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Posted on 09/15/2009 6:00:36 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Saying she was "alarmed about the direction our nation is headed," former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton officially launched her bid today as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Surrounded by hundreds of supporters in a ballroom at the Marriott Tech Center, Norton, who has been serving as the executive director of the Denver Police Foundation, said she wanted to stop what she saw as an out-of-control government in the nation's capital.
"At every turn, Washington's giant hand seems to be grabbing everything in sight," said Norton, who served as lieutenant governor under former Gov. Bill Owens. "Seizing control of our car companies, banks, insurance companies, exploding the national debt and chipping away at individual liberty.
"And now, the federal government is attempting a take-over of 17 percent of our nation's economy in the form of government-run healthcare."
Norton said she would stand up to "big spenders in both parties."
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In an interview Monday with The Denver Post, though, former Congressman Tom Tancredo blasted Norton as ill-prepared to serve in the Senate, saying she was only talked into running for the job by Sen. John McCain, a family friend.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
Big spenders...like Juan McCain, as he voted to bail out the big New York banks, eh?
No, I don't think you'll stand up to your RINO masters at all.
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Great, another RINO takes the plunge. Makes me want to see if John Elway is interested, just for laughs.
Is there a real conservative going to run?
If McCain endorses her, then I’m running like mad away from her!
Ms. Norton clearly doesn’t understand that a McCain encouragement/endorsement does not help her case. She’d better distance herself from RINO’s.
McCain is on the loose again.
Is Tanc running?
I don't know this woman's political views but if Juan McCain convinced her to run then everyone should run the opposite direction from her as fast as they can!!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
She will lose.
Pro-amnesty if McCain endorsed her.
Please pass the RINO-No-Mo !
The headline makes it seem like Norton says McCain talked her into running. She never said that. It’s Tancredo who says that and she gave no indication it’s true. Even it is, so what? McCain has endorsed and campaigned for many who are more conservative than he is and more conservative on immigration than he is. Did Coburn or Kyl become less conservative because McCain has supported them?
I would have to take Trancredo’s word over McCain. I don’t have much faith in McCain. Some in the past, little to be sure but absolutely none after the last 2 years. McCain needs to be put out to pasture, but I’m not voting in that election.
I don’t see anywhere that she said McCain convinced her to run. I don’t like McCain, and she could have said that, but that’s not in the article.
I see no winners here. Tancredo lost all credibility when he sold his soul to Slick Willard, and if Norton was recruited by McLame..., they’re all bozos.
I would be pissed if I were in CO, McCain and HIS Rinos, we have had ENOUGH of them: McCain, Grhamnesty, Lugar, Snowe, Collins, Crist, Kirk, Castle, Norton, Fiorona?: ALL should lose!~ either by Dem. preferable by Republican (True Conservative).
I think it’s time we demand Steele kick this SOB to the curb.
The Republican leadership of the Senate should just strip McCain of every vestige of being in the leadership, all committee appointments et al.
Let’s see how he likes being a freshman again...
The Republican Party's abandonment of its core values (fiscal conservatism, small government, etc) has had a huge effect in Colorado.
2009 Voter Registration Numbers (^) (Colorado Secretary of State website last updated August, 2009).
The numbers are as follows:
Republicans 871,657
Democrats 866,203
Unaffiliated 768,773
There are almost as many Democrats as Republicans, and Democrats have been trending toward larger gains in reporting periods.
At this rate, the Democrats will surpass the Republicans in Colorado soon. When that happens, they will be able to tell Unaffiliated voters to go fly a kite and accelerate their agenda.
The state doesn't seem any more or less conservative... Boulder, Aspen, Vale, and some areas around Denver are liberal, but they always have been. What I do see, however, is an energized Democrat base, and a Republican base in despair and disrepair.
Last year there were pictures of Republican Party Headquarters across Colorado which were closed in the days leading up to election day due to a lack of volunteers.
This is what happens when a candidate as weak as John McCain runs. No one cares enough to pound the pavement registering voters or manning phone banks.
This is what happens when a candidate as weak as John McCain runs. No one cares enough to pound the pavement registering voters or manning phone banks.
