nsrf april 2010 newsletter

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April, 2010 Assembled By Dana West

Our next meeting is Saturday morning, April 10th featuring Colorado

House candidates including: Representative Kevin Priola (HD-30), TomJanich (HD-31), Kaarl Hoopes, Andrew Goad, & Al Jacobson (HD-32), DonBeezly (HD-33), Brian Vande Krol (HD-34), and Edgar Antillon (HD-35).Each candidate will give a speech and then answer your questions.Remember to bring your checkbook to donate and help these outstandingRepublican candidates. After our meeting, join The Trumpeteers for

their monthly meeting at City Buffet from 11:30am-1:00pm.

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 orDenver's northern suburbs, come join us for lively spirited debate and to meet Republican

movers and shakers. Any candidate in attendance will always be given speaking time.

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. Its $3per person to attend the monthly meeting to pay for the provided continental breakfast. A

membership application is located on the last page. Fill it out and bring it with you.


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The 2010 Adams County Republican Assembly is Saturday, April 3rd at 9:00am at the Adams

County Fairgrounds. All registered Republicans are invited to attend but only Delegates and Alternates

elected at your precinct caucuses can vote. Check-in begins at 7:30am. Please set aside the date to take

part in taking back Adams County, Colorado, and the nation!

For information on who was elected as Delegates and Alternates to the County, CD-2, CD-7 and

State Assembly, go towww.adamscountygop.com.

Key Dates for Election Year 2010

April 3: Adams County Republicans hold county assembly where delegates pick candidates for local races.

May 15: Adams County Lincoln Day Dinner. Meet your candidates, mingle with like-minded people, bid on

silent and live auction items, and have a great dinner. If you join the Chairmans Circle for $100, you have aprivate reception with the Adams County Republican Chairman before the dinner, all of your delegate and/or

alternate fees for the 2010 assemblies are included, and you get a ticket to the Reagan Roundup dinner this fall.

May 22: Colorado Republican party holds state assembly meeting where delegates pick candidates for offices.

May 27: Last day for candidates who shunned the caucuses to file petitions to appear on primary ballots.

June 3: Last day for candidates selected at assembly meeting to withdraw from the August primary ballot.

July 12: Last day voters can change their party affiliation to vote in the primary and the last day voters canregister and still vote in the primary.

August 10: Republican primary election occurs (if needed).Nov. 2: General election. Get Out The Vote, Colorado Republicans!!!!

NSRF Board of Directors Email AddressJohn Lefebvre President [email protected]

Jerry Cunningham Vice President [email protected]

Jan Hurtt Treasurer [email protected]

Phil Mocon Secretary [email protected]

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Adams County ranks as second fastest growing county on the Front RangePosted on March 24th, 2010 by Tony ofwww.tonysrants.com

I found this very interesting. According to the latest Census Bureau numbers, Adams County now ranks as thesecond fasting growing county on the Front Range and only trails Denver County. Douglas and Weld Counties haverecently been the trendsetters but we knocked them down a notch.

The Census Bureaus numbers put Adams County with a 2009 population of 440,994. That ranks as the third most

populous county in the area second to Denver and Jefferson.

Thorntons population at the end of the second quarter in 2009 was estimated to be at 120,471. In 2000 it was only82,384 which shows the astounding growth we have seen.

With all of these people, will it translate to more clout for the north area with the state and other Front Range cities?We will see.

Thornton has finally begun to assert itself in the last couple of years or so and that is a good thing. We shouldnthave to play second fiddle to anyone.

Rank County 2009 Population Change from 20081 Denver 610,345 +2.9%2 Adams 440,994 +2.7%3 Douglas 288,225 +2.8%4 Weld 254,759 +2.4%5 Broomfield 55,990 +2.1%

NSRF upcoming calendar:

May 8Colorado Governor candidates and U.S. Senate candidates

June 12All candidates are welcome

July 10State office candidates

August 14County office candidates including: Assessor, Commissioner, Sheriff, Clerk, Register of

Deeds, Coroner and Surveyor)

September 11th

All candidates are welcome

October 9All candidates

November 13Election recap

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An American Liberal Reviews Karl Roves Account of the Iraq War

by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Former Bush Senior Aide Karl Rove deserves credit for vindicating President Bush in his new auto-biography,

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.
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As one of the few liberals in America who has supported the war in Iraq (See www.honorfreedom.com) I found

deep historical value in Roves account of what actually happened in the White House during the monthsleading up to the war, and I was inspired by his willingness to call out those Democratic senators who voted for

the war, but later abandoned the president once it became unpopular.

