NEW YEAR’S THREAD - please RT 🎙
In March 2017, IFRR held its third ever organizing meeting in Boulder, CO, and I remember clearly talking about there being 44 months before the 2020 election. Now, it's 10 months. #copolitics#cosen 1/15
NEW: "The reason things don’t feel “safe” is not because you see homeless people, but because we’ve decided, as a community, that visible homelessness doesn’t require a humane response. What a great message for the kids." https://t.co/wmX129aJs3
10 days ago Mayor Mike Coffman received the endorsement of the Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance, a right-wing supremacist network founded by the former chairman of ‘MAGA Trump Colorado’.
CCPA’s leader boasts that he is “an authentic WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and personifies everything the Left hates.” @auroramayormike, will you denounce CCPA’s transphobic, anti-choice, anti-immigrant values and ask them to rescind your endorsement?
10 days ago Mayor Mike Coffman received the endorsement of the Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance, a right-wing supremacist network founded by the former chairman of ‘MAGA Trump Colorado’.
“Encampment removals are harmful for people experiencing homelessness, as a plethora of studies and reports document. They extend time in homelessness (counteracting the goals of Safe Zones, as critics note).” via @boulderbeatnews
https://t.co/dkiDFNWQO8
@ProgBoulderNow@SolutionsNotSZs@boulderbeatnews Hey Safe Zones - why are you posting an article about an incident that didn’t involve a homeless person ??
That incident would not have been prevented by your safe zones measure. Which is exactly why people should oppose it
Hi all! Will you take 5 minutes today to help get occupancy reform passed in Boulder?
Send a short email to Boulder City Council TODAY to help us make it happen!
Details in this document: https://t.co/fq3j0HCD6u
There it is folks. If you want to understand the dangerous axis of illiberalism that has emerged between Christian Nationalists, Right-Wing Israeli Settlers, & the "Strongmen" of Eastern Europe, then this tweet from the face of Christian Nationalism in Colorado cannot be ignored.
PRE-ELECTION PREBUNKING
Disinformation campaigns will go into overdrive tomorrow, and will likely stay that way for weeks after the election (unless the GOP wins overwhelmingly). To that end, I want to get a “prebunk” thread up before the vote-counting starts. Here’s why:
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Today is national vote early day!
Make your voice heard in this critical election by voting in-person, returning your ballot to a ballot drop box, or mailing it today.
You can find your nearest voting locations here: https://t.co/M1rMNdWDZp
@BellPolicy is teaming up with our wonderful partners @UnitedWayDenver to do a live ballot guide presentation via Zoom on the 11 statewide questions. RSVP at the link in the illustration. See you there! #copolitics#BallotReady
It’s a big news day for the library campaign - acclaimed, national best-selling (and local!) author Jon Krakauer has endorsed #YesOn6C 🎉🎉🎉
And check out our new author endorsements section >> https://t.co/kwtbfzpokZ #boulder#BookTheVote#FundOurLibraries
In an effort to stop more people from voting in Boulder's local elections, Sam Weaver went on KGNU today and blatantly misled people about the benefits of moving Boulder's elections to even years.
Now he's going to get The Research. #boulder https://t.co/hVt2sU2eEu
When the talking points against even year elections sound like they came from Fox News you know more people voting in local elections is a good thing. Vote #YesOn2E
Thank you @SEIU105 for your endorsement!
As a proud union member and advocate for workers' rights in my public school district, I am ready to fight for strong labor protections for our Colorado workers in the State Senate.