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ating Our 16th Year!
We meet the first Wednesday of the month
longmontdems.org
ANNOUNCEMENTSTOMORROW: MoveOn Day of Action: Release the FULL Mueller Report!, 5pm, 6th & Main.
EVERY Saturday: Longmont Leads with Love Weekly Vigil, 1–2pm, 6th & Main.
Out Boulder County’s Annual Night of Noise Youth Summit, Friday, April 12, 1–8:45pmCasey Middle School, 1301 High St, Boulder. Standing against bullying of LGBTQ youth. Packed w/ events, with State Rep. Brianna Titone + more! Info: outboulder.org
Climate Sustainability Roundtable, Thursday, April 18, 6:30-8:30pm, Stewart Auditorium, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd. Presented by Sustainable Resilient Longmont (SRL) and the Longmont Museum. FREE. Space is limited. Register at: longmontmuseum.org More info at www.srlongmont.org
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR: Sustainable Resilience Longmont presents the 5th Annual Longmont Earth Day Celebration, Saturday, April 20, 10am–-3pm, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd. (Volunteer meeting, Thursday, April 11, 5:30pm, Location TBA, Pizza provided along with SRL tshirt. Contact: [email protected])
Pints for the Planet, Monday, April 22 (Earth Day!), 6–9pm, 300 Suns Brewing 335 1st Ave,Longmont. $2 of each pint purchased will be donated to SRL! srlongmont.org
Dia de los Niños Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition Annual Breakfast Fundraiser, Tuesday, April 30, 7:30–9am, Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 W. 104th Ave, Westminster.
Tickets are $55, or become a sponsor at coparentcoalition.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued)
Support the Living Wage Coalition of Longmont 2019 — Raise the Living Wage for Longmont’s contract, part-time and temporary employees! Show up at Longmont City Council meetings, Tuesdays, 7pm, Civic Center across from the Longmont Public Library. Show up early to sign up and speak at Public Invited to be Heard or check Council’s agenda regularly to see where this measure is at. Great information from League of Women Voters, here. ➥
BOULDER COUNTY PROPERTY & LAND USE PAGE ➥
PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING originally scheduled for this Tuesday, April 9
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.(ABOUT: Crestone Peak’s Proposed Drilling in Longmont
at US 287 & Hwy 52)
From 350.org: “Crestone Peak is continuing its efforts to start fracking in Boulder County, despite serious shortcomings with their Comprehensive Drilling Plan (CDP), and unresolved questions about their ownership of mineral rights.”
We’ll keep you posted as to when it’s rescheduled!
TONIGHT’S AGENDA• ANNOUNCEMENTS (Additional Announcements from the floor)• Introduce current Board Members• Recognize ElectedsTONIGHT:• State Legislative Overview• A Community Conversation: Creating Inclusion & Confronting Hate• Wrap Up / LAD Meeting Next Week / Where to Find Us
LOOK UP ANY OF THESE BILLS ON leg.colorado.gov ➥
Transformative ColoradoLegislation:
• SB19-078 Open Internet Customer Protections in Colorado• HB19-1037 Colorado Energy Impact Assistance Act• SB19-042 National Popular Vote Compact• HB19-1129 Prohibit Conversion Therapy for A Minor• HB19-1166 Name-based Criminal History Record Checks• HB19-1017 Kindergarten through Fifth Grade Social and
Emotional Health Act• HB19-1007 Contribution Limits For County Offices• HB19-1032 Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education• HB19-1133 Colorado Child Abuse Response And
Evaluation Network
LOOK UP ANY OF THESE BILLS ON leg.colorado.gov ➥
Transformative Colorado Legislation• SB19-039 Transportation of Students in district• SB19-085 Equal Pay for Equal Work• HB19-1131 Prescription Drug Cost Education• SB19-004 Address High Cost of Health Insurance• HB19-1145 Primary Residence Exempt Liens For Medical Debt• HB19-1164 Child Tax Credit• HB19-1159 Modify Innovative Motor Vehicle Credits• HB19-1143 Distribute Plastic Straws Only Upon Request• SB19-108 Juvenile Justice Reform• HB19-1133 Colorado Child Abuse Response
And Evaluation Network• HB19-1261 Climate Action Plan To Reduce Pollution• SB19-182 Repeal The Death Penalty
LOOK UP ANY OF THESE BILLS ON leg.colorado.gov ➥
Transformative Colorado Legislation• HB19-1009 Substance Use Disorders Recovery• HB19-1176 Health Care Cost Savings Act of 2019• SB19-181 Protect Public Welfare Oil & Gas Operations• HB19-1039 Identity Documents For Transgender Persons• HB19-1113 Protect Water Quality Adverse Mining Impacts• SB19-096 Collect Long Term Climate Change Data• HB19-1004 Proposal For Affordable Health Coverage Option• HB19-1177 Extreme Risk Protection Orders• HB19-1126 Named Based Criminal History Record Checks• HB19-1003 Community Solar Gardens Modernization Act• HB19-1185 Replace Columbus Day with New State Holiday• HB19-1037 Colorado Energy Impact Assistance
LANDMARK LEGISLATION
HB19-1177
Extreme Risk Protection Orders Also known as the Red Flag, or Zackary Parrish Law
• Family member or law enforcement officer petitions the court, with a preponderance of evidence and a signed affidavit under penalty of perjury, that a person (respondent) poses a significant risk to self or others.