On January 5, 2007 ABC News reported that 28 of the 77 senators who originally voted for the war said they

would have voted differently. Not surprisingly, Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, John Edwards, John Kerry and HillaryClinton, all of whom challenged Bush for the presidency eventually turned against the war.

Of course, Bushs post-9/11 popularity was 90 percent, the highest of any president in American history, andDemocrats knew the only hope they had of winning was to undermine the morality of the war. Undermining the

morality of the war meant that it didnt matter if America achieved victory in Iraq.

The Democratic Party knew that if they could create a myth that Bush started the war under false pretenses, they

could not only call him a failure; they could call him a liar. If that were true, they could discredit all of Bushs

successes.

Chapter 21 of Roves book Bush Was Right on Iraq sets the

record straight. It is a thorough account of what really happened

in the months leading up to the war. Rove starts with the historyof Saddam Husseins attempt to compile weapons of mass

destruction and sites specific examples of Democratic leaderswho argue that point to the nation, including former President BillClinton, Vice-President Al Gore and current U.S. Senator

majority leader Harry Reid.

Rove also mentions that on February 5, 2003, only a few weeks

before the war, Democratic U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller publicly

tied Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden in an interview withWolf Blitzer. The media however, only criticized Bush and Cheney for making the same connection, and falsely

accused the administration of tying Iraq to 9/11, which was something the administration never did.

What Bush and Cheney actually asserted was that there were contacts between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda

brokered by Sudanese Islamist leaders, which was also reported by the 9/11 Commission (See page 61 of the

paperback version which outlines the non-aggression pact brokered between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda byTurabi. Upon release of the report, the New York Times incorrectly reported on the front page that the 9/11

Commission found no tie between the two.)

Although there were conflicting reports that Iraqi intelligence had suspected involvement in the 1993 World

Trade Center bombing (bomb-maker Abdul Rahman Yasin fled to Iraq after the 1993 WTC bombing and was

essentially given asylum) the FBI did conclude that Iraqi intelligence was behind attempted assassination of

President Bush 41 during his 1993 post-presidential visit to Kuwait (see U.S. Strikes Iraq for Plot to Kill Bush,The Washington Post, June 27, 1993 which outlines how President Clinton fired 23 tomahawk cruise missiles

into Iraqs intelligence headquarters in retaliation).

All of these issues probably created additional concerns about Saddam Husseins determination to harm U.S.interests, but Bushs actual justification for using military force against Saddam Hussein was simple; 9/11 was awake up call that made government officials realize how vulnerable our nation was, and our national security

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Since Iraq was still refusing to give U.N. weapons inspectors unfettered access to search for weapons of massdestruction as required by U.N. Resolution 687, both Congress and the White House decided we needed to

finally enforce those resolutions, which is what the international legislation actually mandated.

Using the same intelligence as the White House, the House of Representatives voted 296-133 and the Senate

voted 77-23 in support of the 2002 resolution that authorized President Bush to use all necessary force to

enforce any U.N. resolutions pertaining to Iraq. Rove also points out that despite the myth that the White Housemisled Congress about Iraq harboring weapons of mass destruction, Congress had access to the same

intelligence reports the White House did.

Perhaps the most valuable mention in Roves book is his historical review of American foreign policy. Rove

points out that the removal of Saddam Hussein did not start out as a policy under George W. Bush, but was

actually an extension of President Clintons.

In 1998, President Clinton enacted the Iraq Liberation Act, (ILA) which made it official American foreign

policy to support the removal of Saddam Hussein. Shortly after passing the Iraq Liberation Act, Clintonlaunched Operation Desert Fox, a massive bombing campaign designed to rid Iraq of weapons of mass

destruction.

The liberation of Iraq was not a Republican or neo-conservative policy decision. It was an extension of thepolicy created by President Clinton who also had the insight to see the danger that Saddam Hussein presented to

his own people and nations abroad.

Rove does not disappoint his readers. He takes personal responsibility for the Bush administrations failure to

respond to the Far Left attacks on the president.

So who was responsible for the failure to respond? I was. I should have stepped forward, rung the warning

bell, and pressed for full-scale response. I didnt . . . the hope was that the charges would evaporate. Theopposite happened. Our critics pounded us relentlessly. And the public saw our silence as a plea of nolo

contendere . . . (but) the charge that Bush lied was itself a lie.

Roves book is hopefully only the first account of many that will set the record straight about President Bushand the liberation of Iraq. Irrespective of ones partisan loyalty, Courage and Consequences is an important

historical perspective that should be read for consideration.

