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www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com November, 2014 www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.org

Join the NSRF on Saturday, November 8th as Kelly Maherof Revealing Politics

discusses the November 4th election results and provides analysis. Who won?

Who lost? How does it affect Colorado? What's next and how will it change the

local, state, and federal landscape. Bring your questions to add to the

dialogue. Kelly is the Executive Director ofRealingPolitics.com. She attended

UCCS and currently lives in Denver.

We meet at Horan & McConatys Community Room, 9998 Grant St in

Thornton from 9:00am-11:00am. Doors open at 8:30am.

Admission is $3for members and $5per person for non-members. Coffee,

orange juice, donuts, bottled water, fruit & pastries are included with your

admission.

NSRF upcoming calendar in 2014/2015:December 13 End of the year Christmas party with former CD-4 candidate Steve Laffeytalking about therising federal debt and the hard choices well soon have to make about itJanuary 10 Jimmy Sengenbergertalks about when & what Liberty Day is and how you can volunteerFebruary 14 -- Hadley Heath Manning, the Health Policy Director at the Independent Women's Forumdiscusses how all issues are women's issues.March 14 Steve Housewill discuss how technology is changing the world. Are you ready for the change?April 9 -- Local Board of Education membersupdate us on what's happening in their districts

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This newsletter has a conservative Republican viewpoint. It may or may not reflect the

views of the NSRF Board of Directors. It is intended for the thoughtful consideration of

our members, to inform, educate, and as potential discussion starters.

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors." - Plato
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Heres the articles that have been posted on our website:www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.comsinceour last newsletter:

The Top 10 Liberal Superstitions Liberal Logic 101 Vote for your 2014 Republican Team The true reason gas prices are falling (Hint: its not because of green energy) Companies to support if you love America and want to annoy liberals Defeat Mark Udall rally on Saturday, November 1st What will the headline be on Wednesday, November 5th? 4 Days after the election, whats next? People who love children more than you do You and Colorado deserve a leader Vote for the right direction Governor Susana Martinez endorses Bob Beauprez I will fix it Dave Young, Adams County District Attorney, is M.I.A. Dems look to new Colorado voting law to save senate

Adams Countys new commissioners to lead a tale of two districts Election 2014: Adams County Clerk, Treasurer, and Assessor Will it make a difference which party controls congress in 2015? Rocky Mountain Heist Elbert Guillory: Why I am a Republican Forget party affiliation and vote for Brigitte Tonys RantsElection 2014: Adams County Commissioner Races The Colorado Model goes thud
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Voter fraud in ColoradoJames OKeefe strikes again! Make conservatism cooler, college students advise GOP candidates An open letter to Senator Mark Udall President Obamas policies ARE on the ballot this November This election is about Barack Obama and all his failed policies MoveOn.org: If GOP takes the senate theyll pass laws using a shady tactic called reconciliaion Colorado HD-31 Representative Joe Salazar on guns

Health care cancellation avalanche hits Colorado Democrats weeks before election Citizens United given go-ahead to run ads for Rocky Mountain Heist Sheriff candidate runs on experience D.A. investigates Adams County Clerk candidate for fraud charges AdCo candidates face off Sheriff candidates discuss budget experience 2014 Democratic armageddon Colorado Supreme Court rules PERA can lower cost-of-living increases The Gateway News endorses Brigitte Grimm for Adams County Treasurer Brighton man eyes RTD seat Get paid for volunteering Braced for voter fraud in Colorado Udalls shorter work week Democrats War on Women falling flat in Colorado senate Udall and Gardner lay out differences in round two Don Ytterberg and Mike Melvin meet and greet The Denver Post editorial board endorses Cory Gardner for U.S. Senate America is War on Women weary What are the ballot issues? Who do you trust to count your vote? Rock the vote Friday night!

Upcoming Governor and Senator debates Colorado Gubernatiorial Energy forum Obama factor in 2014 vote similar to 2010 Redtape Hickenlooper: 14,000 pages of rules and regulation added in 2012 alone Gun control logic Colorado Republicans take page from Democrats playbook Two Colorados, two visions, one tight race Emails show union school representative organizing sick outs Cory Gardners Four-Corners plan


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The Top 10 Liberal SuperstitionsThe 2014 campaign brings a fresh focus on candidates with fervently held, evidence-free beliefs.

