1 North Suburban Republican Forum October, 2010www.NorthS uburbanRepu blicanForum.com www.NorthSub urbanRepubl icanForum.org Key Dates for Election Year 2010 October 4:Last day to register to vote in the November general election. October 12:Mail in ballots will startarrivingin yourmail boxOctober 18: Early voting beginsatvoting centersNovember 2: General election. 7:00 a.m. ± 7:00 p.m.Get Out The Vote, Colorado Republicans !!!!Toregist ertovote orconfirm y ouare aregist ered Coloradovoter,goto: www.GoVoteColorado.comOur next meeting is from 9:15-10:15 am, Saturday morning, October 9 th featuring a discussion of the upcoming Colorado General Election along with hearing from any candidate in attenda nce. Remember to invite somebody new to the NSRF as we disc uss politics for the Den ver North Metro area. Please forward thi s newsletter to other like- mindedindividuals. We need t o be activists to regain our county and country from progressive minded Liberals.
Key Dates for Election Year 2010October 4: Last day to register to vote in the November general election.October 12: Mail in ballots will start arriving in your mail box October 18: Early voting begins at voting centers November 2: General election. 7:00 a.m. ± 7:00 p.m. Get Out The Vote, Colorado Republicans!!!!
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Our next meeting is from 9:15-10:15 am, Sat urday morning, October 9th
feat uring a
discussion of the upcoming Colorado General Election along with hearing from anycandidate in attendance. Remember to invite somebody new to the NSRF as we discuss
politics for the Denver North Metro area. Please forward this newsletter to other like-minded
individ uals. We need to be activists to regain our county and country from progressive
From Alice Harrison corr es pondencesecr etar y@adamscountyr epu blicanwomen.org
Adams County Repu blican Women (aka The Trumpeteers)
Our meeting is set for October 2nd at 10:00 am at O'Meara For d 104th Ave. Our s peak er is R .J. Hicks fromMetro North Chamber of Commer ce s peak ers¶ bur eau. He is going to give us the infor mation (pro and con) in the Blue Book for the election coming u p on November 2nd. We will have coff ee, rolls, cookies and juice.
This should be ver y infor mative so ever yone is invited. Looking for war d, I wanted to let you know that we will not be having a for mal meeting on November 2nd (our scheduled November meeting) which is Election Day. We ar e asking all members to come have lunch on theGOP at the Victor y office and partici pate in GET OUT THE VOTE. Ther e ar e things that can be done besides calling on the phone. We will get mor e infor mation on that and send it out. Keep in mind that all of theseevents ar e important and it hel ps you k eep connected and infor med. Thanks and we¶ll see you ther e!
Bar Stool Economicsaka the liberal t axing mindset
Su ppose that ever y day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100 and If they paid their bill
the way we pay our taxes, it would go something lik e this:
The first four men (the poor est) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.)
So, that¶s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar ever y day and seemed quite ha ppy with the
arrangement, until one day, the owner thr ew them a curve. ³Since you ar e all such good customers,´ he said, ³I¶m going to r educe the cost of your daily beer by $20.´ so drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The grou p still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men wer e unaff ected«Theywould still drink for fr ee«But what a bout the other six men ± the paying customers? How could they dividethe $20 windfall so that ever yone would get his µfair shar e?¶«They r ealized that $20 divided by six is $3.33«But if they su btracted that from ever ybody¶s shar e, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each
end u p being paid to drink his beer..So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to r educe each man¶s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:The fifth man, lik e the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than befor e«And the first four continued to drink for fr ee«But once outside ther estaurant, the men began to compar e their savings. ³I only got a dollar out of the $20,´declar ed the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,´ but he got $10!´ ³Yeah, that¶s right,´ exclaimed the fifth man. ´I only saved a dollar, too. It¶s unfair that he got ten times mor e than I!´ ³That¶s true!!´ shouted the seventh man. ³Why shouldhe get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the br eaks!´ ³Wait a minute,´ yelled the first four men in unison. ³We didn¶t get anything at all. The system ex ploits the poor !´
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him u p. The next night the tenth man didn¶t show u p for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discover ed something important. They didn¶t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college prof essors, is how our tax system works. The peo plewho pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax r eduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show u p anymor e. In fact, they might start drinking overseas wher e theatmos pher e is somewhat friendlier.
David R . K amerschen, Ph.D. Prof essor of Economics University of Georgia
For those who understand, no ex planation is needed. For those who do not understand, no ex planation is possi ble.
2010 Candidates Forum online
Adams County and State Legislative candidates came together at the Thornton Civic Center for a
debate on budget deficits, transportation issues, business, education, and much more. Complete video
of the debate is provided here: http://thornton.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=120
Experience at the forefront for Arnall in AdCo coroner run
BRIGHTON ² Mik e Arnall believes in doing things by the book. The large, squar e black bag he totes along with him full of text books that he has memorized in 28 years as a
for ensic pathologist- back u p that point.
