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Volume 11, Issue 35
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September 2, 2020
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Publisher’s Comment Weld Re-3J Sends MLO Continuation to November Ballot
An Open Letter to Weld County Republicans By Corey Seulean I am speaking to defend the truth. I could not care less about what people who are liars, crooked, deceitful, manipulative and bullies think about me. On 8-18-20, at the Weld GOP Executive Committee, unfounded accusations were made against me with little to no investigation at all. As I listened via Zoom, I heard Pat Miller rant and rave about why she lost the primary and accused me of attacking her and lying about her. I ran the cleanest campaign that Weld county has seen possibly in years/decades. She won the caucus, shut me out and received top line on the ballot and yet I was accused of being one of the reasons she lost her campaign??? Then, Corey Hale stated in his District Captain’s Report that he filed a complaint to the Secretary of State’s office that I committed “election fraud.” When Chairman Sander asked if Mr. Hale wanted to elaborate, he declined. What??? He accused me of “election fraud” in front of the committee and not only did he not explain himself but he never even one time called me! What kind of investigation did he do to determine that I committed “election fraud?” He just listened to the gripes of Pat Miller and Lori Saine and yielded himself as their puppet and tarnished his integrity while doing so. His character must be nonexistent if he will take such steps without even speaking to me about the allegations. He does not deserve to be a District Captain! I have read the complaint and it is full of assumptions that are just not true. Someone who has an agenda fed him these lies. Someone probably wrote the complaint for him and just asked him to sign it to keep their hands off it. I know the truth! I never committed election fraud as Lori Saine, Pat Miller and Corey Hale have claimed that I did. I did not cross out any names and I did not add my name. I received a phone call from Lorna Sherwood about certain delegates who were not available to attend the district assembly. She said to me that they could not be delegates and that they needed to be replaced. I said ok, not knowing anything about it. She crossed their names out, along with Alt #2, and wrote my name in. I offered to call the couple to inform them that I was told that they could not be delegates for the district assembly. They were never signed up to be delegates for the county assembly in the first place. They could not vote for Pat Miller even if they wanted to. They could only vote for
the SD23 race which was between Rupert Parchment and Barbara Kirkmeyer. I do not think that Lorna knowingly did anything wrong. However, it should be crystal clear that I committed no such election fraud! To insinuate that I did anything wrong to help my race against Pat Miller is ludicrous. I ended up being shut out for the ballot. Pat got what she wanted, and nobody interfered with her position on the ballot and my name never even made it on the ballot. I entered politics as a strong conservative voice while also being a pastor. I thought the conservative base would welcome such a voice. I was wrong! When certain people found out that they could not control me, they engaged in underhanded politics to get me out and to attack my name and my family. Lori Saine is nothing more than a “schoolyard bully” and will resort to any tactic to get her way. Her cohort, Christy Rodriguez, will stoop to any level and manipulate events and circumstances to favor Lori Saine and her constituents. I am convinced that there is no low to which she would not go. They secured the services of Timothy Phippard and Corey Hale and others to do their work for them. I was lied about, threatened, bullied, and maligned from those within my own party all for political expediency. The Republican Party so-called elites in Weld County are corrupt and far worse than I ever thought them to be. On Thursday August 20th, a meeting of so-called “Christian Republicans” met at a so-called “Christian” church to discuss the future of Weld County politics. They were not representative of Christian behavior in any way in this meeting! In that meeting, Lori Saine allegedly stated that my son, Benjamin, had no right to be a part of anything political in Weld County, or Colorado for that matter. She has participated in spreading untruths about my son and does not care about whose lives she hurts in the process. She demanded that my son not attend the meeting and everyone in attendance acquiesced to her demand and nobody stood up to her. People are afraid to stand up to her bullying tactics and they simply go along with her “queen pin” approach to Weld County politics. Does anybody honestly think that any one person should be able to decide who can participate in politics? Enough is enough! Things have got to change, or we are no better than the liberal Democrats in how they behave and treat people. I am standing up to this power hungry, anything goes, no accountability, corrupt, and evil approach to politics in Weld County. These kinds of political tactics are why our state is horribly blue and socialist. We must be better than this or we will never change Colorado politics! I sincerely hoped to make a difference at the State Capitol for the people of Weld County and to give people hope that politics can change for the better. I am now left to wonder if it will ever really get better at all. As long as power hungry, manipulative, corrupt, evil people are in charge, very little will ever change. I pray that the people of Weld county will have their eyes opened and will have discernment in future elections to vote good representatives into office. To be frank, this is embarrassing, and, in my eyes, our party has just as much blame for the state of politics in Colorado as do the Democrats! The TRUTH will always come out sooner or later and it will always have its say! Let’s be more representative of Christian/Conservative values or we will continue to go in the wrong direction as a county and state party.
