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Negative Campaigning – Colorado Coffee Party Takes a Stand

August 13, 2010
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Negative Campaigning – Colorado Coffee Party Takes a Stand

Negative campaigning in Colorado needs to take a coffee break.

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Today’s Democratic Primary

August 9, 2010
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Today’s Democratic Primary

Is it any wonder that this race is being seen as a race for the soul of the Democratic Party – if indeed it has one left?

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Coffee Party on Negative Campaigning

August 4, 2010
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Negative Campaigning – Colorado Coffee Party Takes a Stand Negative campaigning recently became an unpleasant feature of the Colorado Senate seat race, within both the Romanoff-Bennet contest for the Democratic Party and the Buck-Norton contest for the Republican Party. Mindful of this backdrop, the Colorado Coffee Party movement sent a letter to 58 candidates...

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The Coffee Party: Thoughtful antidote to the Tea Party

July 7, 2010
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The Coffee Party:  Thoughtful antidote to the Tea Party

The Longmont Coffee Party meets Saturday July 10th at 4pm at the Brewing Market, Residents in Boulder County are urged to attend the next meeting on Saturday July 10th at 11am at The Boulder Library, Meadows Branch, located behind Safeway, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO 80303.

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City Council, campaigns must be open and honest

May 29, 2010
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Sue Broidy speaking at Longmont City Council Public Invited To Be Heard

The following address was presented to the Longmont City Council at its May 18th meeting: Good evening Mayor Baum and members of the Council.  I am pleased to be here tonight to speak in support of the Election Committee’s recommendations for the Longmont Fair Campaign Practices Act and to urge you to pass it....

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The GOP Stance

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
— Mitch McConnell, Republican Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate - interview in the National Journal, October 25, 2010

“This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise..."
— John Boehner, soon-to-be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Definition: Fascism

Fascism, a philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism.
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Quote of the moment

If you marry for money, you will earn it. — Ezra Bowen

They Said What?

"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike." - Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." - Ann Coulter