April 2008

Assembled By John Lefebvre

Board of Directors Title Email Address

Jerry Cunningham Membership jlcham4@aol.com
Ellis Holcomb ellis@eande-enviro.com
Wanda Barnes Wandaleabarnes@aol.com
Jan Hurtt Co-Treasurer jansadvertising@msn.com
Larry Reynolds Membership larryreynolds.republicans@comcast.net
Linda Reynolds landlreynolds@comcast.net
John Lefebvre President john.lefebvre@comcast.net
Howard Zoufaly Zouhants@aol.com
Phil Mocon Secretary ph7ss@msn.com

NEW MEETING TIME AND PLACE

We will be at Gander Mountain at 9:00 a.m.

Gander Mountain
9923 Grant St.
Thornton, CO

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

March Meeting Recap

Bo Cottrell totally flaked out on us, it seems that rather than tell us about his Right to
Work measure he preferred to attend the El Paso County Assembly and gather signatures
for the petition to get it on the ballot. He hopes we aren’t mad at him. I told him not to
worry – just get it on the ballot.

Open Forum
So instead we conducted an open Forum. Topics covered:

1) The new California Supreme Court ruling that home schoolers need to be certified
teachers otherwise the children are now truant.
2) Senator Ken Gordon’s (D) bill that would allow online voter registration. You
may have remembered the Senator as Mike Coffman’s opponent in the last
election for the Secretary of State. He may well be appointed by the Governor to
fill Mike’s slot as SOS if he is elected to Congress. He sure holds some scary
ideas for a potential SOS.
 3) The idea floated by the Dems that would allow only the political party that an
elected official was from to appoint people to fill a vacancy. This is currently the
case with State Representatives and state Senators but not with offices below the
Governor on a statewide basis or below the Commissioners on a Countywide
basis.
4) Ideas to make amending the State Constitution more difficult then amending
Statute.

A great round robin discussion was had by all.

New Digs
Most everyone loved the new digs. The space that Gander Mountain allowed us to use
(their community room) is light and bright.

Programs
If you have some topic that you would like to know more about speak with or email John
Lefebvre at 720-273-3044 or john.lefebvre@comcast.net.

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal - March 18, 2008
The Supreme Court heard arguments about the meaning of the Second Amendment and
the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. A majority of justices appears to support the
view that the amendment protects an individual's right to own guns, rather than linking
the right only to service in a state militia. But it is less clear what that means for the
District's 32-year-old ban on handguns, perhaps the strictest gun control law in the nation.
The case is likely to produce the most important firearms ruling in generations. A ruling
is expected by summer.

April Speaker
Freshman Republican Representative Glenn Vaad representing district 48 will give us the
wrap up for the legislative session. Think you have heard it all? You haven’t. Get a
preview of the referred measures that will be out on the November ballot. Representative
Vaad is a former Weld County Commissioner and is knowledgeable and well spoken.
You don’t want to miss this.

About Glenn Vaad

 Colorado State Representative, District 48
 Elected as a member of the State General Assembly in November 2006
 Ranking member of the House Transportation and Energy Committee; and a
member of the House Appropriations Committee
 A member of Move Colorado; A co-chair of the Legislative Transportation
Caucus of the State General Assembly;
 Weld County Commissioner for 8 years (1999-2006)
 Colorado Department of Transportation for 31 years
o Highway engineer, a management consultant, an auditor, a legislative
liaison at the legislature, and the secretary of the State Transportation
Commission.
 o A good deal of the responsibility of a county Commissioner is that of
stewardship of county roads thus adding an additional 8 years of
transportation experience.
Community Service
 Volunteer fire department as a fire fighter and EMT.
 Mead, CO town board member and
 School board member (9 years) in the Saint Vrain Valley School District