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Publisher Comment:
People running for office should really attempt to represent the people in the district they are running to represent. Somebody should explain that to Lori Saine! It is fine to belong to a political party and stand for the values that party represents or claims to represent. Weld County Commissioner District 3 has suffered from a lack of good representation at the County Board of Commissioners, as the past two years Commissioner Kirkmeyer seems to have been more focused on running for her next position. If you do not think so, re-read the press releases from the Weld County Communications Office and check to see how many reflect District 3 efforts as opposed to northern Colorado interests, particularly Larimer County and northern Weld County. Is Lori Saine trying to establish herself as the new Barbara Kirkmeyer, the dominate BOCC member? Well she certainly is a strong-willed person, some would say that reflects more of being a bully, but Barbara Kirkmeyer was more than that. She is smart and knowledgeable, neither of which qualities have I heard anybody attribute to Lori Saine. The, still in effect, Johnson Act of 1954 exposes all 501 ( c ) (3) nonprofits, including churches, to potential loss of their tax-exempt status if they either endorse or oppose political candidates. In today’s world of sophisticated telephonic devices, whether we like it or not, one should be careful and recognize that all meetings, no-matter how secret and secure people think they are, are subject to potential recording either by sound or video. Is Laurie Saine trying to take control of the inner workings of the shadow Weld County Republican Party? Please! Corey Seulean ran for office because he believed it was the right thing to do. His 113 votes did not decide the House District 63 election. This is America, and he has a right to do that! Pat Miller was a flawed candidate, remarkably similar to Lori Saine. Dan Woog won the Republican nomination because he campaigned to represent the people. Blaming Corey Seulean for Pat Miller losing appears to be more than a little vindictive. Lori Saine should be trying to focus on learning what the people of District 3 would like to see accomplished. Oh, I forgot, she knows exactly what to do. Just ask the Greeley Republicans shadow group! The majority of District 3 Republican primary voters did not support Lori Saine. Doesn’t that say something ? Does she really understand that or care? On the surface, it appears she is working towards expanding her role in the inner circle of the Weld County shadow Republican Party, which means the greater Greeley area focused group. The people of District 3 deserve representation that has their interests at heart. They deserve a candidate who will be their advocate. Lori Saine has to decide what and who she really is trying to represent. The voters of District 3, all the voters, will decide if she deserves their vote. If she cannot clearly make the decision and effectively communicate that to the voters as to who she will represent, then she should withdraw from the race. The people of BOCC District 3 deserve a clear understanding of what their elected representative is going to accomplish for them. That should impact who they vote for, not whether they are a Republican or Democrat.
Larkspur Man Bitten on the Hand by a Bear Friday Morning
LARKSPUR, Colo. - A Larkspur resident was bitten on the hand by a bear Friday morning outside his home. That individual sought treatment at a hospital and was released. Colorado Parks and Wildlife received a call at 7:10 a.m. Friday morning reporting the incident. Responding wildlife officers searched the area for the bear, which had returned to the home and was euthanized at 9:50 a.m. Due to the nature of the incident and the bear inflicting injury to a human, by state policy that animal must be euthanized. The circumstances surrounding the bite appear to involve feeding and habituation, and are currently being investigated. “People think they are doing the right thing by feeding wildlife and that it helps them out when in fact that selfish action causes them to lose their wild nature, is harmful to their wellbeing and in some cases causes them to become dangerous,” CPW Northeast Region Manager Mark Leslie said. The bear will be transported to CPW’s wildlife health lab for necropsy and will be tested for rabies. The Tri-County Health Department has been notified. “The unlawful feeding of bears and all wildlife is a problem in Larkspur and the greater area and it needs to stop,” Wildlife Officer Sean Dodd said. “This is a prime example of why laws are in place that prohibit those actions, it leads to the habituation of our wildlife and creates a public safety issue.” CPW is an enterprise agency, relying primarily on license sales, state parks fees and registration fees to support its operations, including: 41 state parks and more than 350 wildlife areas covering approximately 900,000 acres, management of fishing and hunting, wildlife watching, camping, motorized and non-motorized trails, boating and outdoor education. CPW’s work contributes approximately $6 billion in total economic impact annually throughout Colorado.
