Comments on: LESSONS LEARNED: 7 Takeaways From The Total Recall https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/ Colorado's Conservative Bully Pulpit Mon, 27 Oct 2014 03:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Algernon Moncrief https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-12485 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 03:57:55 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-12485 THE COLORADO SUPREME COURT . . . "POLITICIANS IN BLACK ROBES." (AS IT TURNS OUT.) For decades I refused to believe it, but it is now incontrovertibly established. The Colorado Supreme Court is indisputably a political actor. Our Colorado Supreme Court exists to serve Colorado political parties. At present, the Colorado Supreme Court is more rightly considered an adjunct of the Colorado Legislative Branch, than a check on the Colorado Legislative Branch. Rather than "truth-seeking," the Colorado Supreme Court now sees its role as "political-outcome seeking." Litigants successfully use the Colorado Supreme Court to achieve political purposes. In the Ralph Carr Justice Center, rather than meeting impartial guardians of the law, litigants meet their political allies on the bench.
“I think there are many who think of judges as politicians in robes. In many states, that’s what they are.” “They seem to think judges should be a reflex of the popular will.”
Sandra Day O'Connor
In this article, I provide an example of the political and partisan role of the Colorado Supreme Court. I describe a case in which the Colorado Supreme Court summarily erases billions of dollars of debt owed by Colorado state and local governments. That is, one branch of Colorado state government relieves another branch of Colorado government of its legal debts.
The case involves Colorado statutory contracts that create financial obligations on the part of Colorado governments. Over decades, political considerations induced the Colorado Legislature to mismanage those financial obligations. In recent years, the terms of those statutory contracts were deemed politically inconvenient and politically unpopular. The Legislative Branch asked the Colorado Supreme Court to discard the contracts.
In 2010, the Colorado Legislative Branch requested that the Colorado Supreme Court grant this political favor by ignoring the Contract Clause of the US Constitution, ignoring the history of legislative mismanagement of these state financial obligations, and relieving Colorado governments of their accrued legal debts.
In this article, I address the Colorado Supreme Court's lack of independence, integrity, and impartiality. I provide a brief history of the efforts of the Colorado Legislature and the Colorado Supreme Court to escape Colorado governmental financial obligations. I comment on the recent (October, 2014) Colorado Supreme Court Decision itself, which summarily erased these billions of dollars of Colorado public sector debt. I highlight some of the numerous factual and logical errors that exist in the Colorado Supreme Court's Decision in the case. I express incredulity at the Colorado Supreme Court's willful ignorance of public pension administration, knowledge that was necessary to any court claiming to "seek truth" in the case.
My intent in writing this article is to enhance the public record of, and further document, what I consider to be one of the greatest "crimes" in Colorado history.
Visit the following link for the complete article:
https://coloradopols.com/diary/64487/the-colorado-supreme-court-politicians-in-black-robes-as-it-turns-out

]]> By: Colorado Peak Politics - THAT’S RICH: Amendment 66 Hopes to Raise $10 to $20 Million https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-3482 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:04:24 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-3482 […] will this huge influx of money matter?  The recall effort showed that even when outspent 7-to-1, when the right is right on the issues and put up their own ground game effort, they can […]

]]> By: LESSONS LEARNED: 7 Takeaways From The Total Recall | North Suburban Republican Forum https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-3426 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:27:06 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-3426 […] https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/ Posted in Candidates, Colorado politics, Editorial, Elections […]

]]> By: Larry Liston https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-11236 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:50:12 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-11236 Morse also lost, because he had little or no roots in his district. Virtually everyone I spoke with in his SD had NEVER met him after 7 years as their senator. He really took all his constituents for granted and they realized this. Never take the people for granted.

]]> By: Dan Mach https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-11235 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:54:11 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-11235 That is a very good idea Rob!

]]> By: Sharon K Nordic https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-11234 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:47:05 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-11234 Rumor has it that HickenPOOPER is working on updating his resume! 🙂

]]> By: Gregg Barnes https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-11233 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:04:17 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-11233 As a person who has visited your beautiful state many times, and lives under the oppressive rules and leaders here in California, I congratulate you on the job you did there, Mr. Harris. I only wish we had the power to do such a thing in this state.

]]> By: Kathy Morse https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-11232 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:16:26 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-11232 I couldn't believe the lies the Democrats were saying you had to be dumb to believe that stuff!!! The truth will set you free!!! YES !! They are FIRED!!!! can they hear us now???

]]> By: Rob Harris https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-11231 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:46:19 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-11231 I would like to personally thank the editors of Colorado Peak Politics who provided continuing coverage of the campaign. You were the first media outlet to actually pick up that this election was about more than gun control and that the people were upset because Morse was not listening to his constituents.

I have never been active in politics before running this recall campaign locally, so I have been keeping notes as much as possible along the way. I intend to create a lessons learned document to share with other conservative grassroots organizations to help them in their endeavors.

Thanks again for your editorial support in this historic endeavor.

]]> By: George Lenormand https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/11/lessons-learned-7-takeaways-from-the-total-recall/#comment-11230 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:46:00 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15368#comment-11230 Great Comments. Now to get rid of the rest of the liberal trash in the legislature, we will be on our way to take our country back from the Bozos in D.C. who are ruining it.

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