Month: November 2023

(Colorado Peak Politics)

President Biden’s popularity numbers may be swirling in the toilet, but he knows he can count on Colorado Democrats to obediently gather for a $1,000 a head fundraiser this week and pretend the emperor is wearing his pajamas.

Because it will be held well past his 4 p.m. bedtime.

Just kidding. We don’t have any idea what time or even where in the “Denver area” the event will be held, who is invited, or who would even dare be seen with one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history.

It’s all probably top secret to keep away the Democrat Party’s unruly progressives like state Reps. Tim Hernandez and Elisabeth Epps, who are now protesting on behalf of the Hamas propaganda machine.

Biden can’t even attend a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in tony Nantucket these days without getting heckled by idiots yelling at him to end the genocide of the people who are the ones pursuing the genocide of Jews.

It’s a crazy world. And progressives are running it.

Presidential candidate-in-waiting Jerod Polis is expected to make an appearance at the fundraiser, and perhaps the staged climate event at CS Wind in Pueblo on Wednesday.

Biden is planning to make a big deal of all the tax cuts he and the Democrats are forking over to Big Climate in exchange for wildly inflated job numbers and other promises they can brag about to get reelected.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

There’s no time like the black hole of a holiday weekend when folks aren’t paying any attention for a newspaper to bury bad news about government doing something wrong.

Back in olden times before the Obama administration tanked the news industry and the profession went to Hell, newspapers would regularly post stories about absurd government waste, spending, misuse, and abuse.

Now that journalists have been reeducated to protect and defend government at all costs while cheerleading tax hikes of all manners, we’re lucky to see at least one government-gone-bad reporting project a year.

But we digress.

The Denver auditor released a report Nov. 17 finding the city is neglecting to ensure the Denver Housing Authority is renting units dedicated to affordable housing at affordable rates.

The Denver Post didn’t get around to reporting it until Black Friday.

For those who missed the news, Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien found more than 200 units backed by taxpayer dollars are being rented at market rates and in violation with the city’s agreement with the authority, a quasi-governmental housing corporation that controls Denver’s 13,000 affordable housing units.

Auditors also found the authority is running short on its commitment to develop housing for people with very low incomes and more than 300 units short of the number agreed upon for people with moderate incomes.

“The city needs stronger oversight to confirm the affordable housing results (that) it promises,” O’Brien said in a news release.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

Nina Yang is one of seven judges on Colorado’s federal trial court, taking that seat in 2022 after her nomination by President Joe Biden.  Speaking at her formal investiture she emphasized the core of her judicial philosophy, “The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”  That’s a noble statement very much in concert with the progressive social justice movement.

I’d agree it’s one measure of the character of our system of criminal justice, but not the sole “true” measure of that, and certainly not of our society as a whole.  Other at least equally important measures of the character of criminal justice are due process for all, impartiality, justice for victims of crime, and the impact on public safety.  We’ve seen the all too obvious destructive consequences of excessive leniency for those who commit criminal acts from car thefts to organized-group-shoplifting in the decline of cities across the country like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Denver.

Judge Yang’s narrow view is a close cousin to other progressive platitudes masquerading as truth and wisdom such as: “The true measure of a society is how it treats the weak and needy.”  Again, you might say that’s one measure of a society but hardly the only “true measure” of a society — or even the most important.

The unfulfilled promise of Marxism, after all, is: “From each according to his ability,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

LOVELAND — Not only did Loveland voters recently pass two citizen-initiated ballot measures generated out of opposition to taxpayer subsidies for a new private development, but three new council members who supported those initiatives were the deciding voices Tuesday on a resolution that could finally kill that project for good.

Complete Colorado has covered this story at length.

But the 5-2 decision, with Councilman Dana Foley leaving the room before the vote, to repeal the resolution to develop what is known as South Centerra and its accompanying public financing agreement possibly put the city at risk for a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.

At issue was the agreement between the city, Larimer County, and other taxing districts to partner with Chad and Troy McWhinney to develop South Centerra, a 148-acre urban renewal project that would bring new retail and housing to the area near the existing Centerra development at the junction of US Hwy 34 and Interstate 25. It used a controversial funding method known as tax increment financing (TIF).

Under the South Centerra agreement, the city would give up 1.25 percent of all sales tax revenue from retail within the development for 25 years to help with the infrastructure for the project.

Those against the project lost a battle at the state level to kill the project, so they organized two ballot measures aimed squarely at the development. Question 300,

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

The Denver Post has unleashed a hilariously back-handed endorsement for Jared Polis to run for president under a column penned by a former Beltway reporter who made his political bones covering Walter Mondale back in ’77.

Polis should run, T.R. “Tom” Reid reasons, because that might prompt other Democrats to also get in the race and force out President Biden: like California Gov. Gavin Newsome, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitman, or U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar.

Slightly backtracking, Reid assures Polis could even win because he “checks a lot of boxes” including being Jewish, gay, and rich.

Progressive Democrats just love their identity boxes.

After a generally successful first term, a well-received response to the COVID pandemic, and a runaway re-election victory against a Trump-endorsed challenger, Polis is gaining national recognition as the kind of person who might become a president.

