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JOB CREATION FAIL: Council On State Taxation Gives Colorado A “D” For Property Tax Fairness
UPDATE: A reader writes in to point out that thanks to now-Congressman Cory Gardner an official study was done on the cost of the Bill Ritter property tax hike. Total cost over 10 years: $3.8 Billion! As the reader wrote: "you don't suppose that higher property taxes...
THE HILL AGREES: Conservative Politicos Better Looking Than Liberals
In its annual list of the 50 best looking people on Capitol Hill, The Hill newspaper this year comes to the same conclusion the Peak has in our last two Hot or Not columns: conservatives are better looking than liberals. In the list of 50 pleasing politicos there are...
SINKING SHIP: Democrats Flailing, Desperate Attacks Over Reapportionment Indicate Failed Strategy
All was quiet on the reapportionment front until very recently. The uptick in desperate Democrat smears over reapportionment, the biennial task of redrawing state legislative lines to reflect population changes, indicates the failed and flailing nature of the...
THE AL SHARPTON OF REAPPORTIONMENT: Webb Drops The Race Card For Lack Of Substantive Argument
Disgusting. That is the only way to describe Al Sharpton Wellington Webb's outburst yesterday. Unable to present an argument without invoking the race card, former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb went off on an embarrassing and angry tirade during yesterday's...
IT IS OFFICIAL: Salazar Is A Ruh-Tard
Amid crushing unemployment, a debilitating debt crisis, and a national psyche wounded by a decade of war and two decades of ruthless Washington partisanship, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is just sure that Barack Obama will win re-election in the critical swing state...
BAD POLITICS: Shaffer And Pace Refuse To Defend Voters’ Constitutional Rights On Taxes
Today at the Executive Committee of the Legislative Council, Democrat members John "Per Diem" Morse, Sal Pace and Brandon Shaffer all voted to not support voters' Constitutional right to vote on tax increases. The motion asked the Executive Committee to...
OOPS! Former Mayor Webb Blows Up Dems on Redistricting
The problem with hypocrisy is that it usually comes back to bite you in the butt crack. Witness former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who today said competitiveness was not a constitutional pretext for drawing legislative maps. It is true, SO WHAT?Well here is...
ARE DEMS IN FAVOR OF CANCER? New Funding Fight Could Lead To Mailers A La Laura Bradford 2008
The Colorado News Agency has an article up today looking at another marker Speaker McNulty has laid down for budget negotiations for next year's legislative session. After stating his intent on restoring the Senior Homestead Exemption, at an American Cancer...
HICK TO CRYING HOUSE DEMOCRATS: Pound Sand
Paging state House Democrats: don't bother Hickenlooper with your petty fights over reapportionment. He doesn't care. His indifference to his party's howls over newly approved metro-area state House lines has highlighted how childish and whiny House...
BRANDON SHAFFER: Toaster or Gay Fish?
Chuck Plunkett once wrote: "Ah, the political blogosphere, where you so often just don't know." An apt assessment. Then there's Youtube, where so often you just don't know what the hell is going on. A source sends along a...