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is the National Organizer of HONOR FREEDOM (www.honorfreedom.com) an

organization dedicated correcting historical record President Bush and the war in Iraq. He previously internedfor President Clinton in the White House and served on U.S. Senator John Kerrys 2004 presidential electionlegal team.

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We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It.

Posted By Bob Moffit On March 24, 2010 @ 5:40 pm In Health Care atwww.heritage.org

That was what Speaker Pelosi said on March 10, 2010.

One day after the Senates mammoth, 2,700-page health bill became law, the Associated Press has discoveredthe legislation doesnt deliver on a key promise [1].

Despite repeated assurances that the measure would provide immediate health coverage for children with

pre-existing medical conditions, it doesnt.

Just two days before the crucial House vote, at his nationally televised pep rally for the bill, President Obama

promised: Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children

with pre-existing conditions.

Meeting with House Democrats the next day, he forcefully reiterated the claim: This year parents who are

worried about getting coverage for their children with pre-existing conditions now are assured that insurancecompanies have to give them coverage this year.

But it seems even the president had to wait until after passage to find out what was really in the bill. Turns

out, some kids with pre-existing conditions will have to wait, too. Another four years. The iron-clad guarantee

of coverage wont kick in until then. Notes the Associated Press: Full protection for children would not come

until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Committee. Thats the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person
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on account of health problems. For more on the false promises and flawed premises of Obamacare, please

visit FixHealthCarePolicy.com.

Article printed from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.:http://blog.heritage.org

URL to article: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/24/we-have-to-pass-the-bill-so-that-you-can-find-out-what-is-in-it-%e2%80%9d/

URLs in this post:

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care-laws-apf-4272209396.html?x=0&.v=1

[2] FixHealthCarePolicy.com: http://blog.heritage.orgblocked::http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/

A complete and utter failure of representative government

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Tony ofwww.tonysrants.com

Never before in our nations history have we seen such a failure of our form of government as we witnessedyesterday with the passing of the health care legislation. A measure which has soundly been rejected by the

citizens of this nation has been rammed down those same citizens throats in defiance of the peoples wishes.In its most basic terms, we have a representative form of government our elected officials represent us and are

sent to Washington D.C. to carry out our will. They are not there to carry out their own, personal agenda and

those that do have failed not only us, they have turned their back on the vision of our Founding Fathers.

Americans have acknowledged the need for health care reformall reasonable people do.
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What they have rejected is health care transformation which is what Obamacare offers. We have seen thevision offered by President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other

progressives and we have told them unequivocally no!

Closer to home, Coloradoans echoed the national view of the issue. A majority of us have said we oppose the

government takeover of the health care industry, we reject more government spending and we refuse to accept

that the government knows better than we.

Despite overwhelming opposition, the House of Representatives defied the will of the people. They chose toignore the mandate handed down to them over generations that they were to represent us, to reflect our viewsand our opinions.

Thorntons representative, Jared Polis, and other members of the House of Representatives had an opportunityto stand with Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and the American people.

They chose Pelosi, Reid and Obama.

It is truly a sad day in America.

OPINION

MARCH 21, 2010

Inside the Pelosi Sausage Factory

Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak sold his anti-abortion soul for a toothless executive order.

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL of The Wall Street Journal


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Last week Republican Rep. Mike Pence posted on his Facebook site that famous Schoolhouse Rock videotitled How a Bill Becomes a Law. Its clearly time for a remake.

Never before has the average American been treated to such a live-action view of the sordid politicsnecessary to push a deeply flawed bill to completion. It was dirty deals, open threats, broken promisesand disregard for democracy that pulled ObamaCare to this point, and yesterday the same machinations

pushed it across the finish line.

You could see it all coming a week ago, when New York Rep. Louise Slaughter let leak a breathtakingstrategy whereby the House would not actually vote on the unpopular Senate bill. The House wouldinstead vote on a reconciliation fix to that bill, and in the process deem the underlying legislation

with its Cornhusker kickbacks and Louisiana purchasespassed.

The Slaughter Solution was both blunt admission and warning. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not have216 votes to pass the Senate bill, there never was going to be majority support for it, but theyd pass itanyway. The final days were a simple death watch, to see how the votes would be bought, bribed orbullied, and how many congressional rules gamed, to get the win.

President Obama flew to Pennsylvania (home to five wavering House Democrats), Missouri (threewavering), Ohio (eight), and Virginia (four) to hold rallies with small, supportive crowds. In four days, MrObama held 64 meetings or calls with congressmen. The goal was to let undecideds know that thepresident had them in his crosshairs, that he still had pull with the base, and hed use it against them. By

Saturday the tactic had yielded yes votes from at least half the previously undecided members of thosestates.