And it¶s that kind of by-the- book a pproach that he plans to continue using if he is elected Adams CountyCoroner come November.
Arnall, who handled the ma jority of auto psies for the office from 2005 to 2009, chose to run for the office butnot without some second thoughts.
³All sane persons would be,´ he said a bout any nervousness over becoming a political candidate. ³It¶s a new paradigm. They didn¶t teach this in medical school.´
He backtracks on the last statement and admits that a primar y facet of medical school is an a bility to communicate eff ectively with patients. He believes the same tool serves well in the world of politics.
Arnall, 55, is a self-descri bed ³def ense industr y brat.´ His father was an engineer and his pro jects took themacross the countr y. Arnall, as a pathologist, has followed a similarly transient car eer path. His work has tak en him to Boston, Mass, Florida, Colorado and even a year in Auckland, New Zealand.
Michael Arnall, a for mer for ensic pathologist in the Adams CountyCoroner¶s Office, is the Repu blican candidate for county coroner.
His motivation to run for the office is two-fold. Arnall said seeing many f ellow for ensic pathologists tak e county coroner roles in other Colorado counties made it seem lik e a natural progr ession for him. Healso believes his ex perience interacting with police detectives and prosecuting attorneys at crime scenes and in su bsequent investigations
mak es him valua ble. Arnall is coyly r eticent when it comes to how much of a role pro blems in the Adams County Coroner¶s office prompted him to run. A 2009
Denver Westwor d article painted a tempestuous environment inside the office characterized by harassment allegations and micromanagement. Arnall was not quoted in the article, which r ef er enced his firing as thecounty¶s contracted for ensic pathologist in 2008
Part of his r easoning for not delving into the details of the article is that some of it has become the basis for a legal case and he believes he will lik ely be called to testif y. Arnall said the article didn¶t shock those familiar with the office.
³While that article may have disclosed to the pu blic certain issues « for the prof essionals that interact withthe office the article did not come as a sur prise,´ he said.
He is less guar ded when it comes to needed changes for the office. He sees no r eason why auto psies must beconducted in another county± a practice started after his ter mination. He calls the Brighton facility the finest in the state and, possi bly, the best he has work ed in during a car eer that has s panned the glo be.
³If all the crime scene investigators have to tak e a hik e u p to McKee Medical Center in Loveland, that r equir es time,´ he said. ³Time when they could be finger printing a car that¶d been burglarized, time they coulds pend doing something else. It¶s time they need to be s pending on hel ping other victims. They don¶t need to beon the fr eeway for the hour, hour and a half, it tak es to get ther e; hour, hour and a half it tak es to get back. Theydon¶t need to tak e thr ee hours of their day on trans portation when they could be her e in Brighton.´
He also said he will not r equir e death certificates to always have the final signatur e of the coroner when a
physician¶s signatur e is suita ble. He allows ther e ar e certain cases wher e the coroner¶s oversight is needed, in cases wher e ther e may be a pu blic health risk or the death has sus picious cir cumstances.
He believes ex perience is the deter mining factor in this race. ³Twenty-eight years of ex perience,´ he said. ³It¶s as simple as that. ́He has work ed in the field for nearly as long as his Democratic o pponent, Monica-Broncucia-Jor dan, has
been alive. Still, he has high- praise for his for mer co-work er. ³Monica is smart. Monica is honest,´ Arnall said. ³I have nothing bad to say a bout Monica. I¶ve work ed with
her. I know.´
They shar e a same desir e for change in the office. Arnall said he knows how to deliver it. ³Su bstantial changes would benefit citizens of the county, attorneys that have tr y a case, one side or the other
also benefit law enfor cement,´ he said. ³Ther e¶s a grou p of individuals that would benefit from something as simple as doing it by the book.
³And ther e ar e books,´ he adds. ³And that¶s what I have done for the last 28 years, study the books.
By Kevin Denk eTuesday, September 21, 2010 at 11:00 pm (Updated: September 21, 11:30 pm htt p://www.thebrighton blade.com/content/ex perience-for efront-arnall-adco-coroner-run
Citizens Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston By Ed Barnes
Pu blished September 25, 2010 | Fox News.com
When Catherine Engel br echt and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agr eed that talking wasn¶t enough. They wanted to do mor e. So when the 2008 election came around, ³a bout 50´ of her friends volunteer ed to work at Houston¶s polling places. ³What we saw shock ed us,´ she said.
