CRITICAL ALERTS!
HB19-1177 has passed the House Judiciary Committee on will be voted upon by the full House February 22d.
The “Red Flag” law being considered in Colorado allows any family member, current or former dating partner, recent roommate, or law enforcement officer to allege that an individual--who has committed no crime--is a danger to himself/herself or others in an emergency petition that can lead to confiscation of the individual’s firearms and preclude him/her from possessing or purchasing a firearm for a year, with unlimited renewals subsequently—all without due process afforded to even indicted criminals.
HB19-1032 will mandate public school sexual education to include LGBT "relational or sexual experiences." The bill also prohibits "gender norms" from being used in the curriculum. The bill creates a lopsided "oversight board" to enforce the new curriculum elements. Click here for more details.
Legislators must hear from parents and citizens who oppose this attempt at forcing LGBT to be taught as the new norms.
The bill has cleared the House Education and Insurance Committee and will soon be heard by the House Appropriations Committee and the entire House.
Here is contact information for the General Assembly:
Senate Members
House Members
Democrats in the Colorado Senate have passed legislation to award all of Colorado's electoral votes to the Presidential candidate with the highest number of national popular votes (think Colorado subordinate to the wishes of NY City and LA). Click here for more details.
Your letters and phone calls are critically needed to let Colorado House members know that you expect them to abide by the US Constitution, the Colorado Constitution and the electorate of Colorado.
PLEASE contact them and pass this on to you entire email list and all friends and social media contacts. This is critical.
List of Colorado House member contacts (click for PDF)
Previous Alerts:
City of Colorado Springs to vote on approving $51.9 million collected as City sales and property taxes to be pledged for private development downtown. Vote takes place on December 11th in City Council Chambers.
For the "short of it" link here. For more details see here.
Contact City Council members:
If you're not sure what to say in the email, feel free to copy and paste the text below as a start:
"I am truly disappointed at your recent "YES" vote to "share" City tax dollars with private developers through the Urban Renewal Authority in the 'Costilla & Tejon' or the 'Museum-Park' urban renewal areas. As citizens, we supported your request for more tax dollars with Issue 2C and 2A. You have failed to earn the trust voters placed in you and protect our tax dollars. These TIF agreements will take tax dollars collected in an area that is capable of developing on its own in a free market and deprives critical City functions of the tax dollars in favor of subsidizing private development. This is a betrayal."
Voted to approve taxes for private development:
Richard Skorman (rskorman@springsgov.com)
Merv Bennett (MBennett@springsgov.com)
David Geislinger (dgeislinger@springsgov.com)
Yolanda Avila (yavila@springsgov.com)
Tom Strand (tstrand@springsgov.com)
Jill Gaebler (jgaebler@springsgov.com)
Andy Pico (apico@springsgov.com)
Don Knight (dknight@springsgov.com)
Absent for the vote:
Bill Murray (bmurray@springsgov.com)
Email All councilmembers (address also includes attorneys and members of City staff): allcouncil@springsgov.com
City of Colorado Springs to vote on approving $51.9 million collected as City sales and property taxes to be pledged for private development downtown. Vote takes place on December 11th in City Council Chambers.
For the "short of it" link here. For more details see here.
Contact City Council members:
If you're not sure what to say in the email, feel free to copy and paste the text below as a start:
"I am truly disappointed at your recent "YES" vote to "share" City tax dollars with private developers through the Urban Renewal Authority in the 'Costilla & Tejon' or the 'Museum-Park' urban renewal areas. As citizens, we supported your request for more tax dollars with Issue 2C and 2A. You have failed to earn the trust voters placed in you and protect our tax dollars. These TIF agreements will take tax dollars collected in an area that is capable of developing on its own in a free market and deprives critical City functions of the tax dollars in favor of subsidizing private development. This is a betrayal."
Voted to approve taxes for private development:
Richard Skorman (rskorman@springsgov.com)
Merv Bennett (MBennett@springsgov.com)
David Geislinger (dgeislinger@springsgov.com)
Yolanda Avila (yavila@springsgov.com)
Tom Strand (tstrand@springsgov.com)
Jill Gaebler (jgaebler@springsgov.com)
Andy Pico (apico@springsgov.com)
Don Knight (dknight@springsgov.com)
Absent for the vote:
Bill Murray (bmurray@springsgov.com)
Email All councilmembers (address also includes attorneys and members of City staff): allcouncil@springsgov.com