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Check out this headline on LGBTQ Nation that nearly crashed our Truth-O-Meter:

Unseating most LGBTQ House members is an official priority for the GOP in 2020

The truth behind this clickbait is clearly spelled out in the story — Republicans are hoping to take back 55 seats now held by all sorts of Democrats, which were once Republican seats or districts that voted for President Trump.

Included on the list is Colorado’s own 6th District, which Democrat Jason Crow won from Republican Mike Coffman.

As far as we know, Crow is not LGBTQ, but he is a Democrat.

The truth behind the headline, Republicans are targeting seats by party, like they always do, not on sexual orientation. Just like Democrats target Republican seats in each race.

The list of 55 does include five people who are LGBTQ, but does not target all eight who publicly proclaim their sexual orientation.

Our Truth-O-Meter dinged this as clickbait for victimhood affirmation. And, confirmation that Republicans aren’t lightly giving up lost seats in the last election.

The bad news, the state House “Kill Committee” failed to live up to its name and passed the so-called popular vote compact they think will cripple the Electoral College and give Democrats the advantage in presidential elections.

The good news, expert witnesses presented some very persuading arguments as to why the plan doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance of Hell seeing the light of day.

It’s no surprise the bill Democrats insisted was bipartisan passed committee on a purely partisan vote, with Democrats the only lawmakers voting in favor of stripping us of our voice in the presidential election.

For those keeping score at home, those Democrats on the State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee are Assistant Majority Leader Chris Kennedy, and state Reps. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, Monica Duran, Susan Lontine, Jovan Melton, and bill sponsor Emily Sirota.

More than 80 signed up at the hearing Tuesday to testify, most were against the Democrat compact.

The bill that has the best chance to (i.e. will) survive the #coleg kill committee is the National Popular Vote. Only 10 pages of people wanting testify for it, 13 against. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/IR0RvtISDx

— Marshall Zelinger (@Marshall9News) February 12, 2019

Truly inspiring was the testimony of Richard Collins, a constitutional law professor at the University of Colorado Law School, who explained there is no official system in place to actually count a popular vote, which can be counted numerous different ways depending on whether unpledged electors are included.

“The newspapers tally it up. I don’t think newspapers should be allowed to dictate to Colorado how they should vote,” Collins said.

We’re guessing most news sites will neglect to mention that little morsel.

Professor In Your Face also said the compact Colorado Dems want to join with more populated states like California and New York, which he described as a “Russian system,” doesn’t have a good chance of surviving a Supreme Court challenge.

So despite the worst intentions of our Democrat-controlled legislature and governor, the compact will hopefully be struck down before these politicians get the chance to steal our vote.

Of course, the measure will still go to the full House for a vote, and it’s expected to be signed by Gov. Polis.

Bill gives presidential voting power to areas in blue.

This may be our last chance to protect the Constitution from the Colorado Democrats, says GOP Party Chair Jeff Hayes.

Unfortunately for those of us fiercely protective of our right to vote for the president of these here United States, Hayes is not overreacting.

The bill to rob us of the Electoral College method for equal representation in the national vote faces sabotage in the Democratic-controlled House today.

Hayes is encouraging everyone who can get off work for an hour or more to show up at the 1:30 p.m. hearing today in the Capitol, room 271, to show their opposition to the plot.

Governor Jared Polis’ staffers have already said he’s “supportive” of the legislation, so this is our last chance to protect the Constitution from the Colorado Democrats. Let your voice be heard!

Here’s what happens if Colorado Democrats win and we are added to the national compact of larger, more populated states: A presidential candidate who wins the popular vote which always comes from hugely populated areas, that candidate would automatically get all of the electoral votes in the new compact.

That leaves fly-over country, including Colorado, without a voice in the election.

If you can’t get to today’s hearing, click on this link to send an email to all of the House committee members telling them how you feel about the popular vote compact.

We are shocked, SHOCKED that this teachers’ strike might not have been for the kids after all. See, as it turns out, as the union threatened to strike, its membership swelled, according to Eric Gorski at Chalkbeat. Here’s what he was told by the lead union negotiator:

“The teachers union’s lead negotiator told us dues-paying membership has swelled to about 3,800. That’s roughly 72 percent of the 5,300 teachers and special service providers covered by the district’s ProComp agreement that is at the center of the dispute — a big increase in membership that had been stuck at about 50 percent for years.”

