September, 2009 Assembled By Dana West

Last month we partnered with the DWRC and listened to several candidates for state and
federal office.

Our next meeting is September 12th. Candidates for local City and
County offices will meet, address the Forum, and answer your
questions.
MEETING TIME AND PLACE
We will be at Gander Mountain, 9923 Grant Street, Thornton, CO from 9:15-10:45 a.m. on the
second Saturday of each month in the employee training room. If you live in Adams County or
Denver's northern suburbs, come join us for lively spirited debate and to meet Republican
movers and shakers

Directions to Gander Mountain:

Gander Mountain is a huge sporting goods store in the old Biggs, now Wal-Mart/Home Depot
shopping center just east of I-25 and south of 104th Ave. Just go in the front door, turn
left at the first aisle and follow it to the employee meeting room on the far left.

Yearly membership dues are $20, while a couple is $30. Make checks payable to NSRF. It’s $3
per person to attend the monthly meeting to pay for the provided continental breakfast.

For more information on politics or the Republican Party, go to the following internet sites:

www.Examiner.com/Denver www.CompleteColorado.com http://www.ColoradoPols.com/

www.FaceTheState.com/ www.i2i.org/ www.TonysRants.com/ www.ALineOfSight.com/

http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/ http://www.adcorepublicans.com/ http://www.tonyoncolorado.com/

www.AdamsCountyGOP.com/ www.ColoGOP.org/ www.RNC.org/

www.PoliticalLiveWires.com www.OpinionJournal.com http://FactCheck.org

www.850koa.com/pages/MikeRosen.html www.Heritage.org/ http://Townhall.com/

Help your candidates and the Adams County Republican Party. After the NSRF meeting, volunteer to
staff the Republican booth at Thornton’s Harvest Fest. Or walk with your local City Council candidates
to pass out campaign literature. They need your time and money to get elected and start implementing
Republican values. Put their signs in your yard and talk to your neighbors about which candidate to
support. The Democrats are already out and supporting their people. Just look at the results of the past
couple of elections. If you’re unhappy, get involved NOW to help your Republican candidates.

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For Obama and Democrats, Colorado Becomes Less Welcoming
By Dan Balz
Sunday, September 6, 2009

DENVER In 2008, Colorado became a symbol of the changing politics in a region once firmly in Republican
hands -- and also of the grass-roots power and energy fueling Barack Obama's candidacy. Today, the state
embodies the uneasiness spreading throughout Democratic ranks as Obama struggles with major challenges and
the 2010 midterm elections approach.

Colorado has been one of the Democratic Party's major success stories. Between 1968 and 2004, Republican
presidential candidates carried the state in all but one election. Last year, Obama crushed John McCain in
Colorado, part of a broader shift in the balance of political power in the Rocky Mountain West.

Obama's victory and earlier Democratic wins here have transformed the state. Early in the decade, Republicans
controlled virtually everything -- the governor's office, almost all other statewide offices, the congressional
delegation and both houses of the Colorado legislature. Today, Democrats are in control of all of those.

A year ago, Denver enthusiastically hosted the Democratic National Convention, which culminated with
Obama's acceptance speech before more than 80,000 people at the Denver Broncos' football stadium. Legions
of volunteers, young and old, fanned out across the state throughout the fall to rally the vote for Obama's
campaign.

Today, the energy that powered Obama to victory has begun to dissipate. Some of his supporters remain on the
sidelines; others are, if not disillusioned, questioning what has happened to his presidency. As they look toward
2010, Democrats are nervous. Gov. Bill Ritter, appointed Sen. Michael F. Bennet and at least one Democratic
member of the House will probably face difficult election campaigns next year.

Roy Romer, a former Democratic governor, called the state of play "very much tougher" for Obama and the
Democrats than it was a year ago. "The slippage is there, and it's because things are tough and solutions aren't
easy, and they [voters] don't see progress toward solutions," he said.

"The political environment is tough for Democrats, tough for incumbents, tough for all politicians," Mike
Stratton, a veteran Democratic strategist based in Denver, said a few days ago.

