It’s no secret that Republican Attorney General candidate George Brauchler is infinitely more qualified than his opponent, Democrat Phil Weiser. Weiser has spent his career as an academic and, literally, has never stepped foot in a Colorado courtroom – at least not for work. We’ve made this point over and over again, but it’s nice to have third-party validation on this.

Today, the Fort Collins Coloradoan backed us up (the ed board was more polite than we were):

“The board believes Brauchler, the district attorney for Colorado’s 18th Judicial District and a seasoned courtroom lawyer, is a solid choice for the statewide office.

“Brauchler might not be an activist attorney general if elected, looking to jump into courtroom fights to score political points. But we believe he would provide sound legal advice to the governor and the Legislature while focusing his staff on protecting the rights and safety of Colorado residents….

“…Yet in Brauchler, we see someone with an established body of work as a trial lawyer and administrator. His experience in civil, criminal and military courts would serve the state well as it heads into what are likely to be turbulent times.”

As the old saying goes – those who cannot do, teach. Colorado should have an attorney general who actually has experience in the courtroom, right?

Jared Polis is courting farmer voters these days, or should we say this minute, since we saw it on Twitter.

His blink-of-an-eye message is beyond Orwellian. Coming from Polis, it’s flat-out laughable.

First take away their markets and livelihood, then show up with bundles of cash to buy loyalty and dependency… Trumpism is the opposite of classic liberalism https://t.co/1vOU9fsw62

— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) September 24, 2018

First of all, Trump didn’t start the trade war with China — the former communist country has been undermining the world trade market for nearly two decades.

Trump is trying to end it, and yes, farmers are getting hurt, thus the billion-dollar aid package.

What makes our sides split with laughter, is the accusation that Republicans are trying to eliminate our agriculture market or any market for that matter.

Or, that Republicans are using bundles of (taxpayer) cash to buy loyalty and dependency.

That’s the very definition of liberalism right there.

Maybe Polis think’s it’s opposite, because the opposite is exactly what he is doing right now in Colorado: Showing up with bundles of cash to buy loyalty and dependency, so he can then take away our energy markets, our land use for ranching, and what little health care we can still afford.

Nancy Pelosi is so desperate to regain her throne as House majority leader, she’s financing a sleazy campaign against U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman that’s full of lies and deception.

So explains the Colorado Springs Gazette, and we concur.

Never mind that Coffman was chief watchdog over multiple VA fiascos, while his Democratic opponent Jason Crow was MIA on his veterans’ advocacy post, skipping out on 40 percent of meetings held by the Colorado Division of Veterans Affairs.

Perhaps he was too busy defending a Texas contractor for defrauding the VA for more than five years.

One of Pelosi’s ads slams Coffman for consistently voting on bills that President Trump supports.
What she fails to mention, is Coffman stood against the president and demanded the firing of Trump’s VA secretary.

And, she conveniently forgets that Coffman voted in favor of a troop pay raise, which even U.S. Rep. and governor wannabe Jared Polis voted against.

Pelosi craves power and intends to get it by replacing a tireless defender of working-class Coloradans and veterans with a man whose clients defraud them. Let’s hope Pelosi and Crow don’t succeed in harming Colorado with a sleazy campaign of deception.

Colorado voters don’t have a lot of love for Pelosi, so we expect her campaign on behalf of Crow will backfire, spectacularly.

Correction: John Fund at National Review has apologized for spreading false information about Ramirez. Apparently, the Deborah Ramirez who was a Soros Fellow is not the same Deborah Ramirez accusing Judge Kavanaugh of inappropriate behavior. If Fund can apologize, we can, too.

The drama surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings hit home in Colorado today, as the New Yorker published a story that featured a Boulder woman, Deborah Ramirez.  Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh, claims that the nominee exposed himself to her during a party that involved copious amounts alcohol. Oh, and by the way, in case you were concerned that this was purely political, Ramirez was a Soros Fellow back in 2003. George Soros is one of the largest Democratic donors in the world.

Questions abound.

Why did she wait so long to level this accusation?  According to her, Ramirez was drinking and could not remember the details of the night.  But also according to her, over the course of the past week those details became more clear, so she lawyered up and ran to the press (but never law enforcement).  In fact, with this accuser’s first interview with the New Yorker, she “was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the incident with certainty.”

What she does now remember, according to the New Yorker, is that Kavanaugh was there, and someone pulled their pants up – the article specifically does not say that she recalls it was Kavanaugh with his pants down.  The New Yorker, in its attempts to verify Ramirez’s story, contacted numerous Yale alumni who could have been at the scene of that party, and could not get a single person to say that they were there and witnessed Kavanaugh expose himself to Ramirez.

Ramirez named two male classmates who she claims were in the room.  The New Yorker is refusing to report their names, but when contacted by the publication, neither could recall the party or incident that Ramirez is claiming.

Holes you could drive a big rig through.

Not surprisingly, Stan Garnett, the former Boulder District Attorney, is representing Ramirez in this matter.

Liberal activists are incredibly gross. After House Minority Leader Patrick Neville responded to criticism of Judge Brett Kavanaugh with a joke, liberal activists took to social media spewing hate. The worst, by far, was one activist who suggested that Neville’s school-aged daughters be assaulted so they would “experience [assault] in order for you to get what’s happening.”

How disgusting can they be?

Here’s the screenshot of the exchange:

Every liberal should immediately denounce their activists’ calling for the assault of an elected officials’ (or anyone’s) kids. We won’t hold our breath.

