North Suburban Republican Forum

December, 2011
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Our next meeting is from 9:45-11:15 am, Saturday, December 10th featuring Patty McCoy, Adams County Republicans Chair and Erich Feigel, Broomfield County Republicans Chair explaining the caucus process and the timeline for the 2012 election. We meet at our new location, the Anythink Huron Street Library community room, 9417 Huron St, Thornton, 80260. If you have a smart phone, use a bar code app for the QR code on the left, it will take you to our web site, www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com

NSRF upcoming calendar in 2011: January 14 Dr. Jill Vecchio about what ObamaCare really is and how it impacts America February 11 Upcoming legislative bills and what you can do to inform your legislator March 10 850 KOAs Michael Brown discusses the 2012 election & the presidential candidates April 14 What has the Colorado Legislature accomplished so far this session and what is on tap?

Table of Contents:

Adams County voter information Republican Trumpeteers of Adams County Christmas luncheon CLaRO of Adams County 2011 Holiday party

Reagan Club of Colorado Christmas party Colorado Republican Business Coalition Christmas and Hanukkah party Lincoln Club of Colorado 2011 Holiday party Are you registered for the February 7th caucus? You have until December 7th to do so Free People. Free Markets. Principles of Liberty class information Caucus training for citizens Adams County elected officials contact information City seeks input on becoming its own county Colorado Obama team already deep into 2012 battle plan Politically is there a difference? Here are the facts NSRF membership application

Attendees of the

Republican Trumpeteers of Adams County Christmas Luncheon

Will be entertained by

Phyllis Woodward, master of characterizations.

In past years her characters have included: Florence Sabin, M.D. First Lady Routt, wife of Governor Routt Silverheels, the Dance Hall Queen What woman in Colorado history will come to life at this years

luncheon?

$20 per person includes deli luncheon buffet and program

Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. The Ranch Country Club Between Pecos and Federal on 120th Avenue Reservations required by noon, Wednesday, November 30 Maggie Caillouette (303)252-9731 maggiecail@juno.com Please remember to bring unwrapped, new toys and nonperishable food items to support the Colorado Guard Foundation
2012 Membership Dues will be $22 and may be paid at the meeting. 2012 Associate Membership Dues will be $15 and may be paid at the meeting.

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Caucuses are coming up February 7th! Save This Date! It is the one of the most important events in the political calendar. You MUST be registered Republican by DECEMBER 7th to participate in the Republican caucuses. Check your registration here https://www.sos.state.co.us/Voter/secuRegVoterIntro.do or go to your local county clerks office, info here: http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/election/Resources/CountyElectionOffices.html. You have to reside in your precinct 30 days prior to the Caucus in order to vote in the caucus. Be a part of the process, and make real change in 2012!

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City seeks input on becoming its own county

Jail cap among reasons for query
by Tammy Kranz Staff Writer

December 02, 2011 | 09:53 AM Thornton will test the waters with residents this month to see if there is interest in the city breaking away from Adams County and becoming its own county and city similar to Broomfield and Denver. The county question will be asked of 400 registered voters who will be called as part of the city's annual citizen survey Dec. 1-11. Ward 4 Councilman Randy Drennen suggested the question during the council's Nov. 22 planning session while discussing the questions on the survey. He said because of the competing interests between the city and Adams County regarding finances, the question should be asked. A recent competing interest has been the Adams County commissioners' approval of a cap of inmates that municipalities can house at the county jail. If a city goes beyond that cap, the city will be charged a daily fee of $45. Many area council members feel this is double-dipping from the county, since residents already pay taxes to maintain the jail. "If there is no interest (to become a county) at this point it'll impact how we go forward," said Ward 3 Councilwoman Lynne Fox. After the session, Ward 3 Councilwoman Beth Humenik said there were pros and cons of a city becoming a county, and before council could moved forward to examine those, it had to get an idea if there was general interest. The National Research Center Inc. will conduct the phone survey of approximately 100 citizens within each of the four wards. The $21,000 fee will come from the general fund. The survey this year will be different from surveys of the past because this one will be a national standardized survey. This enables the company to compare Thornton's results against other communities. There are approximately 40 questions on the standardized survey, ranging from how respondents rate the quality of life in Thornton to whether they had been a victim of crime in the past year to impressions they have of city workers. The city gets three custom questions, which is where the county question will be asked. The other two custom questions deal with how respondents feel about a tax to finish FasTracks, including the North Metro Line, and how they feel about a tax to renew and extend the city's sales tax dedicated to parks and open space, which expires in 2018. Assistant City Manager Joyce Hunt was in favor of doing the standardized testing this year so the city could compare its results to other cities that compete with Thornton for jobs and retail. "It's something we have never been able to do and I think it will be quite interesting," she said. The council is expected to get the results after the first of the year. http://www.great8newspapers.com/Articles-news-c-2011-12-02-222971.114125-sub17478.114125-City-seeks-input-onbecoming-its-own-county.html

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Colorado Obama team already deep into 2012 battle plan

