Udall has been averaging only 43% to 45% in polls.
Gardner has about $1 million already in his House coffers that he can transfer to a Senate campaign.
DENVER — Republican Rep. Cory Gardner formally kicked off his Senate campaign on Saturday by tying his challenge to Democratic Senator Mark Udall to the GOP’s efforts to reverse its decade-long slide in this key political bellwether state.
“In 2008, Colorado led the nation in change,” Gardner said, alluding to the election of Udall and the nomination of Barack Obama for president during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “In 2014, we can change it again.”
Gardner, 39, represents his party’s best shot at breaking a 10-year drought in topline races here. Republicans have not won a single presidential, U.S. Senate or gubernatorial election in Colorado since 2004 because of their trouble appealing to women, young people and Hispanics — factors that have hobbled the GOP nationwide.
In an indication of the Republican enthusiasm around Gardner, he spoke to a crowd of more than 100 supporters who had braved white-out conditions and subzero temperatures.
He was joined on the stage by Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck and state Rep. Amy Stephens, both of whom had been competing for the GOP nomination to challenge Udall until Gardner entered the race last week, leading them to drop out and endorse him. State Sen. Owen J. Hill remains in the race.
Buck narrowly lost to Democratic Sen Michael Bennet in 2010, and many Republicans feared he was too gaffe-prone to beat Udall. “Cory is more disciplined than I am, let’s be honest,” Buck said in an interview. He is now competing for Gardner’s congressional seat.
Gardner slammed Udall for voting to approve Obama’s health-care overhaul, raise taxes and “infringe Second Amendment Rights.” He said he will run on economic development, responsible energy production, a clean environment and education.
Colorado high school students are required to participate in Cinco de Mayo celebrations, but they are not allowed to honor the United States.
Our country is run by fucking retards.
Students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans.
“They said they didn’t want to offend anyone from other countries or immigrants,” a 16-year-old member of the student council said. “They just really did not want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.”
The student council at Fort Collins High School had proposed having a day to celebrate the United States during next week’s Winter Spirit Week. The young people pitched “’Merica Monday” – and invited their classmates to dress in patriotic colors. Their proposal was promptly shot down by administrators reports Fox News.
“They said they didn’t want to be exclusive to any other country,” a 17-year-old member of the student council said.
The students and parents who talked about this incident have asked to remain anonymous. The parents feared their children might face reprisals from liberal educators.
“It’s bizarre and idiotic that we’ve come to this crossroads in our society that we are having to sacrifice our own culture and belief system,” one of the parents said. “I can’t even tell you how it got our blood boiling.”
“It’s shocking,” the 16-year-old said. “There are men and women fighting for our country and we should be able to celebrate that and be proud that we live in a country where we are allowed to vote – the right to free speech. They won’t even let us celebrate it.”
The irony, said the students, is that they are required to participate in Cinco de Mayo celebrations.
If the Democrats win the House plan on the US becoming
a one-party People's Republic like Venezuela
Democrats look very unlikely to pick up the 17 seats they would need to retake the House majority, and they could lose seats.
At the six year mark for an incumbent President the opposition party has picked up 30 seats on average in the House. From my viewpoint that projection is too high for 2014. I think a 20 seat GOP pick up in closer.
Here are ten congressional districts most likely to flip from one party to the other this November according to the National Journal.
Here are districts 11 to 20 likely to flip. See our previous story for districts one to ten.
11. California-52—Rep. Scott Peters (D) is running for reelection No serious Republican congressional candidate has drawn more attention for breaking the mold: Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, who is openly gay, has also openly called for his party to deemphasize social issues and focus on pocketbook matters. Democrats successfully tagged DeMaio as over-conservative in his losing 2012 mayoral race, but both he and Peters have crossover appeal. A neat map from KPBS shows about two-thirds of Peters precincts also going for DeMaio where their races overlapped in 2012.
12. New Hampshire-01—Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D) is running for reelection This seat has switched parties three times in four elections, moving with the volatile national mood over that time. That's what gives Republicans their best chance to retake a seat in New England, where Shea-Porter and Democrats shut them out in 2012. Former Rep. Frank Guinta is running again and starts with a big name-ID edge for the Republican nomination, but recent polling suggests he's still bruised from the last election, which could be a liability. District voters gave Shea-Porter much stronger marks in the same survey.
13. Colorado-06—Rep. Mike Coffman (R) is running for reelection Coffman took over from ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo when he joined Congress, but Coffman has had to execute something of a political reinvention on issues like immigration since his district was redrawn into a swing seat last cycle, when he barely won reelection. Democrat Andrew Romanoff, the former state House speaker, has been running against Coffman for nearly 12 months already, though he may regret not chasing the seat in a presidential year. (Obama carried this district in 2012.) Given the district dynamics, Coffman and Romanoff's gangbusters fundraising pace (over $1.5 million each after the first three quarters of last year), the size of the Denver media market, and the high-profile statewide races also on tap for the fall of 2014, this is a solid early bet to be the nation's most expensive House race this year.
