NSRF July 2012 Newsletter

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North Suburban Republican ForumJuly, 2012

www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.org

Our next meeting is from 9:30-11:30 am, Saturday, July 14th. Youll be able tohear fromyour local Board of Education members. They will discuss budgets, issues, unions, bond &mill levys and answer questions from NSRF attendees.Please Bring your checkbook and/or timeto volunteer as our candidates need your support to win on November 6th. Admission is only $3per person and a continental breakfast is included. We meet at the Anythink Huron StreetLibrary community room, 9417 Huron St, Thornton, CO, 80260.

NSRF upcoming calendar in 2012:

August 11 -- Colorado State Treasurer Walker Stapleton talking about PERA

September 8RTD members with transportation concerns and FasTracks

October 13Discussion of the November 6 ballot issues

November 10 -- Election recap

December 8 -- Colorado Senate and House members talking about the bills they will introduce in 2013

If you have a smart phone, use a bar code app for the QR code on the left,it will take you to our web site,www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com
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Table of Contents:

July calendar

List of north metro candidates

Reagan Club of Colorado July 5th meeting

Trailblazers Summer BBQ

Top 10 Obama Failed Promises

Liberal vs. Conservative Policy differences

Colorado Supreme Court affirms ballots can be inspected

Co Treasurer says pension bill could go up another $1B

Taxes coming with ObamaCare

Supreme Court graphic Romney/Obama by state

Charles Schumer warns Republicans: Pushing for ObamaCare repeal will cost you the election

A Strategy to undo ObamaCare

Broomfield 9.12 Annual Summer Picnic

Free People, Free Markets, Principles of Liberty class

Fact Check: Women have fared worse during Obamas Presidency

Elected officials

NSRF Board of Directors

Heres the list ofnorth metro candidatesAdams County Commissioner District 1: Gary Mikes,


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Adams County Commissioner District 2: Donnia HowellHD-29: Robert RamirezHD-30: Mike SheelyHD-31: Beth Martinez HumenikHD-32: Paul ReimerHD-33: Dave PigottHD-34: Jodina WidhalmHD-35: Brian Vande Krol

HD-56 Kevin PriolaHD-63: Lori Saine

SD-21 Fran BigelowSD-23 Vicki MarbleSD-25: John Sampson

CU Regent: Brian DavidsonCU Regent CD7 Mary DambmanCD-2: Kevin LundbergCD-6: Mike Coffman

CD-7: Joe Coors

Join us on Thursday, July 5 from 5-8pm for the Reagan Club of Colorado monthly meeting at CADA with

CD-4 Representative Cory Gardner & CD-6 Representative Mike Coffman. Grassroots Radio (AM-560 the

Source) will be broadcasting live from our event with hosts Ken Clark and Jason Worley. You'll be able

to mingle with local Denver candidates as you hear from our Representatives about what's going on in

Washington. Admission is only $10 per person. You can pay at the door or buy your ticket online

atwww.ReaganClubCO.com/events. Cash bar available. You can also purchase a Ronald Reagan button

for a $10 donation.

The Colorado Auto Dealers Association (CADA) is located at 290 E Speer Blvd, Denver, CO, 80203. Click

the following link to see a location map:http://goo.gl/maps/y7zp

PURPOSE: To promote the core principles of conservative Republicans and to support candidates with the same values

MISSION: To support and promote candidates who believe in the Constitution, smaller government, lower taxes, and

personal freedom and to make available venues for fund raising events and candidate promotions

E-mail address:[email protected]

Questions contact Art Foss 303-596-5401
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Liberal policy Conservative policyTax and spend your money Save and invest your moneyBan something if we dont like it Change something if we dont like itLie to influence you Tell you the truth so you can make your own mind upForce you to do something Option to do or not do somethingBigger Government is better Smaller Government is betterSocialism Capitalism

More rules and regulations to complicate your life Fewer rules and regulations are better for your lifeFree markets and profits are bad for America Free markets and profits are good for AmericaCapitalism ruined America Capitalism saved AmericaFewer options as the Government knows best More options so you can decide whats best for youHigher energy prices Lower energy pricesObamaCare = highest tax increase in history Extending the existing tax rate cutsSolyndra & Abound Solar, failed solar companies Energy independence with all energy optionsOccupy Wall Street Tea PartyEqual outcomes Equal opportunityEntitlements Personal responsibilityOpen up our borders Secure our borders

Dont enforce existing laws We are a nation of lawsMandates Choices

Colorado Supreme Court affirms ballots can be inspected

Writer: Curtis Wackerle

Voted ballots are indeed public records open to inspection by any citizen, the Colorado Supreme Court affirmedThursday, vindicating local resident Marilyn Marks in her three-year-old lawsuit against Aspen City Hall.

