Month: July 2024

(Colorado Peak Politics)

Lost in all the breaking political news recently was the decision by Colorado Parks and Wildlife allowing ranchers to use deadly force when protecting their working dogs against an attack by gray wolves.

The vote came Friday while all eyes were on President Biden COVID watch, the worldwide CrowdStrike tech outage, and on the heels of the wildly successful Republican Convention.

So, no one noticed except for a few newspapers.

Th,e Summit Daily News broke the story Saturday, and reports that Commissioner Chair Dallas May claimed the protection of working dogs was “inadvertently” left out of state regulations.

This inadvertent accident lasted for seven months after 10 wolves were relocated to the state in December. Gov. Polis personally opened the cages to set them loose on the Western Slope.

More than 30 cattle and sheep have been reported as killed by gray wolves since 2021, plus three dogs, reports Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

The new protection rules only applies to guard or herding dogs, not pets.

No “Oops!” or apology was offered for the inadvertence.

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

Conservatives justifiably have expressed outrage over Democratic Rep. Steven Woodrow’s Tweet suggesting that the problem with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was that it generated “sympathy for the devil,” and over Woodrow’s non-apology apology “that [his] words caused additional pain.” The state Democratic Party condemned Woodrow’s remark.

Unfortunately, conservatives and Republicans in Colorado often have been far too reluctant to condemn hateful and violence-promoting rhetoric in their own camp. Three people (of many) who promoted the sort of election conspiracy mongering that led to the January 6 violent assault on the U.S. Capitol now are the Republican candidate for president (Trump), a member of the U.S. Congress (Lauren Boebert), and the chair of the state Republican Party (Dave Williams).

True, various Republicans currently are trying to remove Williams from his post as state chair following the GOP’s remarks that “God Hates [Pride] Flags” and that people should burn all such flags. And Republican voters rejected Williams’s brand of lunacy in the Fifth Congressional primary, a contest Williams pursued while state party chair.

Following the violence against Trump, Boebert recklessly said, “Joe Biden is responsible for the shooting.” She later doubled down, making the absurd claim that Biden issued “a direct call for an assassination” of Trump.

The tiny grain of truth to Boebert’s claims is that, on a phone call with donors, and in the context of the political election,

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

When President Biden finally succumbed to three weeks of harassment by Democrat lawmakers and abandonment by billionaire donors to drop out of the race, Colorado Dems hailed him as a hero.

Finally, the elections of 14 million U.S. voters had been overturned so party bosses could install their next puppet. As has become clear, that’s how democracy works when Democrats are in charge.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen was the only Colorado Democrat who added her name to the list of House members pressuring Biden to abandon the 3,900 delegates he won fair and square, by deceiving U.S. voters. She broke up with him in an X post.

Let’s be clear. The Democrat Party perpetrated a massive fraud on the American voters. They knew Biden was in severe cognitive decline when they rolled him out before the primary elections even began and branded him as their only hope to — air quote — save democracy.

When their fraud was exposed in that fateful debate with Donald Trump, their own media vultures closed in fast, and Dems had no choice but to throw Biden under the bus.

But the old man steadfastly refused to cross the street for nearly a month.

When Biden finally cried “uncle,” Pettersen called him a true patriot who had put the American people first.

“Joe Biden is a big reason I am here today as a member of Congress, and he continues to make me proud with the issues he has championed and selflessness he has shown,” Pettersen said.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Editor’s Note: This article was written before President Biden dropped out of the race, but we’re running it anyway because our political forecast is holding true. That includes our prediction about Polis’s chances after his bizarre coconut tree posts when Kamala emerged as the presidential frontrunner.

President Biden is scheduled to be in Denver July 28 for a fundraiser hosted by prominent LGBTQ philanthropist Tim Gill with Gov. Polis as the special guest — but hold onto your checkbooks!

The Democrat Party is determined to protect democracy from Donald Trump’s rambling speechifying by upending their own primary elections and forcing Biden off the ticket because he had a bad debate night, a cold, jetlag, and now COVID.

Biden’s political health is expected to be code red by next week, and yet we predicted that would happen this week, so …

Meanwhile, Polis’s name has already fallen off the lips of Washington insiders as a possible replacement should/when the old man is wheeled out the door.

The booby prize for Democrat voters appears to be Kamala Harris, who will need a vice-presidential pick from the left’s wheel of diversity, equity and inclusion — no plain old white folks allowed.

Colorado political pontificator and former state Republican Party chair Dick Wadhams predicted the Veep pick could be Polis because he holds the gay card and the Jewish card with pretend libertarian leanings.

