Every day is seeking to rise to the challenge, 'neath the shadow of the mighty Rockies.
Democrats and Privacy
Clay is on top of a breaking story from the State Capitol. Seems Democrat Rep. Jerry Frangas has been parading around a box full of state employees' confidential personal information as a way to entice media coverage for a bill he is proposing. Republican House Minority Leader Joe Stengel has addressed the serious concerns about the custody and availability of these documents in a letter to House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (Clay has posted the full text). Stengel has asked for an investigation. Will Romanoff open an investigation? How serious are Democrats about personal privacy and, more importantly, about preventing possible identity theft? … [Read more...]
Steering Clear of Guns and God, Anyway
Are the new majority Democrats in Colorado's statehouse losing focus so soon? A bill proposed by Senator Jennifer Veiga (D - Denver) that requires employers not to discriminate against employees on the basis of "sexual orientation" or "gender variance" has passed the Senate Business, Labor, and Technology Committee on a 4-3 party-line vote. The repercussions of such legislation if passed into state law? Employers (except of religious organizations) may have to accept behavior they find morally repulsive or be unable to express deeply-held religious convictions. Such were the objections of Republican committee members Sen. John Evans and Sen. Tom Wiens. Or imagine this scenario: Mr. Smith owns a small family pharmacy. One of his … [Read more...]
Poudre: “Be the Change”?
The Poudre School District in Fort Collins, the ninth largest in Colorado with 25,000 students, is seriously considering whether they want to "Be the Change." Poudre's search for a new superintendent has narrowed to two candidates - one of them former Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Mike Miles. Miles is currently the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in the Fountain-Fort Carson School District. Anyone who remembers Miles' ill-fated but impassioned run for high office this past year will remember how he inspired the left-wing base of the Colorado Democratic Party in a fashion akin to Howard Dean. Like Dean, Miles' campaign crashed and burned in the primary to the anointed candidate and now current U.S. Senator … [Read more...]
Halaby Steps Down
Colorado State Republican Party Chairman Ted Halaby has announced he will not seek another term. In an open letter to the state central committee, Halaby decries the new system of campaign finance laws that have diminished the importance the clout and importance of the state party organization: ...it is clear that federal and state campaign-finance laws must be changed to bring the political process back within the traditional auspices of the national and state political parties and their candidates, with the accountability and timely disclosure this provides. I intend to do what I can to assist in this process. However, for now, unfortunately, the most influential battles in Colorado will be waged outside the political party process. … [Read more...]
What Negotiations?
Both the Republicans and the Democrats under Denver's golden dome have staked their ground on proposing solutions to the state budget crunch: Democrats and [Republican Governor Bill] Owens agree on many parts of the plan. Owens' budget proposal in December included a tax cut, dedicated transportation dollars and increasing the state spending limit by $500 million annually. The sides disagree on how much of future TABOR refunds the state should keep. [Democrat House Speaker Andrew] Romanoff's plan would re-start refunds once government spending reaches the level it hit in 2000, before Colorado's recession, which he calculates at roughly 6 percent of residents' personal incomes. Owens doesn't consider that a "meaningful cap" on … [Read more...]
SAD only begins to describe it
I would say that, all in all, I don't feel too bad for this most depressing day of the year. Maybe if I lived in the fog and gray skies of Britain rather than sunshine-filled Colorado, the story would be different: Dr. Cliff Arnall's calculations show that misery peaks Monday. Arnall, who specializes in seasonal disorders at the University of Cardiff, Wales, created a formula that takes into account numerous feelings to devise peoples' lowest point. The model is: [W + (D-d)] x TQ M x NA The equation is broken down into seven variables: (W) weather, (D) debt, (d) monthly salary, (T) time since Christmas, (Q) time since failed quit attempt, (M) low motivational levels and (NA) the need to take … [Read more...]
Abortionist Illogic
You can learn a lot from someone's response. Take this for example... abortionist William Hern of Boulder is aghast that the mortuary he had contracted with to receive "fetal remains" had in turn been taking those remains to the Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church. In unveiling its "Memorial Wall for the Unborn," the parish recently announced that it had been receiving and burying the murdered babies since 2001. Hern alleges that Crist Mortuary violated a written contract, but Hern has also "declined to provide a copy of the contract." I think the story is best summed up by a quote in the Denver Post story from archdiocese spokesman Sergio Gutierrez: "It's puzzling, the confused messages being sent out. If they're not unborn … [Read more...]
From President… to Governor?
It's probably not a great mystery to Colorado political insiders that University of Denver President Marc Holtzman is serious about a run for the state's governorship. The dead governors at Colorado Pols [ed - for the uninitiated, the anonymous proprietor(s) of the site post under the pseudonyms of three former Colorado governors who all by a quirk of history served during the year 1905, exactly one century ago] have Holtzman ranked among the early favorites for the state's chief executive office in 2006. Marc Holtzman Having attended a meeting of the House Minority Caucus today, at the kind behest of Michele Austin, I now have some clear early impressions of Holtzman and his candidacy. The DU President is undoubtedly smart and … [Read more...]
The Greatest Inaugural Address
On this important national day of reflection - both gazing back at history and forward into the uncharted future - we celebrate the peaceful transition of power in our Constitutionally-limited republican government. Inauguration Day comes every four years on the American calendar. Many of the most important speeches of our national public life are given on these days. To read and study them is to see not only something of the men who delivered them but also of the times in which they lived and the challenges Americans have faced - and so very often surmounted, as well. I'm certainly not adding anything new or controversial to the conversation when I say that the best of them all remains Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, … [Read more...]
Don’t Underestimate Support for TABOR
The dead governors at Colorado Pols point to the results of a new survey co-sponsored by the Independence Institute and the Colorado Club for Growth: Of 600 likely Colorado voters who participated in the last election... 52% oppose the 'De-Brucing' changes to TABOR proposed by Speaker Andrew Romanoff and others. 33% support the 'De-Brucing.' The dead governors complain that the poll should be taken worth a grain of salt because of who commissioned the poll to be taken, then speculates about how the question must have been worded: ...what the survey does show is that Colorado's elected officials aren't doing a very good job at getting across the problems that TABOR has created. While we certainly understand that this is no easy … [Read more...]
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