February, 2010 Assembled By Dana West

Our next meeting is this Saturday morning, February 13th. US Senate

candidate Ken Buck, Colorado Treasurer candidates JJ Ament and Ali
Hasan, Matt Arnold of Clear The Bench Colorado, and a representative
from the 9:12 group will talk and answer your questions. Bring your
checkbook to donate and help these outstanding Republican candidates.
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We will be at Gander Mountain, 9923 Grant Street, Thornton, CO from 9:15-10:45 a.m. on the
second Saturday of each month in the employee training room. If you live in Adams County or
Denver's northern suburbs, come join us for lively spirited debate and to meet Republican
movers and shakers. Any candidate in attendance will always be given speaking time.

Directions to Gander Mountain:

Gander Mountain is a huge sporting goods store in the old Biggs, now Wal-Mart/Home Depot
shopping center just east of I-25 and south of 104th Ave. Just go in the front door, turn
left at the first aisle and follow it to the employee meeting room on the far left.

Yearly membership dues are $20, while a couple is $30. Make checks payable to NSRF. It’s $3
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NSRF upcoming calendar:

March 13 – US House of Representatives candidates for CD-2 and CD-7 and Caucus details
April 10 – Colorado State House and Senate candidates, Colorado‘s Tea Party, and R Block Party
May 8 – Colorado Governor candidates and U.S. Senate candidates
June 12 – All candidates are welcome
July 10 – State office candidates
August 14 – County office candidates (assessor, commissioner, sheriff, clerk, register of deeds, coroner)
September 11th – All candidates are welcome
October 9 – All candidates
November 13 – Election recap

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 OPINION: JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL

 FEBRUARY 5, 2010, 2:25 P.M. ET

Can Republicans Win the Senate?

Evan Bayh, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Barbara Boxer's Senate seats are all in play.
By JOHN FUND

Three of the nation's best-known political handicappers -- Larry Sabato, Charlie Cook and Stu Rothenberg -- all
agree that if the mid-term elections were held today, Republicans would likely pick up seven Senate seats:
Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Nevada, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.

To capture a Senate majority, Republicans would also have to win Democratic seats in another three states.
"Where do the other three seats come from?" asks Mr. Sabato.

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That question underlies the GOP's frenzied candidate recruitment as filing deadlines approach in various states.
This week, GOP talent spotters won a big one when they convinced former Indiana Senator Dan Coats to run
for his old seat against Democrat Evan Bayh. Another possible pickup is in California, where Barbara Boxer is
below 50% job-approval, usually an indication that an office-holder is in trouble. Three Republicans are vying
to challenge the three-term California incumbent. The New York Senate seat held by appointed Democrat
Kirsten Gillibrand would also become competitive should former GOP Governor George Pataki decide to run.

Republicans are also waiting on two other major political players to decide if they'll run in states that went
easily for Barack Obama but now are trending against the Democrats. In Wisconsin, former Governor Tommy
Thompson announced this week he will become an adviser to a venture capital fund, fueling speculation he
won't challenge Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. In fact, Mr. Thompson hasn't made up his mind. Polls
showing him trailing Mr. Feingold by only three points may yet tempt the former four-term governor to jump
in.

In Washington State, a new survey by pollster Bob Moore shows Dino Rossi, the GOP candidate for governor
in 2004 and 2008, running ahead of Democratic Senator Patty Murray. Mr. Rossi, who actually appeared to win
the 2004 governor's race until a controversial recount snatched away his victory seven weeks after the election,
has been noncommittal about a Senate contest. "I have $40 million invested in name recognition in this state,"
he told friends last week, indicating he feels he can wait until May to make up his mind on the race.

It's clear that the post-Massachusetts political climate has left several more Senate seats potentially in play -- but
probably only if well-known GOP figures judge that the current anti-Democratic political climate has staying
power and decide to run.

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Mount Virtus
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state” – Colorado Education Assoc
Colorado Democrats Dig Themselves Deeper on Dirty Dozen Tax Hikes
Posted on February 6th, 2010 in Colorado Politics, Fiscal Policy, PPC, clean government, liberty,
property rights | Written by Ben | No Comments »

At this point, ramming through the Dirty Dozen tax hikes has Colorado Democrats in such political hot water,
why not just go ahead and swim in it? That must be the reasoning behind the effort to make things even worse
by changing the temporary tax hikes into permanent tax hikes.

It used to be about half the bills would eventually reduce the respective tax rates to their current level. Not
anymore:

Republicans believe that Democrats are using the current budget crisis as an excuse to permanently raise taxes
on Colorado families and businesses. ―If the tax increases are only meant to help the state fill the budget gap, as
Democrats claim, then why aren‘t we making them all temporary?‖ asked Sen. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield.