Intensely focused advance teams work voter databases and meet with citizens one on one. By John Tomasic Friday, December 02, 2011 at 9:14 am GREELEY The presidential election is ten months away but, for many hardcore Obama volunteers like the dozen or so people who met here in a garage on the Monday night before Thanksgiving, the campaign has never stopped. Joe Perez, a retired city worker, is the owner of this gathering space, a clapboard nerve center of northern Colorado Obama politics tucked into a cul-de-sac between a maze of wooden fences. The interior is plastered with political signs in English and Spanish. One stretches across the entire back wall: The road to the presidency goes through Greeley it announces in big-brush block letters. The volunteers point out the sign and laugh at its ironic grandiosity but they also semi-seriously embrace it. Theyll tell you that Colorado is a pivotal swing state and that it reflects key demographic and economic changes taking place throughout the American west. Although the Northern Colorado Tea Party, for example, is one of the largest Tea Party groups in the country and held repeat candidate forums in the Greeley area during the 2010 election season, its familiar rallying cries like We want our country back either fail to resonate with or offend the kind of people who are destined to eventually dominate the region. Over the last decades, large numbers of coastal and university-town Americans have come here to work in expanding tech and research industries and, together with the growing mostly still working-class Latino population, are tipping the states formerly red-libertarian political profile to a shade of purple that places public good at least on something like par with individual liberty as a top government priority. In fact, at a glance, the volunteers in Joes garage could be northern Colorado Tea Partiers. These arent stereotypical fresh-faced Obamatron hipsters; these are politicized older people. Outwardly, the two most glaring differences between these volunteers and local Tea Partiers are that they are an ethnically mixed bunch and that they are intensely organized on election campaign work. They are not discussing the news or politics or the failings of the media or anything else. Theyre on task. Its nearly a year from Election Day and a holiday week and yet theres almost no time being wasted in this garage. Material from the national organization, Obama for America (OFA), spreads out on long foldout tables covered with red-checkered tablecloths. Laptops are open with browsers showing the My Barack Obama or My-BO and Democratic Party VoteBuilder databases. People are typing from the beginning to the end of the meeting. Everyone knows what theyre here to do. As the meeting progresses, Perez fills out a big white-board calendar set in front of the car door. 12

A woman named Trish updates a list of thousands of Weld County residents names with answers to a host of ground-game questions: Who seemed receptive to the message? Who wants to volunteer? Who changed a phone number? Who needs to register to vote? Pat Bruner, the meeting facilitator, works off an agenda cheat-sheet provided by the national campaign, ticking off items and adding notes for next week. Dates are being set for face-to-face coffees with potential volunteers. Follow-up pre-printed OFA postcards are being addressed to be mailed out the week after Thanksgiving. Phone banking time is scheduled to talk to the voters receiving the postcards. There is a Review and Preview meeting set for the middle of December, where the group will look back on progress made and ahead to goals that must be achieved in the first weeks of the new year. Ten minutes after the meeting starts, the volunteers are all on their phones, looking mainly at this stage to line up more organizers and swell the ranks of the northern Colorado advance teams. Those not typing notes are scribbling away with OFA pens. The Greeley team has been meeting here to work exclusively on the campaign since August. Nearly all of them worked to elect Obama in 2008 and most have been working to gain public support for Obamas policy agenda since he was inaugurated. To do that, they have essentially been using the same organizing techniques and as a bonus keeping the campaigns network of contacts fresh. We just keep our eye down the road. We know what part we play in the bigger picture. Its person to person, phone call after phone call. Dissipated electricity Perezs story of how he recently became involved in Democratic politics is typical of the genre. He moved to Greeley from Denver 30 years ago looking for a smaller, agricultural, more culturally conservative community, something more like western Nebraska where he grew up. Greeley suits him but there were drawbacks. Its so [politically] conservative up here, I felt I couldnt really speak my convictions, he said. I was never political. After Vietnam, I put a McGovern sticker on my car. That was my first political action outside the voting booth. Then I saw Obamas speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. He told his story. He said Were not African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans. Were all just Americans. Well, Ive been called a wetback, a beaner, a spic, Perez said, counting off the names on his fingers. Ive been called everything, but never an American. Thats all I ever wanted to be, an American. Obama electrified me about the inclusiveness of the American people. That variety of Obama electricity has diminished now that he is also familiar to Americans as the captain of a dysfunctional Washington at a time of crisis. For the 99 percent, the national economy three years after Obama took office is still limping along, throwing up the kind of high unemployment figures its easy to imagine would dance like hooded reapers through the dreams of any sitting president. In response, the campaign is looking in part to provide context for voters through messaging that focuses on the alternative realities any of the likely Republican candidates would have brought about. Perez says one of the main hurdles hes coming up against in talking to voters is disillusionment, where citizens who cast their first-ever ballot did so for Obama last election and have come to believe it didnt make any 13

