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Now, for Colorado news:
Tevye, one of the site’s finders of great stories, wrote another about a good piece on a Colorado topic where we’re leading the way. Today, he wrote the recommended story www.dailykos.com/… about how Denver has figured out how to avoid killing people who need help, but not of the police kind. They need help for mental health crises, or situations where families cannot pull their relatives out of depression and possibly suicidal situations. You’ve probably read stories where someone threatens to kill themselves, the police respond and, not knowing any better, wind up killing the person when they were supposed to help them live. Well, read Tevye’s diary about Denver’s program that is being expanded to other front range cities and the astounding results that have been achieved. Denver finally stopped studying the problem and acted to fix it, and apparently they’re getting it right.
Tina Peters, that clerk and recorder from Mesa County who is trying hard to fail upwards by becoming the state’s Secretary of State as a reward for breaking the law, has finally been indicted for ten counts of interfering with elections — www.cpr.org/…, coloradosun.com/…, www.nytimes.com/… and her deputy has been indicted for six counts.
From the Pueblo Chieftain article about Democrat Adam Frisch who is hoping to win the Democratic primary and then take on the Republican (likely Boebert) for CO3,
In a letter to the U.S. Attorney in Colorado, Frisch claimed Boebert and Peters collaborated on a regular basis, including when they issued coordinated statements on Nov. 21, criticizing the investigations into Peters and into Boebert's former campaign manager Sherrona Bishop.
Now, Representative Boebert has her own legal team looking into suing Adam Frisch for libel over that, saying she has no close association with Peters. Ms. Peters apparently can run for the office, but she cannot serve as the Secretary of State if she’s convicted and serving time. If she has been elected, Jared Polis would appoint someone to serve out her term. If she hasn’t been elected, well, then hopefully she’ll go off into Q — land and be with Mike Lindell, one of her biggest fans.
The last issue I wanted to post was the state house legislature passing a bill to dramatically overhaul and guarantee abortion rights in Colorado. This bill tackles many of the issues that have been tried, including guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion, at any stage of “life” of the fetus, that women and doctors cannot have this taken away by the state and that Colorado will continue to have the abortion procedure available if the Supreme Court, as expected, makes abortion something states decide instead of a national right. However —
The concern among abortion rights groups is that conservative Colorado counties or municipalities could try to pass local measures banning or significantly limiting abortions. Without the protections in Roe v. Wade, those local measures may not be challengeable in court without the passage of affirmative abortion-access legislation at the Capitol.
But because House Bill 1279 changes only state law, Republicans would still be able to introduce bills and ballot measures seeking to limit abortion access. Only a constitutional amendment, which would require approval by 55% of voters, could more permanently settle the question.
And in the Denver Post:
There is no apparent compromise here. The Democrats believe fundamentally that pregnant people should have the autonomy to access safe, legal abortion. Being in the majority, they don’t have to budge at all, and they don’t plan to.
Their bill not only concerns the right to abortion, but also would ban local and state governments from interfering with that right, and prevent a fertilized egg, embryo or fetus from having independent rights under state law.
“There is no ability to negotiate, to move us out of this. It’s just a polarizing topic,” said yet another sleepless lawmaker, House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar, a Democrat of Pueblo who is sponsoring the bill along with Froelich. “We will be here as long as we have to be here to continue to fight for the right for women to have a right to choose in the state of Colorado. We’re here to protect that right and we’re going to keep going as long as they make us go.”
By Esgar’s own admission, and that of other bill proponents, HB22-1279 does not actually propose big changes in Colorado. Abortion is already legal here, without restrictions on when in a pregnancy someone can choose to seek abortion. But state law does not affirmatively state as much, so with abortion rights threatened at the national level, Colorado Democrats want to codify existing rights.
The Denver Post piece seems to differ in at least one significant way from the Colorado Sun piece — the ability of local governments to still interfere. Not sure which is right, but probably both are, somehow. This legislation is only possible because we have a blue house, blue senate and Democratic governor. Make plans to keep everything blue so we don’t let women lose rights like these.
Plenty to chew on here and in the comments. Speaking of which, please put your thoughts down below, on these or any other topics of interest. The floor is yours...