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Adams County Trumpeteers monthly meeting
December 21st, 2011 | 
Author: Republican Trumpeteers of Adams County Meeting
Saturday, January 7, 2012
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
At a new venue
The Outback Steakhouse
497 East 120th Avenue, Thornton, Colorado 80241
(2 blocks east of I-25)
$10 per person payable at the door
Reservations Are Required by January 2, 2012
Email Laura Nokes Lang at LNL@Q.com to confirm your attendance
Failure to attend without 24-hour prior cancellation will result in your being billed for lunch.
Our January Speaker is Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler
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Saturday, January 14th is the next NSRF meeting
Our next meeting is from 9:30-11:30 am, Saturday, January 14th featuring Dr. Jill Vecchio who will discuss why ObamaCare isn’t what America needs. She explains what ObamaCare really is and why the Democrats bribed legislators to pass the bill. 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.
CO GOP Statement Regarding Reapportionment Briefs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 8, 2011
CO GOP Statement Regarding Reapportionment Briefs
Greenwood Village, CO – Colorado Republican Party Chairman Ryan Call issued the following statement today after briefs in opposition to the plan adopted by the Reapportionment Commission were filed:
“The objections to the maps submitted by the Democrat majority are simply stated: these maps are ill-intentioned, hyper-partisan and constitutionally flawed.”
“The majority plan unnecessarily splits counties and cities, ignores important communities of interest, and violates the clear standards set forth by the State Constitution and the Colorado Supreme Court. And the majority’s effort to draw ten Republican incumbents together is nothing more than an example of partisan politics and political gerrymandering at its worst.”
“I am confident that the Supreme Court will see the obvious flaws in the majority’s maps, which were pushed through the back door without public comment or the opportunity for amendments, and will order the Reapportionment Commission to adopt a fair and legal plan that protects the interests of the people of Colorado.”
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Aurora on verge of being in single congressional district
For years, Aurora has been denied the standing that other big cities in Colorado enjoy: access to a single representative in Congress.
Tired of being overlooked every decade when a new congressional map was redrawn, Aurora hired one of Colorado’s most influential law firms to make its case.
Now, Aurora may have the same status as Denver, Colorado Springs and others.
The Denver judge hearing a case over new congressional boundaries wrote that he chose a map that Democrats submitted because it “unifies the City of Aurora, which was of the greatest concern to the Court.”
The map puts all of Aurora into the 6th Congressional District.
“It has been a long-held position of the City Council that Aurora, as one community of interest, be located in a single congressional district,” said Aurora’s new mayor, former Councilman Steve Hogan.
“We are pleased the latest version of the map reflects that.” Read the rest of this entry »
Organizational meeting of a new Liberty Toastmasters Club
You are invited to attend the organizational meeting of a new Liberty Toastmasters Club. What: Liberty Toastmasters-North When: December 10, 2011 - 3:00pm Where: Boulder County Republican Headquarters 619 Ken Pratt Blvd Longmont, CO 80501 Why: To practice and improve your oral communication and leadership skills
Douglas County leads GOP charge to appeal new Colorado congressional boundaries
By Tim Hoover
The Denver Post
Led by Douglas County, Republicans today appealed a judge’s decision last week that picked a Democratic map to draw new congressional district lines.
Richard Westfall, attorney for a group of Republican plaintiffs supporting the appeal, said it would challenge “the manner in which the court just adopted wholesale uncritically what the Democrats proposed.”
Westfall cited the fact that, under the map Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt approved, all of Douglas County, save for Highlands Ranch and the southern portion of Aurora, would move from the 6th Congressional District to the 4th, which encompasses the Eastern Plains. Read the rest of this entry »
Colorado Supreme Court rejects state legislative maps, remands for “do-over”
“The supreme court holds that the finalized Reapportionment Plan is not sufficiently attentive to county boundaries to meet the requirements of article V, section 47(2), and the Colorado Reapportionment Commission has not made an adequate showing that a less drastic alternative could not have satisfied the hierarchy of constitutional criteria set forth in In re Reapportionment of the Colo. Gen. Assembly, 45 P.3d 1237 (Colo. 2002). The supreme court returns the plan to the Commission for further consideration, modification, and resubmission by 5:00 p.m. on December 6, 2011.”
(Read full Colorado Supreme Court decision here) Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, December 10th is the next NSRF meeting
Our next meeting is from 9:45-11:15 am, Saturday morning, December 10th where you can hear about the 2012 election timeline from both the Adams County Republicans Chair Patty McCoy and Broomfield County Republicans Chair Erich Feigel. Find out about the caucus process, delegates, alternates, what happens at the county assembly and state assembly, the state Victory office, how to get involved, and what the Republican plan is for winning in November, 2012. We will also have three (3) seats on the NSRF Board of Directors up for election. If you’re interested in running, send an email to dana.west@live.com to get on the ballot. Finally, this is our annual Christmas meeting and we’ll have breakfast burrito’s to enjoy so come join us!!!
We meet at our new location, the Anythink Huron Street Library community room, 9417 Huron St, Thornton, 80260.
Remember to invite somebody new to The Forum as we discuss politics in the north Denver metro area.
Searchable map: Find your proposed Colorado congressional district
Jonathan Boho, The Denver PostOne of the many headaches the redistricting process has created for us and for readers is how to make sense of the various maps.
Problem solved — at least in terms of the proposed congressional districts picked by Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt.
Our politics desk and graphics desk have put together a searchable map. Just enter an address and the program will pull up your location and tell you whether your district has changed. Read the rest of this entry »
District judge sides with Democrats in setting congressional districts for next 10 years
In a blow to Colorado Republicans that could affect election outcomes for the next decade, a district judge has ruled in favor of a Democratic map that redraws congressional district lines.
In his ruling issued late today, Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt said the “Moreno/South” Democratic map submitted at trial “most accurately reflected and preserved current communities of interest in 2011.
“It appears clear to this court that the Moreno approach to redistricting Colorado will also produce the maximum amount of competition of any of the realistically proffered maps in at least three districts — the 3rd, the 6th and the 7th,” Hyatt wrote in his ruling. “Each of those districts contains significant Latino populations, giving that group a major role in the decision about who will represent them in Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
