opportunity's Exec Director from 2014-2015 (GenOp is almost totally funded by the Kochs). Before that he worked for Compass Colorado, (lobbies and supports Republican and conservative causes) and Coalition for Real Education Reform (CRER – which worked to defeat Amendment 66) and Free Colorado, which helped fund the recalls in 2013. Before that, he worked for Mike Coffman as a legislative aide.
Advancing Colorado's Board includes now-unemployed "Liberty Lineup" talk radio host Ken Clark, Republican Study Committee (legislative "think tank") Director Richard Bratten, and Lockwood. So if it's not pure Koch-funded, its leaders are coming from conservative,extremist,Republican groups.
Advancing CO (AC) is probably at least partly Koch-funded, since its messages are pure Koch – the anti-Obamacare message is the Center to Protect Patient Rights, which is a Koch group. The message to close the Export Import bank is a Koch message, high priority right now, and it may be a factor in the next time Republicans try to hold the government hostage by threat of shutdown. Keeping TABOR in place is a Compass Colorado and Independence Institute / Heritage Foundation priority. The two local issues – the red lights bill and the FASTER fees – are probably Lockwood's own priorities to gain grassroots support, by coming out against "Big government" and "Higher taxes".
AC has applied to be a 501c4 nonprofit, which would mean that it wouldn't have to disclose donors or make tax returns public, and donations would not be tax-deductible. So we may not ever, unless Citizens United is amended or reversed, find out the full truth about the funding of these dark money groups.
But inferring from the issues and promoted messages, and that its executive director has spent the last two years being paid from the Koch brothers, it's fair to call Lockwood a "Koch-funded activist".
Kind of hard to do when the people doing the hiring are just as clueless….
+1
I thought clueless was a job requirement.
Prerequisite of party membership . . .