Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Pete Brayton

My wife's second cousin, Jessica Killin is currently leading Republican Jeff Crank here in Colorado. That would be the district that includes among other parts of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS!

Not sure how you feel about this Pete, and I certainly don’t wanna make any value judgments, but I’m really bummed that Amendment 87 passed giving Colorado a graduated state income tax. At least it appears to be passing by one percent.

The bill has significant flaws, for example the brackets not being indexed for inflation.   Mostly I think it will likely discourage high earning young professionals, entrepreneurs and corporations from moving to Colorado.   Democrat governor Jared Pollis was opposed to this amendment, and I agreed with him for all sorts of reasons. Hopefully it does not damage our economy too badly.

P.S.  no one has called the Killin race in ElPaso county or Amendment 87 officially.  The Colorado Secretary of States shows all counties have completed their Election Day counts, which should be most everything, since we are entirely mail-out, drop-off voting.  No late ballots except military, I think.   Still the NYT says that only 75% of the vote is in, so take my conclusions with a grain of salt please,

Originally Posted by Pete Brayton

My wife's second cousin, Jessica Killin is currently leading Republican Jeff Crank here in Colorado. That would be the district that includes among other parts of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS!

Which explains where Richard Davis is. No doubt he’s still partying with the Killin campaign staffers, since we all know he’s a closet liberal.  🤔

Originally Posted by James Brown

As best I can tell from the Colorado Secretary of State‘s webpage Killin beat Crank handily.  That is Colorado’s District five. After the Democrats finished gerrymandering our state, district 5 includes El Paso County and nothing else. I guess the goal was to pack all of the Republican influence into one district to keep the surrounding districts more blue. Turns out they didn’t have to worry.

Carpet-bagger Lauren Boebert went down in her new “safe” East slope district.

One Republican might win a house seat in Colorado in the district covering the far western and southern corner of the state. He is ahead by 1200 votes out of 300,000 cast, so I’m sure it is not officially gonna be over for a long time.

By the way, most of you probably know this but El Paso county in Colorado has a huge military presence, in addition to a strong cabinetmaker community.  The military vote has made this district reliably R forever.  If Killin continues to kill the vote that tells a lot about what our military men and women think of Trump’s second term so far.