Month: June 2022

(Colorado Peak Politics)

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea has received the endorsement of the man who once held that seat for the GOP. 

Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell said this week the self-made businessman has what it takes to unite voters and win back that seat from the Democrats, whom we can all agree has made a real mess of things.

“Joe’s story is a Colorado story,” Campbell said in a statement released by the O’Dea campaign. “His character has helped him forge one of our state’s most successful construction firms, raise a beautiful family, and come November, reclaim my Senate seat for working families. We need a senator who is focused on ensuring that our government works for the people, not against them. Joe will be that senator.”

Campbell had the foresight to split from the Democratic party in 1995 to become a Republican, noting then the party was no longer about working Americans. 

“Joe O’Dea has the ability to bring together Republicans, independents, and even disaffected Democrats who are fed up with their party’s failure to address the issues that matter. I encourage all to join me in supporting Joe’s campaign.”

O’Dea is running against state Rep. Ron Hanks in the June 28 Republican primary.

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(The Colorado Herald)

Boulder, in its ever woke quest to appease the left, has always been a “leader” in the Dems’ crusade to literally scrap the Second Amendment in the name of “safety.” Boulder has used shootings several times over the years to trample on its residents’ core Constitutional rights, and the municipality isn’t stopping anytime soon. In fact, Louisville, Superior, and Lafayette have joined Boulder in aiming to kill the Second Amendment.

In 2018, Boulder enacted a ban on assault-style weapons as well as high capacity magazines. The justification for infringing on residents’ core Constitutional rights was the left’s feelings as usual. Common sense has proven over the last two decades after the Columbine school shooting that law-abiding citizens are not the people who perpetrate mass shootings. Unconstitutional laws, no matter how hard the left tries, do nothing to stop criminal terrorists and the mentally ill from mass shootings.

In fact, a judge struck down Boulder’s 2018 unconstitutional ban as just that in the Spring of 2021. Sadly, though, a mass shooting by a Muslim terrorist at Boulder’s King Soopers and a Dem-controlled legislature brought back the ban in the winter of 2022. The left never misses a good tragedy to steal guns from law-abiding Americans.

In June of 2021, the Dem-controlled, anti-gun Colorado legislature passed SB21-256, Local Regulation of Firearms, which gives local jurisdictions, including special districts, the right to ignore the Constitution and further restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

In Colorado’s two congressional seats up for grabs this year, the conservative editorial board of The Gazette has endorsed economist Tim Reichert for the 7th Congressional District, and state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer for the 8th District Republican primary elections.

The 8th District is Colorado’s new congressional seat created after the 2020 Census.

It’s considered one of the hottest contested races in the nation, as Republicans fight to win control of the House and Senate and bring some balance to the progressive-dominated Biden administration.

The Gazette says Kirkmeyer is the ideal choice to land this district for the Republican Party because she checks all the right boxes on issues near and dear to conservative hearts in supporting 2nd Amendment rights, law and order, pro life and a fiscal conservative.

Where Kirkmeyer distinguishes herself is her seasoning in actually putting those principles to work. Currently a member of the state Senate, Kirkmeyer served previously as a Weld County Commissioner for two decades. She served, as well, in the cabinet of Republican former Gov. Bill Owens. In other words, she knows her way around government and public policy.

But she also is rooted firmly in private enterprise. A fourth-generation Coloradan from Brighton and CU grad who co-owned and operated a dairy farm, she understands the challenges facing small business as a longtime small-business owner herself.

In the 7th District being vacated by Democrat U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, The Gazette says Reichert is the smart choice for Republicans to win that seat.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court has cleared the way for a for a citizen’s initiative that would require monopoly energy providers to set aside a percentage of their profits for new expenses.

Under Initiative 93, investor-owned utilities, such as Xcel Energy and Atmos Energy would be required to pay a minimum of 5 percent of their annual profits toward utility rate hikes, to help offset the rising cost of energy to captive customers.

The official language of the initiative, which was brought by Independence Institute* President Jon Caldara along with Jake Fogleman, an energy policy analyst at the Institute, says:

“It shall be the public policy of the State of Colorado that investor-owned utilities providing electric or gas service or both to residential, commercial or industrial users in Colorado shall bear their fair share of all utility rates set by the public utilities commission.”

The new statute would not apply to cooperative energy providers.

However, Xcel Energy challenged the ruling to the Colorado Supreme Court, saying there were multiple issues with the initiative.

First, they argued the measure contained more than one subject in violation of Colorado’s single subject law. They also argued that the measure was confusing to the public, saying the only reasonable conclusion was that the measure would result in the 5 percent being paid back to themselves.

However, they would not be paying themselves back.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Denver Post reporters did such a lousy job of covering the Western Conservative Summit last year, organizers were not inclined to grant the paper credentials to attend and report on this week’s event.

Western Conservative Summit has decided, for first time in 13 years, to deny press credentials to the Denver Post. For a few reasons:
1. Inaccurate reporting – Last year they reported no protests of Andy Ngo. Here are Summit youth being protected by Denver Police from protestors. pic.twitter.com/G3J1PfP6eR

— Jeff Hunt (@jeffhunt) May 27, 2022

PeakNation™ will recall our reporting at the time that Post reporters must have tragically been struck blind. 

How else to explain the paper’s blatantly erroneous  reporting that “no protesters were spotted inside or outside Saturday,” while our Twitter feed was full of photos of protestors, which we shared with readers in our report.

We checked the story again on Wednesday to see if the Post ever made a correction to last year’s story, and to their shame, they have not.

As KOA’s Mandy Connell observed, the Post can still buy tickets to attend the event.

However, it will do them good to try covering the Summit from outside the building, alongside all those invisible protestors.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

If Colorado Democrats lose just three seats in the state Senate this election year, it will create a seismic shift in the total control the party now holds over the entire state government.

Just three seats, that’s all it will take to stop the progressive rule that has been crippling our economy and imposing idiotic government controls over our everyday lives.

Our government was not designed to sustain such absolute power, but to ensure representation of all people.

As Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy write in Colorado Politics:

Both houses of the state legislature controlled by one political party is not what the Founders of our constitutional democracy had in mind. Their writings indicate they hoped the state legislatures, particularly the state houses of representatives, would become the home of the popular views of the average citizenry. Sadly, because of gerrymandering of state legislative district lines, our state legislatures are now resistant to the popular will and remain firmly in the grip of their dominant political parties.

Colorado is one of only seven states facing a chamber shift of power this election that would split control between the parties — and Lord knows we are in dire need of some checks and balance on what is coming out of the governor’s mansion in Boulder and the Capitol in Denver.

Just three seats. So go vote. Ballots hit mailboxes next week.

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