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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
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(D) J. Danielson
(R) Sheri Davis
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(D) Brianna Titone
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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(D) B. Pettersen*
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
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January 16, 2022 10:45 PM UTC
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. . . Hoping that Senators Sinema, Manchin, et al, spent last night, and as many other beauty-sleepless nights as it takes, being haunted by the horrible ghosts and specters of racism and injustice — past, present, and future.
No quotes. Kill the filibuster and pass voting rights!
We may lose in 2022 and regret the consequences, but at least we will have done the right thing.
👍👍
Quote of the day:
Thanks for being there, and I'll look forward to pictures.
I was going to be going to a service project … but managed to break my left humerus. Pro tip …. bone breaking on a holiday weekend is not the best move.
A broken bone is just not a humerus situation, J i D.
Here are some pics from a great day in Denver, January 17, 2022.
Gathering at the statue in City Park
Michael Bennet speaking
Start of the marade in front of East High School – led off by MLK Early College students
One of the drumlines in the marade – I think this one may be Montbello Warriors by the colors
Finally , a glimpse of how big and diverse the crowd was, passing by my old alma mater, East High School
CBS4 had some good coverage of the day's events, and said that "thousands" marched down Colfax…
I had to bite my tongue, and restrain myself, during Hickenlooper's mealy mouthed blargle . . .
I didn't even listen to Hickenlooper. He was for voting rights, like he would ever come out against them, but said nothing about the filibuster. I also held back during Mike Coffman's self-serving soliloquy. I wanted to yell out, "214 votes is not a mandate!"
Coffman's against everything MLK was ever for – housing opportunities for the homeless, environmental justice, fair treatment for people of color facing police action, fair elections. I think Coffman was saying that there will be more economic opportunity in Aurora now – for developers and oil and gas producers. Oh yay.
I honestly had a bit more respect for Coffman this morning — he actually made some effort, even just showing up hypocritically — than I had for Hickenlooper, showing up (“flying in for” — I’ll bet TSA is such a challenge for him? — on our dime) with absolutely nothing . . .
Coffman actually had to make a choice to be a hypocrite; Hickenlooper merely “chose” to be that same guy who shows up in his mirror every morning . . .
"mealy-mouthed blargle"…
He's kind of a one-trick pony on that score. That's all he's got.
I continue to view any holiday that honors an individual as heading down the path of idolatry as we end up inevitably putting such person’s failings as virtues and celebrating those as well (when we never intended to honor those failings originally and only intended to honor their accomplishments). I wish we’d replace MLK Day with Civil Rights day. Along the same lines, I wish we’d get rid of Columbus (or Mother Cabrini day now?) and President’s Day. In their place have a national holiday for voting and some other holiday in February.
Seriously? . . . a holiday is a celebration of personal failings, recast as virtues? . . . In what dictionary?
. . . unrelated — so, how are you with christmas? . . .
See here:
Walter on Twitter: “Ignoring that MLK was socialist is whitewashing his legacy, I feel disgusted by people who are capitalist to their bones talking about him, worse part of MLK day” / Twitter
People don’t celebrate MLK Day for MLK being a socialist. It is because of his work with the civil rights movement. Yet now that he has been elevated to demigod (said in jest) with a holiday, something (his socialism) utterly unrelated to what he is celebrated for is given unintentional imprimatur from the government.
Similarly, see the following take down of Christopher Columbus:
Adam Ruins Everything – Christopher Columbus Was a Murderous Moron | truTV – YouTube (must watch, my kids have seen it maybe a half dozen times).
As for Christmas, given that well over 60% of Americans view (wrongly in IMHO) that Jesus was a deity, this analysis would do nothing to convince them of problems making Christmas/Easter national holidays.
[SMH] . . .
. . . But. if you’ll let me know the when, I’ll gladly get some folks together to celebrate your next birthday in honor of the failure that’s become . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFOb_f7ubw
Elliott, MLK’s Democratic Socialism was indeed related to what he is celebrated for: moving America closer to Equality, Justice, and Peace. It was not one of his “failures”, except perhaps in your narrow perception.
