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, former GOP county treasurer of Denver.

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.

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner put it nicely when he called for civility among Democrats, and was gentlemanly enough not to name names when he did so — like Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder, former attorney general in the Obama administration.

Gardner’s plea comes on the heels of a terrifying text sent to his wife with a video of a beheading, and other threats made against Republicans and their families.

The FBI and Capitol Hill Police are now investigating that text, and one arrest has already been made of a Democratic staffer who leaked the home addresses of Republican Senators, and threatened to release more personal information on their children.

“It just sickens me that my wife has received these threats,” Gardner told The Colorado Sun in an interview Thursday. “Whether somebody wants to throw political attacks at me for taking this stand, that’s fine. I hope they will realize that a bright line has been crossed when those attacks calls for violence, murder and people’s families with graphic, gruesome videos.”

“It’s got to stop,” he added.

But Democrats have gone beyond being uncivil, they’ve become unhinged and downright dangerous.

And cheering them on are party leaders like Clinton, who says to Hell with civility, they’ll play nice again when they have total control over the country.

“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” Clinton says in this CNN interview.

Then there’s Holder, who instructed Democrats at a Georgia campaign event that if “Republicans go low, we kick them.”

The Holder doubled-down on his remark, and told Republicans to stop the “fake outrage.”

There’s nothing fake about Gardner’s outrage. Who wouldn’t be outraged if their spouse was sent a beheading video by some liberal sicko because of a political disagreement? Quite frankly, it’s handling it a lot better than we would.

It’s an ugly political environment Democrats have created — an alternative universe to the world peace vision they once preached — it’s turning violent and it needs to stop.

Not after Democrats take over our world and implement their vile actions into actual policies, but now.

Jason Crow has tried in vain to stake out a political career based on the opposite of everything U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman has accomplished.

He’s the chief critic of Coffman’s voting record, but now it appears Crow doesn’t even have a clue of what that record entails.

Crow was asked during the PBS debate with Coffman: “Besides the tax cut, what one vote would you have taken differently?”

For all the stuttering and babbling that amounted to cluelessness, you’d think he was asked how to achieve peace in the Middle East.

Crow couldn’t come up with an answer, yet digging himself further into a hole, he let it slip that Americans should still have to pay enormous fines for not being able to afford health insurance.

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“Jason Crow’s deer in the headlights moment shows he is incapable of thinking beyond what Nancy Pelosi and the DCCC tell him to say. Crow’s criticism of Coffman’s voting record while being effectively unable to name a single vote he disagrees with is the height of hypocrisy,” said Kyle Kohli, Colorado communications director for the Republican National Committee.

It’s also politically risky to disagree with a voting record like Coffman’s that includes pay raises for our troops, which Jared Polis voted against, as well as funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

The only thing Crow seems to know for sure, is that he likes taxing Americans.

Yesterday, we reported on the bombshell that Rep. Jovan Melton had pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges. We suggested he resign. The Colorado Democratic Party suggested he resign (now that you know – they knew years ago). His colleagues suggested he resign. The only person who hasn’t suggested that he resign is Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis.

We can hardly blame him (just kidding, we totally blame him). Polis himself was accused of violence against a woman recently, so perhaps he’s feeling a little sensitive.

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, Polis was accused of assault – pushing her into a file cabinet and grabbing her arm – against his secretary almost 20 years ago. She was attempting to steal documents during the sale of his company, Blue Mountain Arts, to Xcite! that showed he was stripping the value from the companies. Polis ended up selling the company for $780 million. The company was valued at just $30 million two years later.

Polis tried to claim he was the victim here and innocent, much like Melton, who grossly claimed that he didn’t break his accusers tailbone during violence, but during sex. We’re not going to ask.

Polis and Melton shouldn’t get away with claiming victimhood and if Polis won’t call for Melton’s resignation, we can only assume that he sympathizes with the abuser.

Yesterday, the Denver Post laid the smack down on attempts by radical environmentalists to ban oil and gas development in Colorado by suggesting that voters vote no on 112.

Here’s an excerpt from the editorial:

“The effect of that would be a ban on oil and gas exploration of Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin. That’s the area in northeast Colorado where most of the state’s drilling activity is occurring.

“With such a ban would come an exodus of oil and gas companies from the state, the high-paying jobs they create directly and indirectly, and the taxes they pay to state and local governments.”

The Denver Post is right. We know, we can’t believe we’re writing this either. But killing around 150,000 jobs for an arbitrary number is a terrible idea. The Denver Post isn’t the first newspaper to encourage a no vote. In fact, nearly every newspaper in the state has the endorsed the no position because this measure is so extreme. Even the Aurora Sentinel, which is vying with the Boulder Weekly to be the official newspaper of Bernie Sanders in Colorado, said this is a bad idea.

We don’t typically recommend swallowing whole what the mainstream media feeds readers, but in this case, these newspapers are right.

 

Some Coloradans have enough trouble understanding the vote-by-mail process, the last thing we need is some outside group confusing us even more with mailers telling us we may or may not be registered to vote.

The patriotic-looking mailers are suggesting the recipient’s vote won’t count unless they return an enclosed mailer that goes back to the company, or register online at the Secretary of State’s office.

The thing is, the campaign called “Be Registered Colorado” is directed at registered voters.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s office is not amused, and says the mailers are causing “anger and confusion” among voters calling in to find out why they are no longer registered voters.

“Confusing voters is a problem any time of the year. When it happens just before a major federal election, it’s unacceptable,” said Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert said in a letter to the company telling them to knock it off.

The mailer is obviously trying to collect information on registered voters, but seriously neglected to think this tactic through.

If you got one in the mail, just trash it.