Month: November 2022

(Colorado Peak Politics)

Denver Public Schools’ most toxic board member Auon’tai Anderson announced his reelection bid Wednesday with a video opening of what appears to symbolize a lynching mob calling his name while white hands tie a noose.

Then as a cut nose falls from the sky, and legs we are to assume belong to Anderson step away, the campaign pitch begins into his prized accomplishments of radically politicizing the educational process of our children.

It’s all so … Tay.

One year ago today, I was elected Vice President of the Denver School Board.

We have more work that needs to be done, and our best days are yet to come. This work is too important for me to walk away from now.

JOIN US: https://t.co/d4R2JzI4gv pic.twitter.com/9cHt8DAWMy

— Vice President Auon’tai M. Anderson (@DirectorTay) November 30, 2022

Missing among the many accomplishments he claims is any work to actually improving the education of children attending Denver Public Schools.

That’s what he promises to do if voters are foolish enough to reelect him next November.

It’s the “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” approach to reelection politics.

If the at-large voters of Denver reelect this fool again, shame on you all.

PeakNation™ is more than familiar with Anderson’s political antics including his censure by fellow school board members after its months-long investigation into unbecoming behavior and other allegations against Anderson.

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Before Sept. 11, 2001, airplane hijackings were almost common. Since then, major airline hijackings have been basically nonexistent.

And the reason they’re nonexistent could become the driving motivation to stopping mass shootings in the future.

According to the Aviation Safety Network, between 1968 and 2000 there was an average of nearly 30 hijackings a year. In 2020 there wasn’t a single one.

ABC news reported the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) fails to catch weapons during screenings about 80% of the time. So, I’m guessing the theatrical performances TSA puts on for our entertainment isn’t the reason for the extinction of hijackings.

The reason is customer mindset. Flyers won’t allow another hijacking. Period.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 21 years since four airliners were hijacked and turned into human-guided cruise missiles on 9/11. Every passenger, every crew member on those four planes were doomed the moment the doors closed; they just didn’t know it.

Once the terrorists took control of the planes, the passengers likely thought they could still survive the ordeal. And why wouldn’t they?

Before then there was no reason to believe a commandeered plane wasn’t a survivable event. Usually, the captors wanted something in exchange for the hostages, like political prisoners or fellow terrorists being released and being flown to a safe country.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is not telling the truth about the impact of Child Tax Credits on poverty among children.

Over the next few weeks, Congress has the opportunity to reinstate the expanded Child Tax Credit that cut childhood poverty almost in half. It’s the right thing to do, and it’s time we prioritize America’s kids over big corporations.https://t.co/z1yywU4faS

— Michael Bennet (@SenatorBennet) November 29, 2022

Bennet is playing a shell game with words. Child poverty was not cut in half.

During that time period of COVID relief, Bennet’s plan gave temporary annual payouts of $3,000 to $3,600 per kid to families making upwards of $150,000.

When Bennet claims child poverty declined by 46%, he’s not referring to the “official poverty measure,” but something called the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

SPM is a new form of data measurement that show how much people spend on basic necessities like food, clothing, shelter and utilities, and are adjusted for geographic differences in the cost of housing. “The SPM thresholds are not intended to assess eligibility for government assistance,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Those supplemental measurements did decline from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

But, and this is a big but, the U.S. Census Bureau goes on to explain:

In contrast,

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Decades ago my grandfather would “ride ditch” in Palisade, meaning he would check out the complex irrigation systems that pulled water from the Colorado river and distributed it to people’s agricultural lands. Sometimes I would help him irrigate his own fields, which involved clearing pipes and ditches to direct the water to the peach trees. I learned viscerally the truth that water is life.

Now about all I farm are sunflower seeds, a favorite for the local finches and squirrels. I have struggled for over a decade to bring order to my large suburban yard in a water-friendly way. By way of background, the yard was an absolute weed pit when we bought the house in the aftermath of the Mortgage Meltdown.

The problem with river rocks, I found, is that certain weeds absolutely love them. It doesn’t matter if you put weed guard beneath the rocks; soon enough compost will collect to feed the weeds. These weeds are practically impossible to pull by the roots, because the rocks protect them. Then you’re tempted to spray the weeds. But spray is hard on pollinators, including bees and butterflies. So I’ve chosen to keep a spray-free yard.

Mulch also has problems. About a week after I laid expensive mulch in my front yard, most of it blew away in a heavy wind. Later a heavy rain washed more of it away. And, by the way, the neighborhood cats love to dig up mulch to crap in it.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

The western land-grabbing agenda of the Democrat Party recorded another victory on their side with the federal designation of the lesser prairie chicken as an endangered species in some states and threatened in Colorado.

Interestingly, it’s not just fossil energy development that will face restrictions on the bird’s habitat across several states, but solar and wind farms as well.

Constructing or improving roads will see new regulations that will drive up costs for taxpayers, or block construction.

Farmers and ranchers will also face even more hurdles.

What makes this species designation by the Biden administration at the behest of radical environmental groups so brazen and obnoxious, is the cooperation from landowners to lock up nearly five million acres on conservation reserves and agreements across three states to prevent the designation from taking place.

