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Wednesday, February 25, 2004
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Denver November 2004 Election
 Ed Cone reports that, "The Dean machine, or some part of it, pledges to fight on. Joe Trippi today announced the formation -- or continuation -- of a national movement. If this thing hangs together and starts to grow, it could be a force to be reckoned with." Now if the 'Ol Coyote were running a local campaign as a Democrat I'd sign up to be one of Trippi's 50 democrats. They collected over $50 million for Howard Dean and now they want to put the software to work for Democrats and progressives. I think it would be cool is all of the candidates running for office in Colorado would sign up. Let them discuss the campaign on their weblogs. It's a different discussion, not driven by the normal media coverage.
Matthew Gross says that the new national organization that Trippi is working with is the result of the Cummings Creek Compact.
Republican candidates may be able to get help from here.
Update: Daily Kos: "Marilyn Musgrave is evil." Ouch.
6:22:21 PM 
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Colorado Water
Aurora is most likely going to enact a surcharge to pay for water to replenish depleted reservoirs, according to the Rocky Mountain News [February 25, 2004, "Aurora gets closer to water surcharge"]. From the article, "The Aurora City Council has given preliminary approval to a water rate surcharge schedule to pay for leased water to refill the city's drought-depleted reservoirs. What the city's 69,000 water customers will actually pay in addition to the base rate of $2.69 per thousand gallons of water won't be set until the end of April. That is when the City Council will set the level of of drought severity. If the drought level is set at Stage II, as officials believe likely, the surcharge for 90 percent of the city's water customers would be an additional 65 cents per thousand gallons. That scenario also depends on whether the Bureau of Reclamation approves Aurora's leasing of 12,600 acre-feet of water from High Line Canal users in the Arkansas River Valley. That lease would cost the city $5.5 million. If the High Line lease, the largest temporary water transfer in Colorado history, is not approved, the city still plans to lease smaller amounts of water from the the Climax Mine Co., several ranches near Leadville and the East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District. That would cost about $2.5 million and the reservoir recovery surcharge for most customers would be about 35 cents per thousand gallons under Stage II conditions."
The Pueblo City Council approved an agreement with Colorado Springs on Monday, according to the Rocky Mountain News [February 24, 2004, "Pueblo going with flow"]. From the article, "For the first time in decades, Pueblo will cooperate with, rather than fight, Colorado Springs - to develop a $900 million pipeline from the Arkansas River up to El Paso County. In exchange, Colorado Springs will give up some of its water rights and provide other incentives to help Pueblo maintain river flows through the city - flows that will help keep its historic river walk vital and its proposed kayak course afloat."
5:58:02 AM
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2004 Presidential Election
Gay marriage has become an issue in this year's presidential election. President Bush stopped his dancing around the subject yesterday with his announcement that he supports Colorado Representative Marylyn Musgrave's proposed Constitutional Amendment that states that marriage should be defined as the union of a man and a woman, which would effectively ban marriage between same sex couples. Where does the Colorado delegation stand? Diana DeGette , Mark Udall, Scott McInnis, are all against the amendment to the federal constitution. Maryilyn Musgrave, Tom Tancredo, Bob Beauprez, and Joel Hefley all support the amendment. Wayne Allard is for the amendment and Ben Nighthorse Campbell is against. (Source: Rocky Mountain News [February 25, 2004, "Where Colorado's delegation stands"]. That's 4 to 3 (57%) for it in the house and 1 to 1 (50%) in the Senate. Judging by the Colorado (an extremely red state) delegation the amendment has no chance at getting through the House and Senate (2/3 vote required) and very little chance in receiving 3/4 of the states approval. Not a scientific poll 
A Denver resident is proposing a recall of John Hickenlooper because of the Mayor's stance on gay marriage, according to the Denver Post [February 25, 2004, "Resident to work for recall of mayor"]. From the article, "A Denver resident wants to organize a recall effort to punish Mayor John Hickenlooper for taking a stand against a federal constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage. Late last week, Joel N. Levitt notified city officials that he wants to collect signatures to hold a recall election of Hickenlooper. 'He could have remained mute to his personal beliefs and been a mile ahead,' Levitt wrote in an e-mail message to Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown. Hickenlooper has crossed the line, Levitt wrote, 'and we intend to do something positive about it unless he steps back from the abyss. It is still not too late for an apology.'"
Update: John Kerry is leading John Edwards 60 to 19 in California according to a recent Field Poll according to the Daily Kos.
Update: Colorado Luis: "I think George W. Bush lost the election today."
Update: Daily Kos "Idaho and Utah went big for Kerry. Hawaii hasn't reported yet, but will likely do the same. The big show is next week." The Kos is referring to Super Tuesday.
Update: Blogs For Bush: "But it's important to point out that Bush did not make gay marriage an issue, Massachusetts and San Francisco did."
Update: Andrew Sullivan: "Those of us who supported this president in 2000, who have backed him whole-heartedly during the war, who have endured scorn from our peers as a result, who trusted that this president was indeed a uniter rather than a divider, now know the truth."
5:52:46 AM
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