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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Donald Trump
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(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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(R) Gabe Evans
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Civil Unions will delay “marriage equality” by a decade.
I don’t believe the “state” should have any involvement in marriage as civil unions should be the state issue and marriage a religious one.
But, our governments have seen fit to interject themselves into marriage and that does not appear to be going away anytime soon.
that for every word added to the CRS at least 2 words must be removed.
I would agree to have this law sunset after a decade.
Medicaid, the State program for the disabled,does not cover seeing eye dogs. A program for the blind probably should. This would also increase the quality of life of the blind, allow them more mobility, and possibly help them get a job.
I think PERA reform should be at the top of any list.
and get the money to the schools pronto.
Taxing people should be a no-brainer to us tax and spend Dems!
(ducks)
Does your definition of full disclosure, close the editorial loophole?
Let us be honest, most “media” including Denver Post and Colorado Pols are political machines masquerading as objectivity and fairness.
A few weeks ago I was down at the Clerk of the Court for some business. I overheard a couple say they want a marriage license, and the clerk said it would cost $93. NINETY THREE DOLLARS??? Later, I confirmed that I had heard right. “No wonder a lot of people don’t get married,” I said.
Florida, like Colorado and many other states, raised fees on essential transactions during The Second Republican Great Depression to reclaim revenue. Car registrations and driver’s licenses doubled. I guess the marriage license was another victim.
Remember the hypothetical $2 marriage license of American lore? Two minimum wage hours or less would cover it.
Last time I checked, the minimum wage here, or anywhere, wasn’t $45/hr.
1. Create Colorado Bank, governed by the state for economic development, disaster relief, housing loans and secondary education loans. It would serve as funds trustee for political entities within Colorado and partner with lead private lenders within Colorado as guarantor. Any profits will be dedicated to the benefit of Colorado’s citizens. See http://banknd.nd.gov/
2. Create a bipartisan commission of legislators, financial leaders and educators to prepare legislation to be passed in January 2014 that would overhaul Colorado’s public school financing to provide equable, excellent education for every child in the state.
3. Pass an amendment to Colorado’s constitution for referral to voters in November 2014 repealing Amendment 43 (Article II, Section 31).
4. Declare all unclaimed subsurface mineral rights and those, though held but not currently under active development, to be the property of the collective citizenry of Colorado, and mandate, as well, that 10% of all future transferal of private rights devolve to our collective citizenry.
5. Place the decennial political redistricting in the hands of an independent commission.
And on day 6, the Attorney General can start defending against all the lawsuits that will ensue while Hick boozes it up with his O&G buddies on the golf course.
Like the 700 medical marijuana businesses that have added about $50 million to the budget. I don’t remember the gov or mayor at any ribbon cutting for the 6000 new employees?
How about inviting the cannabis vacationing crowd with open arms? You think skiing brings in money?
I know you you don’t want all those stoners running around Denver. You like all the beer guzzlers better. But the stoner crowd is looking mighty professional and wealthy. Have you checked out the Marijuana Majority? Prepare to be shocked.
http://www.marijuanamajority.com/
I am surprised there is no mention here on any effort at reasonable gun control measures, have we already forgotten about Sandy Hook?
I would also like to see efforts made to help control health care costs.
And I hope that tuition equity for undocumented students is on the legislative agenda.
I would like to have legislation emerge that would give voters the opportunity to increase fuel taxes for the first time in 22 years, with some of the funds directed towards mass transit. The surface infrastructure across Colorado – not just the very evident Front Range corridor – is in rapidly deteriorating and obsolete condition, well over capacity, very often unsafe, and a significant influx of funds is desperately needed to more quickly address a wide number of issues and areas. It is painful to watch CDOT and associated entities do a creeping crawl job on I-25 in the Denver Central Valley and points south, and C-470 has become a commuter and safety nightmare, as has I-270, I-76, and I-25 through Adams County, Thornton, Northglenn, and Westminster. I-25 in southern El Paso County, and across northern Colorado north of Longmont is an utter debacle. And we have not even discussed the incredible dinosaur that is I-70 statewide, the need for US 85/Santa Fe to be addressed, US 6 in Denver/Lakewood, US 285 west from I-25, and numerous other issues. A ten to fifteen cent per gallon increase is in order, with some other designated sales/use tax increases tied into the ballot issue, such as a 1% added tax on motor vehicle parts/services/sales, and perhaps even a 1% to 2% luxury tax on vehicles sold priced in excess of 200% of the median vehicle sale price statewide. Some stipulations need to be include to keep an element of the funds received to be used in the counties they were collected in, as there are always at least potholes, broken curbs and sidewalks, inadequate or absent lighting and signage, and obsolete signals everywhere. Lets see the legislature figure a way to address something all of us use every day, improving safety, improving traffic, reducing obsolescence, and working positively towards factors absolutely vital in keeping the state and its municipalities competitive in successfully attracting and bringing new business and other economic development opportunities. We are already substantially behind Utah and other economic rivals regionally and nationally in this respect, and no action only ensures that gulf will be widened, to detriment of all in a number of ways, particularly in regard to something we are always seemingly short of: our own personal time being wasted on bad highways and roads.
This is an exercise in why those elected are different from me and thy. These bills, if they become law, affect people and their lives. The initiative process is fine, but you need to get a lot more than 101 electeds to get your way.