September 2, 2020
TRIVIA What’s dropped in the game that contains the line “I wrote a letter to my love”? A HANDKERCHIEF What language, fittingly enough, do Icelanders speak? ICELANDIC What are Planet Patrol, Psychedelic Furs and Psychic TV? ROCK GROUPS WHat are the names of the two main mice in Disney’s Cinderella? GUS AND jAQ What vitamin is found in Kool-Aid? VITAMIN C What gum’s wrapper claims it produces “the ultimate bubble”? BUBBLICIOUS’S What kind of telephone call do Englishmen call a “trunk call”? A LONG DISTANCE CALL What song has a verse ‘She’ll be breathin’ smoke and fire when she comes”? SHE’LL BE COMIN’ ROUND THE MOUNTAIN What color is the mermaid’s lower body, in Splash? RED Do North Americans eat more sugar now than they did in 1970? YES How many decks on Disneyland’s Mark Twain are passengers usually admitted to? THREE What North American country produces the most newsprint? CANADA Whose park was paisley in 1985? PRINCE’S What percent of magazines does the U.S> Postal Service deliver on time - seven, 17, or 27? SEVEN Does the Queen of Hearts wear earrings in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland? YES
September 2, 2020
Also on This Day
SPORTS 2013 64-year-old Diana Nyad becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage for protection. Nyad completed the 110-mile swim from Havana to Key West, through the jellyfish-and shark-infested waters of the Straits of Florida. ART, LITERATURE, AND FILM HISTORY 1996 Pop star Michael Jackson’s song “You Are Not Alone” reaches number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—his 12th #1 hit. WORLD WAR II 1945 Hours after Japan’s surrender in World War II, Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France. ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST 31 B.C. At the Battle of Actium, off the western coast of Greece, Roman leader Octavian wins a decisive victory against the forces of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. GREAT BRITAIN 1666 In the early morning hours, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II’s baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. It soon spread to Thames Street, where warehouses filled with combustibles and a strong easterly wind transformed the blaze into an inferno. 1970S 1969 America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic business. VIETNAM WAR 1969 President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a heart attack in Hanoi. North Vietnamese officials announced his death the next day. Ho Chi Minh had been the heart and soul of Vietnamese communism since the earliest days of the movement.
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This Day in History - September 2, 1945 Japan Surrenders, bringing end to WWII
Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II. By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was put in charge of the invasion, which was code-named “Operation Olympic” and set for November 1945. The invasion of Japan promised to be the bloodiest seaborne attack of all time, conceivably 10 times as costly as the Normandy invasion in terms of Allied casualties. On July 16, a new option became available when the United States secretly detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. Ten days later, the Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration, demanding the “unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces.” Failure to comply would mean “the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitable the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.” On July 28, Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki responded by telling the press that his government was “paying no attention” to the Allied ultimatum. U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered the devastation to proceed, and on August 6, the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80,000 people and fatally wounding thousands more. After the Hiroshima attack, a faction of Japan’s supreme war council favored acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, but the majority resisted unconditional surrender. On August 8, Japan’s desperate situation took another turn for the worse when the USSR declared war against Japan. The next day, Soviet forces attacked in Manchuria, rapidly overwhelming Japanese positions there, and a second U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese coastal city of Nagasaki. Just before midnight on August 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito convened the supreme war council. After a long, emotional debate, he backed a proposal by Prime Minister Suzuki in which Japan would accept the Potsdam Declaration “with the understanding that said Declaration does not compromise any demand that prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as the sovereign ruler.” The council obeyed Hirohito’s acceptance of peace, and on August 10 the message was relayed to the United States.
