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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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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%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
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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%↑
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State Senate Majority
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All 17 U.S. Intelligence agencies have completed their analysis of the memo released by the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee. They reached two conclusions:
1: There is no intelligence among any of the Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee.
2: Donald Trump stinks. Stay upwind, America.
Drain the swamp – and then backfill it with incompetent fools?
Emails show Carson family fingerprints at HUD despite warnings
Husband of former Trump household aide scores government job
..at least the latter doesn't appear to be doing anything important other than 'driving hours every day' for his $66k/job
Looks like he's at most, a GS12 (base pay with NY locality pay adjustment), so that makes him an office flunky for the Administrator (who would be at least a GS15). Given his only skills appear to be commuting to New York from Jersey, and "team building", I suppose he's the official Political Morale Officer, leading the daily singing of the Trump Anthem.
If we are lucky, he experienced Chris Christie's staff's G.W. Bridge shutdown.
Perhaps he will be designing the Cone of Silence which Scott Pruitt has ordered for his office.
and installed. HIs personal SCIF is up an running.
Another unqualified Trumper at the EPA: Patrick Davis, Trump's Colorado campaign director, was appointed to be a "Deputy Assistant Administrator" at the EPA in January 2017. He's still there; now his job title is "Senior advisor for public engagement to the Region 8 EPA administrator".
What does he do all day? I think the public should engage Mr. Davis, and find out.
Davis is also a known fraud artist who has bilked Republican donors of millions; this did not stop him from being named as Trump's Colorado campaign head. Davis' past as a money launderer was probably a feature, not a bug, both in the Trump campaign position and in his new EPA position.
Davis is one of many political appointees at the EPA. There is conflict between actual scientists and career EPA folks, and Trump's "beachhead appointees", whose mission is widely understood to be the undermining of the EPA's clean mission.
Screen capture from Patrick Davis’ Linkedin profile
I cannot think of a better group to target for fleecing than Republican donors….
If only these people would stop at fleecing the Sheeple. But Davis, at least, is now in a position of power – he can prioritize the resources that go to Superfund and other cleanup sites in Colorado. He gets to "engage the public" on the efforts he thinks that the public should get engaged on. Think more "Obama's EPA caused Gold King mine disaster" propaganda.
His first EPA job was in the field of emergency management. Now he's in charge of "public engagement" to the Region 8 administrator. Maybe just sucking up tax dollars and doing nothing…maybe not. By the way, he has never given up any of his private consulting or political phone calling businesses while he was Trump CO director, nor now as the EPA administrator. So he could be steering himself business all the time – and probably is, since that's what he got in trouble in South Dakota and Texas, and by the way, in Colorado for Cory Gardner. His PAC, Vote2ReduceDebt, raised money for events that didn't happen, for voter contact that was not made, for propaganda that never hit the streets.
I don't know why I'm the only one with my hair on fire about the corrupt chairman of Trump Colorado making decisions about what the EPA will do in Colorado. But that does seem to be the case.
Certainly cheaper than Taylor Weyeneth, the now-resigned "24-year-old former Trump campaign worker, appointed last year to be the deputy chief of staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy."
Gimme’ an “R” . . .
Gimme’ a “Y” . . .
Gimme’ an “A” . . .
Gimme’ an “N” . . .
What’s that spell? . . .
. . . Douche!
Paul Ryan Deletes Tweet Lauding a $1.50 Benefit From the New Tax Law
https://nyti.ms/2FJNJsX
I wonder if Ryan will follow up with her after her “tax cut” expires and she has shop at the dollar store because she can’t afford Costco?
Well… if PA is anything like Colorado, she's not paying into SS, instead, she's paying into some state pension* which the R"s want to cut because it's so sweet compared to the average worker
So will Ryan follow up with her (and her kids or neighbors) when she's too old or disabled to work? Will he chastise her for not investing her $1.50 weekly bump? I mean if she just invested in Bitcoin at $1.00 she'd be rich.
*not one of the four public pensions Mike Coffman is eligible for or has referred to as a Ponzi scheme.
Because you need #YoMemo jokes today:
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Yo memo is so lazy, it plans to spend a weekend at Mar-a-Lago
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Yo Memo so evil she helps sneak Roy Moore into the mall.
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Your memo is so fake that Sean Hannity thinks it's news
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#YoMemo so fake Donald Trump put it on top of his head this morning.#YoMemoJokesYo memo so badly documented, ICE is planning a raid on it.
