VOL. 01 NO. 206 | DECEMBER 15, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016

DENVER – As our grandmothers used to say, “It’s going to be a Merry Christmas for the electric company!” You might also say the same for the attorneys involved in the rogue Hamilton ‘faithless’ Electors legal maneuvers. With billable hours at stake, the ‘faithless’ and their attorney have announced an intention to seek relief in the state’s high court.

Come on, everybody SING, “…Just what makes that little old ant – think he’ll move that rubber tree plant?”

The most reported Colorado news item in the last 24 hours? No doubt, it’s been the decision by the tiny Hanover School District to allow staff to conceal carry on campus. Expect – as anti-gun activists begin cold calling newsrooms – to hear much, much more about statistics and other facts and figures on gun violence in schools.

The First Shot

“Some teachers I’m OK with; other teachers I’m not really sure they should have guns … Some teachers have anger issues.”

– Hanover School District 7th grader Jiorgianna McMurtry

Colorado’s “pistol packin” teachers given OK

Not all – but some – Colorado teachers and school staff have been given the go-ahead to arm themselves while on school grounds. At Wednesday’s Hanover School District 28 board meeting, board members voted 3-2 to allow school employees to be armed on the job after undergoing training.

According to the Associated Press, the community is torn over the issue of concealed handguns on campus … Colorado isn’t the only state with rural districts pondering armed teachers. Texas, Oklahoma and California are also considering allowing teachers to carry following the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

Interesting enough, Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana might be driving the effort. Board members supporting guns on campus – as reported in the Gazette – believe firearms would be protection against possible violence connected with nearby marijuana grows.

Under the plan, staff carrying must undergo an initial 46 hours of training, including live fire training, plus yearly training and undergo a psychological examination.

GOP puts #NeverTrump tweet behind them

It was the Tweet that inspired death threats, investigations, legal filings and even a social media response from then candidate Donald Trump.

As some might remember – and Colorado Trump supporters certainly do – a now famous Tweet from the COGOP Twitter account exploded at the state’s Republican assembly back in April.  “We did it. #NeverTrump” – came two minutes after the party announced that Sen. Ted Cruz had taken all 34 of the state’s elected delegates to the Republican National Convention.

According to the reporting of John Frank at the Denver Post, the Republican Party filed a motion on Election Day – hours before Donald Trump won the White House – to dismiss its lawsuit seeking monetary damages and the name of the person who allegedly hacked the apparently loosely managed @cologop Twitter account.

In the weeks following the “hacked” tweet, state Republican Chair Steve House received everything from national criticism to death threats. Will we ever know who spawned “Tweet-gate?” With state politics being what they are and alliances changing all the time … anything is possible, right?

The ‘faithless’ still keeping the faith

Just a quick update here because, frankly, the Hamilton Electors have begun to wear out their welcome. After losing in two courts, the faithless have announced that they’ll look for remedies in the Colorado Supreme Court.

Apparently… They’ve got HIGH HOPES! Everybody sing!

The Colorado pair’s announcement showing up on the Twitter feed of reporter Brandon Rittiman. And according to 9News, “…to hear them tell it, the fate of our Republic hangs in the balance, if Colorado’s electors and others in the Electoral College don’t band together to deny Donald Trump the presidency.”

The evolving conservative media

In a year of media bias finger wagging, an “unapologetic (thank you Darryl Glenn) conservative” has announced a new media venture. Conservative leaning media darling Michelle Malkin previewing her new online subscription at the Aurora Fox Arts Center.

Malkin, famously making waves in political circles as a smart, insightful, popular (insert adjective here) pundit for Fox News.

As reported by Joey Bunch at ColoradoPolitics.com, Malkin commented on the state of journalism – especially political journalism – in current media …

“I certainly think one of the problems with so many practitioners of so-called real journalism … is they take for granted the privilege they have every single day to make a living exercising the First Amendment,” she said. “I always say what a blessing it is that only in America could this little brown girl run her mouth and pen and get paid for it.”

You can find “Michelle Malkin Investigates” – for an online subscription – at Conservative Review TV, which became available this month.

Just for Laughs

Calendar

12/15             Colorado Hispanic Republicans Meet n Greet

                     ACDP Executive Board Regular Meeting

12/16             CRBA Monthly Meeting

12/19            ACDP Executive Board Regular Meeting

1/19               ACDP Executive Board Regular Meeting

Today in History

2014 – Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

2000 – The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People’s Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan

1961 – Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.

1939 – Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol.

1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

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