If these numbers are correct and the average teacher pays approximately $936 per year in union dues (btw, that would go a long way to paying teachers’ unaffordable living costs, but we digress) and there are an additional 1,150 teachers in the union now, that’s an additional $1 million in annual revenue (ok, fine, $1,076,400, to be exact).

Given this evidence, it is clear that the more disruption the Denver Classroom Teachers Association causes, the more revenue the union hauls in. The more union dues the union hauls in, the more political power and influence the union has in Colorado.

We’re on day two of the teachers’ strike, kids are in chaos, parents are inconvenienced, and the teachers union is laughing all the way to the bank. Sounds like a great deal for union bosses and a terrible deal for everyone else.

I hate you, Colorado Peak Politics

Now boarding Group One, Governor Hickenlooper, for a bumpy ride through Colorado’s ethics commission hearings. The board yesterday voted unanimously to not dismiss a complaint that Hick violated ethics rules in hitching plane rides with his rich friends. According to the Denver Post:

“The trips include one to Texas to marry the brother of Elon Musk, the CEO of the electric car company Tesla, and one to Italy for the Bilderberg Meetings, a gathering of corporate and political leaders from around the world.”

That shouldn’t cause conspiracy theorists to tweak out at all. (That’s sarcasm, folks.)

The ethics commission’s ruling comes at a particularly bad time as Hick is mustering his best “aw shucks” demeanor for the fine people of Iowa, New Hampshire, and other early states in the 2020 presidential contest. Of course, he’s polling at about 1%, so, hey, maybe this will help with his name ID. Or, as Oscar Wilde said, “the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Amirite, Gov?

If this teachers’ strike was meant to engender sympathy for teachers who allegedly are not paid enough, it’s backfiring. Twitter today was filled with images of kids walking out – some in solidarity with teachers, others because being at school right now is a waste of time.

This scene at East High school was taken earlier today by a student. A group of boys begin chanting and then students streamed into the hall. #denverteacherstrike #edcolo #copolitics pic.twitter.com/ak5M5W3P3p

— Jenny Brundin (@CPRBrundin) February 11, 2019

Surely, this can’t please parents, even those that originally supported the teachers’ strike. Even worse, the union was the entity that walked away from the table (again), leaving Denver Public Schools in the lurch for a second day, unless something happens overnight (which we doubt).

Remember, PeakNation™, when teachers and their union bosses say that this strike is for the kids, they’re simply playing on your sympathies. Given that the union turned down an 11% raise for teachers, it’s not even for the teachers and it’s most certainly not for the kids.

If you’re wondering who is winning the PR battle over the strike, let’s just say the union is a bigger loser and the longer this strike drags out, the worse it’s going to be for unions.

If you make a left at radical liberalism and another left turn towards Crazytown, you’ll quickly reach Bonkers Plaza where the loonies have landed and planted the flag for the Green New Deal.

Oh look, there’s U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, the lone Coloradan crazy enough to join with the new Democratic Wing of WTF, led by socialist socialite U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

As we reported earlier, the resolution wants to ban air travel, refurbish every building in the U.S. that doesn’t meet strict windmill and sun roof codes, and pay for it all by ordering Treasury to just print up a bunch of trillion dollar bills.

The bill is so spectacularly outrageous by plain old liberal standards, U.S. Reps. Dianna DeGette, Ed Perlmutter and Jason Crow didn’t even sign on as original sponsors.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet also thought better of it, at least while he’s campaigning for president.

The congressman from Boulder stands alone, and says this new dealy thing is the only way to “heal our planet” and “counteract systemic racial, regional, social and economic injustices.”

Killing farting cows and returning us to the Stone Age is their answer.

We can’t wait to see what kind of health care solutions are ushered in by this millennial class of lawmakers.

We expect it will include leeches and bloodletting.

Democratic lawmakers have taken it upon themselves to design a media literacy curriculum to be taught by unionized teachers under the prevue of a special commission that has nary a journalism professor on it.