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#YoMemoJokessAnd the Colbert Report’s epic re-enactment:
Vincent Carroll had the lead Op-ed in today's Denver Post titled, "Senior Myth". The gist of his column is that senior citizens like himself are offered lots of discounts regardless of their economic situation. Things like national parks passes, movie discounts, gym memberships, etc.
Curiously, he failed to mention the biggest tax break that he takes. That is the Colorado Pension Deduction. Seniors 55 years and older (yeah, 55 year old "seniors") can deduct $20,000 from their CO taxable income. True seniors 65 years and over can deduct $24,000. This translates to tax avoidance of $926 to $1,111. This is doubled for joint tax filers — tax savings of $1,852 to $2,222.
Here's the kicker — You get this benefit regardless of how much income you have!
I have commented about this for years. In 2008, the CO Dept of Revenue reported that $1.5 Billion in pension deductions were taken by those with adjusted gross incomes of over $250,000. This translates to more than $9 Million in lost CO income taxes.
Of course, the Dems have always responded with crickets when I have pointed this out. Sigh….
Doesn't the Colorado pension deduction apply only to PERA retirees? That ain't most of us.
There are a few other pension plans around besides PERA – although they are an endangered species. Dad was a member of what he called the "newspaperman's union", which I think now is the CWA, which does have a pension retirement plan.
We need to elect a Democrat as treasurer, partly to protect pension plans from the so-called defenders of the working stiff, such as Walker Stapleton, who are slavering to get our hard-earned savings to use for their pet porkers.
No, Gertie, any senior can take the pension reduction, which even applies to Social Security. Some years, it has zeroed me out of Colorado Income taxes.
The senior deduction only applies to pension income, including social security. So a 60 year old earning $100000 in income can't take it against that income. I dpon't think many seniors earn $250,000 in pensions, so that is sort of a red herring.
V is correct that all federally taxable pension income qualifies for the pension deduction, including taxable Social Security income.
RE: the $250,000 income topic. It is a fact, based on an annual CO DOR analysis of who is taking all types of CO income tax deductions broken out by their adjusted gross income. The 2008 figures states that $199,467,000 in CO tax deductions were taken by those with AGI's over $250,000. Those people may be taking required minimum distributions from inherited IRA's, in addition to those with Social Security income. It is not a red herring.
I don't have the latest DOR numbers because I got tired of asking Dems to do something about this abomination. Consider that the intent of the deduction was to help fiscally strapped seniors. Allowing any senior to take the deduction, regardless of income, defies the intent of the policy. And, it fits with Vincent Carroll's observation that seniors get lots of discounts, needed or not. I suspect Mr. Carroll's indignation stopped when we started talking about real numbers.
Your previous post talked about $1.5 billion in deductions by seniors. Now, you say $199 million. What happened to that $1.3 billion?
Sorry, I screwed up again. The total pension deduction taken in 2008 was $6.4 Billion by all taxpayers. Those with over $250,000 AGI totaled $199.4 Million. My math was correct that this translates to $9.2 Million tax avoidance for those who make over $250,000. Sorry for the confusion.
So, do you agree that there should be an income limit for taking this deduction?
Thanks for the update. Your numbers work now. As to whether I would cap the deduction, you have to remember the baleful TABOR amendment. It is a revenue limit, not a spending limit. So raising the amount paid by affluent seniors would simply require cutting taxes elsewhere for no net gain.
Since Colorado has a flat tax on income, making it a bit more progressive by eliminating this deduction for wealthy seniors would actually go against our flat tax philosophy.
I don't agree with that philosophy but altering it just to gain a very modest $9.2 million that we'd have to give back in tax cuts elsewhere would arouse a lot of opposition among seniors for no net gain.
Again, TABOR defeats rational reform.
#YoMemoJokes are awesome. I tried to put up a post with a dozen of the best, but I think it had too many links and is in moderation purgatory.
Yep, folks are having quite a few inspired insights:
Yo memo is so lame if it were a tax break it would be $1.50.
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#YoMemoJokesYo memo so pointless and nauseating that Melania called it "date night".
#YoMemoJokesReplying to @realDonaldTrump
Yo memo so fake, The Onion sent a cease & desist letter*
Trump's lackeys fired an errant torpedo which circled around and struck the SS Trumptanic. It's taking on water and the crew are scrambling toward the lifeboats
I dunno, sounds to me like they're trying to have it both ways.