Saturday, February 11th is the next NSRF meeting
January 14th, 2012 | 
Author: Our next meeting is from 9:30-11:30 am, Saturday, February 11th featuring all announced candidates running for political office in the north metro area. We meet at our new location, the Anythink Huron Street Library community room, 9417 Huron St, Thornton, 80260. We’ll have a continental breakfast with coffee and water so come join us and bring a friend. $20 annual dues for 2012 will be collected along with the $3 per meeting cost.
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Broomfield County Active Voters
City and County of Broomfield: Active Voter Counts by Party
Revised 01/09/2012
ACTIVE VOTERS PERCENTAGE
American Constitution 18 0%
Americans Elect 0 0%
Democrat 8,041 30%
Green 29 0%
Libertarian 112 0%
Republican 9,704 37%
Unaffiliated 8,663 33%
TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTERS 26,567
Adams County Voter Information
Adams County Voter Information
| Type of Voter |
Active |
Inactive |
Total |
Total % |
| Total Registered Democrats | 47,829 | 37,224 | 85,053 | 36.2% |
| Total Registered Republicans | 40,861 | 20,805 | 61,666 | 26.1% |
| Total Unaffiliated Voters | 41,575 | 45,834 | 87,409 | 37.0% |
| Total Others (Includes Minor Political Parties / Organizations) | 983 | 735 | 1,718 | 0.7% |
| Total registered voters |
131,284 (55.65%) |
104,598(44.35%) | 235,846 |
100.00% |
*This chart was last updated January1, 2012.
GOP Presidential Candidates Ready To Descend On The Centennial State
| We’re less than two weeks away from the Colorado GOP precinct caucuses. Only days ago it looked like Colorado’s caucus would be a coronation, now it’s undeniably going to be a dog fight. As Colorado GOP Chairman Ryan Call explained to Denver Westword’s Michael Roberts yesterday, due to the fluid nature of the race the primary campaigns are only now beginning to implement their plan of attack in Colorado.
He’s likely to improve on his 2008 showing when he received8.4% of the vote for fourth place, and only won Gilpin County — a notoriously libertarian area. To help boost his chances Paul will be campaigning in Colorado on Tuesday, January 31, per a report from an NBC reporter’s Facebook page. Mitt Romney is set to visit the state on February 6 and 7, as Call told Denver Westword. Read the rest of this entry » |
Ron Paul’s campaign is the one exception. Colorado has always been a top target for them, as caucus states reward the type of fervor and organization unique to Paul’s campaign. Paul is the only candidate with a physical campaign office, as The GOP’s suicide march
By Charles Krauthammer, Published: January 19
“Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?”
— former presidential candidate Rick PerryIt’s the campaign line of the year, and while the author won’t be carrying it into the general election, the eventual nominee will.
The charge is straightforward: President Obama’s reckless spending has dangerously increased the national debt while leaving unemployment high and the economy stagnant. Concurrently, he has vastly increased the scope and reach of government with new entitlements and oppressive regulation, with higher taxes to come (to offset the unprecedented spending).
In 2010, that narrative carried the Republicans to historic electoral success. Through most of 2011, it dominated Washington discourse. The air was filled with debt talk: ceilings, supercommittees, Simpson-Bowles.
What’s the incumbent to do? He admits current conditions are bad. He knows that his major legislative initiatives — Obamacare, the near-trillion-dollar stimulus, (the rejected) cap-and-trade — are unpopular. If you can’t run on stewardship or policy, how do you win reelection? Read the rest of this entry »
Differences Between Democrat and Republican Legislation
11 stunning revelations from Larry Summers’s secret economics memo to Barack Obama
11 stunning revelations from Larry Summers’s secret economics memo to Barack Obama
By James Pethokoukis
January 23, 2012, 3:08 pm
A lengthy piece in The New Yorker looks at policymaking in the Obama White House. A key source for writer Ryan Lizza is a 57-page, “Sensitive & Confidential” memo written by economist Larry Summers—eventually to be head of Obama’s National Economic Council—to Obama in December 2008. Here’s some of what I learned about Team Obama’s thinking as the financial crisis was exploding, followed by quotes from the memo itself:
1. The stimulus was about implementing the Obama agenda.
The short-run economic imperative was to identify as many campaign promises or high priority items that would spend out quickly and be inherently temporary. … The stimulus package is a key tool for advancing clean energy goals and fulfilling a number of campaign commitments.
