Author: Jeff Hunt
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POINT | Mail balloting still a flawed process
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Jeff Hunt Nearly all Americans have concerns with America’s current forms of voting. For decades, liberals have claimed that voters are disenfranchised. The ACLU has a website dedicated to voting problems in the 2020 election. The ACLU claims politicians are trying “to manipulate political outcomes.” Sounds like conservatives concerned with the presidential election. I’m not…
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OPINION | At last, a family-leave plan that offers Coloradans real options
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Jeff Hunt Whether it is a health crisis, welcoming a new baby, caring for an aging parent, or any other issues facing a family today, government policies should encourage and support families in building savings to be prepared for the financial strains these situations create. State Rep. Lois Landgraf’s bill HB20-1193, titled Income Tax Benefits…
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OPINION | A commendable crackdown on opioids, vaping — as marijuana oversight goes to pot
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Jeff Hunt This past week, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser tweeted that he was suing the family that principally owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of many opioids that have devastated our state. His tweet mentioned that Purdue was “the definition of an irresponsible company… who profited from its wrongdoing.” I applaud the Colorado lawmakers who are putting…
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OPINION | At Western Conservative Summit, immigrants’ love of USA was on display
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Jeff Hunt This past Friday evening demonstrated a tale of two visions for the future of America. As leftist protesters outside of the ICE illegal alien detention center in Aurora defaced the American flag and raised high the Mexican flag, a different story was unfolding across town at the Western Conservative Summit. At the Western…
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THE PODIUM | After 2019 session, ‘conservatives are fired up to fight back’
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Jeff Hunt For conservatives who care about personal freedom, limited government, the sanctity of life, free markets, traditional family values, religious freedom, and parental rights, this legislative session was brutal. The left is in complete control in Colorado and they’re driving the state into a ditch. Ten years ago, Bill Armstrong and John Andrews had…
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Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission has a serious problem — but the House won’t fix it
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Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage across America, slammed the Colorado Civil Rights Commission as “neither tolerant nor respectful.” The Commission’s unfairness landed it in the U.S. Supreme Court and on the front pages of newspapers across the country last year. It is clear that the Justices…
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Three cheers for the pro-family positions of Gardner, Buck, Lamborn and Tipton
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Family Research Council Action, which tracks pro-family and pro-life federal legislation, rated Cory Gardner, Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn, and Scott Tipton with a 100% pro-family rating for the first session of the 115th Congress. The legislation tracked included votes to repeal and replace Obamacare, limit funding for abortion, increase the Child Tax Credit, eliminate numerous…
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Lakewood’s anti-growth ballot measure is just more big government
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Conservatives believe that the most influential government should be local governments – not bureaucrats thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C. If you’re going to make decisions that affect our lives, you better look us in the eye. That’s why we take local government so seriously. Because when people are working hard to make their…