A tax on all .223 and NATO ammunition sold in the the state. Registration of each round of .223 and NATO sold in the state, with a requirement that each round must be accounted for in a log; with a $100 per round bond be set to be returned if the round is returned in original condition or the brass is returned with documentation substantiating that it was fired on a state certified firing range. The $100 to be forfeited if those conditions are not met. If the round is used in any crime, the $100 is forfeited and the owner subject to the same crime that was charged.
Repeal of the male must sleep with female to be married Amendment.
Marriage equality act to replace the paternalistic religion, no male will sleep with another male, Amendment.
Spanish becomes Colorado’s official second language and all official documentation to be printed in English and Spanish.
The Libertad Act to require dumb horse apple posters on blogs stand on various Colfax street corners with hand painted signs stating “I am an idiot”.
Dream Act. Enough said!
Except that just back from Bronc’s game and I really happy #1 seed.
And all 3 of my daughters found civil unions uninteresting. They want the marriage amendment on the ballot to be removed from the constitution and then gay marriage legislation passed. If they’re indicative of most people their age, then I think this could get removed from the constitution in the next election.
Is there any plan to put it on the ballot?
Here goes:
1. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity clips and magazines
2. A bill allowing local governments to forbid hydraulic fracturing and requiring drillers to comply with stringent water quality requirements
3. A bill modifying the tenure reform legislation so that the law makes clear that K-12 public school teachers cannot be disciplined or suffer retaliation from administrators, school boards, or charter school boards for teaching any subject included in state academic standards or for refusing or failing to teach a subject not specified in such standards
4. A bill requiring county clerks to allow registration of voters up to and including election day
5. A bill requiring all rural electric cooperatives to fully comply with the renewable energy standards that apply to other utilities such as Excel energy
I love the 4th idea in the OP. I’m with conservatives (and plenty of liberals) on the gutting of public endeavors that haven’t yielded results, and I know that there are too many well-meaning dud programs at both the state and (especially) federal levels.
Clarification that state rules are the floor not the ceiling for how sensible energy development might occur in places and lands already important and being used by citizens of these United States.
A recognition that public health matters when it comes to permitting any industrial activity even one that makes rich people richer and feeds our addiction, scratches our endless itch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
All us imaginary legislators need to stay in session a second week and get double the legislation done. Too may things need to be done up there under the dome.
We’ll see how it goes in real life.
#1 Debtor-creditor omnibus: Repeal the credit agreement statute of frauds that allows banks to escape liability for oral promises even if made on recorded lines; allow proof of lack of ownership of loans in foreclosure hearings.
#2 Election law omnibus: election day voter registration, publicly paid return postage on mail-in ballots, funding for full time voter registration officials all year long.
#3 Criminal justice omnibus: retroactive reduction of Juvenile LWOP sentences, repeal of felony-murder as first degree murder, reduction of child abuse causing death grading to match grading of comparable crimes committed against strangers, match grading of drug dealing offenses to economic gain associated with activity on same scale as theft crimes, no fault economic compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
#4 Require parental rights hearings to be before panel of three judges and confer right to counsel for indigent parents in parental rights matters.
#5 Discontinue Medicaid estate recovery system (the poor man’s estate tax that effects far more people and collects far less revenue).
With the exception of bill #2,I love your platform!
Simple, but innovative.
Please run for State House.
1. Civil marriage for all. Straight and gay couples. No church has to marry any couple they don’t want to marry; no couple has to go to church to receive all the benefits, rights, responsibilities, and privileges of marriage unless they WANT a church marriage.
2. Increase fines for aggravated cruelty to animals (including neglect and puppy mill operations) and funnel the fines toward fully implementing chemical sterilization for the management of Colorado’s mustang herds. This one is a selfish never-would-actually-happen thing, but if I could wave a magic wand (and spend a few tens of thousands more words actually designing the program) Colorado could be a model in solving the wild horse management problem, which is only fitting because we gave the US Ken Salazar, who consistently bungles it in ways that violate federal law.
3. Figure out how to get recreational marijuana clubs around the indoor smoking ban and regulate and tax them. Open up licensing, get money to the schools.
4. Employment for veterans and people with disabilities, along with some sort of solution to the problem where a person with extremely costly disabilities can lose their health coverage by getting a job and earning money but then have out of pocket medical costs that are more than their total salary. If a person who is totally disabled and dependent on SSDI wants to work, they should be working, not forced to REFUSE work to avoid earning enough money to lose health care.
5. Incentivize state agencies to save money from their operating budgets and return it to the general fund, instead of spending every dollar they take in to avoid getting a budget cut next year. Maybe 50% of savings could be used on improvements for the agency that otherwise wouldn’t be approved for funding, like new technology for employees or better lighting for offices?
6. (Yes, I’m refusing to follow the rules) Clear the records of all people who were arrested for possession of marijuana in amounts now legal under state law. There is no reason a person’s employment should be jeopardized simply because they did something during prohibition that is now legal.
Isn’t that essentially the office of the State Auditor?
But here are my 5:
1. Call for a Constitutional Covention
2. Eliminate “Inactive, Failed to Vote” voter status.
3. Change the state tax code from a flat rate to a graduated system.
4. a regulatory bill to fill in any gaps left from Amendment 64 so pot can be safely grown, sold, purchased, and used in Colorado.
5. Eliminate the caucus/assembly system in favor of a streamlined method to get on the primary ballot.
Most issues I rally care about would be covered in the Constitional Convention, such as marriage equality, and fixing our broken revenue policies.