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October 14, 2022 10:21 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

–Charles Spurgeon

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  2. Jefferson County TABOR refund checks are arriving. I got mine a couple days ago. Of course, there is the mandatory flyer insert identifying all the "great" stuff the county could be doing instead of paying refunds.

    I've always thought that TABOR represented bad government. But I'll take it.

    1. What could possibly go wrong? 
       

      If you get a candidate who has the performance skills of a major market local TV anchor and the philosophy and thinking of Steve Bannon, that's a potent and dangerous combination … Look at Italy."

      1. What could go wrong? I’d bet what she knows about governing could fit in a thimble. Should she win, I expect that she’ll be more interested in her “star status” and traveling the country, spreading the gospel of MAGA than staying home and attending to the affairs of Arizona. It won’t end well, for either. Palin may be her role model.  

    1. My IRAs are down maybe 15% this year. It's a paper loss until I make the RMD (required minimum withdrawal) sometime in the first half of 2023.

      On the other hand, my hybrid fund (2/3 bonds, 1/3 stocks) upped its quarterly dividend by about 17% from June to September. Monthly dividends on my Vanguard money market fund have skyrocketed up since January due to interest rate increases. Summation: there's almost always money to be made no matter what the markets are doing.

    1. …and yet every flight I’ve been on in the last six months has zero empty seats. Perhaps the prices we were paying before were just artificially low?  It’s simple economics Pfruit. They are charging what they market will bear. 

  10. I certainly hope you’re being paid by the post, Pfruit. That, or you’re on a sugar high from your second serving of PfruitLoops.
     

    If you’re looking to buoy your bank account there are lots of ways to do that. Maybe consider something patriotic by setting your truck governors to 55 MPH.  It’ll save you a bundle! 
     

    If Alva was Zuckerberg he’d temporarily freeze your account for spamming. 
     

  11. So you’re going to spend your time in a county with a population of 10,000 (less than 5,000 votes cast last election) where 85% of the vote is almost assuredly already voting for the Trump pick and there’s probably not a single swing vote? 
     

    Michael Bennet is a senior member of the Senate Ag Committee and given we have a Farm Bill to write next session there’s no better man to serve Colorado agricultural interests than Michael. He went to bat for us in the Build Back Better legislation and got us $20bb for soils, soil health. $10bb for forest health and another $4bb to mitigate drought in the CO River Basin. If O’Anyway had been in the Senate McConnell would have prevented him from support. 
     

    Anyone paying attention knows who has the vision for a 21st century economy and how Colorado agriculture plays in that space: Michael Bennet 

    1. "20 bb for soils….10 bb for forest health……"

      I sit in on parts of each meeting of the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission; virtually via Zoom since 2020. One of the higher ups from the Department of Agriculture gives an update report, after the DNR report. I've been amazed at the amounts of money coming into Ag and flowing out through various grants and loans to ag interests statewide.

      It's unfortunate that characters like O'Dea and charlatans like Boebert ignore this because it's not MAGA-endorsed by Trump and his minions.

  12. It’s almost like voting should be easier during natural disasters like hurricanes …. or PANDEMICS?

    Anger as DeSantis eases voting rules in Republican areas hit by hurricane

    Governor Ron DeSantis has made voting easier in certain Florida counties battered by Hurricane Ian – but only Republican-leaning ones.

    DeSantis signed an executive order on Thursday that eases voting rules for about 1 million voters in Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties, all areas that Hurricane Ian hit hard and that all reliably vote Republican.

    Meanwhile, Orange county, a Democratic-leaning area which experienced historic flooding from the storm, received no voting exceptions, reported the Washington Post.

     

    1. Florida severely needs to change its election laws. The governor has way too much power in the realm of elections in this state. This is not the first instance I have seen of too much electoral power in the governor's hands.

      1. The last time there was a problem with Florida, election law enforcement was shared between Low Energy Jeb! and his sock puppet, secretary of state, Katherine "Cruella DeVille" Harris.

    2. I'm sure there'll be a federal lawsuit tomorrow challenging that or removing Republican counties.

       

      In any case, the Republican counties are going to vote for the other side, seeing that DeathSantis has not done shit with his surplus for recovery purposes and was begging for money afterwards.

       

       

  13. Denver Post endorsed Pam Anderson for SOS, unconcerned with her willingness to campaign with election deniers on the GOP ticket. Do think the SOS race will be the closest of the statewide races but expect Polis landslide and a solid Bennet win will pull Griswold – and well  as Weiser and Young — over the top.

    1. I guess they felt the need to balance their endorsements of Caraveo and Crow with the least offensive Republican they could find.

      I wonder if Lang Sias or Joe O'Dea will be the other GOP endorsee.

    2. Huh … coulda sworn there was a directive for "no endorsements" from Alden Capital  …

      Went back to read more carefully.  After the lede saying "no endorsements," it went on to explain no endorsements in "presidential, gubernatorial and Senate races, instead focusing its efforts on "more local contests, such as city councils, school boards, local initiatives, referendums and other such matters, which readers have told us continue to be of great value in their daily lives.” 