³Ther e was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for peo ple that ask ed for hel p. It was fraud, and wewatched lik e deer in the headlights.´
Their shar ed ex perience, she says, cr eated ³True the Vote,´ a citizen- based grassroots organization that began collecting pu blicly availa ble voting data to prove that what they saw in their day at the polls was, indeed, ha ppening ² and that it was ha ppening ever ywher e. ³It was a true Tea Party moment,´ she r emembers.
Lik e most voter watchdog grou ps, she said, her grou p started small. They decided to investigate voting fraud in
general, not just at the polling places, and at first they wer en¶t even sur e what to look for ² and wher e to look for it. ³The first thing we started to do was look at houses with mor e than six voters in them´ Engel br echt said, because those houses wer e the most lik ely to have fraudulent r egistrations attached to them. ³Most voting districts had 1,800 if they wer e Repu blican and 2,400 of these houses if they wer e Democratic . . .
´But we came across one with 24,000, and that was wher e we started looking.´ It was Houston¶s poor est and pr edominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the grou p of targeting poor black ar eas. But Engel br echt r ejects that, saying, ³It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers.´
The task was over whelming. With 1.9 million voters and 886 voting pr ecincts, Houston¶s Harris County is thesecond largest county in the countr y ² and the k ey to Texas elections. The grou p called for hel p and quickly
got 30 donated computers and ³tens of thousands of hours´ of volunteer work. And then the questions started toarise. ³Vacant lots had several voters r egister ed on them. An eight- bed half way house had mor e than 40 votersr egister ed at its addr ess,´ Engel br echt said. ³We then decided to look at who was r egistering the voters.´
Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter r egistrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secr etar y of state¶s office and the Harris Countydistrict attorney. Most of the findings focused on a grou p called Houston Votes, a voter r egistration grou pheaded by Sean Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings wer e that only 1,793 of the 25,000 r egistrations the grou p su bmitted a ppear ed to be valid.
The other r egistrations included one of a woman who r egister ed six times in the same day; r egistrations of non-
citizens; so many a pplications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyondhuman ca pa bility; and 1,597 r egistrations that named the same person multi ple times, often with diff er ent signatur es. Caddle told local news pa pers that ther e ³had been mistak es made,´ and he said he had fir ed 30work ers for filing def ective voter r egistration a pplications. He could not be r eached for this article.
´The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, a ppears to be under an organized and systematicattack by the grou p o perating under the name Houston Votes,´ the Harris voter r egistrar, Leo Vasquez, chargedas he passed on the documentation to the district attorney. A s pok esman for the DA¶s office declined to discuss the case. And a s pok esman for Vasquez said that the DA has ask ed them to r efrain from commenting on thecase.
The outcome of the efforts gr ew in importance the day after Vasquez made his announcement. On the morning of Aug. 27, a thr ee-alar m fir e destroyed almost all of Harris County¶s voting machines, throwing the u pcoming Nov. 2 election into tur moil. While the cause wasn¶t deter mined, the $40 million blaze, accor ding to pr ess r eports, means election officials will be focused on cr eating a whole new voting system in six weeks. Just howthey do it will deter mine how vulnera ble the process becomes.
Typical Democrats ± John Kerry says voters are too stupid to know what is going on
September 27th, 2010htt p://www.tonysrants.com/denver /typical-democrats- john-k err y-says-voters-ar e-too-stu pid-to-know-
what-is-going-on/
Once traitor, now Senator John Kerr y says that uninfor med
voters ar e to blame for the Democrats pro blems. Ah yes, thelittle peo ple. Those pesk y, know-nothing folks that have voter r egistration car ds ar e to blame for the Democrats ina bility to govern.
Senator John Kerr y told r eporters on Friday, ³We have an electorate that doesn¶t always pay that much attention to what¶s going on so peo ple ar e influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what¶s ha ppening.´ So accor ding to the good senator the r eason the Democrats ar e going to get their you-know-whats kick ed in November isn¶t because Democratic leadershi p has been a complete and total failur e.
It isn¶t the fact that Democrats have overseen a growing national debt that even our grandchildr en won¶t be a bleto pay off. And no, it isn¶t the unemployment rate that has jumped to nearly 10% after the Democrats blew over$800 billion on a ³stimulus´ that was su pposed to sto p it at 8%.
Neither is it because the li berals in Washington DC have rammed legislation down the throats of the American peo ple against their will in violation of the United States Constitution. And of course it isn¶t because while wewer e promised no new taxes when we have in fact seen an incr ease in tax bur den.
The senior senator from Massachusetts who just bought a $7 million yacht (and work ed the deal so he couldesca pe paying taxes) says it is you and I to blame for the Democrats¶ woes. Appar ently we ar e simply too ignorant and simple-minded to understand the nuances of today¶s politics and issues. Sadly Kerr y¶s attitudetowar d Americans is not unusual; he no dou bt has plenty of lik e-minded colleagues in Washington with him. God willing, come November 2nd we will whittle those numbers down a f ew.