McCain told conservatives to SIT DOWN and SHUT UP. Looks like Coloradan conservatives took him up on it.
Oh, absolutely. McCain committed slow-motion political suicide last year. It was a bizarre and disturbing thing to watch.
Another factor: McCain made several speeches that said that he wanted to renegotiate the water compact that governs water use in the West. We have a different type of law governing water usage in the West. Briefly, water on your property may not be yours if you don't also own the rights to it. It can only be stored in a limited way, and the state is bound by law to send a lot downstream to Southern California, Arizona, etc. This type of law is called Prior Appropriation Water Rights. The type in the East is called Riparian Rights.
People who don't understand Prior Appropriation laws think they are a liberal property grab or just plain wrong, but these laws actually go back at least as far as ancient Rome, which had use-based and not property-based water rights. It's a way of managing something there is literally never enough of.
The system works moderately well, and has been in place in the West since the gold rushes of the 19th century.
Back to McCain: His reason for wanting to renegotiate? Arizona (his home state) needs more water.
The problem is that much of the water comes from snow melt in Colorado. Since the compact has been in place (decades), Colorado has rarely if ever ended up with the amount of snow pack that it was estimated we'd have.
The compact says that Colorado still has to send X amount of water downstream, though, so the state ends up with a deficit.
McCain's comments indicated that he was ready to give us an even larger deficit, destroying Colorado's economy so that his home state could have green golf courses.
It didn't go over well, to say the least. Coloradoans aren't stupid. He didn't need to butter up Arizona to assure a win there. The pact would have benefited Southern California, too, but there was nearly no chance of a win there. There was absolutely no political benefit in saying what he said.
McCain's comments only made sense in the context of him saying what he really believed. It was taken very seriously here.
People are funny about having their economy threatened, ya' know?
Interesting. What is the primary means of water delivery from Colorado to Arizona? Is it exclusively the Colorado River and if so, how and where is it drawn from? Not really knowing, my first thought is that McCain should take it up with Nevada and the city of Las Vegas to release more from Lake Mead.
It's called the Colorado River Compact. It was first signed in 1922. The "Colorado" in the title refers to the river - which is the main means of transporting water through the area. The water comes from snow pack and rainfall throughout the region, largely from the Colorado Rockies, Utah and Wyoming.
The Compact governs 7 states: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming (the Upper Basin - where the water comes from), plus Nevada, Arizona and California (the Lower Basin - where the water goes).
Mexico is also entitled to water under the Compact.
I forgot to mention Mexico previously, but that was an important part of why people were so angry. The people who weren't mad that the water would go to Arizona for golf courses were mad because McCain seemed willing to send more to Mexico for agriculture than the Treaty specified.
The Colorado River Compact gives 7.5 million acre feet to California, Nevada Arizona. Whatever is left over is split between Colorado, Utah, Wyoming & New Mexico. Therein lies the problem. When the amounts to be sent downstream were calculated, no one knew that the source areas were undergoing a period of above-average precipitation.
That level of precipitation hasn't repeated itself in recent decades, but the Upper Basin states (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming & New Mexico) still have to send that amount downstream to the Lower Basin states (Nevada, California, & Arizona (plus Mexico).
The Lower Basin states & Mexico want more water, but it doesn't exist.
Not really knowing, my first thought is that McCain should take it up with Nevada and the city of Las Vegas to release more from Lake Mead.
One state can't force another to hand over or sell the water. Which is exactly why McCain wanted to open up the entire treaty to renegotiation. The only way Arizona gets more water is if they take it from other states through renegotiation. And who better to renegotiate for Arizona than the people who work for the President, who just happens to be from Arizona?
McCain made it clear he was willing to use his power to do that.
Colorado said "no" rather loudly. In fact, Senator Salazar said that it would be over his dead body that it was renegotiated. Republicans in Colorado were put in the terrible position of having to renounce McCain or agree and face the very real wrath of voters themselves.
McCain really was the gift that kept on giving last year.
Wow. A whole new level of McCain hubris and political ineptness. Thanks for the education.
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