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DEJA VU: State House Candidate Beatie Cribs Employer’s Logo for Campaign

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When we saw Democratic State House candidate Amy Beatie’s logo, it struck up a feeling that we had seen that somewhere before….  As it turns out, Beatie works for the Colorado Water Trust, which has almost the exact same logo. See for yourself.

Here is Beatie’s logo:

According to her logo, she stands for conjoined twins eating children, paving over our treasured forests, and fairy dust. Seems legit. Here is her employer’s logo:

D’oh! Seriously? She couldn’t come up with something even remotely different? It’s not like this is just some coincidence. This is a pretty distinctive logo. Even better, our dear friends at OnSight actually created this for her. Do they also represent the Colorado Water Trust? Were they being lazy or was she? Either way, this is such a lame misstep that we can’t wait for the actual campaign. It’s nice to see Democrats making unforced errors, it makes our job so much more pleasant.

HATING THE HATERS: When Will It Be Enough For Democrats?

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Democrats are embroiled in a hate-a-thon, hating the haters and hating those who don’t hate enough to their liking.

It’s a vicious, hateful circle, and we hate it.

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is throwing hate on the president cause he doesn’t hate enough white supremacists enough.

Jared Polis hates history.

 

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has vowed to end all hate. And as much as we hate to say it, we don’t foresee his pledge ever happening in our lifetime, let alone his Senate term.

Here’s an idea, if Democrats really want to stop the hate, maybe they should just stop spreading it.

PEOPLE V. POLITICS: Water Bottle Ban Lifted In National Parks

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Another nanny government rule has been kicked out to pasture by the Trump administration. This time it’s the Obama era water bottle ban in 23 national parks including Dinosaur National Monument and Colorado National Monument.

The sale of water inside the parks was banned in an effort to curb litter. Ironically, the parks kept selling sugary drinks, which meant folks who were dehydrated because they only brought one or two bottles of water with them had to buy a Pepsi or Sprite to rehydrate.

We understand the park service’s desire to keep our public lands litter free, but eliminating the sale of water inside parks was short-sighted and irresponsible.

Of course environmentalists are screaming because they would rather see hikers drop dead from dehydration.

“It’s a really bad message for the parks to be sending and inconsistent with their mission which is … to protect the resources, and so having plastic water bottles littering the landscape is certainly not consistent with that,” said Sandy Bahr of the Arizona chapter of the Sierra Club.

It’s also the park service mission to keep their visitors safe. We’re glad to see that humans are being prioritized over politics.

HOW EMBARRASSING: The Left’s Shameful Behavior

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Angry folks in Greeley, rowdy voters in Lakewood and Colorado Springs, profanity, boos and insults — that’s how the media is reporting on U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s town hall meeting.

And where is all of this animosity coming from? Prepared questions from a national Democratic advocacy group that staged the whole ordeal.

Here’s a page from their playbook. Take a look.

But this time, the left’s action plan backfired and some in the media, including Denver Post editorial writer Megan Schrader, took notice.

She wrongly accused Gardner of ducking town meetings all year, forgetting that he just held one in Durango less than two weeks ago.

But she did make this on-point observation, the left’s behavior was embarrassing.

Gardner was met with hostility, rudeness and aggression. He was unable to speak over a crowd that yelled things like “single payer” and “you suck.” It was embarrassing behavior from a movement that isn’t doing itself any favors at this moment of momentum building. Some of the crowd in the Pikes Peak Community College auditorium proved Gardner was right at a time they could have shown just how wrong ducking public events is.

Ironically, the crowd also booed Gardner when he dismissed the idea of a single-payer health care. Memo to liberals, Colorado rejected that proposal in last year’s election by voting down Amendment 69.

But Gardner was a class act. “Even if we disagree,” he said, “we cannot continue shouting each other down in this country.”

Boorish and vulgar behavior will get nothing accomplished in Congress, and as we saw last weekend in Virginia, it can have devastating consequences.

