Why Cruz Is Fracked: This Is What I Mean!

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Thursday September 26, 2013 · 2:41 PM PDT

2013/09/26 · 14:41

My Junior Senator, Ted Cruz (Czy.Tex.), has been on a tear recently exposing the HCA as dooooom for America. The job killing, put-down granmas, seductively addictive, health care program that is tearing at everything that we hold dear and close -- like freedom and liberty and stuff. But how is this playing out in Sen Cruz's home newspapers?

Please follow me below the Halloween Slogan to see a bit of local response to the subject of Teddy's tear.

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Have You Checked Out ACA's Premiums?

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Have You Checked Out ACA's Premiums?

Yes, and they're lower than what I pay now.

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Yes, and they're higher than I pay now.

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No, but now that I know I can save some money under ACA I'll check.

0 votes

Yes, it's lower for me, and I've even turned on friends and neighbors to the bargains of ACA.

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I'm on an employer plan, so I'm just watching.

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CO Vote By Mail - Heads Up. Don't Lose Your Vote

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Saturday October 27, 2012 · 7:50 PM PDT

2012/10/27 · 19:50

I spent all day today at the OFA office in West Denver calling voters identified by the campaign as needing to enclose a copy of their ID with their mail ballot in order to have their votes counted. Mail voters with a DL who were identified through cross checking with the DMV as residents of CO do not need to include an ID with their ballots. However, mail voters without DLs, or mail voters who do have a DL but whose names would not correlate with DMV records because their names were not properly spelled out by the registrars office in placing them on the VR roll, or mail voters who simply live in counties where the county clerk did not do due diligence with DMV records, will not have their votes counted unless they enclose a copy of an acceptable ID. Incredibly, many of these voters were not so alerted in the instructions which were enclosed with their mail ballots - indeed they were often told no ID was necessary in the general instructions included with their ballots.

So heads up -- if you are voting a mail ballot in CO, and have any doubts, don't take any chances of having your vote rejected. Include a copy of your DL, student ID (picture only), utility receipt with your name and address, Colorado ID, bank account statement, passport, pay statement from work. And pass the word around if you are in CO. If you are affected and have already sent in your ballot, you can fix it by going to an early vote location with a copy of your ID and explain why you are turning it in. Or you can mail a copy of your ID to the clerk's office with a letter explaining the same.

GOTV -- Denver Mexican-American Community?

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Thursday October 11, 2012 · 10:25 AM PDT

2012/10/11 · 10:25

I just recently moved to Denver from Texas. I used to be my County's Democratic Party Chair, and have decades of experience in GOTV efforts in the Chicano community. I've been trying to hook up with whomever is involved in pushing out the vote in the M-A community in Denver. However, the Obama Dashboard has been useless for me. Lots of news, but no help in getting me connected with my community.

Sooo...I'm hoping someone in the know on the campaign in Denver is reading this, and can give me a contact to call, who might fit me into an ongoing GOTV effort, or if there is not such an effort in the M-A community, who can help me organize one. I am chomping at the bit to get Chicanos in Denver fired up to vote, but no help through Dashboard. Anyone?

Thanks.

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hell yes

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The $193,000,000,000 Question.

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Tuesday July 24, 2012 · 2:25 PM PDT

2012/07/24 · 14:25

The CBO published a study today that estimated a savings of $84 Billion over the next 11 years as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Moreover, the CBO found that repealing ACA would increase the deficit over the next decade by $109 billion. These should be pretty persuasive numbers, especially if you are a deficit hawk.

But that's only at the macro level. In my small community, 5% of our county property taxes are spent on providing for indigent care, whether we like it or not, as this expense is mandated by state law. That's $3,300,000 in costs paid to our local hospital through local property taxes that my county would not have to bear under ACA -- a 5% reduction in our property tax bills. But there's even more at the micro level. Our hospital "wrote off" $87,000,000 last year in indigent care. Of course we know that the hospital does not absorb these costs, but rather passes them on to those of us who have health insurance coverage, or pay cash.

Reuters, in reporting on these findings by the CBO figures that:

The latest measure of the healthcare law's cost is likely to become a factor in the presidential election-year debate over its merits and Republican efforts to repeal the law, Obama's top legislative achievement.

Ya figure? These are excellent numbers to fight with at the macro level. At the micro level, I know that in Texas our county property taxes would be decreased by at least 5% if ACA is able to bust through Rick Perry's ideology and political pandering.