I’m sure you understand that the reason thousands came out to march in Denver today, and across the country, was for the totality of what Martin Luther King, Jr stood for.
Today, I stood and marched with a crowd of thousands of peaceful people of every age, background, and ethnicity, with no violence or disrespect that I saw.
Not everyone there agreed with everything MLK stood and stands for – but this day brings out the best in people. Thank whatever deities you like that your narrow perspective, shared with racists like Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and eight others – did not triumph and we do have this day to celebrate and promote King’s ideals, working to make them reality.
Ah yes, MLK Day, when the wingers remind us that Dr. King’s real dream was assuring that all mentally mediocre white kids have the unqualified right to attend the college or university of their choice.
Never forget: there was a veto-proof majority, and that’s why Reagan was forced to sign #MLKDay into law.
. . . speaking of, down the path of idols worshipped for their failings . . .
(. . . must be that fucker’s birthday everyday?)
Nah, Reagan just got an airport named for him… [Still one of the great all-time ironic memorials]
little focus on his birthday (outside the Hugh Hewitt-inspired right).
Every time I go in/out of DCA I wonder who is going to have the cajones to revert the name to National (smart money is that it will be a woman)
Brings back fond memories of the Gray Lady and other elements of the liberal (lol) MSM telling us that the Lord God Ronnie was a far better friend to black folk than Obama.
Perspective:
Just FIFTY FOUR years ago he was called “the most dangerous man in America” by the FBI and had a 17,000 page FBI file at the time of his death.
On the the day we celebrate a Federal holiday – take a moment to read the unredacted version of the letter the Federal government (FBI) sent to Dr. King in 1964.
“You filthy abnormal animal” – the vile description of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Drum Major for justice…
…while today some are called “Patriots”.
Let us not forget – as we remember.
Thank you Dr. King.
#Perspective #MuchMoreThanADream
If you think Republicans are shameless hypocrites for quoting Martin Luther King, Jr. today—just wait until they go back to quoting Jesus tomorrow!
Don’t Look Up.
The movie, “Don’t Look Up” is about scientists trying to get public and political attention focused on an existential meteor heading toward Earth. Their inability to be taken serious is viewed by many as an allegory to climate change. Wrong. I believe the more accurate allegory is to voter suppression and vote nullification laws being passed throughout the country. No Republican senators and two Democratic senators can’t be troubled to carve out filibuster rules to pass federal voting rights legislation.
This is the easy time to do something about voting rights. Kind of like sending out missiles to change a meteor’s course while it’s a long way from Earth. If we miss this opportunity, then the midterm elections will find candidates like Mark Kelly (AZ) and Raphael Warnock (GA) possibly winning the majority of votes despite voter suppression efforts, only to be blocked by GOP legislatures nullifying valid election results. After we lose the Senate and/or House in 2022, the 2024 elections will be more of the same with no ability to correct course.
If voting rights is stalled in the Senate, then the only hope for Democrats (read: American democracy) is to relentlessly make a case for winning the 2022 midterms by undeniably large numbers. There is so much Dems can run on: 3.9% unemployment, vaccination success, stock market (i.e, retirement plan) records, the infrastructure bill, etc. They must do so relentlessly to counter the GOP lies.
I didn’t hear much from Michael Bennet, Jason Crow and Adam Schiff at last weekend’s fundraiser to make me think they have a real plan to save the country other than calling this an “opportunity”, or something. I am seriously depressed about our prospects…….
All good points, itlduso. And perhaps it would help Coloradans to understand that just because Dems currently control the legislature and Governorship, and we have an excellent system of elections, does not mean a Republican Congress and Republican President couldn't find a way to change OUR state's vote for President in the future.
"does not mean a Republican Congress and Republican President couldn't find a way to change OUR state's vote for President in the future."
So true. Just because they are singing the praises of our federal system – Mitt Romney was just on TV yesterday saying how our current system of essentially 51 presidential elections makes it difficult for anyone to steal – does not mean that when the opportunity presents itself, they won't be singing a different song.
~ MLK Jr.