An actual conversation can never begin, until the yelling, the boos and profanity stops.

But the left doesn’t want a conversation, they want a confrontation.

WHITE HOUSE: Hick’s Already Measuring The Curtains

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When a politician doesn’t say no to the question of whether they are running for president, the answer is yes.

Enter Gov. Hickenlooper, Democratic presidential wannabe.

According to CBS4, Hick isn’t saying no to a presidential run, and by all appearances, he is running for something on the federal level.

Having been rejected in his stealth bid for the vice presidential slot under Hillary Clinton, we suspect he will cut out the middle-man, or woman, and shoot straight for the big house.

He’s been touring the national news media for months preaching health care compromise. And by compromise, he means don’t change anything.

Now he’s scheduled a town meeting in Aurora Wednesday night to talk about national issues including the U.S. Senate’s work on health care, the violence that erupted at a Virginia protest and why he will blame President Trump, and federal immigration laws.

While he’s at it, he may as well tell us how to deal with Korea.

EXTREME HYPOCRISY: Douglas County School Board Candidate Leung Actually Suing School System

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Did they actually think that no one would notice?  A Complete Colorado post uncovers a massive hypocrisy in Douglas County. Political committee, Douglas County Parents, which is supporting The Dream Team slate running for the Douglas County School Board is handing out flyers decrying “costly voucher lawsuits that divert resources from public schools.”  Well, guess what? Their own candidate, Kevin Leung, is a plaintiff in one of these “costly lawsuits.”  Of course the literature conveniently leaves that little nugget out – why bother with such pesky details?

This is Leung’s fourth bite at the apple for school board.  He lost in 2009, applied for a vacancy committee in 2012, and filed, but withdrew, from the race in 2013.

So while that “Dream Team” bemoans the cost of lawsuits that are facing the county, their own candidate (with the generous help of the ACLU) is the one filing an expensive lawsuit.

While the lack of self awareness by these people is stunning, what’s more concerning is their lack of transparency. Calling attention to the resources being diverted from public schools when their candidate was part of the group that triggered the lawsuit is disingenuous at best, but we prefer the term dishonest.

We have yet to hear how Leung will separate himself from this obvious conflict if he is elected this fall.  And we’re not holding our breath for Leung or the dishonest Douglas County Parents to come clean about how Leung will rectify this clear conflict.

CATCH 22: How Will Insurance Chief Salazar Wiggle Out of This One?

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Insurance Commissioner Salazar

Obamacare isn’t working out so great for individuals facing a price increase averaging 27 percent next year.

But rather than fix the system, health care liberals advocates just want Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar to tell insurance companies to back off and charge less.

Why didn’t we think of that? We’re wondering if that tactic would work with our electric bills, car payments, and not to mention our own health insurance premiums.

If Salazar demands lower rates from insurance companies, they are likely to take their business elsewhere instead of sticking around to lose money in the state’s health care market.

That means thousands of Coloradans could lose their health insurance.

If Salazar does nothing, then prices go up and thousands might lose their health insurance because they can’t afford it.

This is a tricky political position for Salazar, who is no stranger to what can happen when thousands of Coloradans lose their insurance during an election year.

It ended badly for former Sen. Mark Udall, and if state regulators push out more insurance companies when the governor’s race is heating up, it could end just as badly for Democratic gubernatorial candidates.

This is a lose-lose situation for Salazar, because Obamacare is a lose-lose proposition for Coloradans.

COMPASSION? Bennet Tells Voter Paying $1,600 per Month in Obamacare Premiums That He Has a “Huge Problem”

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When the farcically-named Affordable Care Act was passed, its critics predicted the logical conclusion that is playing out today – a complete collapse of the system because its premise was contrary to the basic laws of economics.

Some of the the law’s more critical skeptics hypothesized that it was designed to fail, and pave the way for a nationalization of the country’s health care system, akin to the arrangement in Canada and the UK.

