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Wednesday, June 7, 2006
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Mt. Virtus: "Apparently the Holtzman campaign doesn't have much of a case to make an appeal with the Secretary of State. As the campaign's top deck starts to disappear below the water line, inquiring minds want to know: are there enough lifeboats on the RV?"
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:41:46 PM 
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Elevated Voices: "Fiorino thinks that he is entitled to the same news coverage as Bill Ritter, Bob Beauprez and Marc Holtzman. He's wrong. You hear this complaint every election cycle from different candidates running for office, and it's complete nonsense. Just because you figured out how to register your name as a candidate doesn't mean that all of a sudden everybody has to take you seriously."
Here's Mr. Fiorino's website. There's no email list and no RSS feed. No tip jar. No calendar of events. Very hard to keep up with the candidate.
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:24:43 PM
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Apparently Bill Ritter's campaign reads Coyote Gulch (or the Montrose Daily News). We reported yesterday that Bob Beauprez was snuggling up to rainy side voters by coming out against transmountain diversions. The Ritter camp called Beauprez on it since he supported Referendum A in 2002.
From the article, "Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter attacked Bob Beauprez on Tuesday as a hypocrite, saying his Republican rival flipped his position on water. The Beauprez camp called the charge a 'pretty transparent' political attack. The salvo came after Beauprez was quoted Monday in the Montrose Daily Press as saying, 'Nobody has convinced me we need transmountain diversions.' That was a change in position from 2003, when Beauprez backed Referendum A, which would have built reservoirs and transferred water to the Front Range, Ritter said...
"Beauprez's campaign manager, John Marshall, said, 'Referendum A had absolutely nothing to do with' transmountain diversions. 'For a Denver lawyer to jump in and make those kind of allegations makes it clear that he doesn't understand Colorado water,' Marshall said." Ouch.
Marshall is correct. Referendum A was an attempt to set aside $2 billion for "unnamed" water projects." State voters didn't go for the "trust us" message from state officials.
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:59:18 AM
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The proposed amendment to deny services to illegal immigrants is the subject of this article from the Denver Post. They write, "A proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit providing government services to illegal immigrants could force local officials to check IDs at parks and on public transportation, a former county commissioner said Tuesday. James Johnson, now a union official, said that if he were still an Eagle County commissioner he would face the threat of lawsuits filed by anyone even suspecting illegal immigrants were using government services outside of an emergency. One of what could be a record 18 measures on the Nov. 7 ballot, the 'restrictions on government services to illegal immigrants' proposal sponsored by former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm drew the most energetic discussion Tuesday at the annual gathering of Colorado Counties Inc., an influential organization of county officials...
"Speaking before Johnson, Lamm laid out the case for cracking down on the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, arguing that they drain the economy and health-care and education systems. 'This is not cheap labor, folks. It is subsidized labor,' Lamm said. 'A few people - the employers - get the benefits. The rest of us have to pay the price.' His proposal is intended to deter illegal immigrants from coming to Colorado, although he acknowledged that it could be more of a symbolic message to Congress that the state has grown intolerant of the strains of illegal immigration. State services such as welfare and food stamps are already prohibited for illegal immigrants. Others, such as emergency medical care and K-12 education, would not be affected, as they are federally mandated. Lamm, now the co-director of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of Denver, cited studies indicating that undocumented workers, who often work for cash off the books or shelter their earnings from Social Security, depress the salaries of average workers by 4 to 6 percent and require greater services from the public-education system. 'It's supply-side poverty,' he said'"
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:44:05 AM
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