Archive for February, 2009

Special Report On Taxpayer Transparency Act

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Despite threats from Rep. Don Marostica to embarrass her if she does it, Rep. BJ Nikkel has introduced the Taxpayer Transparency Act (HB 09-1288)

It appears as though Marostica promised the governor to drop the bill in exchange for a promise to implement it by executive order but what else did he promise? People are wondering as Marostica appears to be the Democrat’s dancing poodle on the Joint Budget Committee. Only time may tell but there really must be more in it for Marostica.

See our special investigative report on the abandonment by Marostica on an important bill he leveraged heavily to campaign on during his recent re-election to Colorado’s legislature.

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Marostica Meltdown – Brings Hundreds of People To LovelandPolitics

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Across Colorado, from newspaper stories to blogs to the floor of the Colorado State Legislature, people are talking about Don Marostica’s latest verbal attack on leaders within his own political party. In taking a contrary position Marostica described his fellow Republicans as “Has-beens” and “Losers.”

LovelandPolitics archived stories about Marostica are receiving record numbers of visits as people try and understand who is this guy who appears to be acting so erratically in recent months and ask the question, “was he ever a Republican?”

The answer is complicated. Marostica once told Democrat rival Jodi Radke that he too was a Democrat only Loveland’s high number of Republicans prevented him from running as one. On nearly every issue other than 2nd Amendment, Marostica is an antagonist to his own party. Immigration (he supported HB 1313), Tax and spend, eminent domain and now TABOR are all issues where Marostica is fighting the Republicans.

Here are links to the top 4 stories that people appear to be visiting the most;

1. Marostica Tax Liens
2. Eminent Domain
3. Self-licking Ice Cream Cone
4. Primary Advertisement

Do you have a view on the Marostica Meltdown? How about his dropping the transparency bill and later threatening a colleague who introduced the same measure?

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Loveland Proposes Subsidizing McWhinney With Stimulus Money

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

When the State of Colorado came looking for “shovel ready” projects to include for funding in the federal “stimulus” package, Loveland’s City Manager apparently tried to include the Crossroads and I-25 intersection.

If you reference our story on the front page (LovelandPolitics.com) you will see a link to the list of projects the McWhinney’s special Metro District agreed to fund in-exchange for 25 years of approximately 600 million city tax dollars. Crossroads is on that list.

Don Williams destroyed any chance for the RTA (Regional Transportation Authority) by trying to relieve McWhinney of these obligations by placing similarly funded projects on the list of unfunded projects. Greeley and Ft. Collins discovered the impropriety of using the RTA to subsidize one powerful special interest and withdrew. Loveland only needed to place transportation projects on the list that were not already slated for funding but Loveland refused thus collapsing the goodwill coalition

The City of Loveland is often referred to at regional meetings as “McWhinneyville” since the management acts like lobbyists for McWhinney instead of people representing the citizens of Loveland

Please take a moment and reference the list of “regional improvements” the McWhinneys and the City of Loveland used to sell their enormous tax deal with the city. Now, only four years later they are doing everything they can to get out from under the obligations. Shouldn’t we also ask that they reduce their share of the sales taxes as well?

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