14. California-07—Rep. Ami Bera (D) is running for reelection Redistricting and the march of demographic change outside Sacramento helped Bera capture the seat in 2012, but three Republicans are linking him to the president's health care law and arguing he's part of D.C.'s problems in trying to replace him. The GOP battle for the second general-election spot could get nasty, if history is any guide: Former Rep. Doug Ose's last race was a Republican primary brawl against fellow candidate Igor Birman's old boss, Rep. Tom McClintock.
15. Florida-26—Rep. Joe Garcia (D) is running for reelection Garcia is raising money hand-over-foot, but he's been dogged by a weird scandal (staffers of his plotted to fraudulently cast absentee ballots, apparently without the candidate's knowledge). Republican Carlos Curbelo could be a strong challenger. One underreported fact about this district: Garcia's 2012 victory is attributed to then-Rep. David Rivera's complete campaign meltdown amidst scandal but Obama's margin over Mitt Romney in the district was almost exactly the same as Garcia's over Rivera. Cuban-heavy Miami is experiencing something of a Democratic shift in national politics. GOP Gov. Rick Scott's approval could also be a problem for Republicans in the Sunshine State in November.
16. Illinois-13—Rep. Rodney Davis (R) is running for reelection Davis has a March primary challenge, but that's not the obstacle here: He won one of the nation's tightest races—the closest one Democrats lost in 2012—against a perennial candidate, and Democrats have gotten behind former judge Ann Callis for a potentially stronger bid this time. Callis's long judicial tenure has left behind a record that the GOP is already picking away at, though.
17. Florida-02—Rep. Steve Southerland (R) is running for reelection Democrats had another near-miss in the Florida Panhandle in 2012, though the path to victory here slopes steeply upward toward the end, Heartbreak Hill-style. As Stu Rothenberg has pointed out, the last couple of percentage points are a very difficult climb for Democrats in the 2nd District, though Gwen Graham's family name, connections, and lack of a political record make her a legit threat to Southerland, who hasn't always fundraised well.
18. Michigan-01—Rep. Dan Benishek (R) is running for reelection Benishek also struggled struggled with his campaign at times in the last few years, and polls consistently showed him mired in the low-40s in 2012 before he pulled out a narrow victory over repeat candidate Gary McDowell. Now, Democrats have a fresh face in local sheriff Jerry Cannon, who would have to overcome the Upper Peninsula's generically conservative tilt to win.
19. Florida-18—Rep. Patrick Murphy (D) is running for reelection By the numbers, this race ought to go higher, with Romney having carried the district as Murphy just squeaked by controversial Rep. Allen West in 2012. But the GOP isn't so sure it has a marquee challenger here, and there's a reason why some Florida Republicans pined for former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, a prodigious fundraiser, last year. Then again, plenty of folks scoffed at Murphy's viability as he set out last cycle, too. No one will ever run away with this district, but Murphy's high fundraising and luck of the draw so far move him a bit further down the list.
20. California-36—Rep. Raul Ruiz (D) is running for reelection Republicans identified a candidate here early: Assemblyman Brian Nestande is a veteran of the Bono political machine. But he's started slowly, especially on the fundraising front. The Palm Springs-based district is changing rapidly, which helped fuel Ruiz's unexpected victory last term and helped Obama actually perform slightly better here in 2012 than 2008 despite losing ground nationally. If Ruiz can hold his seat and give that change another couple of years, congressional Republicans may never get another chance to retake the 36th.
California GOP Assemblyman Brian Nestande is in a tough race to retake a seat the Republicans lost in the 2012 Obama landslide. Brian Nestande for Congress
Palm Springs - The Key to Congress The People's Republic of California is key to having a non-Marxist majority in the House of Representatives. The Golden State currently sends 15 Republicans to the House (almost the entire GOP majority margin). Just ten year ago Republicans had 20 to 24 seats. . The 36th District (map below) is an example of the failure of the Republican Party and Conservatism. The district is based around solidly middle class communities like Palm Springs. The GOP has lost middle class seat after middle class seat. Simply, if the Republican platform is unable to win middle class districts then there is no future for the party.
Nutcase anti-gun Democrats drive jobs out of Colorado
and into the waiting arms of Texas.
(Denver Post) - Magpul Industries threatened to leave Colorado after the legislature passed a measure banning weapons magazines with more than 15 rounds.
And now that is official.
The Erie-based ammunition magazine manufacturer said Thursday it is relocating its operations to Cheyenne and Texas.
Most of the 200-plus employees will be moving to Wyoming, where manufacturing and distribution will take place, said spokesman Duane Liptak.