difference. Washington is still Washington: the games go on as usual there while the vast majority of Americans continue to suffer coast to coast. For these dispirited voters, Perez delivers a list of examples of Republican actions taken over the past three years that he believes demonstrates a cynical obstructionist approach to government. He leads with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnells statement from January 2009 in which he held that the single most important thing [Republicans] want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. Perez mentions the debt and budget standoffs this year that saw Republicans bringing the nation to the brink of disaster by refusing to consider raising taxes even on millionaires when debt default loomed and Standard and Poors delivered an historic downgrading of the nations credit rating. Same thing, says Perez, when you look at what just happened with the congressional super committee, which was formed out of desperation to negotiate a compromise budget but failed to do so. Theres a vision of an America that guards the living wage, the opportunity of education, that looks after the well-being of its citizens, Perez said. Thats Obamas vision. I share that vision and I think most Americans share that vision, but theres just a lack of cooperation to get things done. The other side doesnt seem to care about what they call the bottom feeders, [people] who should all just take a shower and get a job. The American people want to work, they want to keep their homes. Unemployment benefits put food on the table but they dont pay rent. People want jobs. These are our family members and friends. Theyre Americans. As Jim Rutenberg, writing on the campaign message for the New York Times last weekend, put it: If 2008 was about Yes We Can and limitless possibility, 2012 will be to some degree about why we couldnt (Republican intransigence), and why we shouldnt, at least when it comes to anything the Republican nominee proposes (His party got us here in the first place). Message and mechanics For now, however, the message seems less important than the mechanics, and on that score the campaign is notching major successes. By mid-October, the donor-ticker at the Obama for America website rolled past seven digits. More than a million people have given to the campaign, a rate of giving that outpaces the record set by the first Obama presidential campaign. In the third quarter, the re-election effort raked in $42 million and received 257,000 firsttime donations. The average amount donated was $55. By mid-November, the campaign celebrated its millionth one-on-one conversation with voters, a mark of the old-school approach to election politics taken by the Obama team that prioritizes the ground game and an achievement that buoys campaign staffers despite the lousy economy and shifting poll numbers. Our opponents simply lack the broad base of grassroots support that we have, campaign manager Jim Messina said at the time. They dont believe in it. They dont have any interest in the kind of politics that bring everyday people together to make real change in this country. According to a November campaign memo, the national team also confirmed it had signed on its thousandth volunteer neighborhood team leader. The author of the memo announced successes around the country that included a day of action in Colorado that drew 537 volunteers who worked from 58 staging locations to arrange more than 100 one-on-one meetings with Obama supporters and independent voters. 14

Obama for America presently has two offices open in Colorado, one in Denver and one in Fort Collins, and is hiring staff to cover the entire state. Two priorities that have taken shape in the state, according to the Greeley volunteers and campaign officials, is to protect voting rights and to reach out to women. Neither priority comes as a surprise. Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler has made national news for seeking the authority to purge the states election rolls of voters he believes may be illegally registered non-citizens or illegal immigrants and for acting to prevent county clerks from mailing ballots to inactive voters or legally registered voters who failed to vote in the 2010 election. He has met stiff resistance in these efforts but Democratic sources routinely refer to him as the states Katherine Harris, the controversial Republican Florida secretary of state in 2000 who declared that George Bush had defeated Al Gore and who halted recount efforts despite the fact that a margin of only roughly 500 votes separated the candidates and that widespread allegations of irregularities plagued the ballot casting and counting processes. In 2010, by almost all accounts, women decided the Colorado U.S. Senate race that pitted Democrat Michael Bennet against Republican Ken Buck. Perez said the Greeley Obama volunteers worked on that race intensely, a race Buck seemed poised to run away with. In the end, however, he turned off women in droves with his strong stand against abortion and his mishandling as Weld County District Attorney of a rape case in which he appeared to blame the victim, arguing that the assault charges werent worth pursuing and doing so in crude language that betrayed a retrograde view of sex crimes and gender relations in general. The Greeley volunteer meeting facilitator on Monday, Pat Bruner, a multi-ethnic mainly German-Japanese mom a typical Heinz 57 American, as she puts it grew up in Fort Collins and worked for the Obama campaign in 2008. She said she has a big family and feels the need to work to put in place a government that embraces the future, that isnt mired in the battles of the past. She said many of the voters she is meeting with share similar concerns. We spend a lot of time just sitting down with people, talking. Theyre worried but theyre also very open and positive about the message. We [volunteers] just keep our eye down the road. We know what part we play in the bigger picture. Its person to person, phone call after phone call. Its not glamorous. Its hard work.

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Politically, is there really a difference? Here are the facts:

Democrat platform
Bigger government More onerous rules and regulations More government control over your life More government spending & higher tax rates Anti-business policies Gun control & weak national defense Obamacare Equality of outcome Social justice Liberal/Progressive Community and social responsibility-based The U.S. debt is due to a revenue problem

Republican platform
Smaller government Less onerous rules and regulations Less government control over your life Less government spending & lower tax rates Pro-business policies Gun rights & strong national defense Private health care choices Equality of opportunity Personal responsibility Conservative Individual rights and justice-based The U.S. debt is due to a spending problem

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