Democrats think our children need to be taught the difference between real and fake news — you know, MSNBC is real, Fox News is fake — so liberal doctrinarian can continue throughout a child’s lifespan.

If liberals are concerned the internet and social media landscape has become so vast and confusing that children will easily be misled, then try teaching basic reading comprehension first.

Maybe a social media responsibility lecture in English class that teaches trust but verify; don’t trust a story by its headline; memes are not history lessons.

High school kids should probably learn about the structure of newspapers and TV news in general, but to go down the path of real versus fake, that’s biased territory.

Not surprising, the bill is sponsored by state Rep. Lisa Cutter, a PR consultant who moonlights as a political activist and organized the Women’s March in Denver to oppose President Trump.

What agenda could she possibly have in creating a “real news” curriculum for our youth?

Maybe she’s still miffed with “fake news” like The New York Times, which outed her march leaders this year for their anti-semantic comments that drove away Jewish participants.

Teachers will undoubtably love the idea, so they can instruct students to read media outlets that sympathize and write nice things about unions, and ostracize news organizations that don’t.

It’s a blatant attempt to brainwash our youngsters, and parents of both political stripes should be outraged.

After a week of would they/wouldn’t they, Denver Public School teachers officially begin their strike today. Fortunately for working families, the district plans to keep schools open. Unfortunately for kids, that means that they’re being taught by subs who typically keep kids entertained by popping in a movie or some other non-essential activity that doesn’t actually lead to learning.

The strike was sealed after union leaders and district leaders (read: union leaders) couldn’t come to an agreement after a last-minute effort to avert a strike on Saturday. What’s really disturbing is that the district made significant concessions, but the real sticking point for the union seemed to be giving teachers who taught at challenging schools bigger bonuses. What?!? Here’s an excerpt from Denverite about the negotiations breakdown:

“The Denver school district offered what Superintendent Susana Cordova called a significant proposal, just minutes before Saturday’s bargaining session was originally scheduled to end.

“She said she had decided to eliminate performance bonuses for executive staff and cut even deeper into administrative expenses, eliminating 150 central office jobs. Teachers cheered the announcement, standing and clapping.

“But when she said the money from the executive’s performance bonuses would be put into increasing a bonus for teachers working in schools identified as a highest priority to $3,000 — a bonus the teachers union has been trying to decrease — the mood in the room changed again.”

While the union essentially called the proposal a distinction without a difference, the district accused the union of moving the goalposts. Regardless of who’s at fault, the real losers here are Denver’s kids. But, don’t worry, PeakNation™, it’s all for the kids, according to the union.

What a year this week has been for the Democratic Party.

From Virginia, where apparently every elected Democrat is either a Klansman or a rapist, to Congress, where nearly every Democrat woman wears white (odd color choice for an ambiguous protest) and/or supports junking every American car and killing every cow, this has been one of those weeks where you wonder if the left has joined the Russians in trying to get President Trump reelected next fall. We kid. The left is doing a much better job.

Colorado Democrats, for their part, have been mostly silent on the never-ending dump of insanity coming from their fellow partymates this week (looking at you, Denver political media), save for Joe Neguse’s full-throated endorsement of the Green New Deal, as is customary for a representative of Naropa University. Although, one has to wonder how Colorado’s nearly $3 billion cattle industry feels about its impending demise at the altar of Mother Earth.

No, but seriously, why has nobody asked Governor Polis what he thinks of his Klan-y/rape-y colleagues in the Old Dominion? Or what he thinks of violently solving America’s greenhouse gas problem by beheading millions of cattle? Are we just good with this stuff, as we were when we discovered that Polis had once slammed a woman twice his age into a filing cabinet?

How about Presidential hopelessers Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper? Are they down with the green suicide? How about Representative Perlmutter? And is Representative Degette in “gotta hear both sides” mode with the sexual assault allegations facing Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor? We don’t recall her being as charitable toward now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but hey, whaddya gonna do?

Back to the Denver press: please get all of these people on record on all of this stuff. When President Trump tweets something dumb, you’re the first to stick microphones in the faces of any Republican elected, activist, or registered voter, demanding to know whether or not the man should resign. Please offer the Democrats an equal platform in the wake of their national meltdown this week.

It’s going to be so funny when President Trump gets reelected and everyone acts surprised.