Month: April 2022

(Colorado Peak Politics)

The Colorado Sun got a little snotty this week with the new conservative kid on the block — Campfire Colorado — and called out founder Matt Connelly for working in politics at the same time he writes about it on his new website.

The Sun seems to be suggesting that Connelly has crossed some sort of sacred line of ethics that’s unseemly to Real Activist Journalists like those at the Colorado Sun.

We hate to bust their conspiracy thinking, but Connelly’s mission isn’t exactly super-secret. Readers can find out all about it by clicking the “About” link on the front page of the website. (Emphasis ours)

Campfire Colorado is an online news source for Colorado conservatives that serves as a voice for the People at a time when there are few voices left willing to advocate on their behalf.

We are dedicated to reporting on stories that are often ignored by the mainstream media and to shining a light on the politicians and members of the media who drive their own agendas at the expense of everyday Coloradans.

Connelly further discloses:

Campfire Colorado was founded by Matt Connelly as a privately owned, for-profit website that only receives funding from subscribers, advertisers, non-tax-deductible donations, or from businesses that post on Campfire Colorado’s jobs board. 

Matt Connelly is a nationally recognized political consultant and the founder of Campfire Media. Campfire Colorado is a separate business from Campfire Media. 

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

We who live in Colorado get to pay an extra inflation premium for the privilege. Let’s call it the “Polis Premium.”

The US official Consumer Price Index, measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in January, was 7.5%. But in Colorado it came in at 7.9%, measured by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics’ urban-centers data.

Meaning it was considerably more expensive to live in Colorado in January compared to the rest of America, with a Polis Premium of .4% (7.9% for Colorado minus 7.5% nationally).

The BLS just released the March Consumer Price Index numbers. Nationally inflation hit a 40-year high of 8.5%, while Colorado hit it out of the park with a mind-boggling 9.1%. So now we’re paying a Polis Inflation Premium of .6% (9.1% – 8.5%).

This means the Polis Premium has grown 50% in just two months (.4% to .6%).

Why in the world should Colorado’s inflation rate be 9.1% while the rest of the nation’s is “only” 8.5%? This wasn’t always the case.

If we go back just three years ago, when Polis and team were just taking over, Colorado was a lot more affordable than the rest of the country. The March 2019 national CPI was 1.9% while Colorado’s was a mere 1.4%.

Or to put it differently, from March of 2019 to March 2022 the nation’s inflation rate rose 347% (1.9 to 8.5), while Colorado’s rate inconceivably shot up 550% (1.4 to 9.1).

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Colorado Democrats in the state legislature had no problem reaffirming the right to have an abortion up until birth in this state, but this week they denied parents the right to be involved in their children’s education. 

State Senate Democrats killed the Parents’ Bill of Rights bill authored by Sen. Bob Gardner in the State Affairs Committee. 

The resolution enumerated 11 rights that would be recognized and respected concerning parents’ right to be involved in their child’s education.

The Democrat Party has just gone completely off the rails in Colorado and their absurd and perverted progressivism is having a real impact on increased lawlessness, drug abuse, and homelessness. 

Parents need to be more involved with their children and education, not less.

Tragically, we’re already seeing the damage caused when government takes control of raising children.

Shame on the Colorado state Senate.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

According to the latest information on how much money high inflation rates are costing consumers, it sucks to live in Colorado.

Even if prices stop increasing, the inflation that’s already occurred under Joe Biden and Democrats will cost the average Colorado household nearly $8,700 over the next year — one of the highest rates nationwide.

The congressional Joint Economic Committee projects that mountain states including Colorado have seen prices rise nearly 12% since Biden took office in January, 2021.

But wait, sadly, there’s always more. 

Due to a combination of higher inflation rates and higher average household spending, inflation is imposing the greatest monthly costs on families in Washington, DC ($780), Colorado ($724), and Utah ($702). Annualized, these families are facing inflation costs of $9,363, $8,686, and $8,429 over the next year, respectively.

In March, inflation costs nationwide were highest with transportation hitting wallets for an additional $225, plus $146 in added energy costs and $62 more added to the grocery bill and $60 for shelter.

The policies of @jaredpolis, @SenatorBennet, and the @coloradodems are costing Colorado households $724.00 a month.

It’s time for new R leadership who will actually work to lower inflation and the cost of living. #copolitics #coleg https://t.co/9jeIqAWxGy

— The Colorado GOP (@cologop) April 19, 2022

Not surprising, Colorado faced the highest inflated rates for shelter in the Biden/Democrat economy.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

State government in Colorado received a whopping $66 billion in pandemic aid from national taxpayers over the past two years that they’ve distributed to local governments, universities, small businesses and hospitals.

Now, Democrats controlling the state legislature have signaled a willingness to use a very small portion of the money to grant tax relief to residents — albeit a very miserly offer —of two pennies per gallon of gas.

And that tax break would only last through the end of the year after the Democrat lawmakers are reelected.

They’re not even cutting a tax, Democrats are just delaying their own tax increase of two pennies from July through December, which will use up about $60 million of that pandemic aid.

The Party of Scrooge will allow the public to weigh in on their election year ploy during a hearing later this week at the state Capitol.

Democratic Senate President Steve Fenberg seems to think the public likes paying this tax. 

It’s time the legislature was informed otherwise. 

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

The legislature considers so many terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bills (apologies to Judith Viorst)—and passes many of them—that it’s a breath of fresh air when the legislature actually does something reasonable and good.

Recently I praised the “Free-Range Kids” bill, which passed both chambers unanimously. Now the legislature has gone and done something else praiseworthy, again unanimously! I may faint. On April 13, the Senate passed House Bill 22-1288 (which had previously wound through the House), “Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered By Sex Workers.”

Mitigating harm the legislature caused

Here’s what the bill’s summary says: “The bill grants immunity to the charge of prostitution, soliciting for prostitution, or prostitute making display (prostitution offense) to a person who seeks assistance from a law enforcement officer, the 911 system, or a medical provider for a victim or as a victim of a violent crime or offense (crime) if the evidence for the charge of a prostitution offense was obtained as a result of the person seeking assistance or as a result of the need for assistance.”

The idea here is that sex workers are not likely to call in a report of criminal violence, against themselves or others, if the government will punish them for their troubles. When violent men (and, let’s face it, usually we’re talking about violent men in this context) know that sex workers face punishment for reporting a violent crime, they’re more likely to assault or otherwise harm sex workers or others in their presence.

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