August 19, 2015 01:06 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Aug. 19)

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Happy National Aviation Day! It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► Continuing his cringeworthy GOP Alienation Tour, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump made big strides backward if his goal was ever securing the pivotal Hispanic vote–via the O’Reilly Factor last night:

Donald Trump clashed with Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday night over the part of his immigration plan that would take away citizenship from the children who were born in the United States but whose parents came to the country illegally.

Under the 14th Amendment, O’Reilly told Trump on “The O’Reilly Factor,” mass deportations of so-called birthright citizens cannot happen.

Trump disagreed, and said that “many lawyers are saying that’s not the way it is in terms of this.”

Not sure who those lawyers are, but this won’t win Trump any votes he doesn’t already have by the proverbial short hairs.

► Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee in his infinite wisdom declared that Martin Luther King would be “appalled” by the Black Lives Matter movement. And he knows this how exactly?

► Ben Carson’s stop in Durango yesterday scared up a big crowd by Southwest Colorado standards, but left Durangoans worried about the future of polluting mines above Silverton with little reassurance:

Carson said he opposed Superfund status for Silverton as it might hurt the town’s reputation.

Safe to say, the 70,000+ people living along the Animas River don’t really care about Silverton’s reputation. They care about clean water.

► And the latest “gotcha” attempt on Hillary Clinton over her email services turns out to be old news. Rest assured, Trey Gowdy and friends will keep trying.

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Colorado lawmakers started the process of examining racial profiling by police in our state. With any luck, you’ll see more legislation next year.

► Energy industry surrogates decrying proposed new methane rules should consider the fact that Colorado already has stricter rules in place–and it hasn’t “killed” anybody’s job.

► A BLM meeting yesterday in Golden debating coal production was mobbed by industry surrogates and political astroturf groups. A few enviro groups got their point across edgewise too.

► A judge has ruled in favor of now-Denver Councilman Rafael Espinoza in his long fight to protect an historic house in Jefferson Park from beng scraped off for new townhomes.

► The ACLU is challenging Greeley’s restrictions on panhandling.

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa left the El Paso County Sheriff’s office in very, very, very bad shape.

ICYMI

► Jeffco recall organizers smash petition goals, validate over twice the signatures needed. Game on!

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