CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
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March 23, 2012 03:28 PM UTC
64 Comments
I am not sure if ‘raw, naked’ and ‘flat-out excrement’ are wise tactical terms for El Rushbo to utter. Conjures horrific imagery. Can you put up another pls?
Let that imagery burn in, “Frackenlooper.”
stupid wording aside…WTF is he talking about?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Media Matters is spending $100,000 on two ads. More power to ’em!
“more conversation, less confrontation” is their pitch. Cumulus is doing a hard press on current Limpballs subscribers to pull away some markets. Poor Rush is such the victim of all this hate …
Sounds like Rushbo may have some repressed sexual fantasies trying to get out?
the individual words sure work well as self portrait. Maybe he should have also included “big”, “fat”, “druggie”, and “idiot”.
I posted it on a RL thread on Facebook and a lot of people hadn’t heard it, so here goes-
What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
One’s a flaming Nazi gas bag,
The other one’s a blimp.
Bu-Dump-Bump!
with Obama?
Or maybe he just REALLY hates Romney that much.
Santorum more for ideological reasons and Newt out of pure spite with a healthy dose of personal dislike playing a prominent role for both. I believe they both would honestly prefer to see Romney lose if, as is increasingly inevitable, he becomes the candidate for the general.
Yes, the War on the West being waged on the poor multi-national corporations by communities and people that want to protect clean water sources, healthy wildlife, breathable air, and diverse economies must be stopped–so that a great Pax Gaslandia can sweep the mountain west, that we may all pay tribute to the centurions, in their bright red fleet of vehicles.
http://finance.townhall.com/co…
Those pesky fellas were pointing out facts about all the many spills…averaging about one-a-day over the last decades, although they have been increasing in recent years. I mean, the ones that get reported. Hey! We have 11 inspectors state wide! That’s nearly a dozen. So just calm down. Read what Bob has to say. And ask yourself? If you can’t trust Both Ways Bob to point you straight, who can you!
PS-Thanks Bob!
People like Bob Beauprez, Bob Schafer, Josh Penry, etc. go down to major defeat and their political career is over. Yet they are still hired as lobbyists, talking heads, etc. Why? They have no present or future influence. No one listens to them. So why do special interests hire them?
I’m looking for real names … So don’t just list a bunch of ONG businesses.
BB retired to his ranch and an opinion column to plot out his race for the Udall seat.
Schafer is running a charter school and moon lighting as Education Commissioner…I think.
…some guy that edits some commie-pinko rag says that it’s OK…
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/…
BTW, has ‘tad, Beej or ArapaGOP managed to find any death sentences on Grandma from those mandated death panels? Anyone?
Paul Ryan’s proposed a budget, including a reform strategy on these matters.
It’s a sensible solution as the country begins to run out of taxpayers money for its excessive spending.
Darth Ryan’s budget mentions Veterans ZERO times. Why do Repubs hate them so much ‘tad?
once again, Pat Robertson can go fuck himself. Hateful, dried up old piece of shit that he is.
Bring on the Manning !
of that KS ditch weed
I thought the most holy of us were supposed to undergo adversity. Tebow is going to the den of iniquity and has to prove himself. What is wrong with that. He’ll make more than ever possible in Denver just because of advertising opportunities
Hes wired for sucess and has faith in our Lord Jesus Christ his Savior.
He’ll get tons more press in The NYC/NJ/CT metroplex. Too bad for Denver that they couldn’t keep him.
n/t
Antonio Cromartie’s soul could probably use the prayers.
throw Robertson out of the league for this bounty with the almighty that he just put on Manning?
Let’s face it: God wanted Tebow and the Broncos in the playoffs. The Almighty just didn’t want them to win.
Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location
genius !
are going to be out of work once taco printers are installed in every home.
If you’re like me, and you simply cannot get your fill the public pension theft debate raging in the hearts of Americans, then perhaps you’ll enjoy this retrospective of noteworthy quotations from the 2010 Colorado pension theft debate.
As is often reported in the press, we Coloradans excel in all areas of human endeavor . . . and pension theft is no exception. Our 2010 pension theft bill (SB 10-001) was bold, brazen, ruthless, depraved . . . exemplifying that western “can do” spirit.
