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Journalistic Publications Relevant to the Times
- Governor Jared Polis told Coloradans that he welcomed ICE’s support
https://x.com/RepJeffCrank/status/1881845689237541160 - National debt is a silent threat to America’s security
https://www.markhillman.com/ - It failed this time, but they will keep trying
https://thefga.org/research/ranked-choice-voting-a-disaster-in-disguise/ - Leadership in the making
https://gazette.com/colorado_politics/colorado-gop-leadership-feud/article_a8344d04-c949-52d4-bdb1-0eeef4a7cd7c.html - State Party Fails President-elect Trump
https://gazette.com/election-coverage/blue-island-colorado/article_fa440f5a-9dfa-11ef-8d31-fffd79881643.html - Colorado Democrats targeted county commissions in November; they ended up losing ground
https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2024/12/12/colorado-democrats-county-commissions-lost-ground/
May I Have the Colorado Gives Day Envelope, Please?
Today is the day all of Colorado has been waiting for. Today, we find out who the winner of Californian of the Year is.
This award goes to those instrumental in Colorado’s decline toward the command-and-control state of California. It is important we recognize these smug, self-important elitists who know how others should live and believe government coercion is the best enticement.
And the nominees are:
Representatives Stephanie Vigil and Brianna Titone and Senators Faith Winter and Janice Marchman for their new law to force schools to keep children’s gender transitions from their parents. After all, what do parents have to do with raising kids?
The Jefferson County Commissioners, US representative Brittany Petterson, and her husband Ian Silveri for inside dealing to float hundreds of thousands of tax dollars into the Petterson family in “consulting” to scam voters to give up their TABOR refunds forever.
Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams for doing more than any single individual to elect Democrats in Colorado.
Representative Julie McCluskey and Senator Steve Fenberg for their law to exempt themselves from Colorado’s Open Meetings Act.
The Colorado Press Association for cheering on Representative Julie McCluskey and Senator Steve Fenberg as they exempted the legislature from the Open Meetings Act by giving these two their “Defenders of a Free Press” award.
The academy of the art of turning Colorado into California struggled greatly to choose a winner out of all these stars, because by Californian rules, there are no real winners or losers other than voters and taxpayers.
Yet, the recognition must be awarded. And, after the voting was tallied by Dominion voting machines, I am proud to announce the winner of the 2024 Californian of the Year award is the power duo sitting atop the Colorado legislature.
Representative Julie McCluskey and Senator Steve Fenberg! Congratulations, you two are the Californians of the Year! Your hard work to take away sunshine and transparency at the Colorado capitol takes home this year’s prestigious award.
Prizes? Did you say prizes?
Today is Colorado Gives Day, and if we can raise the following levels from your contributions, we can make sure all these Californians go home feeling like winners.
If we can raise $20,000, Representatives Stephanie Vigil and Brianna Titone with Senators Faith Winter and Janice Marchman will receive 1,000 “Hello, my name is ______” name tags that they can give to students to change their names at school without parental notification.
If we raise $40,000, GOP Chairman Dave Williams will receive a copy of the Colorado GOP’s bylaws personally signed by 9news’ Kyle Clark (or something that looks close to his signature).
If we raise $60,000, the Colorado Press Association will receive the board game Clue with a few missing pieces in hopes they get a clue that the press is supposed to support open meetings in government instead of celebrating when politicians take away transparency.
If we raise $80,000, the Jefferson County Commissioners, US representative Brittany Petterson, and her husband Ian Silveri will receive a $340,000 gift certificate to the Daniels College of Business for ethics classes. That $340,000 is the same amount that they took from taxpayers for their totally above board, definitely not a sweetheart deal to enrich themselves while killing TABOR. If the Daniels College of Business doesn’t recognize the gift certificate, consider it a lesson in ethics.
And if we reach our top goal of $100,000 raised on Colorado Gives Day, we will present Representative Julie McCluskey and Senator Steve Fenberg the cheapest self-tanning spray we could find off Temu.com for their tireless work keeping sunshine from reaching the Colorado State legislature.
Please make these gifts possible by supporting our work at Independence Institute to keep Colorado from turning into California. Make your Colorado Gives Day contribution here.
And welcome to East California!
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Thank You to Our Winning Candidates and Their Tireless Supporters
We have a country to save, but our state party is AWOL. Congratulations to Gabe Evans (8th Congressional District), Jeff Hurd (3rd Congressional District), and Jeff Crank (5th Congressional District). Despite having to battle not only their Democratic opponents but also their own state Republican Party, they prevailed.
The Republican National Congressional Committee (RNCC) has been deeply frustrated with the Colorado Republican Party’s lack of support for congressional candidates. To assist Jeff Hurd and Gabe Evans, the RNCC turned to the Arizona Republican Party to mail into the two districts—a very unusual move. A spokesperson for the Arizona Republican Party said they were “happy to help our Republican neighbor in Colorado any way we can.”
Apparently, the Arizona Republican Party and Republicans around the country knew the contests in the 3rd and 8th Congressional Districts were critical to maintaining the majority in the House. It is unclear if the Colorado Republicans were either aware or concerned about the need to maintain the majority in the House to ensure the implementation of President-elect Trump’s agenda. Why did the Colorado Republican Party not assist in these Colorado contests?
Nick Nbayer, Jeff Hurd’s campaign manager, has been heard to say, “The Colorado Republican Party is involved in its own struggles and did not provide any assistance.” Since the beginning of 2023, the Colorado Republican Party has raised $1.3 million. The Colorado State GOP spent $600,000 on staff salaries, office expenses, consulting fees, and $58,000 on Chairman Dave Williams’s failed congressional bid. During the crucial period to get out the vote for President Trump, Gabe Evans, and Jeff Hurd, the Colorado Republican Party sat on $700,000 in the bank.
Heard on the Street
Hat tip to Teller County Republicans for assisting neighboring counties and their candidates with fundraising and canvassing over the course of the campaign.
Big Story out of the State House
Congratulations to Rose Pugliese and her team for assisting the following candidates to end the super-majority in the State House:
- Republican Candidate Dan Woog (House District 19) won by 121 votes over Jillaire McMillan.
- House District 16 Republican candidate Rebecca Keltie leads by 7 votes over uber-socialist Stephanie Vigil.
- Much like Team Weld, District Attorney Michael Allen, Congressional Candidate Jeff Crank, and Larry Liston assisted Rebecca Keltie and State Senate Candidate Stan VanderWerf. They had a team of 25-50 people each Saturday since July, canvassing door-to-door to turn out the vote. Rebecca Keltie also had a great team that set about curing the approximately 160 ballot envelopes that had signature discrepancies. That effort alone likely resulted in her pulling 7 votes ahead.
- House District 50 Republican candidate and rising star Ryan Gonzales won by 563 votes.
There is a saying that victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. With such narrow victories in these three contests, any volunteer who spent a day making phone calls, knocking on doors, or curing ballots can take credit for helping these three candidates across the finish line.
Congratulations to Team Weld
Voters painted Weld County solidly red; five seats flipped to the GOP. After recognizing that the Colorado Republican Party leadership had neither the money nor the inclination to help Republicans, this group pushed ahead with outstanding results.
Read more here: https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2024/11/22/voters-paint-weld-county-solidly-red-five-seats/.
— Anna Stronger
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