We call Jared Polis a tax and spend liberal at least once a month.

The spending part he brags about himself, but he’s not so boastful when it comes to his votes against giving us a break and cutting taxes.

Granted, Congress doesn’t offer tax cuts very often, that’s why we get so frustrated when Polis passes up those chances and votes so often to tax us.

Here’s a review of Polis’s tax cut record on major votes over the last decade.

Polis voted no:

2018: Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act
2018: Bipartisan Budget Act
2017: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
2015: Consolidated Appropriations Act
2015: Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act
2015: Protect Medical Innovation Act
2015: Death Tax Repeal Act
2015: State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act
2015: America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act
2015: America Gives More Act
2014: American Research and Competitiveness Act
2014: Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act
2013: Require Congressional Approval Prior to Establish Tax on Carbon Emissions
2013: Budget Levels for Fiscal Year 2015 through 2023
2012: Pathway to Job Creation Through a Simpler, Fairer Tax Code Act
2012: Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act
2012: Repeal Excise Tax on Medical Devices
2012: Income Tax Deduction for Small Businesses
2012: Limit Federal Appropriations for fiscal years 2013-2022
2011: Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Extension
2011: Reduce Payroll Taxes and Unemployment Benefits
2010: Small Business Lending Fund and Tax Law Amendments
2010: Senate Jobs Bill

Polis voted Yes:

2018: Family Service Act
2013: Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act
2013: Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act
2012: Extends Payroll Tax Cut
2010: Temporary Extension of Tax Relief
2010: Amending the Estate Tax
2010: Temporary Extension of Tax Relief
2009: TARP

Polis also supported at least four tax bills in 2008 and 2009 because each bill included extensions of unemployment benefits.

Also, Polis appears to have skipped a major vote on whether to require inclusion of Social Security benefits in calculations of modified adjusted gross income.

Polis has voted down 23 tax cuts while supporting just eight measures, plus the unemployment benefit rider on four other bills.

The only tax cut he’s supported in the last five years is one this year, after he decided to run for governor.

Pretty frightening, isn’t it? Looks like Polis might have even been for tax cuts early in his career before he was against them.

The key takeaway here is that we can expect a Governor Polis to be just as greedy in keeping our hard-earned money as he is as a congressman.

Should public officials in Colorado be able to delete comments or ban people from their Facebook page?

Looks like we’re about to find out because a lawsuit was filed against Thornton Councilwoman Jan Kulmann claiming the constitutional rights of two local men were violated when she restricted their participation on her page.

The men’s lawyer is hoping the judge will follow a federal decision that ruled President Trump could not block Twitter users.

The problem in this case, and there are many, is one of the actual plaintiffs.

PeakNation™ is very familiar with Cliff Willmeng, a fractivist known for his radical behavior.

How can he be certain it was Kulmann and not Facebook that deleted his comments? If he used the phrase he is expressing in this photograph, Facebook will automatically delete his comments.

If someone so much as writes the word “damn” in a comment, Facebook automatically hides the comment unless the page manager turns off the profanity detection setting.

Kulmann doesn’t appear to be sensitive to criticism. After all, someone has already posted an article about this lawsuit on her page criticizing her.

This is Kulmann’s response:

Since there’s now a pending lawsuit I want to respect those that are concerned. However, I will say, I have not blocked any of my constituents. I have hidden inappropriate or insensitive comments from both sides of the issue.

Inappropriate and insensitive, that’s a nice way of saying someone was just being an asshole and using foul language.

It’s important to note that no members of the city council have an official Facebook page as part of their role with the city.

These comments were made on Kulmann’s campaign Facebook account, not a government page.

Technically, she’s leaving Facebook’s profanity blocker in place against potential voters, not necessarily constituents. And if she’s deleting harassing comments on her own personal campaign page, doesn’t she have that right?

Don’t we all have the right to delete unwanted comments on our own pages or business pages that are flat-out lies, libelous, harassing or littered with profanity?

Willmeng and his cohort weren’t even commenting about official city business, they were harassing her because of the personal view she expressed on a state issue coming before state voters — she doesn’t support Proposition 112, the backdoor fracking ban.

And another point, Willmeng is running for the Boulder County Commission, which makes him a fellow politician, and that’s different from being a constituent.

So by all means, bring on this lawsuit.

We don’t believe it is censorship because Willmeng is free to say whatever he wants about Kulmann on his own Facebook page or anywhere else in social media, and he’s free to speak his mind at council meetings.

But if he starts yelling and cussing and making a fool of himself instead of behaving in a civil manner, he might find himself escorted out of the room and not by the Facebook police, but the real deal.

He has the right to free speech, but does he have the right to yell fire in a crowded theater?

