Mayor Hickenlooper candidate for Colorado Governor invites Chaffee County citizens to join him and other State Democratic Candidates on Wednesday October 27th. His bus tour will arrive at the intersection of 3rd and F street at the Moonlight Pizza complex for a rally from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM,All citizens are invited to join the rally and meet many of our local and state Democratic Candidates.
A geologist-turned brewpub pioneer who had never run for political office, John W. Hickenlooper was elected Mayor of Denver in 2003 and re-elected in 2007. In April 2005 – less than two years into his first term – Time Magazinenamed the political newcomer one of the top five “big-city” mayors inAmerica. Both Hickenlooper and Denver continue to gain national recognition for innovative approaches to sustainability, transit, arts and culture, ending homelessness, economic development, regionalism and – of course – hosting the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Hey Looper,
Aren’t you one dishwasher short? You know the illegal hired by your restaurant. The one that shot those two cops and fled to Mexico. Thanks to you sanctuary city policies. Yes, the buck stops at you.
Wow! It is impressive that sleepy Salida is important enough to be on the stump trail. Good job Hickenlooper and shame on you Fred Flintstone- if you can’t say anything nice, at least have the self-pride to use your real name.
Really, that’s what you are going with, Fred Flintstone? Really.
One of the best parts of the Citizen is that the posters and those that leave comments have found ways to be respectful while disagreeing. I believe that the reason that happens is the same reason that our local politicians have, for the most part, found ways to work together for the good of the community. I like to believe that we all recognize that we are all in this town/county together, and we won’t make it a better place by engaging in overblown partisan rhetoric while hiding behind aliases.
I know the citizen has always been easy to post to, and that is because Bill and the gang trust us as a community to avoid this kind of behavior. Everyone who knows me knows that I never back away from a good argument, and I avoid getting personal about it. That is because I know that I will, no doubt, end up standing next to you in long line at safeway. We can;t avoid each other in a place like this, and we shouldn’t want to. We need to find ways to communicate without alienating others. The way to do that is respect. Respect for others points of view surely, but above all, respect for other people.
That way we can continue to live in a great place, without worrying about who is line with us. Let’s try.
Shame on you Maggie, supporting a candidate whose policies allow drug dealers, cop killers, and child molesters to run free in our cities! Over half the inmates in federal prision are illegal Mexicans.
Bill, maybe they should call this website the Salida Comrade. You’re free to comment as long as it agrees with your point of view. Let’s all hold hands and sing kumbaya. Is that what you’re going with?
Mr Flinstone,
This is off-topic, but I can’t let a made-up statistic go without challenge.
“over half the inmates in federal prision (sic) are illegal Mexicans.” Try less than 30%: http://immigration.procon.org/sourcefiles/InformationonCriminalAliensIncarceratedinFederalandStatePrisonsandLocalJails.pdf
That’s pretty much the opposite of what Bill said.
This claim interested me, too.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics [see the PDF], in June 2009 the federal prison system had 206,577 prisoners, of which 30,445 — about 15% — were non-US citizens.
Non-US citizens accounted for 4.1% (94,498 inmates) of the inmates held in either state or federal prisons in 2009. (The state prisons dwarf the federal system, and have proportionately fewer non-US citizen prisoners.)
Illegal aliens would presumably be a subset of all non-US citizens — not all non-US citizens are illegal — and illegal aliens from Mexico a further subset.
I’ll note without commenting further that the numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics don’t quite square with the numbers in the GAO report cited by Steve, above.
The racial composition of America’s prisons remained relatively unchanged. As of Dec. 31, 2003, about 44% of all inmates were black, 35% were white and 19% were Hispanic. Nationally, about 9% of all black males age 25 through 29 were in prison, compared to nearly 3% of Hispanic males and 1% of white males.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-07-women-prison_x.htm
And from the BOP
http://www.bop.gov/news/quick.jsp
Inmates By Race
White: 120,752 (57.6 %)
Black: 81,614 (38.9 %)
Native American: 3,748 (1.8 %)
Asian: 3,600 (1.7 %)
Citizenship
United States: 155,064 (73.9 %)
Mexico: 36,589 (17.4 %)
Colombia: 2,654 (1.3 %)
Cuba: 1,783 (0.9 %)
Dominican Republic: 2,605 (1.2 %)
Other/Unknown: 11,019 (5.3 %)
I’m not sure how all this ties into Hickenritter’s visiting Salida, but for what it’s worth, it would seem that my friend Fred, is a little off his rocker.
As Ronny Ray Gun would say, he believes so many things to be true, that simply aren’t.
Politics..
One would think that they have started more wars than religion, but they haven’t.
The government spending like drunken sailors, but it’s all Bush’s fault.
Revisiting history, Keynesian economics, which were proven not to work during the great depression, unemployment at almost 10% and not a damn person, demo or repub with anything even close to a solution.
The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but herein lies the difference – the follies of the fool are known to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
-Charles C. Colton, c.1780 – 1832