Associated Press: House Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill yesterday.


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As for those who needed more persuasion: California Rep. Jim Costa bragged publicly that during hismeeting in the Oval Office, hed demanded the administration increase water to his Central Valley district.

On Tuesday, Interior pushed up its announcement, giving the Central Valley farmers 25% of watersupplies, rather than the expected 5% allocation. Mr. Costa, who denies there was a quid pro quo, onSaturday said hed flip to a yes.

Florida Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (whose district is home to the Kennedy Space Center) admitted that in herown Thursday meeting with the president, shed brought up the need for more NASA funding. On Friday

she flipped to a yes. So watch the NASA budget.

Democrats inserted a new provision providing $100 million in extra Medicaid money for Tennessee.Retiring Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon flipped to a yes vote on Thursday.

Outside heavies were enlisted to warn potential no votes that unions and other Democrats would runthem out of Congress. Al Lawson, a Tallahassee liberal challenging Blue Dog Florida Rep. Allen Boyd in aprimary, made Mr. Boyds previous no vote the centerpiece of his criticism. The SEIU threatened to yank

financial support for New Yorks Michael McMahon. The liberal Working Families Party said it would

deny him a ballot line. Obama deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand vowed to challenge SouthDakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin if she voted no. New Yorks Scott Murphy was targeted as a part of

a $1.3 million union-financed ad campaign to pressure him to flip. Moveon.Org spent another $36,000 onads in his district and promised a primary. Messrs. Boyd and Murphy caved on Friday.

All the while Mrs. Pelosi was desperately working to provide cover with a Congressional Budget Officescore that would claim the bill saved money. To do it, Democrats threw in a further $66 billion inMedicare cuts and another $50 billion in taxes. Huzzah! In the day following the CBO score, about a half-dozen Democrats who had spent the past months complaining the bill already had too many taxes andMedicare cuts now said they were voting to reduce the deficit.

Even with all this, by Friday Mrs. Pelosi was dealing with a new problem: The rule changes and dealswinning her votes were losing her votes, too. The public backlash against deem and pass gave several

wary Democratssuch as Massachusettss Stephen Lynch and Californias Dennis Cardozaa newexcuse to vote no.

Mrs. Pelosi jettisoned deem and pass. Once-solid Democrat yes votes wanted their own concessions.Oregons Pete DeFazio threatened to lead a revolt unless changes were made to Medicare payments tobenefit his state. On Saturday Mrs. Pelosi cut a deal to give 17 states additional Medicare money.

By the weekend, all the pressure and threats and bribes had left the speaker three to five votes short. Herremaining roadblock was those pro-life members whod boxed themselves in on abortion, saying theywould vote against the Senate bill unless it barred public funding of abortion. Mrs. Pelosis first instinct

was to go around this bloc, getting the votes elsewhere. She couldnt.

Into Saturday night, Michigans Bart Stupak and Mrs. Pelosi wrangled over options. The stalemate? Any

change that gave Mr. Stupak what he wanted in law would lose votes from pro-choice members. Thesolution? Remove it from Congress altogether, having the president instead sign a meaningless executiveorder affirming that no public money should go to pay for abortions.

The order wont change the Senate legal languageas pro-choice Democrats publicly crowed withinminutes of the Stupak deal. Executive orders can be changed or eliminated on a whim. Pro-life groups


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condemned the order as the vote-getting ruse it was. Nevertheless, Mr. Stupak and several of hiscolleagues voted yes, paving the way to Mrs. Pelosis final vote tally of 219.

Even in these waning minutes, Senate Democrats were playing their own games. Republicans announcedthey had found language in the House reconciliation bill that could doom this entire fix in the Senate.

Since many House Democrats only agreed to vote for the Senate bill on promises that the sidecarreconciliation would pass, this was potentially a last-minute killer.

Senate Democrats handled it by deliberately refusing to meet with Republicans and the Senateparliamentarian to get a ruling, lest it be unfavorable and lose House votes. The dodge was a cleardereliction of duty, but Democrats figure the Senate parliamentarian wont dare derail this process after

ObamaCare passes. They are probably right.

So there you have it, folks: How a Bill Becomes a Law, atleast in Obama-Pelosi land. Perhaps the mostremarkable Democratic accomplishment this week was to make the process of passing ObamaCare aspolitically toxic as the bill itself.

President Obama was elected by millions of Americans attracted to his promise to change Washingtonpolitics. These were voters furious with earmarks, insider deals and a lack of transparency. They were themany Americans who, even before this week, held Congress in historic low esteem. Theyll remember this

spectacle come November.

Ms. Strassel writes the Journals weekly Potomac Watch column from Washington.