The Trump administration has busted a Denver VA official for taking bribes from small businesses to rig the bidding process for contracts at local facilities.

Dwane Nevins was busted by undercover FBI agents after he tried to extort $10,000 from them, Colorado Public Radio reports.

Unfortunately, a couple of contractors were also charged with going along with the bribes in the most heinous of fashion in order to get contracts for medical equipment.

The contractors planned to submit fraudulent bids from “service-disabled-veteran-owned small businesses under contract with their consulting company so that federal contracts would be set aside for only those companies,” said Jeff Dorschner, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman.

It says little for the VA that we’re not at all surprised an employee (allegedly) was on the take and fixing bids.

We have that shinning example of incompetence to blame for their tarnished reputation — also known as the $1.7 billion Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora.

A new document made public by the Colorado State Land Board shows that should Proposition 112 pass, public schools would lose, at a minimum, $230 million in the first three years alone.

Little known fact: the state of Colorado is one of the (if not the) largest subsurface landowners in the state. If Prop 112, which is basically a ban on oil and gas development in Colorado, passes, it will eliminate 60% of revenue from mineral development – and this impacts public schools.

By law, revenue from mineral development on the Land Board’s lands goes to public education in Colorado. Since 2008, the BEST grant program (funded by these revenues) has awarded $1.7 billion in grants that support improvements in education and facilities for over 180,000 students.

That’s nothing to sneeze at. Here’s what one former teacher said, according to a press release:

“Proposition 112 deprives mineral owners like me of my property rights and strips much-needed funding from education,” said Cristy Koeneke, a retired educator and mineral owner from Arvada. “Proposition 112 is far too heavy-handed. It deprives our public schools of millions of dollars at a time when we are already dealing with huge gaps in funding. I’m a firm believer in regulating mineral development, but any new restrictions should be dependent on scientific research and consensus, not arbitrary lines in the sand.”

In case the jobs that Prop 112 would decimate aren’t enough for you, here’s just another reason that this ill-conceived notion is wrong for Colorado.

This week has been chock full of liberal attempts to smear Republicans for joking about accusations against U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh by a woman who waited nearly 40 years to tell her story, which has holes you could drive a bus through and inconsistencies that would make Bill Clinton blush.

Let us be clear: These are serious allegations. Let us be even more clear: These are serious allegations that have been handled by the accusers’ team in an seriously unserious manner.

There are a few Republicans who have made jokes about how unserious the accusers’ team has handled the potential derailment of a Supreme Court Justice nominee. The jokes may not be in good taste, but for Democrats to insist that these folks have sexual harassment training before they come back to the state legislature is massively hypocritical, at best.

To Democrats calling for this, we say – you first.

See, the problem here is that Democrats promoted a known sexual harasser among their ranks to a position of power after they received complaints about his behavior. We’re talking about now-former state Rep. Steve Lebsock and how badly Democratic Speaker Crisanta Duran mishandled the accusations against him. And, let’s not forget Democratic Sen. Dan Kagan and his misadventures in the ladies’ room.

Have Democrats self-policed and sent their leadership to sexual harassment training? Of course not. In fact, KC Becker is now basing her run for leadership on how well she handled the issue (debatable) in contrast to Duran.

Surely, the two Republicans singled out would be happy to join all the Democratic leadership that absolutely botched the handling of such issues in the House and Senate at sexual harassment training.

Democrats are up in arms when women are demeaned in sexual verbiage (as they should be)…unless the women are Republicans. In that instance, Democrats prefer to do the demeaning themselves.

Take for instance this new article by Lachlan Markey as highlighted by Free Beacon, which ties 42 different nasty, pro-Democrat (or anti-GOP) Facebook pages’ ads to Martha Tierney, former (current?) lawyer for the Colorado Democratic Party. Here is an example of the text of an ad she posted about GOP donor Rebekah Mercer:

“‘Her only job was making sex cookies with names like ‘Creamy Seduction,’ the ad text says over the video. ‘But then, she decided she’d rather seduce Republicans,’ it continued, over a photo of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon.”

Would Tierney and her affiliated organizations have spun the narrative about Mercer’s father that way? Or what about Pat Stryker? Likely not.

Then again, a woman who won’t carry the Democratic Party water is a huge betrayal for someone like Tierney and her liberal cronies. And, that kind of betrayal is worthy of all sorts of demeaning language, verging on sexual harassment. Right?

See, it’s ok if Democrats say nasty things about women, but if the shoe was on the Republican foot, there would be hell to pay.

We expect journalists in Denver and beyond to ask Tierney and her clients whether this type of rhetoric would be okay from Republicans. We’ll wait.

 

This actually doesn’t surprise us at all, but hearing Jared Polis confirm it himself that he will raise our payroll taxes to create yet another government-run system to magically fix our government-run broken health care system is always helpful.

REVEALED: Congressman Polis will raise taxes on hardworking Coloradans to pay for his government takeover of your health care. Just listen to his own explanation.

POLIS: “The most likely payment mechanism, and what we talked about federally, would be a payroll tax.”#copolitics pic.twitter.com/yV2LYbW3sy

— Walker Stapleton (@WalkerStapleton) September 19, 2018

But first, Polis will have to wave his magic wand to get around TABOR and raise our taxes.

And, didn’t we just vote this kind of health care crap down by overwhelming numbers just a couple of years ago?

Listen for yourself and decide if forking over more money out of your paycheck will help you afford healthcare.