Justin Ratzlaff is the Chair of the Rio Grande County GOP, and he has a Confederate flag tattoo on his arm.
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Denver immigration attorney calls ICE report “propaganda”
A local immigration attorney’s office has labeled the new report, by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), “propaganda” designed to further Trump’s immigrants-as-criminals rhetoric.
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Right to Work for less laws and the lying politicians who promote them
Colorado State Rep. Justin Everett (R-Littleton) posted this on Facebook recently. It’s an assertion without evidence that “contrary to what you may have heard…wages go up and unemployment goes down” in so-called “Right to Work” states.
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Here’s how a Colorado lawmaker wants the state to plan for the worst under Trump’s administration
Over 50 people crowded into Colorado’s Delight Me Sweets bakery in Thornton Saturday afternoon to speak with their state representative about defending freedom, protecting immigrants, and preparing for the worst under a Trump administration.
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Vice Chair posts old news and his crazed supporters can’t tell the difference
Colorado GOP Vice Chair Derrick Wilburn is either one of the most dishonest politicians in Colorado or one of the most ignorant (or perhaps a mixture of both). In today’s example, he posts old video of a confrontation between protesters and police from last May and implies it just happened. I don’t know if he actually believes it happened recently or not, but he doesn’t indicate to his audience that it’s old news, with predictable results:
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Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway tells radio host he will not resign
In an appearance Thursday on KFKA 1310-AM’s Northern Colorado’s Morning News, Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway responded to the release of a report investigating claims by several people from different agencies in Weld County who accused Conway of creating a hostile work environment.
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Coffman once said it was “very radical” to give health insurance to millions of people who now have it under Obamacare. Now he’s ready to take it away.
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) is making conflicting statements on whether he wants to continue to give health insurance to the 400,000 Coloradans, including 14,000 in his district, who got health insurance under Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid.
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The Coueys go to Washington, and it’s a microcosm of our times
I ran across this story about a “Rifle woman” going to Washington for a Donald Trump healthcare “listening session”. It seems strange to hold a listening session after the bill has already been committed to paper and the GOP has had more than seven years to “listen” and formulate a better healthcare plan than the Affordable Care Act.
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Colorado Governor Ralph Carr evoked in Freedom Defense Act press conference
State Rep. Joseph Salazar (D-Thornton) announced at the Protect our Muslim Neighbors Rally, that he was committed to showing up for Colorado’s Immigrant community and was introducing a bill titled the Ralph Carr Freedom Defense Act.
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State House bill seeks less invasive procedure to change a birth certificate
Amid national political attacks on transgender rights, Colorado’s State House passed a bill yesterday that would make it easier for people to change the gender on their birth certificate to the gender they identify with.