So I said to him, "Barak, I know Abe Lincoln, and you ain't him."Caption the past Republican presidents having a laugh in honor of the messiah's speech last evening. The originalartwork is copyright byAndy Thomas, who has paintings of all political persuasions, including the messiah.
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Democrats Gone Wild: Speaker Carroll follows Dem spokesman Jack

Pommer down the anti-business rabbit holePosted Mon, 15 Mar 2010 atwww.ColoradoSenateNews.com

Remarks made by House Speaker Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, have Republicans warning Democrats their anti-business rhetoric is out of control.

"There they go again, said Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction. My Democratic friends eitherneed counseling or medication to deal with their anger towards Colorado's business community."

The Denver Business Journal recently reported Carroll saying, Because life under the Dome is sometimes divorcedfrom reality, the business community has always said that no matter what we do, were going to lose jobs. Im justnot going to engage in those debates with them because its like the boy who cried wolf.

Republicans scoffed at the Speakers comments, saying it is Carroll who is divorced from reality. Accusing thebusiness community of crying wolf over job losses is a huge insult to the hundreds of Amazon affiliates laid off

because of the new Internet tax or the thousands of steel workers whose jobs have been put in jeopardy becauseof the new energy tax, said Sen. Ken Kester, R-Las Animas.

Business owners repeatedly testified before members of the legislature saying that a series of Democrat proposedtax increases would kill jobs. Pepsi officials, for example, told lawmakers a new soda tax will put at risk as many as800 jobs. A new tax hike on candy will target 150 workers at Grand Junction confectioner Enstroms, and the more

than $3.3 million the company spends each year with more than 300 Colorado vendors.

Democrats ignored the warnings and passed over $300 million of tax increases.

During floor debate about the tax increases, Rep. Jack Pommer, D-Boulder, accused business of not caring aboutColorado. Neil Westergaard, editor of the Denver Business Journal, responded by calling Pommer the mostclueless lawmaker and accused him of being the torchbearer in a series of attacks on business this year and last.

Terrance Carroll is just falling in-line, Kester said.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 6:05pm MDT

Colorado business groups ask Legislature to kill billsDenver Business Journal - by Ed Sealover [email protected]
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A trio of influential Colorado business groups sent a letter to General Assembly leaders Tuesday askingthem to kill a half-dozen bills currently moving through the legislative process or risk harming the states ability togrow industry and jobs. The correspondence sent by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, Colorado Concernand Colorado Competitive Council comes after a two-month period to open the session in which business andlegislative leaders have clashed more than any time in recent memory. The most intense battles came over theeliminations or suspensions of 10 tax exemptions that were signed into law last month, but business leaders havewarned that a number of other bills as well will drive jobs away from the state during an economic downturn.

The letter, signed by the three groups chairmen and addressed to House and Senate leaders of each partyacknowledges a revenue shortfall has made this the most difficult legislative session in recent memory and

reminds leaders that they promised to focus on growing jobs. It then goes on to lay out six bills that theorganizations believe would run counter to that promise and asks for each of those bills to be killed or amended asneeded.

Those bills are:

Senate Bill 185, sponsored by Senate President Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, which modifies rental law to makeit easier for tenants to claim a breach of contract requiring residences to be habitable. The bill awaits debatebefore the full Senate.

House Bill 1012, sponsored by Rep. Sal Pace, D-Pueblo, which limits workers compensation insurers ability to dosurveillance on benefit applicants. The bill is scheduled for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary CommitteeWednesday.

House Bill 1017, sponsored by Rep. Daniel Kagan, D-Denver, which permits voluntary rent-control agreementsbetween local governments and private properties. The bill has passed the House and awaits debate before theSenate.

House Bill 1107, sponsored by Rep. Randy Fischer, D-Fort Collins, which bars the inclusion of agricultural land inurban renewal zones, a tactic that has become more commonly used as an incentive to attract manufacturing plants.

The bill has passed both chambers overwhelmingly but awaits one final re-approval in the House.

House Bill 1263, sponsored by Rep. Jack Pommer, D-Boulder, which caps at $250,000 the amount of eachemployees salary that a business can be count as an operating expense against its corporate income tax. The billhas not been scheduled for a hearing yet, but Pommer told the Denver Business Journal on Friday that he plans tokill it.

House Bill 1269, sponsored by Rep. Claire Levy, which increases the damages that can be awarded in employmentdiscrimination lawsuits. The bill has passed its first House committee.

Neither House Speaker Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, nor Shaffer were able to look at the letter and offer

comment on it before they left the Capitol Tuesday, their staffers said.


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