The court, which in April said it would hear the case of Mark v. Koch, issued a one-page order Thursday announcing thatit had reversed itself and would not review the case, meaning a Court of Appeals decision in Marks favor fromSeptember 2011 will stand. The city had appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court in November 2011. The brief orderstated that the courts initial decision to review the case had been improvidently granted.


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Colorado elections once again belong to the people, Marks said in a statement released Thursday. This decision puts torest a long-standing controversy between the public and election officials across the state who improperly prohibit the

public and press from verifying Colorados elections.

Marks attorney, Robert McGuire of Denver, said in the statement that the welcome decision ... reconfirms the vitality ofthe Colorado Open Records Act as a powerful tool that permits ordinary Coloradans to hold their state and localgovernments accountable.

Marks statement noted that the Court of Appeals decision allowed her to recoup attorneys fees from the city. Each partyhas invested well over $100,000 on the case, she said. I trust that the city will want to put this controversy to rest andthat we can come to a reasonable settlement without controversy that would be a further waste of public funds, Markssaid in the statement.

Marks sued the city and City Clerk Kathryn Koch after the city denied an open records request to review digital copies ofballots from the 2009 municipal election. It was the citys first and only election using instant runoff voting, where votersrank candidates in order of preference, and the information is used to simulate later runoff contests. Aspen voters laterrepealed instant runoff voting in favor of going back to traditional runoff elections to decide close races.

Marks argued that the ballot copies were subject to public review under the Colorado Open Records Act, but the citydenied her request to release them, citing the Colorado Constitution, which requires secrecy in voting. The city has

maintained throughout the case that a determined individual could figure out how people voted in some cases usingballots and other public records.

Judge James Boyd of the 9th Judicial District ruled in the citys favor in March 2010. Marks appealed Boyds decision toa higher court. The 16-page opinion issued by a three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals found that releasing

ballots does not violate the Constitutions secrecy in voting clause, so long as there is no marking on the ballot that couldreveal the identity of the voter.

[W]e conclude that the phrase secrecy in voting protects from public disclosure the identity of an individualvoter and any content of the voters ballot that could identify the voter, the opinion says. The content of a ballot is notprotected, however, when the identity of a voter cannot be discerned from the face of that ballot. To the extent the [digital

ballot copies] do not reveal a particular voters identity, then, permitting the right to inspect [the ballot images] would not

be contrary to the secrecy in voting provision of [the state Constitution].

The ruling gives election clerks the discretion to decide what constitutes a marking that could identify a voter. The statelegislature this year passed a law essentially codifying the appellate courts ruling. The city released a statement Thursdaysaying it was disappointed in the courts decision.

However, it should be noted that the only concern of the city regarding this case was the degradation of the citizens rightto a secret ballot, the statement from City Attorney Jim True says. With safeguards put in place by the Court of Appealsand state Legislature that concern was lessened.

The city added that it will obviously comply with the decision of the court of appeals and allow Marks access to the2009 ballots. She has also requested to see ballots from the 2011 city election. True said he was confident any review

would confirm the validity of election results.

True speculated that the Supreme Court may have reversed its decision to hear the case because of the law passed by thelegislature. For the city, if there is a positive out of the final disposition of the case, its that we can put the 2009 election

behind us, True said.

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Published on Aspen Daily News Online (http://www.aspendailynews.com)
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CO Treasurer says pension bill could go up another $1BBy Todd Shepherd | Colorado Watchdog

DENVERThe Colorado Public Employee Retirement Associationspoor investment performanceleaves state

taxpayers holding the bill for an additional $1 billion in future obligations, says Colorado State TreasurerWalker

Stapleton.

Colorado State Treasurer Walker Stapleton says recent financial returns released by the Colorado PublicEmployee Retirement Association were so poor, that state taxpayers are now holding the bill for an additional$1 billion in future obligations. (Photo from Greenwich Times)

The state treasurerswebsite estimatesPERAs unfunded liability at about $21 billion. That number could vary with

actuarial and accounting assumptions.

Unless we get a handle on this problem, Stapleton said on850 KOAs Mike Rosen Show, and on the outsized

promises and financial myth that were perpetuating both on plan members and on taxpayers, were going to have some

serious bloodletting in Colorados future along with the expanding Medicaid roles as a result of the Supreme Courts

ruling on health care.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

On Tuesday, PERA announced its overall return on investment for the previous year was an anemic 1.9 percent. A 2010

law allows PERA to calculate future obligations based on an assumed 8 percent annual rate of return on the pensions

investments.

PERA insistsits on solid financial footing.

While the plan earned a 1.9 percent return on investments during the 2011 year, the three-year annualized return was

10.9 percent, nearly three percentage points greater than the 8 percent annual rate of return assumption set by the Board of

Trustees.

PERA concedes that its 10-year rate of return was a more modest 5.7 percent.

