Citizens’ Budget Facts Part Deux

by Jon Caldara | 3:10 pm, January 27, 2011

These little nuggets are taken from our massive Citizens’ Budget project, headed up by Fiscal Policy Center director Penn Pfiffner.
1. Further reform of PERA must be one the highest priorities of this General Assembly. Although PERA boasts assets with market value of $32.9 billion, its total liabilities were nearly twice that amount – $56.3 [...]

Photos from OneNation Labor/Peace/Socialism Rally In DC

by T.L. James | 5:12 pm, October 2, 2010

One of our correspondents in DC sent these pictures of the pro-communist labor-sponsored OneNation rally on the Mall in Washington, October 2, 2010.

Vandalism at the Perlmutter Health Reform Town Hall?

by T.L. James | 7:10 pm, August 10, 2009

This from our well-funded and carefully coordinated friends over at Michael “The Hutt” Huttner’s place – if this is for real, why has it not been all over CNN?  The original email includes a picture of a car with what appears to be a car mirror dangling from its mount. Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 5:25PM [...]

Congressman Perlmutter Holds Health Care Town Hall Meeting in Brighton

by T.L. James | 9:41 pm, August 8, 2009

Update: CompleteColorado was there, and has additional pictures of union members and a few stealthy shots of Congressman Perlmutter cowering in the alcove. 200-300 people attended Congressman Ed Perlmutter’s health care/Obamacare/socialized medicine-themed town hall meeting this afternoon at the King Sooper’s in Brighton. Much more coverage below the fold…

Government employee unions? No way!

by John West | 2:48 pm, February 4, 2009

I was in a government building today and saw a sign posted that raised my ire.  It was a recruiting poster for a government employees union.  The first thing on the poster was the main reason they state for government employees to join their union.  The reason, “The THREAT:  Under way is a powerful and rapidly moving effort aimed [...]

Something Missing?

by randomridge | 12:11 am, October 13, 2008

So, someone showed me yet another anti-Amendment 46/47/49/54 flier that came to them in the mail this week, and I looked at it, and I noticed something strange. Look close and see if you can spot what it is:      No, I don’t mean the implicit violence in depicting a boy and a woman symbolically torn in half.  I mean the [...]

Ballot Language: Amendments 47, 49, 54

by T.L. James | 12:32 am, September 18, 2008

By popular request, here are links to the exact language for Amendments 47, 49, and 54, as presented in the 2008 State Ballot Information Booklet (aka, the Bluebook) [PDF] (if the direct links below do not work, go to the page indicated or follow the PDF’s internal bookmarks): Amendment 47: Prohibition on Mandatory Labor Union Membership and Dues [PDF, page [...]

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