Quinnipiac Poll VA - Threatened Demo Runaway

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Tuesday March 20, 2012 · 12:15 PM PDT

2012/03/20 · 12:15

A Quinnipiac poll hot off the press has the Democratic candidates in great shape in Virginia. The poll shows a Romney/McDonnell ticket would lose to an Obama/Biden ticket, 50 to 43 percent. (Even with a sitting governor on the ticket!) The poll also found that Tim Kaine has a three percentage point lead over George Allen -- 47-44 percent. Good momentum overall, and some more goodies under the fold.

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Tuesday February 21, 2012 · 12:58 PM PST

2012/02/21 · 12:58

Sheriff Babeau has come out swinging in his quest at saving his congressional aspirations. He went on a national and local TV appearance blitz justifying his behavior. The sheriff is facing two problems, both of which are political problems -- "moral" and legal. Please follow me below the ribbon to get my read on how the Sheriff is doing on these fronts, along with video links of his star appearances.

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Wednesday January 04, 2012 · 12:50 PM PST

2012/01/04 · 12:50

Just when it seemed like Perry would turn tail, and head back to his Austin Palace, he is showing his true Texas grit by announcing that rumors of his demise are untrue. Disproving that he is a coward, Rick is climbing back into the ring, and hitching up his tight wrestling pantaloons. And Willard should beware. It looks like he'll have another Rick to contend with as well.

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Thursday August 25, 2011 · 12:55 PM PDT

2011/08/25 · 12:55

Quico Canseco tried out the special invitation only "town hall" in San Antonio so favored by Republicans this August:

Solis said Canseco turned down an invitation this month to hold a town hall meeting at his South Side church. His secretary “said, ‘No. We don't do that. That's impossible,'” Solis said. “So now we're here".

Proving that you can run from the people, but you can't hide, Canseco was confronted by his constituents:

They claimed the protest was inspired by Canseco's refusal to meet with his working-class constituents.

Instead, Quico was having a gathering with his "job creator" pals at the Chamber of Commerce. Not to be left out, 70 of his constituents rallied at the confab and gave him a piece of their minds.

And they were angry. Over Medicare:

“I want to protect the senior citizens of San Antonio,” said Diaz, 44. “When you cut the medicines for the people, you are committing a form of euthanasia.

and:

“I want him to know that I'm a senior citizen, my wife and I,” said the Rev. Ysidro Solis, 73. “It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that if he takes away our Medicare, we're gone.”

Quico tried to weasel out when interviewed by the reporter, using the right wing talking point that his efforts are meant to "...strengthen medicare, not destroy it". Ohhkay! Except Quico's constituents would have nothing to do with it. And they stood up to him, despite his dodgy ways.

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Thursday June 09, 2011 · 10:37 AM PDT

2011/06/09 · 10:37

I came to terms with it today, after much thought and consideration. I'm going to invest in a solar system for our house. My thought process on this is somewhat different than the analysis I've seen here, so I thought I'd share the why in my case. I live on a ranch in South Texas, lots of sun, and in a house with a roof perfectly positioned (by luck). But this is not a diary on the specs of PV systems, or their efficiency. Rather, it is a diary on why it makes financial sense to invest in solar panels on your home.

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Saturday March 26, 2011 · 2:50 PM PDT

2011/03/26 · 14:50

I'm a civil rights attorney who has been involved in voting rights litigation and activism for over 30 years. This has included litigation in Texas over minority voting rights. It has also included organizing petition drives to force the ballot issue of instituting single-member district elections in Texas school districts and municipalities. This is what I have found. Please join me below the fold to read of tactics in gathering petitions, especially if you are involved in the recall drives against the white-right poster villains in Wisconsin, or if you care to know about single member districts.

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Saturday March 01, 2008 · 1:52 PM PST

2008/03/01 · 13:52

Much has been said about the Texas precinct caucus method for selecting delegates to the national convention, as a look at the recommended diaries today attests. Rather than get into the detail elaborated on in these diaries, which I agree is important, and in response to the many chicken-little's berating our system (sorta like the worry of where to bank your money after you win the lottery, as you'll see on the flip), I'd like to discuss the big picture, as a former Democratic county chair for many years who actually worked the Texas caucus system. And I'd like to start by saying the system is brilliant. That's right, brilliant, as I explain below.

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 1:29 PM PST

2008/01/30 · 13:29

Well it's official. My candidate, John Edwards is out. I grieve for him, as he gave it all he had for the disadvantaged and shut-off. But the intrigue now builds. The polls tend to show a momentum change for Obama since South Carolina. Yet John's withdrawal today changes all that. Where will we go?

Flip to vote (and no cheating from the Obama and Clinton crowd, hear?).

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Babeu's "Moral" And Legal Problems

Here Comes Perry With A Bat

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