 

Bernie Sanders is on tour again.

His one-note show of socialism, socialism, socialism will be performing at two stops in Colorado in front of a very confused crowd later this month.

 

It’s confusing, because Sanders is there to campaign for Jared Polis in the governor’s race.

PeakNation™ will remember that Polis suffered serious blowback from Democrats when he refused to back Sanders in the presidential election against Hillary Clinton.

Polis was one of those superdelegates who ignored the will of the Democratic caucus voters, including his own Boulder constituents, and used his powers instead for Hillary Clinton.

His constituents were so mad, a restaurant worker actually slipped him a nasty note with his take-out Easter dinner.

The hypocritical lengths to which Polis has gone this election season is nothing short of astounding.

He will let nothing get in the way of his power grab for the governorship, including his own beliefs — whatever the Hell those are this week.

The Boulder liberal-turned-moderate-turned Sanders socialist has succeeded in completely confusing voters as to his true identity.

“We should thank Senator Sanders for his trip to Colorado. He is effectively exposing Jared Polis for exactly what he really is – a far-left extremist,” said Kelly Maher, executive director of Compass Colorado. 

We hope that Sanders’s supporters welcome Polis with the same boos and hisses he got for casting his superdelegate vote for Hillary.

While Jared Polis is banking on the #MeToo wing of the Democrat party to turn out for him in big numbers next month, it seems like the Congressman’s actions do not back up his pandering talk on the issue.

On the heels of a report coming out that Polis laid hands on a female employee resulting in a police report and the subsequent changing of his name, now Polis refuses to go along with other members of his party insisting on the resignation of abuser Jovan Melton, a state representative and Democrat party leader in the Colorado House.

In a statement from the Republican Governors Association, the group said, “Instead of condemning his behavior, Polis deflected and even made excuses for his close ally [Melton], arguing the case was ‘a tough one’ because Melton was ‘young’ when he committed the violent acts.”

Once again, Polis wants us to believe what he tells us about an important issue, and not our lying eyes.  Any person who cannot figure out that violence against women is unacceptable in all cases has no business being governor of Colorado.

Ooops, Rep. Salazar, your radical environmentalist is showing. Yesterday, the crew from Colorado Rising (the folks trying destroy Colorado’s economy, not save it) hosted a rally on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol where Salazar (D-Foot in Mouth) accidentally revealed what Proposition 112 truly hopes to achieve.

Just watch:

Transcript:

“The oil and gas industry needs to be looked at as an immoral industry, much the same as private prisons. That flesh (really?) for cash business and it has no business in the state of Colorado. Our state will be fine without them.”

First of all, our state does need the oil and gas industry as it supports over 200,000 jobs throughout Colorado. Colorado will not be fine without the industry; although, perversely, this could be a solution for the traffic issues? Not funny?

More importantly, this bizarre rant was like a window into Salazar’s creepy little soul. Remember, this whole time advocates for Proposition 112 have positioned this terrible ballot measure as a health and safety measure. That’s not what this is about according to Salazar. This is about banning a business that he doesn’t like. Period.

Even more important than this is the implication it has for Coloradans. It’s not just about banning a business, even if that’s Salazar’s story. This is about taking away jobs and education from our friends and neighbors.

What is Salazar thinking?

Well, we probably won’t have to wait long to find out. Salazar has zero filter or message discipline. Pass the popcorn.

Here’s a newsflash — Colorado voters aren’t in the mood for a massive tax hike.

That’s supported by a new poll from Magellan Strategies on the transportation plans that go before the voters in a few weeks.

Proposition 110, “Let’s Go Colorado,” received a paltry 35 percent of support from voters who don’t mind a sales tax hike by 0.62 cents.

However, 52 percent are in favor of “Fix Our Damn Roads,” Proposition 109, which supports transportation through bonds, and payback through money already collected through taxes.

In other words, no new taxes.

If this no-new-tax bug is contagious, it could spell trouble for tax-and-spend liberals like Jared Polis.

The difference between Walker Stapleton and Jared Polis is stark.

As governor, Stapleton wants us to keep our wallets chained to our pocket while he keeps the state operating in a fiscally responsible manner, and without raising taxes.

Meanwhile, Polis is prepared for a wild spending spree with more of our money he plans to pickpocket from our paychecks.

And the money he can’t get ahold of through taxes, he’s going to force us to spend on our monthly bills for heat and electricity.

Don’t just take our word for it, the record and rhetoric of each candidate backs this assertion.

As the Denver Post points out in a recent profile on Stapleton’s “crusade for fiscal responsibility,” Stapleton spent eight years “sounding the alarm over the long-term solvency of Colorado’s public employees pension plan.”