The Obama of 2008 seemed perfectly attuned to a state known for its youthfulness, future-oriented outlook and
positive spirit. If he struggled at times with older voters in Rust Belt states, he always found a welcome in
Colorado, easily defeating Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic caucuses before cruising past McCain in
the general election.

Today, Coloradans appear more downbeat. Anxiety has replaced optimism. The recession has changed habits
and attitudes. Obama's agenda has raised questions among independent voters because of its ambitious scope
and potential impact on the deficit. His style has left some original supporters concerned about his toughness.

Grass-roots organizers such as Jeff and Gale Haley, who volunteered for the Obama campaign last year and are
now helping to organize support for health-care reform, say it is critical for Obama to take a harder line in his

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effort to pass a health-care bill. "I think he certainly realizes that if he loses on this one, that sets the tone for the
rest of his administration," Jeff Haley said.

Bennet, who was touring northeastern Colorado last week, said: "We need to be able to demonstrate -- the
administration needs to be able to demonstrate, people that are running for office need to be able to demonstrate
-- that we're up to those challenges and that we're providing constructive policy solutions to meeting those
challenges. If we can do that, we're going to be okay. If we can't do that, we're going to be overcome by the
anxiety that's out there."

Bennet was the surprise pick to fill the Senate vacancy left when the president nominated Ken Salazar as
interior secretary. Bennet came to the Senate with no experience in elective politics; when he was tapped, he
was superintendent of the Denver school system. Before that, he was chief of staff to Denver Mayor John
Hickenlooper and had acquired private-sector experience with an investment company.

Bennet has a quick mind, and has impressed other Democrats as an innovative and sometimes out-of-the-box
thinker. He has worked to learn how to be a politician, traveling the state so constituents can get to know him
and raising money as rapidly as he can. Still, given the state of the economy, he is far from secure in his seat,
and Republicans see him as a vulnerable target.

"Bennet has not solidified himself as an incumbent senator," said Dick Wadhams, the Colorado Republican
Party chairman.

Bennet is preparing for a difficult general-election campaign, but his most immediate problem is a likely
primary challenge from Andrew Romanoff, a former speaker of the Colorado House.

Romanoff was a leading candidate for the Salazar vacancy before Ritter tapped Bennet, and other Democrats
see his challenge to Bennet as motivated more by personal pique than by principled differences with him.
Whatever his motivation, Romanoff creates one more obstacle in Bennet's path as he tries to win his Senate seat
outright.

Ritter also has problems. Foremost is the challenge facing every governor this year and next: how to run a state
in the middle of a recession that has created a sizable budget deficit.

Colorado's economy is far from the worst in the country, but Ritter, like other governors, has been forced to cut
spending. In one of his most unpopular decisions, he has raised the fee for automobile registrations. He also has
alienated organized labor. Some critics, including Democrats who will support him, say he has lacked the
decisiveness needed in a time of big problems.

For all the edginess among Democrats, Republicans have their own hurdles. Their party faces primary contests
for both governor and Senate. Republicans here must resolve some of the ideological schisms that reflect
broader divisions nationally. Demographic and other changes have given the Democrats parity with
Republicans in party registration, with the state now divided almost evenly among Republicans, Democrats and
unaffiliated voters.

Although Colorado has shifted from red to almost solidly blue in its representation, it remains a purple state
politically, especially given the size of the unaffiliated vote, which can shift with the tides. Some strategists say
Democrats may have reached their high-water mark in 2008. What happens over the next 14 months will show
whether they can consolidate and solidify those earlier victories, or whether Republicans can begin their
comeback.

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Good morning, Fellow GOP activists:
I just finished a conference call with the RNC and State Party regarding action to thwart the
Obama health care proposals. WE MUST REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS NOW TO STOP THIS
THREAT TO OUR LIBERTY!
I am sending you the following message; it has great suggestions about what we can do right
now to prevent any of these proposals from passing Congress in the next couple of months.
Please forward these ideas to your lists. Especially focus attention in the 3rd, 4th and 7th
Congressional districts; focus on Senators Bennett and Udall and Congressmen Markey,
Salazar and Perlmutter. October 15 is a critical date for continued Congressional action on
this issue.
Let's write those Letters to the Editor, make those calls to Congressional offices, use your
networks to encourage others to join this effort.
These health cares proposals are a threat to small business, to our seniors, to our health care
system which, despite flaws is still the best in the world.
Thank you for your time and talent in helping stop this socialistic alternative to free-market
delivery of health care.
Mary Dambman
303-770-3249

This evening Obama delivers his address to Congress on his health

policies.
This is a critical juncture in the debate over health reform.