• The court holds a hearing for a temporary ERPO. If temp ERPO is issued, respondent surrenders all firearms.
• Court must schedule 2nd hearing no later than 14 days after.
LANDMARK LEGISLATION:
HB19-1177 Extreme Risk Protection Orders (continued)
• Court appoints counsel for respondent.• If a family or household member or a law enforcement
officer establishes by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant risk to self or others by having a firearm in his or her custody or control or by possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm, the court may issue a continuing ERPO. The ERPO prohibits the respondent from possessing, controlling, purchasing, or receiving a firearm for 364 days.
pushback:CNN reports: “Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams disagrees so much with a gun bill making its way through the Colorado legislature that he’s willing to go to jail rather than enforce it... more than half of Colorado’s 64 counties officially oppose the bill. Many have even declared themselves Second Amendment ‘sanctuary’ counties in protest.”
Yeah...this guy.
fighting back:• Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle supports ERPO,
testified in support of the bill not only this year, but last session as well. Joe’s son, Jeff, a Douglas County Deputy, was also shot and was in recovery for months from severe injuries sustained in the same incident that killed Parrish.
• Zachary Parrish’s former boss, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock, has been one of the most vocal advocates of the bill and says he believes it could have prevented Parrish’s death.
WATCH ‘IMMINENT DANGER’ online: rmpbs.org/insight/imminent/ ➥
fighting back:• Red flag laws have shown to avert about one suicide for
every 10 firearms that are seized. Colorado has the nation’s 10th highest suicide rate, and half of all suicides in the state in 2017 involved a firearm.
• John Ferrugia, PBS Anchor, won a Dupont Award for his Insight piece, “Imminent Danger” — about Colorado’s Red Flag laws, including an interview with the parents of James Holmes and the mother of gunman Matthew Riehl, who believes Deputy Zack Parrish would be alive today if Colorado had a red flag law.
...and there’s this:• In Colorado, a 2019 poll of Republican voters found that
60 percent generally support red flag laws. • If a law enforcement officer refuses to do their job
the court then decides if that officer is in contempt. And if someone is shot or killed as a result of neglect of duty, that officer can be sued by the family.
WE ASK: If sued, who pays the penalty, the officer or the taxpayers?
Is that officer ever subject to criminal charges?
LANDMARK LEGISLATION
SB19-181
Protect Public Welfare Oil & Gas Operations
• A common sense bill• Empowering neighborhoods• Reforming the COGCC• Protecting property owners from forced pooling• Finding and fixing abandoned wells
pushback:• Anti-SB181 ad airing on a constant loop, costing at least
$273,000. (The O&G industry spent $40 million to oppose Prop 112 — the 2500ft. setback measure, last fall.)
• Attempts to amend and weaken the bill: Adding a petition clause so that there is the option to repeal it on the ballot. Changing the reform of the COGCC. Lowering the percentage threshold of mineral rights owners within a pooling application, who agree to forced pooling from 50+% to 45%.
• Attacking and threatening legislators, stalling tactics, etc.
fighting back:• For all the O&G money spent last fall, more people
voted for Prop 112, than voted for Walker Stapleton.
• Don’t let them tell you “stakeholders” didn’t have a “place at the table” and that this bill was “rushed through behind closed doors”. NOT TRUE. They had well paid O&G lobbyists outnumbering residents at our Capitol for years, session after session, influencing lawmakers to reject setbacks, mapping, inspectors, penalties and any semblance of regulation!
fighting back:
Besides, the real stakeholders are the people of Colorado.
