Hickenlooper Continues Business-Worship Trend

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Friday March 19, 2010 · 9:24 AM PDT

2010/03/19 · 09:24

John Hickenlooper, Denver's current mayor and candidate for Colorado's 2010 Governor race, is continuing his bid to show Coloradans who can worship the most at the feet of the business community: himself or Con candidate Scott McInnis. Coloradans are looking for a choice, Mayor. If you try to paint yourself as Republican-lite, Coloradans will choose the true Republican.

What has raised my ire today? Another Denver Post article detailing the mayor's words at a Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday. According to the mayor, Colorado is now known as an anti-business state, Ritter sided with "overboard" environmentalists and raising taxes in a recession is "crazy".

At this point, Hick is going to have to work very, very hard to secure my vote this November. I don't want a person with a "D" after their name in the Governor's mansion governing like he wants to be a Con.

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 2:04 PM PST

2010/01/28 · 14:04

Right-wing extremists in Colorado would love to see public education fully defunded so they could force families to send their money to private corporations instead. Are they truly concerned about the state of education? Of course not. Like every other policy issue, they're much more interested in transferring the middle class' wealth (what remains of it) toward amoral, unaccountable entities that have more rights than people.

The Bell Policy Center is analyzing the effects of Proposition 101 on a county-by-county basis. More on that below.

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 1:45 PM PST

2010/01/22 · 13:45

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, now running to be the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, made his intentions regarding drilling on Colorado's West Slope known about a week ago. His statement doesn't spark any confidence that he'll deliver messages in ways that voters will respond. In fact, it's an early signal that the message Massachusetts voters sent have yet to be heard in this part of the country (timing of the two events notwithstanding). If Hick wants to be the next Governor of Colorado, he has a steep learning curve ahead of him.

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 11:04 AM PST

2008/01/27 · 11:04

Today's front page of the Denver Post has an article about a Mason-Dixon poll of 800 registered CO voters conducted Jan 21-23. Obama leads the Democratic side (within the margin of error) and Romney leads the Republican side (way outside the margin of error).

Here are the M-D results:

Democrats
Obama 34%
Clinton 32%
Edwards 17%
Kucinich 3%
Undecided 14%

Republicans
Romney 43%
McCain 24%
Huckabee 17%
Undecided 7%
Paul 5%
Giuliani 4%

More results and commentary below.
Cross-posted at SquareState.

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Tuesday December 04, 2007 · 5:19 PM PST

2007/12/04 · 17:19

Originally, I wanted to write a diary today about the upcoming House vote on the 2007 Energy Bill. Then I saw a number of related news items that help provide some context for this bill. A large number of folks have been working hard all year to make sure our energy policies moving forward contain good, solid changes.

Discussed below is the CO ski industry, some Energy bill details, the conference in Bali to discuss post-Kyoto Treaty policies and targets, and recent developments regarding long-term goals.

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Thursday November 08, 2007 · 1:46 PM PST

2007/11/08 · 13:46

A couple days ago, I presented a summary of Gov. Ritter's strategy to take action within Colorado on what I view as the most critical issue facing us: global warming.

There has been a distinct lack of willingness to deal with this issue in any real way by either our state government prior to Gov. Ritter or by the federal government for some time. The good news is we the people are leading on this issue and folks grounded in reality like Gov. Ritter are now responding.

Once again, the pdf version of Ritter's plan can be found here.

I look forward to your thoughts on this matter. Onward to some details!

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 11:28 PM PST

2007/11/06 · 23:28

Yesterday, 300spartansgym wrote a diary at SquareState announcing Gov. Bill Ritter's "Strategy to Address Global Warming". [applause for Gov. Ritter and 300spartansgym] That diary was posted while I was reading through the governor's plan and formulating what I wanted to cover. Next time, I'll read and post faster!

More seriously, I wanted to present some of the details of the plan and share my viewpoint on them, in the hope that doing so will produce some discussion.

The pdf version of Ritter's plan is here.

There's a lot of 'there' there, so I'm going to submit two diaries: one today and hopefully one tomorrow. I welcome others' thoughts and reactions to the plan.

Let's get to it...

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Tuesday July 24, 2007 · 7:35 PM PDT

2007/07/24 · 19:35

This is the third of three diaries about the Health Care Town Hall Meeting that I attended last Saturday. In my first diary here and here, I introduced a few of the people involved in the Meeting, the current state of Colorado's health care system and discussed the principles the Commission is operating under. In my previous diary (SquareState and DailyKos versions), I talked about the Proposals and my standpoint on what they had to offer (or not, as the case might be). In this diary, I will share the questions and comments that attendees brought up.

A small refresher and the questions after the flip.

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Monday July 23, 2007 · 2:51 PM PDT

2007/07/23 · 14:51

This is the second of three diaries about the Health Care Town Hall Meeting that I attended last Saturday. In my previous diary (SquareState and DailyKos versions), I introduced a few of the people involved in the Meeting, the current state of Colorado's health care system and discussed the principles the Commission is operating under. In this diary, I will discuss the proposals as I understand them. There were a number of good questions asked post-presentation and I will spend time on those in my next diary.

A big thank you goes out to State Sen. Brandon Shaffer (Senate District 17), Dr. Mark Wallace, Elisabeth Arenales, and all the attendees for spending their Saturday afternoon discussing an issue that quite frankly needs even more attention.

A small refresher and the proposals after the flip.

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Sunday July 22, 2007 · 2:42 PM PDT

2007/07/22 · 14:42

First, a little background. Last weekend, I went to see SiCKO, the most recent film by Michael Moore, with some friends. I've read a number of diaries on DailyKos about health care, mostly by nyceve as her diaries frequently make the Recommended list. I can't wait to meet her at YearlyKos. So I had a fair amount of knowledge of the current state of our health care system before the movie. I can't say that my friends were similarly informed prior to the film. But, we all left the theater shocked, angered, and saddened at the stories presented and the system we in America get to deal with.

Getting from here to the Town Hall Meeting after the jump...

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Monday June 25, 2007 · 5:53 PM PDT

2007/06/25 · 17:53

Despite the heat wave that's gripped the Front Range, a group of citizen activists turned out to walk in the Denver Pride parade with CO-02 candidate Jared Polis.

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that despite living in Denver most of my life, I've never attended the parade or the pride events. I've walked/attended numerous parades over the years and this parade easily ranks near the top in terms of enjoyment. Everybody (volunteers & parade-goers) was motivated and having a good time.

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Thursday June 21, 2007 · 1:56 PM PDT

2007/06/21 · 13:56

One of our fellow Kossacks, Ilona Meagher ,is touring the country, talking about her novel, "Moving a Nation to Care", published by Ig Publishing.*

Yesterday, Ilona came to Boulder. She gave a talk at the Boulder Book Store on the Pearl St. Mall, staring with how she came to write about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The thing that struck me most about her talk was the very real emotions she has about the subject matter. This issue does mean something to Ilona and that gives her a huge benefit when writing/talking about it. She's passionate about it and that's something I think is severely lacking in today's instant gratification culture.

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