      Poynter's point of view

      now Alden believes, according to an editorial appearing in most of its 200 U.S. newspapers, that “… as the public discourse has become increasingly acrimonious, common ground has become a no-man’s land between the clashing forces of the culture wars.” Putting aside for the moment that its declaration makes no sense — common ground and no-man’s land are similar things — it’s hard to believe that people who have done so much to destroy journalism and communities now present themselves as the champions of good citizenship.  

      Corey Hutchens at COLab explained the variable elements of the decision  Papers that hadn't endorsed, won't.  However,

      The Times reported Alden papers planned to publish an item about their new endorsement policy that was slated to read, in part: “with misinformation and disinformation on the rise, readers are often confused, especially online, about the differences between news stories, opinion pieces and editorials.”

      Megan Schrader, the opinion page editor of The Denver Post, said Friday in an interview that nothing is changing at her paper this year. “Our endorsements are going forward as always,” she said. “We will endorse in the U.S. Senate race, governor’s race, all the statewide constitutional offices, the U.S. House races, on down the ticket.”

      Schrader said she has been told the Post cannot endorse in the governor’s race in 2026 or the U.S. Senate race in 2027.

      “I disagree with the decision,” she said over the phone Friday afternoon. “I think that those are statewide races and The Denver Post is a statewide newspaper. We have always weighed in on those races.”

      I'm betting there won't be TOO many outlets endorsing in a U.S. Senate race in 2027.

      So, if there is a Denver Post by 2026 or 2027, I guess we'll find out just how seriously Alden is enforcing their standard.

    3. Whatever Toilet Paper endorses, I vote the other way around. Jenna Griswold has done a great job, and getting Peters nailed was a godsend. It only proves that the DP always gets things wrong. I want the Rocky Mountain News resurrected and DP sold to the nearest trash bin for a buck.

       

       

  15. Trump is a one-man crime wave!

    Will Wilkerson, one of Trump Media & Technology Group’s first employees, alleges the company violated securities laws and that Trump pressured executives to hand over their shares to his wife. He shared a cache of internal documents with The Post and federal investigators that he says support his claims.

    But on a positive note, all Trump's new-found wealth (what's left of it anyway) is frozen.

    Digital World Acquisition, the SPAC that is pushing to take Trump Media public, has asked shareholders to give the company more time to finalize the merger, which would unlock hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump Media but is effectively frozen pending the outcomes of the federal investigations.

    Investors, discouraged by the halted merger, have sent the SPAC’s share price plunging from a high of $175 to less than $18 on Friday.

    1. Another good point about living in Colorado is that type of union isn’t happening here. Oh, we got the Catholic bishops aligning with the far right wing evangelicals.

      But we’re also the state where heavy duty Maggats Ron Hanks, Dave Williams, and Tina Peters got bitch-slapped by the voters in this year’s Republican primary.

  17. God Bless Nancy Pelosi:

    “If (Trump) comes, I’m going to punch him out. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds, I’m going to punch him out. And I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.”

  19. I'm currently out of the country now, but I would like some sort of voting guide to help me decide on what to vote for, and most of the guides I found are pretty old or shitty (as in Republican)

      1. Cook, you don't understand Dusty.

        They believe that Obama & Co. are really Republicans. I can't imagine they would be interested in voting for Polis since he is running his campaign basically as a moderate Republican. (And there's nothing wrong with that. Love his TV commercial line: lower taxes, more freedom).

        Ditto Dusty ever voting for Michael Bennet, the plutocrat.

        The only voting guide Dusty wants to see helps them choose between the Green Party, the Socialist Party, and Socialist Worker's Party.

    3. You may want a “non-partisan” voter guide for some reason:

      https://coloradosun.com/colorado-voter-guide-2022-election/

      Denver Library has a list of resources that will probably be updated as more info becomes available:  https://www.denverlibrary.org/blog/library-events-research/lauren/election-blog-2022

      League of Women Voters has VOTE411 … https://www.vote411.org/

      The doesn’t seem to be a voter guide from the Denver or Boulder branches of the Democratic Socialists of America.

  21. Katie Hobbs is an idiot running an inept campaign.

    So, she refused to lower herself to debating with her opponent because her opponent is nuts.

    So what? Adam Frisch has had to debate with a lunatic. Raphael Warnock had to debate with a brain damaged, pathological liar last Friday. Mandela Barnes had to debate with an asshole who insulted him and his parents.

    And my personal favorite: Joe Biden crawled out his basement during the 2020 campaign to go face-to-face with a COVID-infected, loud-mouthed, narcissistic psychopath. And it had a happy ending for Biden and most of the rest of the country.

    You do what you have to do. You suit up and show up. And what better way to expose Ricki Kari Lake for exactly what she is. Dana Bash did a nice job pointing out the lies during her interview of Lake this morning.

    Memo to Hobbs:  see if you can hire Dana Bash as your debate coach. Alas, it's probably too late and Lake is going to win the governorship.

    1. Interesting article.

      Something I haven't seen written anywhere is a comparison of Herschel to Senator Tim Scott, next door in South Carolina. Scott is a principled man and isn't necessarily a Trumpie. Scott is by far the better senator representing South Carolina.

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