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American Majority is pleased to announce an Activist Training will be conducted on Wednesday, May 18 in Northglenn, CO to provide citizens with the tools necessary to become effective activists.

The training will take place at the O’Meara Ford located at 400 West 104^th Avenue in Northglenn, Colorado from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Registration opens at 5:45. The cost is $25 per attendee.

Topics* to be covered during the Training include:

• The System (an in-depth look at the system we’re in, how we got there, and what we can do about it)
• Grassroots Action (ideas and practical steps to engage our communities and organize a coalition of volunteers)
• Precinct Power (changing your community one precinct at a time with specific micro-targeting and focused action)
• Patriots 2.0 (effectively utilizing social networking tools, blogs, wiki projects and other technologically-driven platforms)

Full training materials, samples and supplements will be provided to help you apply what you learn to your organization, candidate, cause or community.

Political Training Registration

If you have any questions or would like additional information, contact Kathleen Baker at Kathleen@ammechanics.org or call 303-817-3048.

American Majority is a non-profit and non-partisan organization whose mission is to train and equip a national network of leaders committed to individual freedom through limited government and the free market.

* Topics are subject to change.

http://americanmajority.org/events/northglenn-co-activist-training/

A legislative committee that couldn’t agree on new congressional boundaries won’t meet today’s deadline for presenting a map, despite a 4½-hour hearing Wednesday.

The much ballyhooed decision Tuesday to disregard 11 maps presented by Republicans and Democrats and draw a new map the next day in public never materialized.

Sen. Mark Scheffel, R-Parker, said Democrats keep arguing for competitive districts, Republicans for existing boundaries. Read the rest of this entry »

‘ ‘ Adams County Residents ‘ ‘ ‘

We are always looking for people that want to become more involved in their community.  If you are interested in opportunities to become a part of the success, or maybe interested in running for a local office (school board, county, water board, etc), please contact Adams County Volunteer Coordinator

Kim Gillan: 303-427-2903 Kimberly.Gillan@comcast.net

Following a two-day retreat last week, the Adams County Commissioners agreed to explore the option of expanding to five commissioners from three.

Commissioners Alice Nichol, W.R. “Skip” Fischer and Erik Hansen met Feb. 24-25 with top-level staff and consultant David Knapp, president of consulting firm Marathon Leadership, LLC to talk about county reform. The retreat came on the heels of a number of issues the commissioners have had to face – a criminal investigation of contracts with Quality Paving and the public works department, complete staffing changes in the coroner’s office, and most recently a lawsuit filed against county Assessor Gil Reyes.  Read the rest of this entry »

Monthly Newsletter of the North Suburban Republican Forum for March, 2011.

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On an unseasonably warm day in late December 2004, an Adams County employee drove to the
fairgrounds carrying a $390,000 check that he
turned over to a man who was not only his boss
but a campaign supporter of newly elected
Commissioner Alice Nichol.

The check was for Nichol’s mother, Rose
Gaccetta — payment for a strip of her land and
her 90-year-old home, which was destined for
the wrecking ball as part of ongoing work to
widen Washington Street between Thornton and
Denver.

The Washington Street project, which continues
today, was heralded as a key piece of Adams
County’s effort to meet the growth of the 21st
century, and it helped transform an area once
dominated by farming into a bustling corridor of
light industry.

But a Denver Post investigation found that the
purchase of Nichol’s childhood home and the
accompanying paving project were fraught with
irregularities.
Read the rest of this story at http://www.denverpost.com/fdcp?1298995584921

BRIGHTON — Adams County taxpayers have bought new cars for a dozen different elected and appointed county officials since 2005, including two each for commissioners serving their second terms.

The free cars come with free maintenance and gas.

The Adams County list of officials eligible for cars purchased at county expense appears to be unique in the Denver area. The county bought new cars for all three commissioners, the treasurer, the assessor, the clerk and recorder, the coroner, the sheriff, the district attorney, the county administrator, the county attorney and the public works director.

County officials also selected the make and model of their new cars. Among the choices: Toyota Prius, Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Other Denver-area counties offer cars to a much shorter list of officials: the sheriff, the district attorney and perhaps a commissioner or two. Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — Ken Buck, the former GOP Senate candidate who lost to Sen. Michael Bennet by less than 1 percent in November, will launch a non-profit organization that will push states to ratify a federal balanced budget amendment.

Buck sent a note to supporters last night announcing “Balance America,” a group whose purpose is “educating, researching, and training leaders in all 50 states to ratify a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

The organization’s purpose is to start this tall order — amending the U.S. Constitution requires “super majority” (60 percent) passage in the House and the Senate, plus ratification among three-quarters of the 50 states — at the state level.

If the states ratified some version of a balanced budget amendment first, Buck reasons, it would be hard for Washington politicians to ignore that will. Read the rest of this entry »