"Moving operations to states that support our culture of individual liberties and personal responsibility is important," CEO Richard Fitzpatrick said in a news release. "This relocation will also improve business operations and logistics as we utilize the strengths of Texas and Wyoming in our expansion."
The move is expected to happen within the next 12 to 16 months, the company said, and it hopes to relocate at least 92 percent of its workforce outside of Colorado in that time. It hasn't been decided whether every single employee will be moved out of the state.
Employees were notified Thursday about the move, and most are not expected to make the move and will be out of a job, Liptak said.
Paula Mehle, economic development coordinator for the town of Erie, said there is some hope that a small number of employees will remain in Colorado. But, she said, new tenants would be sought for the buildings Magpul vacates.
The University of Colorado, Denver (UCD) has placed a "cultural diversity" coordinator on paid leave after allegations surfaced she was operating a phone sex business during university hours.
Resa Cooper-Morning, 54, Cultural Diversity coordinator at UCD also managed a soft-core pornography site featuring a sex-chat component that allowed subscribers to engage in explicit conversations with the CU administrator during her university hours.
The “phone sex that will rock every part of your body!” was purportedly available Monday-Friday from 7:30am through the evening.
Cooper-Morning’s CU schedule indicated she worked at the university from 7 a.m. through 3 p.m. Monday through Friday according to Denver’s CBS4.
Your Tax Dollars at Work
“She does it while she is working at CU Denver,” Blair Cooper, Resa's daughter-in-law told CBS4.
“She is taking calls at work. I’ve been in her office and she’s said, ‘Oh, let me be right back I have a phone call.’ She takes them very discreetly, shuts her door takes phone sex calls on CU of Denver’s pay.”
CU Denver Vice Chancellor of Communications Leanna Clark told CBS4 that an internal investigation is being conducted. “The University of Colorado Denver takes this allegation very seriously,” Clark said.
Cooper-Morning, employed by the University of Colorado since 1992, will continue to receive her $68,000 annual salary.
State records obtained by CBS4 show that in 2003 the CU administrator established a business which included a website “msresa.com.”
The site features numerous nude, provocative photos of the CU administrator and allows users to purchase memberships that allow them to view dozens of low budget, soft core videos starring Cooper-Morning. One is entitled “Erotica in Pink,” another “Ride Her Pony!” while a 2013 offering is called “Vanilla Cocoa Butter Oil.” The short videos generally show Cooper-Morning in provocative poses and taking her clothes off.
The larger concern for CU administrators is that the website contains a phone sex component which offers users the ability to talk dirty with Cooper-Morning for $1.49 a minute about “fantasies … guided masturbation” and as the site promotes “phone sex that will rock every part of your body!.”
“Maybe kiss my brown thighs,” suggests her phone sex site. The site says Cooper-Morning can be reached for phone sex Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until late at night. Her university work hours are listed as 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The prospect that the CU administrator has been engaging in paid phone sex at the same time she is being paid to work by taxpayers has administrators concerned.
Sucking on the Public Teat Liberal Racism - Don't you just love racist liberals? They create phony taxpayer funded jobs to organize "cultural diversity". Sucking on the taxpayer Teat sure beats working for a living. . Hitler would be proud of how Liberals put everyone in racial sub-groups to be "organized" and watched by government agents.
The Insanity of Liberal Racism Actor Dwayne Johnson's father is of Black Nova Scotian origin, and his mother is of Samoan heritage. The insane racists of the Left are not sure what to do with Americans of mixed race who do not fit into their fantasy world of "pure blood" Hitlerian racial groupings. . The Leftists wring their hands, do you put The Rock in the segregated so-called "Black" student grouping? Do you put him in a segregated "Asian" student group? Or because The Rock is a mainstream American, do you put him in with those evil racist "Whites"?
6-year-old boy suspended for “Sexual Harassment” after kissing girl on the cheek
A six year old boy is suspended from school in Canon City, Colorado for kissing a classmate on the cheek.
His mother says it's a crush and the two children like each other. But the school is calling it something else; sexual harassment.
First grader, Hunter Yelton, told us he loves science and phys-ed. Also...that he has a crush on a girl at school, who likes him back reports KRDO News.
It may sound innocent enough...but at six years old Hunter now has 'sexual harassment' on his school record.
"It was during class yeah. We were doing reading group and I leaned over and kissed her on the hand. That's what happened," said Hunter Yelton.
Six year old Hunter was at home on Monday instead of at school.
The superintendent at School District RE-1, says any school record remains within the district. And Hunters’ actions fit the school policy description of 'sexual harassment'.
"How can you do this? How can you say this about my child? Remove sexual harassment, remove it from his record. I'm going to stand up and fight for him because that's not the case, that's not what happened at all,” said Saunders.”
The school district also says Hunters' parents may believe that kissing the girl at school is overall acceptable- but that's where the school disagrees. They're hoping the suspension changes hunter's behavior.