Obama continues to lie about his critics, claiming that they have no alternative to the (politically caused)
problems of the status quo.

Now is the time to make the public case for real, free-market reforms in medicine. Please do one or all of the
following, today and tomorrow:

1. Use social media (Facebook, Twitter) to link to outstanding resources such as

http://www.westandfirm.org/
http://www.patientpowernow.org/

2. Drop a quick note to your elected officials. Following is the message I just sent to Senator Bennet:

"As President Obama continues to pretend that the only alternative to the status quo is more political controls of
medicine, I urge you to consider real health reform consistent with free markets and individual rights. Existing
problems with insurance and costs were caused by decades of political interference in medicine. Real reform
means expanding Health Savings Accounts, rolling back insurance controls that have jacked up rates, reining in
health welfare that threatens to bankrupt our nation, and weeding out frivolous law suits."

3. Write blog posts.

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4. Write letters to print publications.

5. Talk to your interested friends, and politely challenge calls to expand political controls of medicine.

6. If you have the time, write longer op-eds.

7. If you have the opportunity, give a more formal talk on the matter.

8. Be creative; figure out your unique contribution to the debate.

If you care about your life, your health, and your liberty, please promote real, free-market health reforms at your
earliest opportunity.

Obama: No Retreat From "Public Option," But Maybe No Veto Either

by: Colorado Pols
Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 10:43:36 AM MDT
From the Washington Post:
President Obama signaled that he would extol the value of a "public option" in health insurance
reform when he addresses Congress Wednesday night on the issue but that he would stop short of
threatening to veto a bill that does not include the provision.

Obama's much-anticipated nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress at 8 p.m. is

aimed at providing details and clarification on where he stands as he attempts to push through an
overhaul of a system that he says threatens to drag down the U.S. economy over time if left
unchanged.

But as he put the finishing touches on his speech Wednesday in hopes of rallying Congress to pass a
health-care reform bill this year, lawmakers continued struggling to reach consensus on some of the
toughest issues in the debate, including the government-run, or public, insurance option.

...Obama added that in a desire to let lawmakers "do their thing and not step on their toes," he had
"probably left too much ambiguity out there, which allowed then opponents of reform to come in and
to fill up the airwaves with a lot of nonsense." He said that included "everything from this ridiculous
idea that we're setting up death panels to false notions that this was designed to provide health
insurance to illegal immigrants. And then this broader notion of a government takeover of health care,
which none of the bills that worked their way through Congress ever envisioned."

What Ethan Axelrod Has Planned for Denver

It’s no secret that the newspaper industry is in bad shape. Newspapers’ financial woes continued into the second
quarter of this year as advertising sales shrank 29 percent—the “deepest downturn yet” from the last three years,
according to Marketing magazine. It’s no surprise then that the best opportunities for many young journalists
are online.

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That rule applies even if you are Ethan Axelrod, the 22-year-old son to President Barack Obama’s senior
advisor David Axelrod, one of the political masterminds behind Obama’s election. Axelrod the younger, a
Colorado College grad and the editor of the new Denver bureau of the left-leaning Huffington Post, has finally
given comments to the local press.
He tells The Denver Post that his father, a former political writer for the Chicago Tribune, “virtually had no
influence in me getting into journalism. I make my own decisions, and he didn’t push me one way or another.”
The site, which officially opens September 15, aims to aggregate headlines from other news sources and
highlight local writers. As Axelrod puts it, HuffPo Denver wants to “provide a one-stop shop for news in
Colorado.”