Ready for a Jared Polis Vice Presidency?

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

Most reasonable people, myself included, do not believe in guilt by association.  Though I won’t claim perfection, I do try to be reasonable–judging people by their actions and stated beliefs and not necessarily by who might be in their circle of acquaintances.  Politics is a different animal, where people routinely try to sell you guilt by association.  Sometimes that includes the journalists who cover politics, and 9News reporter Marshal Zellinger recently offered a pitch perfect example of this in a story sloppily painting Donald Trump with the guilt by association brush.

Democrats have made lots of political hay talking about Project 2025, a work product of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative group.  It’s not a stretch, then, to imagine that Next on 9News would cover it.  Like any business, they want to provide what their customers ask for.  Despite this, I found Zelinger’s story, insofar as it’s not clearly labeled as opinion, striking.  I say that because while the article touts itself as one in a series providing “an in-depth look at how America’s choice for president will impact Colorado,” in practice it amounts to “witness the hellscape that you would engender by voting for Trump.”  And it’s neither a fair nor honest effort at that.

In other words, Zelinger tries mightily for guilt by association with Trump and Project 2025, placing the two together so that some of the stink will rub off.

There’s just one problem here,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

On July 4, an inspiring column in the Denver Gazette by Luige Del Puerto, a native of the Philippines, expressed his pride and gratitude to be an American.  He did so on the 12th anniversary of the day he and his wife took their oath of American citizenship – while holding their one-year-old son in his arms.

Most of us are familiar with the section of that oath that reads, in part, “I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all agents foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law…”

But he also cited the first part that reads: “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.”  That doesn’t mean one has to forsake their roots and fondness for another country.  Italian-Americans, for example, who become U.S. citizens can still love Italy.  But the U.S. now becomes your chosen first loyalty.

Of course, you can recite that clause with no intention of honoring it just to get the benefits of citizenship in a country you really dislike.  And you can even run for Congress.  Which gets me to what stimulated this column.

The antithesis of Luige Del Puerto’s heartfelt love of America is what I regard as two of the most detestable members of the U.S.

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

Colorado Democrats are rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris to replace her boss on the Democrat ticket for president.

Gov. Polis, not so much.

Polis posted this tweet shortly after President Biden made his historic announcement Sunday that protecting democracy meant ignoring the will of 14 million Democrat voters, and that he had succumbed to the party bosses forcing him out of race.

WTH, right?

It took us a few Googles to decipher what coconuts and trees had to do with Kamala Harris. Then we hit pay-dirt.

Any shot Polis ever had of being chosen as the first gay, Jewish vice-presidential candidate just disappeared in a puff of emojis.

Thank you, @jaredpolis, for clearly demonstrating what an unserious presidential candidate @KamalaHarris is.

The nation agrees with you.#copolitics https://t.co/yXmBiWVYro

— Kristi Burton Brown (@KBBColorado) July 21, 2024  

Any shot Polis ever had of being chosen as the first gay, Jewish vice-presidential candidate just disappeared in a puff of emojis.

Thank you, @jaredpolis, for clearly demonstrating what an unserious presidential candidate @KamalaHarris is.

The nation agrees with you.#copolitics https://t.co/yXmBiWVYro

— Kristi Burton Brown (@KBBColorado) July 21, 2024

Seriously bruh, WTF?

pic.twitter.com/oSqOfgk3Gb

— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) July 21,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

As evidence mounts that beleaguered Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams used Party funds to help finance his own 5th Congressional District campaign and his Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman defends him, the two claim those trying to take them down are “RINOs, Establishment and UniParty” traitors and anoint themselves the sacred “grassroots.” But they’ve managed to flip the script; they themselves are now the RINOs.

What defines a Republican in Name Only – the much-loathed RINO? A RINO is someone who purports to be a Republican but who refuses to support or even actively opposes fellow Republican candidates.

That’s just what Williams has managed to do since he was elected last year. He led the Party to fulfill one of his most ardent “grassroots” campaign promises: overturning traditional pre-primary neutrality in favor of unprecedented new bylaws that let the state and county parties endorse or oppose Republican candidates before the primary. He spent some $60,000 of Party donor funds on four or five mailers promoting his own congressional run and attacking rival Jeff Crank as a pro-amnesty, open border RINO.

A thumb on the scale

The “Paid for by the Colorado Republican Committee” line on his  mailers gave Williams a Republican voter boost over his CD5 rivals, and implied the Party endorsement. Using the Party’s much cheaper bulk mail permit rate for his campaign ads gave him another significant unfair advantage over the other candidates.

But according to a Republican official familiar with campaign finance rules,

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