Stapleton is an automatic board member of PERA because of his position as state treasurer. Almost immediately after

taking office, Stapleton and PERA engaged in a series of minor battles, including a fight over PERAs refusal to divulge

some internal information, as well as beneficiary information such as the yearly benefit each retiree earns.
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While the treasurer acknowledges he may not be on PERAs Christmas card list, he said that two gubernatorial appointees

to the board who do not have a financial stake in the future of the pension were on his side.

Im happy and pleased to say that two out of three of Governor Ritters appointees have joined me in calling for a

reduced rate of return and (for) PERA to get real and get honest, Stapleton said. But were consistently out-voted.

Public pensions have simmered in the background of the recent recession, but became more noteworthy this week, withStockton, California becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. One cause of that citys financial

collapse:public-sector employee pensions.

Additionally, U.S. Census Bureaudata released this weekshow state and local pensions in the first quarter of 2012

continued to fall behind their ability to pay future benefits.

Earlier this month,Stapleton told1310 KFKAs Amy Oliver Show that thefailed June 5 recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scot

Walkershows the public wants reform of public-sector entitlements, like pensions.

Theres no magic bullet to redress this situation, Stapleton said Thursday on 850 KOA. Either the taxpayers of the

state get soaked with a massive bailout bill, or the (PERA) members themselves get benefits cut and retirement agesincreased with the stoke of a legislative pen.

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Below is a chart on the sneaky tax hikes woven into Obamacare that will crush American middle class families and smallbusinesses. The information was compiled byAmericans for Tax Reform, which promises to provide a full analysis of the taximplications today. With Obamacare promising half a trillion dollars in tax hikes over the next ten years, you'd better hold onto your wallets!
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Charles Schumer warns Republicans: Pushing for Obamacare repeal willcost you the election

By Doug Powers July 1, 2012

Bipartisanship is not dead. Its so nice of Charles Schumer to reach across the aisle and graciously advise the Republicans

on what they need to do in order toavoid election slaughter in November:

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned Republicans that they would suffer at the polls if they continued to

push for a repeal of the presidents healthcare reform bill.

If Republicans make that their number one issue, the repeal of healthcare, they are certainly going to lose the election, in

the House and the Senate and the presidency, said Schumer on CBSs Face the Nation.

Bottom line is most Americans are not for repeal. If you look at all the polls, a little more than a third are for repeal,** hesaid.

Forget about Republicans. The first people Schumer should be advising to embrace Obamacare or lose the election are

his Senate colleagueClaire McCaskillandmany other Dems.

According to most polls Ive seen lately, even post-SCOTUS decision, more than 50 percentfavor repealof all or at least

parts of Obamacare, which of course includes an incredibly high percentage of Republicans and even a quarter of Dems.

Nobody with the possible exceptions of select Berkeley sanitariums and motivational meetings forObamacare still a
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BFDt-shirt salespeople (Kool Aid is for closers only!) honestly believes Republicans will ruin their chances in

November by supporting repeal.

President Obama did get a slightbumpfrom the SCOTUS ruling, but theres alsothis:

In some good news for Republicans, the Supreme Court ruling is energizing opposition to the 2010 healthcare law.

In the new poll, more than half of all registered voters 53 percent said they were more likely to vote for their member

of Congress if he were running on a platform of repealing the law, up from 46 percent before the ruling.

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A Strategy to Undo ObamaCare

To push through key parts of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats used the 'reconciliation' process. A Republicanpresident, House and Senate can use reconciliation to repeal them.

ByKEITH HENNESSEY

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled ObamaCare's individual mandate constitutional, the direction of American health

policy is in the hands of voters. So how do we get from here to "repeal and replace"?

Step one is electing Mitt Romney as president, along with Republican House and Senate majorities. Without a Republicansweep, the law will remain in place.

But a President Romney does not need 60 Republican senators to repeal core elements of ObamaCare. Democrats losttheir 60th senate vote in early 2010 after Scott Brown took Edward Kennedy's seat. To bypass a Senate GOP filibusterand enact portions of ObamaCare, they used a special legislative procedure called reconciliation.

Reconciliation allows a bill to pass the Senate in a limited time period, with limited amendments, and with only 51 votes;filibusters are not permitted. In 2010, Democrats split their health-policy changes into two bills, one of which they enactedthrough this fast-track process. In 2013, a Republican majority could use the same reconciliation process to repeal thosechanges.

The reconciliation process, however, applies only to legislative changes to taxes, spending and debt, or the change mustbe a "necessary term or condition" of another provision that affects taxes or spending.

Crucial parts of ObamaCare meet this test. Thus, if a President Romney has cohesive and coordinated majorities in theHouse and Senate, a reconciliation bill could repeal the Affordable CareAct's Medicaid expansion, insurance premium and drug subsidies, taxincreases (all 21 or them), Medicare and Medicaid spending cuts, its long-term care insurance program known as the Class Act, and itsIndependent Payment Advisory Board, a 15-member central committeewith vast powers to control health-care and health markets.

Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the financial penalty enforcing theindividual mandate is within Congress's constitutional power to "lay andcollect Taxes," and that the mandate and penalty are inextricably linked.This should suffice to enable repeal, through reconciliation, of both theindividual and employer mandates, and their respective penalty taxes.

The state exchanges and insurance rules"guaranteed issue," which forces an insurer to sell a policy to someone who isalready sick, and "community rating," which severely limits the insurer's right to charge that person a higher premiumareprocedurally more difficult. Yet both are linked to the individual mandate, which increases taxes. Whether they can berepealed in a reconciliation bill will ultimately be decided by the Senate Parliamentarian.
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Once the individual mandate is repealed, these popular insurance changes cannot stand by themselves. Without themandate, people have every incentive to save on premiums and not buy insurance until they fall ill. This will sendpremiums through the roof for healthy people and, if the government clamps down on increased premiums, destroyprivate insurance companies. Those Republicans who say they favor legislated guaranteed-issue and community-ratingrequirements but oppose the mandate will be forced to acknowledge that all three must go.

Repealing core parts of ObamaCare cannot take place immediately. The opportunity to use a reconciliation bill requiresfirst passing a budget resolution, something the Senate Democratic majority has not done in three years. This, too can bedone with simple majorities, but realistically it would take until April to pass a budget resolution, and to enact a repeal

through reconciliation in May.

The president and his allies argue that ObamaCare reduced the deficit, and that repealing it would mean a deficitincrease. That claim was always laughable. In any event, the Congressional Budget Office is now re-estimating the effectof repeal on spending, taxes and deficits in anticipation of an upcoming House vote, scheduled for next week. Repeal maylook fiscally more attractive in coming days than it did two years ago. If the new CBO estimate concludes that repealwould increase the deficit, then those favoring repeal will just have to make more spending cuts. Given the size and rateof growth of government spending, it's not that hard to do.

Repeal and replacement should be separate legislative efforts. This will allow more opportunities to create bipartisancenter-right coalitions. Future Republican majorities can work with moderate Democrats to enact needed insurancemarket reforms and the bipartisan Wyden-Ryan Medicare reform plan, which provides a stronger system of competingprivate health plans as opposed to government-run "fee-for-service" Medicare.

Piecemeal reform does not mean incremental reform. The pre-ObamaCare status quo is unsustainable and unacceptableand a President Romney and his allies must be as bold in their pursuit of consumer-driven health reform as PresidentObama was in his pursuit of government control.

Reform should start by replacing the tax exclusion for employer-provided health insurance with a flat tax deduction orcredit. This should be combined with insurance reforms that allow consumers to buy portable health insurance soldanywhere in the nation, through their employer or on their own. That means you'll be able to take your health insurancewith you from one job to the next. Tax policy will no longer push Americans toward lower wages in favor of moreexpensive health insurance.

Top it all off with expanded contribution limits for health savings accounts, aggressive national medical liability reform, andstructural Medicare and Medicaid reforms that dramatically slow the growth of government and deficits. In 2009 and 2010

the nation took huge steps down a path toward more government control of health care. A shift to the consumer-basedreform path is still availableif voters want it.

Mr. Hennessey is a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He served as director of the National Economic Council forPresident George W. Bush.

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FACT CHECK: Women Have Fared Worse During Obama's PresidencyWhy should women support Obama, again?

On Sunday, Eva Longoria told a crowd of women that "there is no way women can voteRepublican". Yesterday, we pointed out that her perspective might be off seeing asshe hasnothing in common with the average woman.

As it turns out, Longorias statement was even more ridiculous than we first pointed out. Weve

compiled some facts and figures below showing how women have prospered underObama. Thats sarcasm for you at home because women in Colorado havent prospered under

Obamas regime. At all.

Unemployment (CO)The unemployment rate for women in Coloradohas increased from 4.3% in 2008 to 7.8%during Obamas reign, according to the Bureauof Labor Statistics. That means that there are98,000 unemployed female Coloradans now.

Poverty (CO)Since Obama stepped into the Oval Office,women are more impoverished. According tothe National Women's Law Center, the povertyrate among Colorados women has risen from12.5% in 2009 to 13.1% in 2010 (when theorganization stopped publishing thisdata). Perhaps this data was not helpful to ourfearless leader?

Why should Colorado women support himagain?

The good news is that more and more womenare waking up to the inequalities that theObama administrations policies have thrustupon them. According to a recent CNN poll, thetop issue among women is the economy (51%)and a June Fox News poll showed that 52% ofwomen think the Obama administration hasmostly failed at creating jobs.

While Obama won 56% percent of the voteamong women in 2008, a mid-June Gallup pollshows his approval rating among women at just48%. Ouch.

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