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June 02, 2016 12:23 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Thursday (June 2)

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TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► President Obama was in Colorado Springs today to give the commencement address to graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy. As John Frank reports for the Denver Post:

President Barack Obama addressed 812 U.S. Air Force Academy graduates Thursday, opening his remarks by acknowledging the importance of national security.

“We have to engage with the world,” the president said. “We cannot pull back.”

The ceremony got underway shortly after 10:30 a.m.

Meanwhile, as our friends at “The Fix” note, Obama is rolling out a new 2016 election “stump speech.”

 

► Colorado Republican Senate candidates are joining together for a fun game of “Kick the Keyser.”

Elsewhere, a Denver district court judge confirms that it isn’t particularly difficult to commit election fraud and get away with it.

 

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Either Delta County has an unusually large number of hackers in its population, or the county GOP Chair really is an unabashed racist.

 

► Adams County District Attorney Dave Young, a Democrat, is getting re-election help from an Independent Expenditure Committee run by former Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler.

 

► Colorado is getting tougher on fines for oil and gas companies that pollute the air and water. As the Associated Press reports:

Colorado is imposing heftier fines on energy companies as the state struggles to resolve conflicts between growing cities and big oilfields at their doorstep, an Associated Press analysis shows.

Regulators say the tougher penalties for breaking health, safety and environmental rules are prompting energy companies to be more careful. Others say it’s too early to call them a success.

The higher fines kicked in a year ago after lawmakers said Colorado’s existing penalties were too light. The AP reviewed records for the first 12 months under the new system, from April 2015 through March 2016, and found regulators levied 74 fines totaling $5.3 million — both higher than any calendar year for the previous 20 years.

Regulators also handed out Colorado’s largest single oil and gas fine in at least 21 years, $1.3 million for a series of leaks at facilities owned by Benchmark Energy in a remote part of the state.

Republicans such as state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg are bellyaching about all of this “regulation” hurting “business” (nevermind that air and water pollution hurts “everybody”). But as Matt Lepore of the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission notes:

Colorado still has 54,000 existing wells producing oil and gas that require state inspectors’ attention.

 

► ProgressNow Colorado has hired Ian Silverii as its new Executive Director.

 

► Republican Senate candidates will participate in a debate in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, one day after completing a debate hosted by 9News in Denver.

 

► Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper helped kick off a campaign to make it harder to make amendments to the Colorado Constitution. As the Denver Post reports:

Gov. John Hickenlooper and other leaders on Wednesday kicked off a statewide effort called “Raise the Bar, Protect our Constitution,” a campaign to make it harder to amend the Colorado Constitution.

The governor, Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan and others gathered at the Aurora Municipal Center to launch the initiative. The measure would require constitutional ballot initiative proponents to gather signatures from 2 percent of all voters in the 35 state Senate districts, the campaign announced in a press release. In addition, the measure also would require approval from 55 percent of voters in November to amend the state constitution.

Currently, 5 percent of the total votes cast in the last election for the secretary of state office are needed and only a simple majority, or 50 percent plus 1 vote, to change the constitution.

“This ballot initiative is going to ensure that our constitution is not held captive by the whims of the day,” Hickenlooper said.

 

► Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump says he will re-open the much-maligned Trump University after he is elected President of the United States. From Politico:

Despite Trump University being the subject of two class-action lawsuits and a $40 million lawsuit from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Trump has previously expressed interest in reopening the business, either running it himself or at the charge of his adult children within the Trump Organization.

The latest declaration follows days of negative coverage of Trump’s role in the business, exacerbated by reams of unsealed court documents that the presumptive Republican nominee’s legal team had sought to keep from public view. U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who has faced the wrath of Trump on Twitter and on the campaign trail, on Tuesday evening tried to re-seal certain documents that had been “mistakenly” released, but are in the possession of numerous news organizations, including POLITICO.

 

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► At Least Your Name Isn’t Dan Sullivan.

 

► Authorities are still trying to sort out a shooting at the UCLA campus in California that may also be connected to a deceased woman in Minnesota.

ICYMI

► Solicitor General Donald Verrilli is stepping down after five years serving under the Obama Administration. If you know what a Solicitor General is, you may pass ‘GO’ and collect $200.

 

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  1. When my husband's much younger cousin graduated from the Air Force Academy it was the year Reagan did the honors. He's past 50 now. Boy are we old. sigh….

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