Arapahoe Tea Party
Liberty Watch - Colorado
Liberty Watch - Colorado started in January 2011 reviewing bills submitted to the Colorado legislature and posting comments for support or opposition on their Facebook page. They also send out a weekly e-mail newsletter on Sundays to update "news", "alerts", "legislative updates", and offer a guest commentary. This week's newsletter has a number of alerts and possible action items that folks should be aware of.
The commentary from Amy Oliver Cook [Greeley radio host at 1310 KFKA] is in regards to the $20 carbon tax that XCEL customers may not be aware of.
[issue date 03-06-2011]
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=734572425408b86cb3f650a59&id=c97b501360&e=60d91db6b6
I encourage everyone to read these updates and contact your state legislators and the committees to support or oppose any these bills.
Check back to this topic and I will try to post the updates in the comments section.
W. Branstetter
The new "Liberty Watch--CO" newsletter (issue April 4, 2011) is available and has news of coming hearings and bills. Check the review at:
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=734572425408b86cb3f650a59&i...
Apr 4, 2011
W. Branstetter
Nancy Rumfelt and the team from Liberty Watch do a great job of digesting the items pending before the state legislature that are important to the majority of the liberty groups so I do not like to add to their efforts. This week they do address the news about the redistricting maps, the budget, and bills that they have moved hearing dates around. The support for the HOPE bill has been changed to "oppose" because of the structure included that refers to "exchanges."
I did listen to the hearing for HB11-1140 until the hearing was halted to get Senator Boyd from another committee. Since the bill was before the "kill committee" it is most likely that the bill was tabled (killed), even though Secretary of State Scott Gessler has identified more than 1,000 who stipulated they were not citizens on one form but appear to have registered to vote. Today he was asked if any of the names that have been identified as probably voted had been successfully prosecuted and they would like to have a prosecution by tomorrow if I understood the question correctly.
Apr 18, 2011
W. Branstetter
The May 1, 2011, issue of Liberty Watch is available and reminds that there are only 8 regular business days left in the session. This issue contains a suggestion from a 9-12 member who has offered a rough sketch for a possible resolution to the congressional district redrawing maps.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=734572425408b86cb3f650a59&i...
May 1, 2011