The Colorado Sun reports:

Still, the agency said, the voluntary efforts “have not demonstrated an ability to offset the threats and reverse the trends of habitat loss and fragmentation” for the species.

Adding insult to injury, it turns out the primary cause of continued impact on the population is not land use of its habitat, but drought.

The lesser prairie chicken thrives in years with higher precipitation that bolster prairie wetlands, then shrinks severely in the kinds of drought years plaguing the Southwest in recent decades.

The Endangered Species Act has long been abused by radical leftists to control development,

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GREELEY — The 2022 midterm election has left many residents in the northern Colorado cities of Evans, Garden City and most of Greeley feeling like Santa left them a lump a coal in their stocking.

Not one of the Democrats who won office at the state and federal levels in this area were elected with more than 50 percent of the vote. And one was not elected at all. And many believe third-party candidates likely helped push three of the other four over the finish line, and they point to the sole Republican winner as even more proof.

First, voters learned they wouldn’t even get a say on a new representative in Senate District 13, because of redistricting and a state constitutional rule that doesn’t allow a sitting official to be drawn out of office. Sen. Kevin Priola was originally elected to Senate District 25 in Adams County, but was drawn into Senate District 13 under the new maps. The current SD13 representative, John Cooke, was term limited at the end of 2022. So, Priola was awarded Cooke’s seat by default.

If finding out that Cooke’s seat going to Priola — a Republican with a long history of voting with Democrats more often than his own party — wasn’t enough, soon after, Priola officially jumped ship and switched parties, putting a Democrat in that seat for the first time in as long as anyone can remember, leaving voters to question whether or not Priola truly has their best interests at heart.

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BROOMFIELD — The City and County of Broomfield is set to become the first Colorado community to mandate potential customers take a firearms course before a gun can be purchased — a requirement even more stringent than what is currently required to hold a concealed carry permit.

The ordinance is one of eight the 11-member council will consider at its next regular meeting on Tuesday, November 29.

The local restrictions are possible after Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 256, passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature in 2021. The new law unwound decades of state preemption and allows local governments to manage their own gun laws, but only so long as they are more restrictive than those at the state level, meaning the law only allows for a one-way ratcheting up rather than true local control.

Ordinance 2192 would require a 10-day waiting period prior to the sale of firearms and “proof of education/competence with firearms.”

“This ordinance would require that the purchaser has demonstrated competence with a firearm by providing evidence of qualified experience or a training certificate from a firearm training class obtained within the 10 years preceding the purchase of the firearm,” the ordinance reads. “However, because the educational requirements are different, proof of a conceal carry permit would not be sufficient to establish competency.”

The “experience” requirement can be met by:

• Evidence of experience with a firearm through participation in organized shooting competitions or current military service;

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Progressive advocates in the Beltway media hit rock bottom in their desperation to boost morale among the sheep with this insipid article on Democrat Sen.-elect John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.

The Washington Post can’t write about any experience or ideas Fetterman brings to the Senate for the betterment of the human race. He’s little more than a placeholder for the Democrat Party to maintain the majority vote.

Instead they deliver this vapid report that his first name — one of the most common in America and a moniker for the customer of sex workers — is also a common first name among U.S. senators.

Hold the freaking presses, there’s nearly a dozen Johns who mostly spell their name Jon.

But guess who the only other John who spells his name with an h is?

Go ahead Colorado, guess!

That’s right! John Hickenlooper, the Washington Post reveals.

It’s the stuff of a Hallmark Christmas special, without Christmas, drama, or any real meaning whatsoever.

When asked by The Washington Post what it feels like to join the cohort of like-named men, Fetterman’s director of communications, Joe Calvello, said: “It’s a name. John is like no other politicians in the country.”

Boy, he got that right.

While Calvello insists that Fetterman “is like no one else,” chances are that yelling ‘Hey,

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

It didn’t take long for Gov. Polis’s plan to allegedly save people money on their health care plans to backfire with increased costs for mandated perks that most Coloradans don’t need.

Colorado lawmakers have passed new coverage mandates that have increased the cost of premiums in the individual market by 5.5 to 7.9% a year. #copolitics #coleg https://t.co/eE8NRLR6hZ…… via @denverpost

— Krista Kafer (@KristaKafer) November 27, 2022

Krista Kafer writes in her Denver Post column that health care insurance under Polis has increased 5.5% to 7.9% every year, thanks to the Democrat-controlled legislature mandating more benefits.

Now some insurance carriers are leaving the state, and the companies covering the new options have jacked up prices by an average of 10.4% to cover the “free” benefits of plastic surgery, acupuncture, HIV prevention drugs, gender reassignment, mental health, and issues resulting from substance abuse.

Also driving up costs are more progressive regulations on insurers to be more selective about who they insure. These new networks must be “culturally responsive and, to the greatest extent possible, reflects the diversity of its enrollees in terms of race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation in the area that the network exists.”

Kafer writes:

Frankly, I don’t need a medical professional who looks like me; I’m happy with a fellow human who is good at his or her job.

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