ByKATE BACHELDEROct. 30, 2014 7:50 p.m. ET

A hallmark of progressive politics is the ability to hold fervent beliefs, indefiance of evidence, that explain how the world worksand why liberal

solutions must be adopted. Such political superstitions take on a new

prominence during campaign seasons as Democratic candidates trot

out applause lines to rally their progressive base and as the electorate

considers their voting records. Heres a Top 10 list of liberal superstitions on prominent display during the midterm

election campaign:

1.Spending more money impro ves educat ion.The U.S. spent $12,608 per student in 2010more than double the

figure, in inflation-adjusted dollars, spent in 1970and spending on public elementary and secondary schools has

surpassed $600 billion. Hows that working out? Adjusted state SAT scores have declined on average 3% since the

1970s, as the Cato Institutes Andrew Coulson found in a March report.

No better news in the international rankings: The Program for International Student Assessment reports that in 2012

American 15-year-olds placed in the middle of the pack, alongside peers from Slovakiawhich shells out half as much

money as the U.S. per student. Someone might mention this to North Carolina Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, who is

knocking State House Speaker Thom Tillis for cutting $500 million from schools. Per-pupil K-12 spending has increased

every year since Mr. Tillis became speaker in 2011, and most of what Ms. Hagan is selling as cuts came from

community colleges and universities,not the local middle school. Mr. Coulsons Cato study notes that North Carolina has

about doubled per-pupil education spending since 1972, which has done precisely nothi ng for the states adjusted SAT

scores.

2. Government spending stimulates the economy.Case in point is the $830 billion 2009 stimulus bill, touted by the

Obama administration as necessary for keeping unemployment below 8%. Result: four years of average unemployment

above 8%. Federal outlays soared in 2009 to $3.5 trilliona big enough bump to do the Keynesian trick of boosting

aggregate demandbut all we got was this lousy 2% growth and a new costume for Army Corps of Engineers

mascotBobber the Water Safety Dog.Every Senate Democrat voted for the blowout, including the 11 now up for re-

election who were in Congress when it passed.

3. Republican candidates always have a big spending advantage over Democrats. Majority LeaderHarry Reid took to the

Senate floor recently to deride the Koch brothers as radical billionaires who are attempting to buy our democracy. Yet
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the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has raked in $127 million this cycle, about $30 million more than the

National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Democrats have aired more TV ads than Republicans in several

battleground states, according to analysis by the Center for Public Integrity. Meanwhile, Mr. Reids Senate Majority PAC

has raised more than $50 million. As this newspaper has reported, between 2005 and 2011, labor unions linchpins of

the Democratic Partyspent $4.4 billion on politics, far outstripping any conservative rival.

4. Rais ing the min im um wage helps the poor.The president wants to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10

from $7.25, with the tagline Lets give America a raise. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the hike would

cost 500,000 jobs, one blow to the low-wage earners it claims to help. Employment aside, only 18% of the earnings

benefits of a $10.10 hike would flow to people living below the poverty line, according to analysis from University of

California-Irvine economist David Neumark. Nearly 30% of the benefits would go to families three times above the poverty

line or higher, in part because half of Americas poor families have no wage earners. Minimum-wage increases help some

poor familiesat the expense of other poor families.

You wont hear that from Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who in September lived on $79 for a week to show his public-relations

solidarity with minimum-wage earners. Keep in mind: Only 4.7% of minimum-wage earners are adults working full-time

trying to support a family,and nearly all would be eligible for the earned-income tax credit and other welfare programs.

5. Global warming is causing increasingly violent weather.Tell that to Floridians, who are enjoying the ninth

consecutive season without a hurricane landfall. The Atlantic hurricane season in 2013 was the least active in 30 years.

Oh, and global temperatures have not increased for 15 years.