Amendment 63 Protects Right To Buy The Health Care You Want
Ever heard of ´palliative care?µ Well, you might want to get familiar with the term. According to IndependenceInstitute Health Care Policy Center Director Linda Gorman, ´In certain health policy circles ¶palliative care· is code forwithholding medical treatment that health care bureaucrats deem ¶too expensive· for ordinary people.µ In her latestop-ed, Linda explains how Amendment 63 protects your right to spend your own money on the health care that youthink you need, instead of what government decides you can have. Re-printed in its entirety:
Passing Amendment 63 in November would ensure that you will have the right to use your own money to pay for themedical care that you think you need. If you live in Colorado you need this protection, and you need it now.
Colorado·s health agencies plan to control your health care even if you have private insurance. They are staffed with
people who think that it is their right to control the amount of money you should be allowed to spend on health care.They also believe that they should have the right to determine the treatments that you should be allowed to get.
H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) has finally given them the power to maketheir dreams a reality. It puts government in control of the medical care that private insurers may offer, lets
government track all medical care encounters, and will let the state determine the value of different kinds of medicacare.
The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) is just one of the ´public-privateµ entities within the ColoradoDepartment of Health Care Policy and Financing that wants to tell you what to do. It is cooperating with a number of
private foundations, and private businesses, to put limits on your medical care expenditures.
In reports to the private foundations that help support it, CIVHC says that it hopes that the experiments it runs on people in Medicaid, a group forced to accept whatever health care state agencies decide to deliver, ´can later bereplicated for private payer populations.µ
An April 2010 email update from the State Quality Improvement Institute discusses CIVHC·s current project to
measure the cost savings from using more palliative care in Medicaid. The email brags that the Colorado Departmentof Health Care Policy and Financing and CIVHC ´are teaming up with the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Kaiser-Permanente Colorado, the National Palliative Care Research Center, and the Center to AdvancePalliative Care to conduct a study in Colorado measuring the cost savings of palliative care services for the stateMedicaid program.µ
People in Medicaid can already get palliative care if they wish. So can everyone else.
In certain health policy circles ´palliative careµ is code for withholding medical treatment that health carebureaucrats deem ´too expensiveµ for ordinary people. Government agencies trying to lower their health careexpenditures love palliative care. They feel that too few people in their programs choose it.
Why pay for medical treatment, they reason, when such treatments have only a moderate chance of success and when
it is much less expensive to provide people with all the drugs they need for comfort care?
This attitude permeates government controlled health care systems. It is one reason why European countries with government run systems have much higher cancer mortality rates than the US. It is a lot less expensive to givesomeone pain killing drugs than a course of radiation or chemotherapy.
Passing Amendment 63 would send a message to elected officials. It would tell them that it is wrong for governmentto cooperate with private entities to limit an individual·s right to use his own money to pay for the medical care thathe needs. It would also amend the Colorado Constitution to preserve the right to spend your own money to buy themedical care that may save your live or the lives of those you love.
GOP 'Pledge': tax and spending cuts By: Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman and Richard E. Cohen
September 22, 2010 04:33 PM EDT
House Republicans are set to release on Thursday a "Pledge to America," an ambitious andsweeping set of proposed changes to domestic and security policy, including promises to
freeze most federal government hiring, cut Congress's budget, place hard caps ondomestic spending accounts, prevent the phaseout of tax cuts that are set to expire in2011 and "repeal and replace" the new health care law.
Many of the reforms envisioned by House Republicans are highly unlikely to ever becomelaw, but others foreshadow tough fights with President Barack Obama's administrationover spending, taxation and national security policy if Republicans win control of theHouse in November's midterm election. Another set would require simple changes toHouse rules.
Republicans plan to unveil the Pledge to America ² a much more comprehensive agenda
than the 1994 Contract With America ² at a hardware store in Sterling , Va., on Thursday.POLITICO reporters viewed a draft of the 20-plus page manifesto Wednesday afternoon.
Republicans are holding a conference meeting late Wednesday to discuss and approve afinal version of the agenda.
Democrats already are calling Republicans' plan warmed-over stew, and many of theproposed reforms are already embodied in legislation that has been introduced in theHouse or espoused by House GOP leaders.
³Congressional Republicans are pledging to ship jobs overseas, blow a $700 billion hole in
the deficit to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, turn Social Security from aguaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble and, once again, subject American familiesto the recklessness of Wall Street and take away patients¶ rights,´ said Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). ³Democrats will protect Social Security , give tax cuts to the middle class and help the middle class through our µMake It in
America¶ manufacturing strategy.´
Republicans, obviously, see it quite differently. From back-benching freshmen to partyleaders, it¶s being met with a warm reception. National Republican CongressionalCommittee Chairman Pete Sessions of Texas contrasted the agenda with Obama¶scampaign promises, which he said didn¶t sell specifics.