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September 2, 2020
Re-3J Board of Education Sends MLO Continuation to November Ballot
HUDSON—The Weld County School District Re-3J Board of Education voted unanimously on August 26 to place a Mill Levy Override (MLO) renewal question on the 2020 ballot. This question is not a tax increase; instead, if approved, the measure will allow the district to continue collecting its existing MLO, approved by district voters in 2016. The MLO allows the district to collect an additional $3.3 million per year from local property taxes to address its strategic priorities, including retention of quality teachers, replacement of outdated learning materials and student devices, implementation of instructional programs such as arts and STEM, and continuation of proper maintenance of district facilities and transportation fleet. The 2016 MLO required a renewal, or it will expire at the end of the 2021-22 school year “Approval of the district’s Mill Levy Override was critical to the success of our students and retention of our teachers over the past four years,” said Board President Cindy Baumgartner. “This success comes from great community support. The district has engaged community members, staff, and parents over the past four years to ensure that the Mill Levy Override addresses the district’s most important priorities. By approving the MLO continuation, our community can help ensure that our students, families, and faculty will have the resources for safe schools and great academics.” The MLO is voter-approved, community-based funding of $3.3 million annually that cannot be reduced when or if the state cuts its budget for K-12 education. If the continuation is approved by voters this November, the district can use his funding to make its most critical academic, safety, and staffing budget decisions. Because of reductions in the state of Colorado’s budget, the current school year budget was reduced by more than $1 million, or 5.5 percent. The reductions from the state are expected to continue and possibly grow next fiscal year. “Extending the district’s MLO now will provide sustainable funding that the district can count on in these uncertain times and help ensure that students and teachers receive the resources needed for safe and healthy schools and necessary classroom resources,” Baumgartner said. The 2020 ballot question maintains the same priorities as the 2016 question, while also allowing the district to focus on safe learning environments for students and teachers through safety, security and mental health supports. The Weld and Adams county clerks will be creating the 2020 ballot in the coming weeks and will assign a ballot number to the Re-3J question.
Colorado Peach Growers Urge Consumers to Enjoy Colorado Peaches, Current Recall for Out-of-State Peaches ONLY
Colorado peach growers now in the middle of peach harvest are concerned that the recall of out-of-state peaches could impact peach sales and are urging Colorado consumers to check the source of their peaches and to continue enjoying Colorado grown peaches. As per the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, consumers, restaurants and retailers should not eat, sell or serve recalled peaches packed or supplied by Prima Wawona from June 1 to Aug. 19. More details are available at: https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-salmonella-enteritidis-peaches-august-2020 "Oftentimes consumers hear about a product recall and quit eating that product altogether, even though only produce from a specific source is implicated," said Palisade peach grower Bruce Talbott, Talbott's Mountain Gold. "We are asking consumers to check the source of their peaches. If they have the Colorado Proud logo or are otherwise known to be Colorado grown, they are not part of the recall." CFVGA has supported and continues to support food safety initiatives and training specific to the Food Safety Modernization Act in collaboration with Colorado State University Extension, Western Growers and the Colorado Department of Agriculture. CFVGA will continue to work with its grower members to keep them informed about any food safety issues that could impact Colorado produce growers or the health of consumers. "It is so important that Colorado consumers buy the very popular Western Slope peaches that growers have labored so hard to produce, harvest and deliver safely to retail outlets," said Harrison Topp, of Topp Fruits in Hotchkiss. "It is especially important for consumers to support Colorado fruit growers in 2020, as so many have reduced crop volumes because of the late spring freeze on Western Slope orchards." The CFVGA has approximately 250 members, including produce operations of all sizes and types of production throughout the state, as well as representatives of allied industries. The Colorado fruit and vegetable growing sector contributes nearly $485 million to Colorado at the farm gate and is multiplied as it goes through the distribution chain. Over 90,000 Colorado acres are in fruit and vegetable production.