I’ll kick off the retrospective with one of my personal favorite pension theft quotations:
Joel Judd, Chairman, House Finance Committee:
During the hearing on Senate Bill 10-001 Judd stated (near the end of the hearing) that SB 10-001 (the “COLA theft bill”) must be supported “because that’s where the money is.”
Senators Josh Penry and Greg Brophy: “Fully 90 percent of the PERA fix comes from benefit cuts to current and future retirees.”
Greg Smith, Colorado PERA General Counsel: “The attorney general’s opinion seems clear that fully vested employees – those retired or with enough years of service to retire – cannot see any benefits reduced, including cost-of-living adjustments.” (Link: http://www.denverpost.com/news…
Greg Smith, PERA before the Joint Budget Committee on 12-17-09: “The statutes are in fact binding, and they are constitutionally protected from reduction.”
Greg Smith, PERA General Counsel: Reilly Pozner has “really talented people. I certainly couldn’t get a job there.” (Link: http://www.prweb.com/releases/…
Meredith Williams, Colorado PERA Executive Director: “The AG’s opinion states that when a PERA member retires and begins receiving pension benefits such member’s pension rights have fully vested and such pension benefits may not be reduced.”
Representative DelGrosso (in February): “I voted against SB 1, not because I didn’t think we needed to fix PERA, I agreed with that part of it, but I voted against Senate Bill 1 because it did adjust some of the COLAs, and it did adjust that for folks that were already retired and people that were about ready to retire,” said DelGrosso. “And to me, I felt like that was violating the contract that those people got into.”
From the 2010 debate on SB 10-001:
Rep. Lambert: “I have heard from my constituents, as many of you have, that this proposal will breach retiree’s contracts.”
Rep. Swalm: “We’re breaking new territory in this state by trying to reduce the COLA. We’re probably going to get a lawsuit out of that. If we cut the 3.5 percent COLA there will be a lawsuit.”
Rep. Gerou: in committee, said that it is a disservice to the state to rush a bill through when her committee knew that it will go to litigation, and said what we are doing to the retirees is wrong.
Rep. DelGrosso: said that it is “tough” for him to tell people that he is going to break their contract.
Senator Harvey: “We have made a commitment. We have a contract with current retirees. That is already in place. Reforms should be made for new hires. We do not have that commitment to new hires.”
Senator Spence: “The bill places an unfair burden on retirees.”
Senator Scheffel: “We are breaching our promises to existing retirees.”
Senator Lundberg: “This bill is a deal that was cut before this body met.”
Rep. Jack Pommer, JBC Chairman to JBC on 12-17-09: “Are we not just saying we’re going to pick 30 years (as a PERA investment time horizon) because if we’re not balanced within 30 years that creates actuarial necessity which then let’s us change retiree benefits?”
Colorado PERA: “In any event, members and retirees with fully vested rights and entitlements provided by the PERA statutes will not suffer any impairment of those rights and the Board of Trustees will continue to fight to protect the PERA membership.”
Colorado PERA: Retirees “will receive an automatic increase of 3.5 percent in their monthly retirement benefit to help keep up with the cost of living.”
Colorado PERA: “If you began PERA membership on or before June 30, 2005, you will receive an annual increase of 3.5 percent.”
Colorado PERA Update – (Spring 2006 – page 4): “See that PERA’s (actuarial) funded status was lower (61.5 percent) 30 years ago than what it is now. You may recall that there was no perceived “crisis” in PERA’s funded status in 1975.”
Colorado PERA News Archive for 2004 (9-16-2004): “PERA’S funded level was below 60 percent in 1970, and there was not a perceived crisis in PERA’s financial health.”
Mike Coffman’s “Commission to Strengthen PERA”: “For those Coloradans already collecting benefits from PERA, their retirement funds must be protected. The Commission may not make any recommendations that materially affect current retirees.”
Colorado Supreme Court, in Denver Police Pension and Relief Board, 1961: When conditions are satisfied for retirement . . . . “at that time retirement pay becomes a vested right of which the person entitled thereto cannot be deprived; it has ripened into a full contractual obligation.” “Whether it be in the field of sports or in the halls of the legislature it is not consonant with American traditions of fairness and justice to change the ground rules in the middle of the game.”