³We¶ve put the things on a piece of paper ,´ Sessions said late Wednesday. ³It is adocument that outlines not just the direction and our intent but how we will stand together and move this country forward together.´
The presentation includes graphs on the economy, as well as quotations from VirginiaGov. Bob McDonnell and former presidents Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy.
The plan is divided into five parts: spending, jobs, government reform, national securityand health care.
To cut spending, Republicans say they are committed to canceling remainingexpenditures from the 2009 stimulus law, returning domestic appropriations to 2008levels, imposing "hard" budget caps on discretionary spending accounts, reducingspending for congressional operations, having weekly floor votes on winners of the"YouCut" program that allows citizens to vote online for programs that should be slashed ,
ending the Troubled Asset Relief Program, ending government control of the secondaryhome-mortgage lending giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, freezing federal hiring for nonsecurity jobs, sunsetting programs after a certain number of years and using morestraightforward budgeting for entitlement programs.
The jobs section includes pledges to stop all planned 2011 tax increases ² including theexpiration of the 2001 Bush tax cuts for individuals and the re-establishment of the estatetax. It also calls for a small-business tax deduction that allows owners to take a 20 percentdeduction, to roll back the so-called 1099 requirement that businesses report certainspending to the IRS and to establish a requirement that new federal regulations that costmore than $100 million get congressional approval.
Republicans believe that the debate over Obama's health care overhaul has helpedposition the party to take over the House, and they devoted a substantial portion of theagenda to repealing the law and replacing it with a scaled-back version.
The line items include well-known Republican priorities, like enacting medical liabilityreform and allowing for the purchase of insurance policies across state lines. But it alsocalls for keeping the prohibition on denial of insurance because of pre-existing conditionsand expanding health savings accounts ² provisions they pushed during the health caredebate earlier in this Congress. In a bow to social conservatives, Republicans vowed toprohibit taxpayer funding of abortions ² although in a way that tracks with the existing
Hyde Amendment.
Only one other social issue, protecting "traditional marriage," is mentioned in thedocument ² and it is relegated to the preamble rather than the portion addressinglegislative proposals.
Republicans say they want to alter the way Congress does business by encouraginglawmakers to read bills before they get a vote and ensuring legislation adheres to theConstitution ² a role generally reserved to the courts.
In one stand-out procedural promise that could prove difficult to keep , Republicans say
they will let any lawmaker offer an amendment to a bill that would cut spending.
On national security, Republicans stuck to some of their most popular messages of thepast year. They promise to offer "clean" troop funding bills ² a nod to their opposition toDemocrats attaching extemporaneous items onto supplemental war appropriationslegislation. And they are pledging, somewhat broadly, to keep individuals suspected of committing terrorist acts off American soil. They say they will not offer them Miranda rightsor try them in civilian courts.
They also vow to "hold President Obama responsible" for any one-time Guantanamo Baydetainees who engage in terrorism or other acts against the United States after their release.
Finally, Republicans promise that they will enforce tough sanctions against Iran and fullyfund missile defense programs.
Rosen: Party trumps person in real politics
By Mike Rosen Posted: 09/16/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
As many times as I've explained how party trumps person in the real world of politics, somepeople misunderstand my meaning. It doesn't mean party trumps principle, although broad-based political coalitions may compromise conflicting principles. And it doesn't mean thatindividuals can't make a difference in politics and public policy. But like it or not, we have a two-party system, and that's not going to change anytime soon.
Minor parties and their candidates can be spoilers, but rarely do they win elections. EitherRepublicans or Democrats will be the majority party in legislative bodies, and with that majority
status goes control of all the committees and subcommittees, the locus of power.
Let's say Republican voters helped elect a conservative Democrat to Congress over a moderateRepublican, and that conservative Democrat gave his party a 218-217 majority in the U.S.House. Misguided Republicans who voted for this conservative Democrat would get the
unintended consequence of Nancy Pelosi presiding as speaker, a majority of liberal Democrats
running the show, the GOP relegated to minority status and its legislative agenda stymied.
In Europe's multi-party parliamentary democracies, when no single party wins a majority of seats in parliament, a governing coalition is patched together after the election to forge alegislative majority. That coalition then elects a head of government, the prime minister. In ourconstitutional republic, the executive branch is independent of Congress, and the president iselected by the people. But, like the Europeans, we also have coalitions. The difference is that the
distinct coalitions of our two major parties are already in place before the election.
The Republican coalition is an alliance of conservatives, middle- and upper-income taxpayers(but not leftist Hollywood millionaires and George Soros), individualists who prefer limitedgovernment, those who are pro-market and pro-business, believers in American exceptionalismand a strong national defense, social-issues conservatives and supporters of traditional American
values.