We would argue that winning against Trump in Colorado is not to be confused with winning against him nationally.

And the author is delusional if he truly believes Polis’s response to the pandemic was well-received outside of far-left circles on the Front Range.

The final insult unleashed, is that Polis should run for president to strengthen Biden’s run against just about any Republican who wins the primary.

Even Joe Biden would benefit from such a challenge. If he managed to beat Polis or other major figures in a serious primary contest,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

(Editor’s note: The Douglas County Republican Party has been invited to respond to this guest column.)

The Douglas County Republican Party’s strategy for the Nov. 7 school board election was a novel one: We refuse to support the three solid Republican, eminently electable school board candidates because they favor the Douglas County School Board (DCSB) tax and debt measures (5A and 5B) on the November 7 ballot. Instead, the Party focused solely on promoting the only candidate standing against the school funding measures, Dave DiCarlo. The Party’s favoritism amounted to cancelling the other three conservative Republican candidates, just as the left notoriously cancels all conservative voices.

They spent $7,000 of the Party’s meager funds on a campaign mailer promoting only DiCarlo. They listed only DiCarlo’s name on the Douglas County Republicans website under “school board candidates.” Their Get Out the Vote phone script touted only DiCarlo, never mentioning the other three Republicans. For weeks prior to the election, a tsunami of operatives swarmed the numerous Douglas County Republican and conservative Facebook pages, boosting the sole “endorsed” candidate, while undermining and defaming the three well-qualified pro-bond/mill levy candidates.

The Party violated its own main purpose as enshrined in the Douglas County Republican Central Committee bylaws, Article II Section II: “The primary purpose of this organization shall be to elect Republican candidates to office….”  Not that the Party shall elect only candidates who oppose school funding. Not that the Party shall elect only the candidates they like.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

It’s been a rough few years for Colorado conservatives and Republicans but there is much we can be thankful for this Thanksgiving, not the least of which is Jared Polis is term limited.

And while we beat back Prop HH, only to see another version passed in the specials session, we’re still thankful for the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) that helps keep Big Government greed at bay.

We’re thankful the Republican Party has such a strong bench of candidates running for president, even if none of them are likely to carry our wayward state.

We’d be more thankful if the far-right wing of our party didn’t get out of hand so often. Yet we’re thankful our crazies aren’t nearly as bad as the far-out nut jobs running the loony bin over at Democrat headquarters.

Some of our people might be cantankerous, obstinate, and downright contrarian at times, but it’s starting to look like Democrats are determined to fulfill Biblical prophecies and bring about End Times.

And there are days when we would be thankful for that.

We’re thankful for the beautiful state in which we all reside, some parts more than others.

We’re thankful for the roof over our heads — for now — and the free turkey from Albertsons with the purchase of $100 worth of food that can be carried out in just two bags.

Aside from ruining the country, we’re thankful for all the laugher provided by President Biden this year,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

(You can listen to this column, read by the author, here.)

There is one final observation from the Nov. 7 election no one seems to be talking about.

Proposition HH failed by more than 19 points and there doesn’t seem to be any real denial of the legitimacy of the results.

I mean no one is screaming about a stolen election. Most everyone seems to accept HH went down in flames, a bunch of city council seats changed hands, as did school board seats, and a bunch of local tax issues passed while many failed.

Nearly 43% of Colorado’s near 4 million registered voters cast a ballot and overwhelmingly by mail.

Again, ballots were mailed out like grocery store coupons. And now that more voters than ever are registered without their own knowledge, simply by getting a driver’s license, there are even more ballots flying around in mailboxes and apartment building mailrooms, ripe for the plucking.

This means ballot harvesting/stealing operations could have been in high mode. Yet no great conspiracies that the election was stolen.

Prop HH failed by 19 points. Donald Trump failed in Colorado in 2020 by just five points fewer and many, many people are convinced to this day that election was stolen, even here in this state.

The apparently clean 2023 election happened in the shadow of a national news story playing out in a Denver courtroom as a group of Trump haters try to deny him ballot access to the 2024 Republican Colorado presidential primary.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

The Democrat election machine is wasting no time to ban Donald Trump from the ballot with a Dec. 6 date in the Colorado Supreme Court already set to appeal a district judge’s decision that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply to this case.

How’s it looking for Trump?

All seven justices on the bench were appointed by Democrats, so it’s not like they’re going to be overly sympathetic to Trump’s views.

It’s not just the far lefties from the oxymoronically named Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington who are appealing the decision by a Colorado district judge.

Trump’s lawyers want to be heard as well and have also filed their own appeal on the district judge’s decision that he engaged in insurrection.

Trump’s lawyer Scott Gessler told ABC News they were satisfied with the judge’s ruling the 14th Amendment didn’t apply.

But they disagree with her findings based largely on partisan congressional hearings that Trump’s rally on Jan. 6 incited violence against the government — also known as insurrection.

He called the determination on incitement “flat-out wrong.”

“It was a little bit unusual for her to spend lot of time talking about that and then at the end rule that the 14th Amendment didn’t apply,” he said.

The clock is ticking as Colorado’s primary ballot must be finalized by Jan. 5.

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