Then there‘s HB 1193 in particular. As Rossputin points out, Colorado Democrats are going to drive
Overstock.com‘s affiliate program out of the state with this legislation. That is, unless they regain their senses
first. As I noted before, HB 1193 passed the state house by the narrowest of margins (33-32), with Democrat
Wes McKinley as the deciding vote.

Will the majority party in our state senate wise up, are they just simply Stuck on Stupid? Many of these bills
will end up in conference committee, which will just increase the harsh glare of public scrutiny on the
Democrats‘ bad policy and terrible politics. Sayonara.

Democrats move tax

increases from temporary
status to permanent
Posted Fri, 05 Feb 2010

Senate Republicans are asking what Democrat Gov. Bill

Ritter thinks of legislative efforts to turn his temporary
tax hikes into permanent ones.

―The Governor‘s proposal to implement these tax

increases temporarily was a bad idea,‖ said Sen. Bill
Cadman, R-Colorado Springs. ―Now, the Democrats in
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the General Assembly want to crush taxpayers even harder by making all of these tax hikes permanent.‖ Sen.
Cadman

When Ritter introduced his budget balancing proposal in November it included over a dozen tax increases on
everything from candy and soda to farmers and Internet sales. About half were temporary and would last only 2
to 3 years. Since being introduced as bills in the legislature, Democrats are on the path towards making all of
these tax hikes everlasting.

During committee, bipartisan amendments were added restoring some of the tax increases to temporary status,
but Democrats have indicated those amendments will ultimately be stripped out of the bills. Some Democrats
initially willing to vote in favor of keeping the tax increases temporary reluctantly changed their minds on the
floor today, leaving Republicans wondering if those members had been pressured to change their vote by
Democrat leadership.

Republicans believe that Democrats are using the current budget crisis as an excuse to permanently raise taxes
on Colorado families and businesses. ―If the tax increases are only meant to help the state fill the budget gap, as
Democrats claim, then why aren‘t we making them all temporary?‖ asked Sen. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield.

Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, said that if Democrats are unwilling to vote no on the
damaging tax hikes the least they can do is follow the lead of their Governor and make them temporary.

Basic Principles of the G.O.P. (The only Party for all of the People)

1. Personal responsibility
2. Strong national defense
3. Smaller government
4. Fiscal restraint
5. Lower taxes
6. Embrace technology
7. Recruit and Motivate

Republican Plan: Cut State Bureaucracy, Not

Business Tax Hikes

Posted Thu, 04 Feb 2010

Republicans in the Colorado Senate today unveiled a proposal to reduce government spending as an alternative
to the Democrats‘ plan to raise taxes on the businesses and citizens of Colorado.

―Democrats keep saying that in order to balance the budget ‗everything is on the table,‘‖ said Sen. Kevin
Lundberg, R-Berthoud. ―Republicans want to make sure that a reduction in government spending is on the table
and thoroughly debated before we raise taxes.‖

The GOP proposal includes a 0.25 percent reduction in state payroll spending for the current fiscal year, and a
4.4 percent reduction for next fiscal year. If the state government made these small sacrifices it would eliminate

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the need for a laundry list of Democrat proposed taxes on everything from soda pop, to napkins, fertilizer and
Internet sales.

―The spending reductions we are asking for are less drastic than to the 5 percent across the board cuts asked for
by Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer or the thousands of layoffs asked for by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick,‖
said Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands. ―Both those guys are Democrats, and they realize the need to reduce the
size and scope of government during these tough times.‖

The Republican plan would require Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter to cut the state‘s $3.2 billion state payroll budget
by $17.8 million for the current fiscal year. The savings would be found through the elimination of non-
essential or unfilled government jobs and through salary reductions to state employees primarily making more
than $100,000 a year.

For next fiscal year, the GOP plan would require an across the board spending cut of approximately 4.4 percent.
First priority would be given to eliminating non-essential or unfilled government jobs and through salary
reductions to employees primarily making over $100,000 a year. This would also allow the state to restore the
senior homestead exemption and vendor fee.

―This is a chance for the Democrats to recognize the changing mood of America,‖ said Senate Minority Leader
Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction. ―By cutting budgets one quarter of a percent this year and just over 4 percent
next year, we can stave off job-killing, recovery-slowing tax increases. This one's an economic no-brainer.‖

The spending reductions will save $17.8 million in the current year and $306.5 million in the next year,
eliminating the need for Democrat proposals to increase taxes by those same amounts.

Teachers would not be subject to pay cuts or firings under the bill.

