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Get out and vote today Colorado! Vote Yes on 103!

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Today is election day in Colorado. Make sure you get out and exercise your right and vote!

In Colorado, we have a big choice today, whether we want to fund our schools at a rate that makes them sustainable or a rate that continues their decline.

In today’s world, we need students who are educated and creative. The more that school’s are required to cut, the more they will cut the optional items like the library and art. These are essential in creating well-rounded students that will continue to develop our great country.

Vote Yes on 103 and support Colorado schools.

The Birther’s just need to move on

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The whole debate over where President Obama was born needs to be over. As we move towards the 2012 Presidential Election we need to be focusing the debate on issues facing this country so we can choose who should lead our country for the following four years.

The President put an end to this discussion this morning when he released his long-form birth certificate. It should be over.

But some people don’t believe it and refuse to accept it.

What I find kinda ironic is that many, if not most, of the birthers believe in states rights. The State of Hawaii has issued the President’s birth certificate, the form every Hawaiian gets. It also recognizes that he was born in the State.

But the birthers failed to accept that. So much for states rights.

It’s time to end the bs and move onto real issues.

Adams County residents need to wake up, county commissioner’s wasting our money

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The Denver Post ran an investigative report this morning in the Sunday paper on the Adams County Commissioners and how one county commissioner could be giving friends and relatives an unfair advantage.

I want to thank the Denver Post for this article and how it has exposed wasted and nepotism among the county leadership. As a resident of Adams County, I am really frustrated how our money is being wasted by our elected leaders.

This story focuses on Alice Nichol, the county commissioner for District 2 in Adams County.

In the Post’s article, they found:

  • Three of Nichol’s relatives, including her husband, sit on the county Board of Adjustment, which hears appeals from developers seeking variances from county ordinances.
  • The county’s public works director hired a second son-in-law of Nichol’s as a zoning inspector in 2007. The son-in-law quit four months later.
  • A longtime family acquaintance who once worked as Ron Nichol’s supervisor is the dominant consultant for people with business before county boards, including the Board of Adjustment.
  • Nichol steered a $1.6 million furniture contract for the new county administration building to a fellow board member at Adams County Economic Development Corp. — a contract that has already mushroomed to nearly $2.3 million.
  • One of her daughters, Ronda Reagon, is a “business support specialist” at the Adams County Economic Development Corp., which received $576,064 from county taxpayers last year.
  • In her two campaigns for county commissioner, Nichol paid nearly $17,000 to four family members. The main beneficiary was her daughter Renee Stark, who received $15,338 for work ranging from developing brochures and ads to “reimbursements and media.”

This is just an absurdity and shows that changes need to be made in Adams County.

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Homeowner’s Association’s are just nuts

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I am in a crazy homeowner’s association. It is not like the rules are crazy against me as a property owner or my neighbors.

It is the quorum that is required to change the bylaws. For quorum, we need 60% of the homeowner’s. That is 188 homes. We also must be unanimous. If one person votes no, then it is dead.

We are trying to change it, but there are many that don’t care. We barely got over 100 households tonight.

Hopefully the changes and future votes will allow us to manage our homeowner’s association. But the way it’s going now, we can’t even change the board members.

This is one big mess-up. Neumann Homes messes it up for us again.

Student who had NOBAMA sticker on chest settles lawsuit

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Last year the day before the election, a high school student Blake Benson was waiting in line to attend an event where Michelle Obama was appearing was pulled from the line and arrested for having a NOBAMA sticker across his chest.

He was held on a misdemeanor charge of interference with school and staff which could have resulted in him spending 6 months in jail.

This is something that shouldn’t have been done by the school principal or the Jefferson County sheriff. He was just exercising his free speech rights.

The even was open to all and not a closed event. They should never had bothered him.

The ACLU represented him and he received a $4,000 settlement from Jefferson County and the Jefferson County School District.

I think that he said it best with his quote.

“What my teachers taught me about our constitutional rights wasn’t respected outside the classroom,” Benson said in a written statement. “If one thing comes from this case, I hope it is that other students will learn more about their free speech rights and not be afraid to use them.”

Denver May Be Pot Capital USA

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As dispensaries pop up, Denver may be Pot Capital, U.S.A. – The Denver Post

The Denver City Council should regulate the medical pot industry and restrict where dispensaries can locate. It’s there duty.

The medical marijuana industry should have to do what any other business has to do and abide by the laws of the citizens.

I find it pretty ridiculous that there are more marijuana dispensaries in the city than there are liquor stores, Starbucks coffee shops, or public schools. I find it ridiculous especially since it is for a “medicine” that has no regulation by the FDA which manages all of our medicines.

The city of Denver must do what it can to protect all of the citizens of Denver.