Custer County Caucus Tonight

The caucus is tonight at 7:00 PM, and the Southern Colorado Patriots Club needs your help in electing delegates that represent YOU!  You can select the list of uncommitted delegates listed below.  We want a good selection of candidates available for the primaries in August, which is what the folks below plan to ensure if elected as delegates.

Republican Precinct #1
Please see Patriot board member Jeff Mowry if you have questions:

Delegates to nominate and elect: Twila Geroux, Mike Hess, Jeff Mowry, Harold & Lisa Frank, Toloa Pearl and Cindy Howard.


Republican Precinct #3
Please see Patriot board member Joe Cascarelli:

Delegates to nominate and elect:  Joe Cascarelli, Mel & Doris Porth, Larry Luikart, Dan Fox, George Adams, Wayne & Dee Dee Riddering, and Katherine Brenchley.

(We received no volunteers for Republican Precinct #2 nor any Democrat precincts.)

I'll post an image to a precinct map below, but unfortunately the details are difficult to see.  You can download a larger version here.  Follow the color codes on this map, and DISREGARD THE BLACK LINE BORDERS (which are for commissioner districts, and NOT voter precincts.)  If you have any question about where to go for your precinct, call the Custer County Courthouse at (719) 783-2441 or check your voter ID card for which precinct you're in.

According to assembly locations as published in the Wet Mountain Tribune:
Republicans:
Precinct 1, County Courthouse
Precinct 2, Wetmore Firehouse
Precinct 3, Custer County School, Multi-Purpose Room

Democrats:
Precinct 1, Library Community Room (Westcliffe)
Precinct 2, Wetmore Community Building
Precinct 3, County Courthouse, Commissioners' Room

I'd recommend arriving early in case things are busier than usual.

Colorado Congressional Candidates

We'd like to start getting attention on the various candidates for local offices here in southern Colorado, and to do so, I'll post snippets of information about these candidates when I find them.

Here's an article posted at RightOSphere regarding candidate Bob McConnell, running for Congress in Colorado's third district against incumbent John Salazar.  Much of this article contrasts McConnell with the other candidate for this seat, Scott Tipton.  An excerpt:

If you're not familiar with Mr. McConnell (not to be confused with Gov. Bob McDonnell of VA), he's running for Congress in Colorado's 3rd District against incumbent Blue Dog John Salazar (brother of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar). This seat leans consistently Republican, and should be one of our top targets considering the high profile of the incumbent - but it's not. The Colorado GOP has largely abandoned the seat in favor of pursuing the state's 6th and 7th districts - and what little effort they have invested was to prop up the campaign of State Rep. Scott Tipton. I have nothing aganst Tipton per se, but he's has taken a shot a Salazar before with disatrous results. In 2006, a decently-funded Tipton recieved only 36.5% of the vote to Salazar's 61.6% - giving Salazar the biggest win of his congressional  career. Even the 2008 sacrificial lamb, Wayne Wolf, managed to garner a higher percentage.

Take a look, inform yourself, and vote your conscience.  I'll post more information as I find it, and as usual, please let me know if you find some good candidate information to post.

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U.S. Congress--Nice Work, If You Can Get It

Most people, when shown how much our most honorable servants in Congress make each year for part-time work, demonstrate expressions somewhere between shock and rage.

Care to guess how much they make?  (No, I mean how much the taxpayers pay them, not what the lobbyists and other folks pay them beyond taxpayer money.)  What do they make officially?

The lowest paid this year will be $174,000 (!).  Not bad, eh?  And that's not including the fat benefits paid to federal employees.  How about Madam Pelosi?  The Speaker of the House makes $223,500.  Again, this is the official salary, and with all the recesses they take, it's for part-time work, according to TheCapitol.Net.  It's also for the only branch of our federal government with approval ratings (think "performance review") staying near 20% these past few years!

I get this information from a nice article posted at About.com, if you'd like to read more details.

How Much, Really, Is A Trillion Dollars?

Do you know what a trillion dollars looks like?  We've seen plenty of billions of dollars thrown around in recent years, and lately are hearing talk of budget deficits in the trillions of dollars.

Assuming stacks of $100 bills, this PowerPoint file shows what a million, billion, and eventually--what a trillion dollars looks like.  (Imagine if the stacks were single dollars!)  Feel free to point others to this blog and to this PowerPoint file.  If the PowerPoint format doesn't work out well for you, check out the web format of this presentation at pagetutor.com is posted here.

I think it helps to visualize what these huge numbers actually mean.  After all, the gross domestic product of the entire American economy only makes up 13 to 14 of these trillion dollar piles in a given year!

(Note:  I generally give credit for anything mentioned in this blog space, but was entirely unable to track down the original source for this PowerPoint file.  If anyone can find the author/source of this file, please let me know so I can give proper credit.)