Colorado Supreme Court, in Colorado Springs Firefighters v. Colorado Springs, 1989: “Rights which accrue under a pension plan are contractual obligations . . . entitlement to annual pension payment increases is also statutorily determined. These statutory provisions have established a defined benefit contributory pension system in which most public employees are required to participate . . . . . By making these contributions, employees obtain a limited vesting of pension rights, which ripen into vested pension rights upon attainment of the respective eligibility requirements.”
PERA Hires the Lobbying Troop (how many? 12 to 20?):
State Bill Colorado article, regarding the initial recruitment of the PERA lobbying troop: “PERA is obviously gearing up for some heavy-duty lobbying, one observer noted. The agency has hired two lobbyists from the firm Colorado CommuniquГ©, Collon Kennedy and Steve Adams, former president of the Colorado AFL-CIO. The pension system also has hired Mary Alice Mandarich, a well-connected Democratic lobbyist who formerly was chief of staff for Senate Democrats and who worked on campaigns for former Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald, former Gov. Roy Romer and gubernatorial candidate Gail Schoettler.”
Is it normal for public pension administrators to hire a lobbying troop?
Jeanne Chenault, spokeswoman for the Virginia retirement system: “We do not take positions on bills, we provide information on bills.”
Denver Post Editorial Board in the piece AFirst, let court rule on PERA”: “Before legislators take on reforms, they should first ask the state Supreme Court to determine how much leeway they have.”
John Bury, Actuary: “Giving a government the ability to renege on a contract at their convenience means the end of any pretense to democracy.”
Algernon Moncrief (pension rights blogger): “Senate Bill 1 is a contrivance designed to permit defined benefit plan sponsors to escape their debts.”
Visit saveperacola.com, support the pension theft lawsuit, Like saveperacola on Facebook!
perchance you move this into a diary, or perhaps summarize this into a smaller, less droning version of the original?
I saw the all caps PENSION HEIST and scrolled on down.
It’s an Open Thread.
Sill Wall o’Words, but no threadjack this time.
at least he got his fucking tome in the Open Thread today . . . he’s proven himself to be educable. Maybe someday a few sentences and a link, or, gasp, a dedicated diary . . .
for coming to my defense.
Leo Tolstoy
Do yourself a favor – just rant to yourself out loud in an empty room; you’ll have the same audience, and yelling is quicker than typing. And you won’t hijack our threads.
the words of our conservative buddies on an important topic of the day are presented above. Are you sure you want to characterize the piece as a rant?
Judging by the number of responses I get to my “rants”, someone must be reading them.
I used to rant out loud in an empty room . . . this is more cathartic.
you would want anyone on this board to take re PERA COLA. Make it more than a rant, if you can
Visit saveperacola.com, support the pension theft lawsuit, Like saveperacola on Facebook!
or, pass legislation striking the provisions of SB 1 from the law, and replace it with legal, prospective pension reform statutes.
Al
I did go to the website, no guidance there
How would one support the lawsuit?
I’m not in the leg, how would I strike the offending provisions of SB1?
Miguel de Cervantes
is even better than the Cretan paradox. I’m going to start using it in my classes.
Ten years on and I still hate math teachers. I can’t believe you just sometimes/always/never’d me in an Open Thread.
http://www.hark.com/clips/nstm…
As Santorum Fires Gun, Woman Shouts ‘Pretend It’s Obama’
http://news.yahoo.com/santorum…
Gutter or worse. I thought she meant the gun. That’s hot.
I get it now and would like to retract any erotique thoughts I may have had.
before this stirs up a storm the journalist covering the event are sure Frothy & his entourage were too far away to hear this crawdad spittin’ yahoo yodel her redneck holler. But this speaks tons for what rightie wingnuts think is funny or appropriate.
No way he would have heard it.
http://www.coloradopeakpolitic…
This old friend calls me up out of the blue back, oh, the other day or so and says
“Buy Etch-A-Sketch” and I’m like what? ’cause the skybeam and the cell and all the towers, it just don’t work like it did with wires always. So there we were, me on the phone and this old friend–I’ll call him EF–we go way back to our wild frat days in the Reagan Youth but I do digress, and–believe me–my politics have changes 235 degrees. If you know what I mean.
I’m like “What…Er..” “Shut Up!” he hisses. So I listen. “Buy Etch A Sketch.” He says and hangs up.
So, I sold the hen house and the missus, bought 10,000 shares of Etch A Sketch. Oh, back about the other day or so.
And now I also think my friend EF is a rich man.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/…