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Home stretch of Longmont 2011 Election: The money game

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 31, 2011 - 3:53 am |
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With just a couple of days left to get votes in, there are some races that can already be called.  Of course, I’m talking about the money race, as of the 3rd Reporting Period for candidates.  People can argue about the importance, or lack thereof, of contributions, but the candidates who raised and spent the most in 2009 won. Continue reading… →

End partisanship with this election

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 29, 2011 - 3:00 pm |
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(A version of this article ran in the Saturday 10/29/11 Times-Call)
I get asked all the time why do I get involved in local politics?  The answer is twofold.  First, local ordinances and regulations have a far greater effect on your everyday life than some behemoth bureaucracy at the federal level.  And secondly, it’s easier for a citizen to become knowledgeable of and affect those local policies – in other words, “take on city hall”. Continue reading… →

“Goldilocks” Levison “just wrong” for Longmont

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 25, 2011 - 11:45 pm |
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If you are a subscriber to the Times-Call you saw a fairly self-centered and egotistical editorial by Longmont City Councilmember Sarah Levison.  This is par for her course as she’s often referred to herself as the “hardest working member of council.”  Talking endlessly does not equate working hard, it just equates…talking a lot.  But the “Goldilocks” reference she used is apt, but not in the way she means. Continue reading… →

Longmont’s Democratic candidates and committees hiding contributors

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 22, 2011 - 4:06 am |
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There’s something rotten in Denmark, or Longmont more specifically.  There is a game afoot to get around reporting who is making campaign contributions and how much they are contributing.  The most egregious example of this has been made by someone on council who pushed the hardest for transparency in campaign reports:  Councilmember Sarah Levison.  But not far behind is a slew of fellow Democrat candidates and a committee. Continue reading… →

Yellow Scene makes some surprise endorsements

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 18, 2011 - 5:51 am |
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I occasionally check out the Yellow Scene magazine.  They’ve been somewhat fair to me over the years, and even gave me one of the first write-ups of my first blog, Wrongmont, and it was positive.  I think it’s pretty universally accepted to say they lean to the left politically, so to say some of its recent endorsements for Longmont City Council was a surprise is putting it lightly. Continue reading… →

Easiest way to improve civility: Remove McCoy

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 16, 2011 - 4:00 pm |
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As a public service I’m going to help out Longmont City Councilmember Sean McCoy.  In the recent candidate forum at Silver Creek High School he was asked how to improve civility on city council.  He couldn’t answer the question in the allotted time.  Let me answer it for him:  Remove Sean McCoy from Longmont City Council – it’s that simple. Continue reading… →

Continue the liberal/progressive losing streak

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 15, 2011 - 4:00 pm |
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Longmont voters would do well to follow regional and national trends and remove the liberal/progressive cancer that has infested our local government.  The elections of 2006-2008, especially Longmont’s election of ’07, have proven to be an aberration that has left a foul taste in most citizens’ mouths, and voters have been turning back this unseemly tide. Continue reading… →