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

Join the NSRF on Saturday, November 8th as Kelly Maher of 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 of RealingPolitics.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 $3 for members and $5 per 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 Laffey talking about the
rising federal debt and the hard choices well soon have to make about it
January 10 Jimmy Sengenberger talks about when & what Liberty Day is and how you can volunteer
February 14 -- Hadley Heath Manning, the Health Policy Director at the Independent Women's Forum
discusses how all issues are women's issues.
March 14 Steve House will discuss how technology is changing the world. Are you ready for the change?
April 9 -- Local Board of Education members update us on what's happening in their districts

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views of the NSRF Board of Directors. It is intended for the thoughtful consideration of
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Election Night Watch Party for the Adams County Republicans & The Reagan Club
Election Night Gathering for Adams County Republicans & The Reagan Club
The word Colorado is of Spanish origin, meaning "Colored Red."

Come join fellow Republicans and candidates as we celebrate the end of the election season and get ready for
the next cycle. We'll watch the election results and see how our party fared as well as find out which extreme
Democrats will be unemployed and looking for U-Hauls as their "LIE of the Year" 5-Pinocchio campaigns end.

We have a commitment from Old Chicago (3909 E 120th Ave Thornton, CO 80233) to set up 75 seats and 6
TV's for our event in the bar area. If we get more than 75 - the adjacent area could hold up to another 75. We'll
be monitoring local, state, and federal races.

Old Chicago will be offering food and drink specials for us.

The location is easy to find and their parking area has plenty of spaces. The "outdoor patio" is next to our area
- for smokers.

Come early for dinner . . .but the event doesn't "officially start" until 7:00 p.m..

Any questions, ideas, or concerns, call either Gary Mikes (AdCo GOP chair 303-475-0413) or Mike Stoffler
(Reagan Club President 970-222-7502)

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Heres the articles that have been posted on our website: www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com since
our 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 1
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What will the headline be on Wednesday, November 5
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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 Colorado James 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 Superstitions
The 2014 campaign brings a fresh focus on candidates with fervently held, evidence-free beliefs.

By KATE BACHELDER
Oct. 30, 2014 7:50 p.m. ET
A hallmark of progressive politics is the ability to hold fervent beliefs, in
defiance 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 improves education. 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 nothing 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
mascot Bobber 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 Leader Harry 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 unionslinchpins of
the Democratic Partyspent $4.4 billion on politics, far outstripping any conservative rival.

4. Raising the minimum 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 suppress minority 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 increase in 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 popularity. 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 times the oil that tankers do, as environmental analyst Terry Anderson has 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 Beacon did a little number crunching and 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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