Still, something must be done! On Monday, the Hill reported that an internal memo circulating among five environmental

groups detailed plans for spending to support candidates who want to act to combat climate change. We are on track to

spend more than $85 million overall including more than $40 million in just six Senate races, the memo said. The

beneficiaries include Sen. Mark Udall (D., Colo.), who got $12.1 million, and Rep. Bruce Braley (D., Iowa) with $7.2

million.

6. Genetically modified food is dangerous. Farmers have been breeding crop seeds for 10,000 years, but the

agricultural innovation known as genetic modification makes liberals shudder. Not a single documented illness has

resulted from the trillions of meals containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, that humans have consumed

since the mid-1990s. The technology has been declared safe by every regulatory agency from the Food and Drug

Administration to the European Commission.

But insisting on labeling food containing GMOs has turned into a liberal cause. The California Democratic Party platform

in 2012 added a demand for GMO labeling; more recently the Oregon Democratic Party climbed aboard. In May 2013,
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self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduced a farm-bill amendment that would allow states to

require GMO labeling for food; co-sponsors of the amendment, which failed, included Sens. Mark Begich (D., Ala.) and

Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.).

7. Voter ID laws sup press m inor i ty turnout. More than 30 states have voter-ID laws, which the left decries as an

attempt to disenfranchise minorities who dont have identification and cant pay for it. Yet of the 17 states with the strictest

requirements, 16 offer free IDs. The Government Accountability Office this month released an analysis of 10 voter-ID

studies: Five showed the laws had no statistically significant effect on turnout, four suggested a decrease in turnout

(generally among all ethnic groups, though percentages varied), and one found an increasein turnout with voter ID laws

in place.

The Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes, has nonetheless been running radio ads in

urban areas claiming that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are trying to take away our right to vote, based on a

2007 voter-ID amendment the minority leader introduced.

8. ObamaCare is gaining p opu lari ty.President Obama said in a speech earlier this month that fewer Republicans were

running against ObamaCare because its working pretty well in the real world. Yet the laws approval rating hovers

around 40%, and 27% of people told Gallup this month that the law was hurting them, up from 19% in January, while only

16% reported it was helpful.

Dont even ask doctors about it: 46% of physicians gave the Affordable Care Act a D or F, according to a recent survey

by the Physicians Foundation, and less than 4% of respondents gave it an A. Yet some Democrats are die -hards: 36%

of their House candidates have voiced support for ObamaCare on the campaign trail, according to a recent analysis by

the Brookings Institution.

9. The Keystone XL pipeline would increase oil spills.Lets check out what President Obamas State Department had

to say: In 2013 pipelines with a diameter larger than 12 inches spilled 910,000 gallons. Railroad tankers spilled 1.5 million

gallons. Yet pipelines carry 25 timesthe oil that tankers do, as environmental analyst Terry Andersonhas noted in these

pages.Blocking Keystone and forcing more oil to be shipped by rail guarantees more harm to the environment. But on the

campaign trail emotion often overrules the facts, and so we have Rick Weiland, the Democratic Senate candidate in South

Dakota, adamantly opposing Keystone (If I lose because of this issue, so be it, he told the Nation magazine last week).

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is running for re-election after having voted against Keystone in the energy committee in June.

10. Women are paid 77 cents on the dollar compared with men.The mother of all liberal superstitions, this figure

comes from shoddy math that divides the average earnings of all women working full-time by the average earnings of all

full-time men, without considering career field, education or personal choices. When those factors are included, the wage
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gap disappears.A 2009 report commissioned by the Labor Department that analyzed more than 50 papers on the topic

found that the so-called pay gap may be almost entirely the result of choices both men and women make.

Yet heres Colorados Sen. Udall: It is simply unacceptable for businesses to pay women less than men doing the same

work, citing his support for the Paycheck Fairness Act, which might be better titled the Trial Lawyer Paycheck Act. One

irony: The Washington Free Beacondid a little number crunchingand discovered that women in Sen. Udalls office earn

86 cents on the dollar compared with men. Whoops.

Ms. Bachelder is an assistant editorial features editor at the Journal.

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