Well, regardless of what the cynics said several years ago, there are now calls from all corners of the Democrat party for socialized medicine, and it appears Senator Michael Bennet is finally on board.

At a townhall meeting in Aspen on Friday, a citizen explained that he is paying $1,600 per month in health insurance premiums now, with only one option available to him on the so-called exchange.  As a bonus, the plan has a $7,000 deductible – per person.  This Western Slope voter is going to be out of pocket more than $25k in any given year before his insurance kicks in.

Bennet’s response was that the guy has “a huge problem.”  That’s brilliant.  That’s the stuff that is asking for ridicule on late-night shows like The Tonight Show. But, will it make it there?  Not likely.

Bennet went on to offer a solution of public health care equivalent to the health care that Members of Congress receive.  Of course, he mentioned no way to pay for such an elaborate and expensive scheme.

We don’t need our senators telling us that we have “a huge problem” with the massive premiums and deductibles that we are faced with under the health care plan that he hoisted upon us.  We already know that.  And thanks again Senator Bennet, but we certainly don’t need any more “good ideas” from your crew that saddled us with the ACA.

TOWN MEETINGS: Here’s Where Gardner Will Be This Week

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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is holding three town hall meetings on the Front Range Tuesday.
As per the demands of liberal activists, all times and locations were coordinated to meet with their approval.

We kid.

A senator’s schedule is a tighter than your average community activist, and since these are his meetings, those folks will just have to adjust and get over it.

Doors open for the Colorado Springs meeting at 7 a.m., meeting is from 7:30 through 9 a.m. at the Pikes Peak Community College in room A-110.

In Greeley, the meeting will be held from noon until 1:30 p.m., doors open at 11 a.m., at the university school auditorium.

The Lakewood town hall meeting is from 3:30-5 p.m., doors open at 2:30 p.m., at the Colorado Christian University event center.

That’s nearly five hours of face time with Gardner. Please don’t waste it, again, by using your question time to complain that the room’s not big enough, the meeting not long enough, the time of day not to your liking, then demand more meetings to better fit your schedule.

That’s really starting to grate on our nerves.

DESPERATION SHOT: Hickenlooper Pitches Field Of Dreams In Parker

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Was Governor Hickenlooper channeling Moonlight Graham on Friday?  Hickenlooper assembled an assortment of Douglas County elected officials and state government busybodies to announce a pipe dream that “could” create 4,000 jobs in Parker.

But can this really happen?  Just who is Redbarre, and how can they claim to bring 4,000 jobs to Colorado and get the governor to host a press conference about them at the State Capitol?  Is this all just a slick PR campaign (they claim to have a PR firm on the payroll)?

It turns out that Redbarre is a digital media company that has tweeted a total of just nine times – so you might not want to engage them for a social media project.  It also seems to be a high growth company, claiming to be founded in 2017, but already having 5,001 – 10,000 employees, according to what the company furnished on its LinkedIn profile.  Funny thing – we could not find individual profiles for these phantom employees.

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RedBarre also controls a commercial real estate company – makes sense since they are going to build a 70-acre campus in Colorado, right? But RedBarre created the website for that outfit in March of this year.

We know that Hickenlooper’s film office is desperate for a win, but this doesn’t seem to be it.  State government efforts to to make Colorado a destination location for movie production have been and will continue to be futile. Wall Street was not created via a government subsidy.  Silicon Valley was not created out of a government program.  Quite the opposite – these engines for economic growth were created out of free trade and the mutual benefit of creating ecosystems of like minded individuals trying to accomplish similar goals.

Companies that are serious about this industry will put down roots where things matter in this industry – as in Los Angeles or New York. Likewise, young people looking to make it in the film and media industry have no business moving to Parker, Colorado.  It’s a numbers game – why move somewhere that provides very few opportunities, versus a place that has hundreds, or even thousands of companies that will compete for your skills?

Anything else simply defies the basic laws of economics, and Hickenlooper’s latter day field of dreams in Parker is not worth that paper his press release was printed on.
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