2. Team Obama knows these deficits are dangerous (although it has offered no long-term plan to deal with them).
Closing the gap between what the campaign proposed and the estimates of the campaign offsets would require scaling back proposals by about $100 billion annually or adding new offsets totaling the same. Even this, however, would leave an average deficit over the next decade that would be worse than any post-World War II decade. This would be entirely unsustainable and could cause serious economic problems in the both the short run and the long run.
3. Obamanomics was pricier than advertised. Read the rest of this entry »
Holder’s Texas Defeat
The Supreme Court delivered a wallop to Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday on the Justice Department’s recent federal posturing on the Voting Rights Act. In its unanimous decision, the Justices also sent a warning to civil-rights groups that further reviews of the law may be on the agenda.
In Perry v. Perez, the Justices rejected a series of election maps redrawn by a lower court in Texas to replace a map created by the Texas legislature to account for population growth and four new Congressional seats. The Supreme Court noted that the lower court had “exceeded its mission” and it sent the maps back to the drawing board.
Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Texas is one of nine states required to get preclearance from a federal court or the Justice Department for any changes in election law. While that petition was pending, the maps drawn by lawmakers were challenged on grounds that they diluted minority voting strength. A federal court in San Antonio then drew up interim maps that differed radically from the original set, creating a scenario more favorable to Democrats. Read the rest of this entry »
Find out your February 7th caucus location
HERE’S HOW TO FIND
YOUR NEW PRECINCT NUMBER AND
YOUR CAUCUS LOCATION
Go to www.caucus.cologop.org
Follow the step by step instructions.
Voila!! You’ll find what you need to know.
Once you fill out the form and get your 10 digit precinct number, here’s how you break down the digits. The first digit is your CD-number, the next four is your Colorado State Senate district followed by your Colorado State House district, the next two are your Adams County Commissioner district number, and the last three is your precinct number. If you want to print out your precinct map, go to http://apps.adcogov.org/gis/staticmaps/precinctmaps/precinctmaps.htm Make sure you attend your precinct caucus on Tuesday, February 7th
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Important Caucus Information:
1) The straw poll for President is just that – a straw poll.
Its results do not bind any delegates to the National Convention.
Former Brighton Mayor Jan Pawlowski runs for county commissioner
Former Brighton Mayor Jan Pawlowski is hoping to return to life in public office.
Pawlowski, a Republican, is challenging embattled County Commissioner Alice Nichol, who has been linked to a scandal involving Quality Paving. Nichol, who was first elected county commissioner in 2004, is up for re-election this fall.
Pawlowski served as mayor of Brighton for eight years before leaving because of term limits. Prior to becoming mayor, she also served six years on Brighton’s City Council.
In a statement, Pawlowski said she hopes to restore integrity to the office of county commissioner.
“Adams County has been my home for the past 45 years, and it distresses me to see the negative publicity the county is receiving,” Pawlowski said. “We need change and I feel my political and community experience will bring a positive change to the board of county commissioners.”
Nichol, a Democrat, would be seeking her third term as county commissioner in District 2. She was elected to the Board of Commissioners in November 2004, re-elected in November 2008, and currently serves as vice chairman.
Joey Kirchmer: 303-954-2650 or jkirchmer@denverpost.com
Lawmakers share ideas for session
The state legislative session started this week, and lawmakers representing Adams County are ready with bills reflecting their political and personal outlooks.
Democratic Rep. John Soper, facing term limits in House District 34, has a proposal born of his own frustration. ”I went to pay a deposit for my daughter and they said they wouldn’t take currency,” Soper said. “It’s just a petty little thing but it rubbed me wrong.” Under Soper’s plan, if someone incurred fees for a cashier’s check or money order because a business refused to accept legal tender, the business would be responsible for paying those extra costs. ”Usually I run bills for other folks,” said the outgoing lawmaker. “This year I’m going to run one for me.”
Republican Rep. Kevin Priola also is ready with a bill stemming from personal experience. Priola, an off-road-vehicle enthusiast who represents House District 30, wants to allow the titling and plating of such vehicles so they can be used on dirt roads in the wilderness. As the situation exists now, an off-road vehicle rider can go four or five miles along a permitted trail, then be legally prevented from riding a short distance to the next trail. “It’s a real barrier to access,” Priola said. “Look at the map. It’s almost like a Swiss cheese effect.”