The Democratic coalition includes guilt-ridden liberals, collectivists, labor unions, governmentworkers, leftist academics, plaintiffs-lawyers, lower- and middle-income net tax-receivers,identity-politics minorities, feminists, gays, enviros, nannyists, and activists for assorted anti-gun, anti-capitalist, anti-business, anti-military and world-government causes.
I say party trumps person because regardless of the individuals who win legislative seats, in thefinal analysis the agenda of the majority party's coalition will be served. This also applies to theoccupant of the White House or the Governor's Mansion, who will accommodate his party'scoalition with policies and with appointments of like-minded people to judgeships, key executive
branch positions, boards, commissions, etc.
Independents who may variously swing their votes to Democrats and Republicans mayidealistically pride themselves on voting for "the person, not the party." But whether they intendit or not, they'll be hitching their wagon to the agenda and interests of one of the two major-party coalitions. If they vote quixotically for minor-party candidates, they'll still ultimately be
governed by Democrats or Republicans.
In Colorado's chaotic governor's race this year, party still trumps person. Tom Tancredo may, asa matter of convenience, be running as the nominal candidate of a minor party, but he's stillvery much a Republican in spirit and agenda. If he or Dan Maes is elected, the GOP coalition will
be served.
John Hickenlooper isn't nonpartisan or bipartisan. He's a Democrat by choice. He may have alittle wiggle room but, if elected, he'll still be beholden to and bound by the big players in hisparty's coalition. Don't hold your breath waiting for Hick to defy the teacher unions orgovernment employees.
You can pick the "lesser of evils" between the two major parties and get in the game or indulgeyour idealism and independence. It's your vote to cast as you wish. But it won't change the
reality of the system.
Mike Rosen's radio show airs weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon on 850-KOA.
Democrats embrace the Chris Farleyschool of political motivation.
Democrats seeking to boost voter turnoutthis fall are beginning to sound like thelate comedian Chris Farley's portrayal of a"motivational speaker" on Saturday NightLive. Farley's character sought to inspireyoung people by announcing that theywouldn't amount to "jack squat" and wouldsomeday be "living in a van down by theriver."
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, whoprefers sailing vessels to vans by theriver , recently tried out the Farley method.
Said Mr. Kerry, "We have an electoratethat doesn't always pay that muchattention to what's going on so people areinfluenced by a simple slogan rather thanthe facts or the truth or what's happening."Bay State voters are surely thrilled to be represented by a man so respectful of their concerns.
This week President Obama chimed in with another uplifting message about the American electorate. Mr. Obama toldRolling Stone that the tea party movement is financed and directed by "powerful, special-interest lobbies." But this doesn'tmean that tea party groups are composed entirely of corporate puppets. Mr. Obama graciously implied that a small subsetof the movement is simply motivated by bigotry.
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden
The President said "there are probably some aspects of the Tea Party thatare a little darker , that have to do with anti-immigrant sentiment or aretroubled by what I represent as the President." The tea party is nowsupported by a third of the country in some polls.
Perhaps advocates for smaller government shouldn't take Mr. Obama'scomments personally. In the new Democratic attacks on the voting public, not even Democrats are spared. Vice President Joe Biden recently urgedthe party's base to "stop whining" and "buck up," a message echoed by Mr
Obama in his Rolling Stone interview. The President demanded that his supporters "shake off this lethargy," warning thatit would be "inexcusable" for liberals to stay home on Election Day.
Mr. Obama added that "if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren't serious in the firstplace." Making the case for left-wing voters to show up in November , Mr. Obama told Rolling Stone that he is presidingover "the most successful administration in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward."
We'd agree, but his problem is that most Americans don't like that agenda and millions of voters in both parties wantedhim to oversee an economic expansion instead. Blaming the voters is not unheard of among politicians, but usually theywait until after an election.
Can you spare just a few hours a week? Or maybe a few hours every 2-3 weeks? Once a month? Y our
participation will help to insure a conservative Victory in 2010! Please support your local VICTORY
OFFICE, no matter what county you reside in. Below is an important update regarding VICTORY for
those of you in ADAMS/BROOMFIELD County. If you reside in another county, please contact your local
county Republican office for more info. For those of you in Adams County that are receiving this, we
needyou NOW! The primaries are over and it's time to get behind ALL our candidates to insure a
CONSERVATIVE VICTORY.
And please, it will save us much needed time if you can respond and get signed up for VICTORY without your County volunteers having to call ~ of course, we would love to get better acquainted,
but would rather do that AT Victory. Being proactive will make a difference long-term, and actually
feels better than throwing things at the TV! Together, we CAN and WILL WIN.