Jane Norton Files "Exploratory Committee" Papers

by: Colorado Pols
Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 16:24:11 PM MDT
The website's ready for prime time:

The Denver Business Journal reports:

Former Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton said Tuesday she has formed an exploratory committee for a
possible U.S. Senate race in 2010.
She is one of as many as six Republicans who have announced they will seek the seat or are
considering the idea.
In a statement, Norton said she plans to announce whether she'll run next week, "after talking to
supporters around the state."
Doesn't look very "exploratory" from here--apparently she's decided to jump in, deal or no deal.
Of course, if there was a deal between the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Norton, do
you really think they'd tell you? Or tell you the truth?

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Boulder Turnpike expansion moves forward – What about I-25?
August 20th, 2009 . by Tony

Is it any wonder that north metro area residents have an inferiority

complex when it comes to transportation funding? Our highways are continually neglected
and ignored by CDOT and oftentimes even our own area politicians. We have watched C-
470 bring relief to the southwest metro area, T-Rex fix the disaster through the central part of Denver
and the Boulder Turnpike has received many upgrades over the years.
What about I-25 north of I-76 through Northglenn, Thornton, Westminster and
Broomfield?
Just recently we were promised more funding as a result of the federal stimulus package. The end
result, Thornton will be receiving a traffic metering light at I-25 and 84th Ave.
The state of Colorado received $560,000,000. What is Thornton’s take? $125,000. That’s
right. The state’s sixth largest city receives the benefit of less than 1% of the federal
stimulus highway funds.
Now we read today about further grand improvements on the slate for the US-36 / Boulder Turnpike
corridor. Why is it that the cities in that corridor can have their highways improved
multiple times and yet we cannot get an additional lane on I-25 north of 84th Avenue?
The situation is asinine.
Congressman Jared Polis who represents both the US-36 and the I-25 corridors said, “Highway
36 is my top highway to fund.” Hmph. Why am I not surprised? Why would we have any reason to
think things would really change?
Perhaps even if 1/10th of the effort north area cities and politicos are spending on
the FasTracks boondoggle was spent on securing improvements to I-25 we might
actually have some progress.

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Friends --

With Members of Congress heading back to Washington, the Democrat leadership

in Congress seems ready to renew its push to pass government-run health care, in
spite of the vocal opposition of the American people.

It is imperative that those who oppose this dangerous experiment let their voices be
heard and send a strong message to Members of Congress returning to Washington:
reform is necessary, but the Democrats’ government-run health care experiment is
the wrong way to go.

America needs to protect Medicare, not raid it to fund another government program.
America needs a health care system that protects the doctor-patient relationship.
America needs health care reform that will ensure those who are currently covered
are allowed to keep their coverage.

America does not want a health system that rations care.

America does not want a system in which the government interferes with end-of-life
decisions.
Bottom line: Americans want reforms that put patients and consumers in
charge of their health care decision-making, not government bureaucrats and
politicians.

There are many ways in which you can make sure your Representatives return to
Washington and hear these messages:

 Call or email your representatives’ offices. Call the U.S. House and
Senate switchboard at (202) 225-3121 and ask for your local Senator or
Congressman by name or find their direct contact information below.
 Write Letters to the Editor.
 Distribute palm cards (available from the Republican Party of
Colorado) via door to door and at community events.
 Call your local radio stations during talk shows to voice your opinion.
 Post messages on blogs, Facebook groups, and Twitter.

Dianna DeGette, 1st Congressional District:

Denver office: 303.844.4988
Washington, D.C. office: 202.225.4431

Jared Polis, 2nd Congressional District:

Boulder office: 303.484.9596
Washington, D.C. office: 202.225.2161

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John Salazar, 3rd Congressional District:
Grand Junction office: 970.245.7107
Washington, D.C. office: 202.225.4761

Betsy Markey, 4th Congressional District:

Fort Collins office: 970.221.7110
Washington, D.C. office: 202.225.4676

Ed Perlmutter, 7th Congressional District:

Lakewood office: 303.274.7944
Washington, D.C. office: 202.225.2645

Michael Bennet, U.S. Senate

Denver Metro office: 303.455.7600
Washington, D.C. office: 202.224.5852

Mark Udall, U.S. Senate

Denver Metro office: 303.650.7820
Washington, D.C. office: 202.224.5941

Visit www.barackobamaexperiment.com for additional information regarding the

health care debate

Sincerely,

Michael Steele
Chairman, Republican National Committee

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