• SB19-181 is HEALTH & SAFETY. NOT A BAN. Nothing about setbacks. If your community leaders approve permits, drill, baby, drill! And if you don’t like that, elect new community leaders — that’s what local control IS.
LANDMARK LEGISLATION
SB19-042
National Popular Vote Compact • The bill enacts and enters into with all other
states joining therein the agreement among the states to elect the president of the United States by national popular vote.
pushback:• Petitioning efforts are underway to put a repeal of the
NPVC on the 2020 ballot.
fighting back:• This “repeal” is not on the ballot yet! Be at the ready to
volunteer for any “Decline to Sign” events.• Stand firm in your support of this bill AND the
legislature you elected to pass it. Spread that positive message!
MITCH MCCONNELL-STYLE PUSHBACK:
the tyranny of the minority(they like to use — and threaten — a certain “R” word*, in going after duly elected Democrats, like our Governor,
and Colorado legislators.)
*more like “undoing democracy”...
fighting back:DON’T GIVE “IT” ANY POWER. Don’t say the “R” word. Instead, be radically positive and unified. We got this.
• CONTACT GOVERNOR POLIS: Tell him that you stand with him against bigotry & hatred. Go ahead and urge him to act with courage in signing important Colorado legislation — as he promised. But do so with respect, and remind him that you voted for him and will fight against any attacks against him or against the will of the People of Colorado.
GO TO: colorado.gov/governor/share-your-comments ➥
fighting back:Last fall, Colorado had the second highest voter turnout in the nation — and we all know that was no small task! (It’s also known as The Will of The People) If we worked so hard to GOTV, we must protect and honor the result!
The“R word” was originally intended to remove someone who was “unfit” for office, not to undo democracy.
Special elections are also very expensive. (Say this often!) Extremists don’t get to thwart our democratic process. If they don’t like their representation, they can put up their own candidate at the next normal election cycle.
fighting back:Three Colorado legislators are being targeted. They are:
State Rep. Meg Froelich (HD3 Arapahoe County)State Senator Jeff Bridges (SD26 Arapahoe County) —
who were both voted in by vacancy committeesState Rep. Rochelle Galindo (HD50 Weld County)
They need your support.
fighting back:• SPREAD THE WORD and support State Rep. Meg
Froelich, State Senator Jeff Bridges, and State Rep. Rochelle Galindo on facebook, twitter & any social media — OUTWEIGH negative comments.
• EMAIL: Thank these legislators for their work in the face of republican obstruction and personal attacks. Tell them them you stand at the ready to support them — Froelich: [email protected] Bridges: [email protected] Galindo: [email protected]
GO TO: coloradodeclinetosign.com ➥
fighting back:• GO TO: coloradodeclinetosign.com to keep apprised
of the petition process — the first objective is to urge folks to DECLINE to SIGN: Sore losers don’t get to overturn free and fair elections just because they don’t like the results!
• CONTACT the LOCAL NEWS to do fair reporting! (CBS4, Denver7, and 9News, Next with Kyle Clark, etc.)
• WRITE Letters to the Editor!: “undoing democracy” is costly...and unnecessary. Colorado spoke loudly last fall!
YOU CAN LOOK UP ANY LEGISLATOR AT leg.colorado.gov/legislators ➥
thank our legislators!• CONTACT Colorado Democratic Legislators and thank them for their steadfast adherence to the job at hand —
as they were elected to do — despite dirty tactics, threats, stalling, unecessary amendments, lawsuits, attempted reversals, and more, set forth by republicans in our legislature. Our champions to thank include but are not limited to: Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, Speaker of the House KC Becker, State Senator Mike Foote, State Rep. Jonathan Singer, State Rep. Sonja Jacquez Lewis, State Rep. Tom Sullivan, State Rep. Leslie Herod, State Senator Kerry Donovan, State Rep. Yadira Caraveo.
TONIGHT:
Susie Hidalgo FahringLAD BOARD &
ST. VRAIN VALLEY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
Sue McCueLAD BOARD &
MIDDLE SCHOOL LITERACY COORDINATOR
Next LAD Meeting:
(We’re cooking up another great meeting...stay tuned!)
Wednesday, May 1, 6:30pmFront Range Community College, Community Room
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thanks for attending tonight’s meeting!
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