Anna Fitzer Victory Field Director Adams and Broomfield Counties
Adams County website at http://www.adamscountyelections.org
SERVICE CENTERS : Six Service Centers will be open from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday (except
Watkins 8am-4pm), and on Election Day from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.
At these locations, Voters may:
Replace s poiled, defaced, or lost ballots, surr ender their mail ballot and vote on an accessi ble voting machine,
emergency-r egister, dro p-off their voted ballot, and/or affiliate with a party for the Primar y Election if curr entlyunaffiliated. The Service Centers ar e:
Adams County Election Office 1865 W. 121st Avenue, #600 Westminster 80234
Adams County Recording Office 450 S. 4th Avenue Brighton 80601
Aurora Motor Vehicle Office 3449 N. Chambers Road Aurora 80010
Commerce City Motor Vehicle Office 4201 E. 72nd Avenue Commerce City 80022
Watkins Motor Vehicle Office (Closes 4 P.M., M-F) 5150 Front Range Parkway #G Watkins 80137
Westminster Motor Vehicle Office 8452 N. Federal Boulevard Westminster 80031
DROP OFF LOCATIONS: In addition to the Service Centers listed above, voters may drop off a VOTED
ballot in the signed Official Return Envelope at any of the following Adams County designated drop off
sites:
Aurora City Clerk¶s Office 15151 E. Alameda Park way Aurora 80012
Bennett Town Hall 355 Fourth Str eet Bennett 80102
Brighton Motor Vehicle 450 S. 4th Avenue Brighton 80601
Commer ce City City Clerk¶s Office 7887 E. 60th Avenue Commer ce City 80022
Federal Heights City Clerk¶s Office 2380 W. 90th Avenue Federal Heights 80260
North Pecos Motor Vehicle Office 12200 N. Pecos Str eet Westminster 80234
Northglenn City Clerk¶s Office 11701 Community Center Drive Northglenn 80233
Thornton City Clerk¶s Office 9500 Civic Center Drive Thornton 80229
Westminster City Clerk¶s Office 4800 W. 92nd Avenue Westminster 80031
The 2010 Victory Campaign is working to gain Adams/Broomfield Counties and take back all of
Colorado for Republicans this November. Our grassroots efforts focus on phone banking and doorknocking from now until election day. Your Regional Field Director is: Anna Fitzer, 2200 E. 104th
Thornton Cir cle R is a small donor committee that hel ps elect Colorado Repu blican Candidates for state andlocal races. You can donate a maximum of $50 per calendar year to any and ever y Small Donor Committee
lik e Thornton Cir cle R . Contri bute online with a cr edit car d(htt p://www.northsu bur banr epu blicanforum.org/small-donor-committees/) or send your donation, u p to $50, to Thornton Circle R, 3351 E. 120th Ave #32-202, Thornton, CO 80233. If you have any questions or wouldlik e hel p setting u p your own small donor committee, send an email to: TCir [email protected] or call Phil Saner
(303) 284-8435 or Tony Ca puto (303) 288-8740. Please check out htt p://tonyoncoloradotoo.com/
Understanding the Dangers of the Secretary of State
Project
Most voters ar e unawar e of a 527, founded by for mer dir ector of grassroots mo bilization for MoveOn.org JamesR uck er in 2006, that flies under the radar called the Secr etar y of State Pro ject. The goal of this organization is toelect ACORN-friendly Democrats to all 50 Secr etar y of State positions.
As a 527, it can accept unlimited financial contri butions and doesn¶t have to disclose them pu blicly well until well after the election. So what does this mean to you? Well, in Minnesota, in a 2008 r ecount overseen by SoS Pro ject-s ponsor ed Mark R itchie, found that Al Frank en won the U.S. Senate seat by 255 votes, although Nor mColeman went into the r ecount leading by 341.
Also in 2008, Accor ding to CNS News, SoS Pro ject-endorsed Jennif er ³Brunner [Ohio] made news in Octo ber 2008 when she declined to hand over to county election boar ds 200,000 names on voter r egistration for ms wher e the drivers license or Social Security number on the for ms did not match the name. The SoS pro ject
praised her actions.´ She won her election 55% to 41%.
A look at the SoS Pro ject¶s website show¶s our current Secretary of State (Bueschner) is financially backed
by this organization. He su pported a plan to allow Election Day r egistration this year, which was def eated bystrong pu blic o pposition by the ma jority of county clerks throughout the state due to the potential of voter fraud.In addition, this pro position went against a 2002 ballot initiative in which Colorado voters r ejected Election Dayr egistration by a vote of 61% to 39%.
Bueschner def ends militar y voting waiver on national TV:htt p://facethestate.com/by-the-way/19233- buescher-def ends-militar y-voting-waiver-national-tv
Scott Gessler is the Repu blican candidate for Colorado Secr etar y of State (www.scottgessler.com).
