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JOB KILLERS: Grand Junction Congressional Hearing Focuses On Energy Regulatory Strangulation
On Monday, Congressman Scott Tipton organized a hearing in Grand Junction for the House Small Business Committee to hear about ways to help create jobs from business owners and local residents concerned about the effect over-regulation is having on the local...
COMPOUNDING PAIN: Job Loss Study Adds Up To Job Losses That Prop 103 Supporters Don’t Want To Face
Recently, the liberals in Colorado have been up in arms over the study by Dr. Eric Fruits of Portland State University that shows, if passed, Prop 103 could kill up to 119,700 jobs in Colorado, claiming "fuzzy" math was used to derive that number. Of course...
HICKENLOOPER: Prop 103 Is ‘Probably’ Going To Fail, But Feel Free To Try Anyway
At Governor Hickenlooper's first Education Council meeting yesterday, Ed News Colorado reports some interesting exchanges took place over state Senator Rollie Heath's (D-Boulder) $3 Billion tax increase known as Prop 103. While other members of the council...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: “Unaffiliated” Mario Carrera’s Record Of Donations To Democrats
UPDATE: There's more. Carrera also donated to the Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee while sitting on the Reapportionment Commission as an "Unaffiliated," in addition to nearly $6,000 in donations he has made to Democrat federal candidates since 2008. -------...
CRONY CAPITALISM: Ken Salazar’s Chief Of Staff Hired By BP’s Law Firm
The Denver Post's Allison Sherry is reporting that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's former Chief of Staff and famed Lawyer-Lobbyist, Tom Strickland, has been hired by BP's law firm, WilmerHale. Talk about conflict of interest. Strickland was Salazar's...
STAPLETON TO PERA: Time For Some Transparency
For some reason, groups like PERA and ColoradoWINS, who receive taxpayer dollars, feel that they are not obligated to be transparent with those taxpayer funds. In the case of the Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA), State Treasurer Walker Stapleton feels...
SUPER (PARTISAN) MARIO: Chairman Of Reapportionment Commission Caves To Liberal Pressure
Amid a whirlwind of political pressure from leading Democratic operatives ranking as high as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Chairman of the Reapportionment Commission Mario Carrera knuckled. Despite being described primarily by his political registration,...
LIBERALS: 119,000 Fewer Jobs Not The Same As 119,000 Jobs Lost
OUR VIEW: Liberal bloggers can dance on the head of a pin all they want, but "less jobs" and "lost jobs" hurt just the same. Even a reluctant Hick said "raising the corporate [income tax] rate...right when we're trying to attract businesses, that would put up a neon...
THE ‘DEVIL’ IS IN THE DETAILS: Rollie Heath Caught Lying On Jon Caldara’s Show About Prop 103
The Left has been a hot mess this afternoon about a Colorado Statesman story over job loss projections associated with Rollie Heath's tax increase. We will be back later today "with the rest of the story" there. But in the meantime, we now resume our regular coverage...
CHICKENLOOPER: Post Nails Hick For Hiding Under His Desk On Prop 103
Sounding like a mainstream version of Colorado Peak Politics, yesterday The Denver Post's Tim Hoover exposed a dawdling, indecisive John Hickenlooper for the political chicken that he's acting like in refusing to take a side on the biggest debate in Colorado...