And this:

The state treasurer also traveled Colorado prominently in 2013 to warn voters off a proposed income tax hike for education. Three years later, he trained his cross hairs on a ballot proposal that would usher in “ColoradoCare,” a $36 billion single-payer health care system. Both times, voters overwhelmingly heeded the calls.

Then there’s Polis’s record as a tax and spend liberal.

Polis voted for Obamacare, including the enormous tax on those who couldn’t afford to buy it.

Now it appears Polis may have actually profited off that vote with his investments in a health care tourism company that takes patients out of the country to get affordable health care that Obamacare does not provide.

Polis voted against the recent tax cuts and tax reform, and he’s rarely met a spending bill he didn’t like — except for the one that included needed pay raises for our military.

Ironically, some of the very same waste and taxes Stapleton crusaded against, Polis is vowing to implement if elected governor.

Too bad the blue book doesn’t include that.

A recently-filed complaint against Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper alleges that the “aw shucks” Governor loves him some private jets. According to the complaint, Hick accepted private jet flights and other lavish travel benefits without reporting them per Colorado state law.

The solution to this is so simple. Hick just has to show that he paid for the flights himself. Yet, it’s been several days and we’ve seen no such receipt or proof of payment.

If he paid for the flights, we might give him a high five as air travel has become so cumbersome these days. Who wants to mingle with the man bun-wearing hoi polloi?

From the press release that was sent out on Friday by former Speaker of the House Frank McNulty:

“Governor Hickenlooper’s extravagant travel habits have been the source of public speculation for years. After conducting extensive research, we learned that the problem is far more serious than any of us could have realized. The vast majority of state officials carefully abide by Colorado’s strict ethics and gift laws, I was disappointed to learn that Hickenlooper seems to think that these ethics laws don’t apply to him.”

Tick tock, Governor. Where are those receipts?

Was it just an oversight, or does Gov. Hickenlooper intentionally mean to totally snub Jared Polis’s campaign to replace him in the governor’s mansion?

Hickenlooper is passing out donations like Halloween candy from his newly formed Giddy Up PAC.

He’s donated to plenty of gubernatorial candidates in other states including the Democratic nominees in Iowa, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and Kansas.

And it’s not like he’s ignoring Colorado, because Hickenlooper also pitched in $1,000 each for Diana DeGette and Jason Crow.

So where’s his support for the Democratic nominee in his own state?

It’s not like Hick is short on funds. His fledgling PAC has already raised more than $280,000, and Hick has only donated about $28,000 to candidate — including nearly $400 for his own personal hotel costs.

With all of the millions of his own money Polis is throwing into his campaign, some might think Polis is not even accepting donations, but he is.

So the question stands, why isn’t Hickenlooper supporting Polis for governor?

Former Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler was interviewed by Jimmy Sengenberger on Business for Breakfast this week to discuss the complaint filed against Jared Polis for some funny business in his financial disclosures.

Or lack of disclosure, it turns out.

Gessler explained why voters should care, while revealing that Polis could make himself even richer off the health care and energy policies the Democrat pledges to put into action.

We’ve wondered why Polis was apparently willing to just blow $19 million to win the governor’s race.

Now we may have the answer: The millionaire might not be content until he’s a billionaire. After all, money doesn’t go as far as it used to.

It’s not just that Polis held back critical financial information when he filed to run for governor, yet disclosed it to the feds in his congressional filings, it’s what he’s not telling us.

He didn’t tell us about the millions he’s invested in BridgeHealth, a health tourism company that has benefited tremendously under Obamacare, and would get a second boom in Colorado if Polis mucked it up even worse with some sort of single-payer system.

The whole idea of health care tourism, is when someone can’t afford a certain surgery or treatment in the U.S. under Obamacare, companies like BridgeHealth will help them fly to another country to get their health needs cheaper.

Say your deductible is $6,000 and you need a procedure that costs $5,500 in the U.S. or $1,500 in Mexico, which would you choose? A health care travel company, that’s who.

Then there’s Polis’s holdings in solar companies and his pledge to unplug us in the coming years, no matter the cost — to us.

As Gessler explained, Polis has a lot of explaining to do to the voters before Election Day, and that’s the purpose of the complaint he filed on behalf of Kristina Cook, Denver GOP treasurer.

Voters need to have this information to determine whether Polis is “just another politician lining his pockets,” Gessler said.

Listen to the whole interview here, and determine for yourself whether Polis is a walking conflict of interest who stands to make a fortune off the policies he’s promising if elected governor.

Or, he just can’t afford to hire competent accounts to declare all of his holdings, including $10 to $50 million in medical tourism.