To see the differences between Gessler and Bueschner, please view this page on Gessler¶s website:
The Secretary of State must ensure that every Colorado voter is protected through theimplementation of basic safeguards against vote fraud. This includes safeguards toprotect voter registration, absentee voting, Election Day voting and electioneering, vote
counting, and voter identification.
Open elections
We have a sacred responsibility to make sure that every eligible voter has the
opportunity to register and vote. Voter intimidation or discouragement cannot be
tolerated.
Counting votes equally
We must have standards in place to make sure each vote is treated the same. It is theSecretary of State¶s duty to vigorously prohibit manipulation of voter eligibility and vote
counts.
Campaign finance
Colorado¶s campaign finance laws are too complex and arbitrary, oftentimes handcuffing
our candidates and increasing the likelihood of smear campaigns. We must improve the
clarity and application of rules and regulations, so people better understand the law, and
we must make sure everyone is treated equally.
Transparency in government Significant changes must be made to our campaign finance, lobbyist, and charitableorganization databases. It can be difficult to enter and find information. We must create
a more user-friendly website.
Business filings
In our current economy, we must increase the usability and efficiency of the electronicbusiness filing system. It is imperative that the Secretary of State anticipates and meets
businesses' needs, so we have on-demand, self-service 24 hours a day, at the lowest
cost possible.
Local choice
Just as states can develop voting systems that fit their specific needs, local home ruleentities should also have substantial leeway in voting systems. To that end, the state
legislature should allow home rule municipalities and counties to develop voting methods
that meet their needs, including approval voting and range voting.
Ballot Information Booklet (Blue Book)
The link below provides access to the2
010 Blue Book and the text and title of measur es curr ently on the 2010 ballot.
2010 BLUE BOOK
The pur pose of the ballot infor mation booklet is to provide voters with the text, title, and a fair and impartial analysis of each initiated or r ef err ed constitutional amendment, law, or question on the
ballot. The analysis must include a summar y of the measur e, the ma jor arguments both for and against themeasur e, and a brief fiscal assessment of the measur e. The analysis may also include any other infor mation that will hel p voters understand the pur pose andeff ect of a measur e.
Article V, Section 1 (7.5), Colorado Constitution, and Section 1-40-124.5, Colorado RevisedStatutes, require the Legislative Council Staff to prepare the ballot information booklet prior to
each election in which a statewide issue will appear on the ballot.
Please Contact Anna Fitzer, Victory Field Director for Adams and Broomfield Counties Office Ph: (303) 452-1780 Cell Ph: (720) 318-7084 [email protected]
Time is running out««the Adams / Broomfield County Victor y Office
is in des perate need of your hel p to contact voters. Fromnow until Octo ber 4th we will continue to sign-u p Repu blican voters to r eceive mail-in ballots, while also talking to them a bout our wonderful
Repu blican candidates. Then, Get Out the Vote will begin; this is crucial to Repu blicans winning!
Both of these important efforts will not be successful without your
hel p! Ther e ar e numerous o pportunities to get involved and mak e a diff er ence in the coming weeks, the earlier you start the better ! We
hold phone banks in the Victor y office 7 days a week, and needvolunteers. If phone calls ar e not for you, we also need volunteers who ar e willing to walk pr ecincts and deliver mail-in ballot r equest for ms to voters who have r equested them, as well as hel p with other duties.
I know that this is a busy time of year, but any time you can give is hel pful and a ppr eciated!
Remember, we can't win without you!
Thank you to all who have come in and partici pated with Victor y!
We ar e so thankful for all your har d work to get Repu blican candidates elected !We look for war d to getting to know all of you even better !
We will be at Gander Mountain, 9923 Grant Street, Thornton, CO from 9:15-10:45 a.m. on the
second Saturday of each month in the employee training room. If you live in Adams County or
Denver's northern suburbs, come join us for lively spirited debate and to meet Republican
movers and shakers. Any candidate in attendance will always be given speaking time.
Directions to Gander Mountain:
Gander Mountain is a huge sporting goods store in the old Biggs, now Wal-Mart/Home Depot
shopping center just east of I-25 and south of 104th Ave. Just go in the front door, turn
left at the first aisle and follow it to the employee meeting room on the far left.
Yearly membership dues are $20, while a couple is $30. Make checks payable to NSRF. It only
costs $3 per person to attend the monthly meeting and a continental breakfast and beverage
(coffee, tea, orange juice or water) is included. A membership application is located on the
last page. Fill it out and bring it along with you.
Kathy Peterson being congratulated for being selected for The Leadership Program of the Rockies byDana West and Clark Bolser , Chairman of the Adams County Republicans. Others selected were
Gary Mikes and Beau Martin from Adams County and Dave Pigott from Broomfield County.Congratulations!!!
