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Morgan County Unofficial Election Results, Nov. 4, 2020 What do John Hickenlooper Editorial Comment & Lori Saine Have in Common?

By Bob Grand

Way too much! Both were elected in this past election. Hickenlooper as the U.S. Senator from Colorado and Saine as the Weld County Commissioner for District 3. Both were supported strongly by forces from outside the District they were elected to represent. Both received way more donor money from people outside the District they represent. Both displayed a distain to meet with their constituents or explain what they planned to do to be advocates for their constituents. Strangely they are from different parties. Another similarity is they were promoted by their respective party establishment drivers. Ask Andrew Romanoff or Tommy Holton. The sad part is that the party establishments, believe that is ok. What it says is that they do not care about the electorate, it is all about control. In Hickenlooper’s case New York United States Senator Chuck Schumer strongly supported him with both California and New York money. The aim was to oust Cory Gardner. The travesty is that Cory Gardner was recognized as one of the best bi-partisan U.S. Senators in Washington. His record of real accomplishment and achievement for all the people of Colorado was impressive. Combined, Senator Bennet and Senator Hiockenlooper will be hard pressed to achieve a fraction of what Cory Gardner did. Gardner’s sin was that he worked with the Trump administration. Well how do you think things get done? But no, getting things done was not the measurement he faced. It was the ingrained hatred of Trump that Gardner had to deal with along with a Colorado Republican party that has a hard time conversing with anyone who is not true red. Be careful when God gives you what you ask for. This past weekend Ken Buck thanked all the folks supporting the Republican effort. Proudly announcing all the contacts that were made. Well the measurement is the results. Ask Cory Gardner if it was as effective as the picture Ken Bucks paints. he picture. Joe Biden will probably be our next President. But he will not have a Democratically controlled Senate and the House of Representative majority is thin at best with the Republicans picking up more seats than the Democrats ever dreamed of. All signs are the Republicans will pick up the House in the next election cycle. Biden will have won by a hair. Nowhere near the mandate that the polls said he would have. We have many issues to be resolved that really require a serious bi-partisan effort. I am not optimistic, As far as Hickenlooper goes, his election night statement that “ Washington is broken he plans to work on fixing it” sounds good but what will he do? Wave a magic wand or just dance to Chuck Schumer’s tune. As for Lori Saine the same can be said, except in her case it is not Chuck Schumer but the establishment Weld County Republicans. In either case, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. The good news is we had a record voter turnout The message is we can get the vote out. Our next challenge is to get the voters to be informed. A challenge.

I have to say that Hickenlooper and Saine had other thing in common to mention. Both were endorsed by the Greeley newspaper. The Greeley newspaper was founded on November 16th, 1870. So on Tuesday, November 16th, 2020 it is 150 years old. Quite a record. Unfortunately, the Greeley paper of the last few years has not yet earned the journalism track record that the history of the paper has shown.

We, as citizens, have an obligation to be informed. Thomas Jefferson said: “ If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed”. It just would help if our media folks, both print and radio, and all social media remembered that they are supposed to report the news, not try to make or influence it.