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  FEBRUARY 6, 2010

For GOP, No Experience Is No Problem

Party Drafts Political Newcomers as Candidates in a Bid to Capitalize on Voters' Anti-
Incumbent, Anti-Washington Mood
By SUSAN DAVIS

Scott Rigell is best known around Virginia Beach as a car dealer. Come January, he is hoping to be known by
another title: congressman.

Seeking to tap into growing anti-establishment discord among voters, the Republican Party is actively seeking
candidates who have never before held elected office.

Bruce O'Donoghue owns a company that makes traffic-light systems; he is challenging Florida Democratic Rep.
Alan Grayson. Jon Runyan, a former player for the Philadelphia Eagles and San Diego Chargers, is running in
southern New Jersey.

"My roots run deep in Tennessee, not politics,"

reads the banner across the campaign Web site of
Stephen Fincher, a Tennessee farmer and gospel
singer heavily wooed by Washington Republicans
to run this year.

Such Republicans are contesting six of the 20

most competitive House seats currently held by
Democrats. At least as many are found in districts
that could become more competitive as election
season heats up. Filing deadlines to run for
Congress are still months away in most states, so
it is possible more newcomers could join the fold.

Running political newcomers is a proven strategy

when the political tide swings drastically toward
one side, and at times when voters have soured on
Washington in general. In 1994, when
Republicans won a majority of House seats after
four decades in the minority, 55% of the party's 73 freshmen lawmakers had never held political office.
Similarly in 2006, when Democrats took control, 45% of their new lawmakers had never held office before.

Chris Russell, campaign consultant for Mr. Runyan, called 2010 a good year to be running as an outsider. "I
don't want to overstate it, but people hate politicians," he said.

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 The strategy could help Republicans tap into
enthusiasm generated among Tea Party groups
and other conservatives. Though these activists
have sprung from the right, they remain
antagonistic toward the GOP establishment. The
movement arose in part as a backlash against the
government's intervention in Wall Street and the
auto industry, as well as opposition to
Democratic initiatives, including a health-care
overhaul.

This year, running newcomers is "absolutely the

story of Republican recruiting," said David
Wasserman, a House race analyst for the
nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Cook
currently predicts the GOP will gain between 25
and 35 House seats this fall, and doesn't rule out
the more distant possibility of a Republican
takeover, which would require a net gain of 40
seats.

Mr. Wasserman predicted a significant number

of freshmen GOP lawmakers this November
would be political newcomers. Many are
running on a platform of fiscal rectitude, a nod
to how the economy and role of government are
dominating public debate. "We really are at a
defining moment," Mr. Rigell said in an
interview, during which he echoed a theme of
economic uncertainty voiced by other
candidates. "I look at the fiscal side of this
country and I am alarmed and deeply troubled."

Unlike the 1994 setback, which caught the

Democrats by surprise, the party is keenly aware
of the political headwinds they face in the
midterms, when the president's party typically
loses seats.

The House Democrats' campaign operation has a

significant cash advantage over its Republican
counterpart: $16.6 million to $2.7 million. And
incumbents are fund-raising in anticipation of
competitive contests. Florida's Mr. Grayson said
Wednesday that his $861,000 fourth-quarter
haul was more than any other Democratic
candidate's.

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Many of these newcomers will also have to survive primary elections. Mr. O'Donoghue is favored by party
leaders—he expects to be endorsed by Florida's retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez this week—but a
crowded 12-way primary awaits.

Moreover, voters aren't necessarily ready to embrace Republicans, despite GOP victories in governor's races
last year in Virginia and New Jersey and an upset win in last month's Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. Those
victories relied on independent voters, not party loyalists.

A January Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showed 42% of Americans held a negative view of the Republican
Party and 30% held a positive one. "The Republican brand is damaged," Mr. Rigell said. "I have to overcome
that."

There are early signals that voters are willing to welcome new blood. In an Illinois Republican primary on
Tuesday, pest-management company manager Bob Dold upset the initial party favorite, State Rep. Beth
Coulson. Mr. Dold now faces Dan Seals, the Democrats' unsuccessful 2006 and 2008 nominee, in what could be
one of the most competitive contests this year.

Several rookie candidates said they hope their bids will capture the enthusiasm of activists, in particular Tea
Party voters.

Mike Grimm, a former undercover agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who investigated white-collar
crime on Wall Street, is running in the New York district held by Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon. He said the
district, in the New York City borough of Staten Island, has one of the most active Tea Party groups in the
nation. While the group doesn't endorse candidates, Mr. Grimm seeks counsel from local Tea Party leader Frank
Santarpia. "I pick his brain all the time," Mr. Grimm said.

Mr. Santarpia said he

likes the idea of
newcomers running for
Congress. "There's a
great deal of appeal to
that. It certainly appeals
to me," he said.

Write to Susan Davis at

susan.davis@wsj.com

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