Erin Brantley

Maybe CA should focus on fixing the fraud rather than punishing those who are exposing it. @nickshirleyy

The one party Democrat rule in Colorado has created an insane regulatory environment so it’s no surprise we are losing jobs. They also think money grows on trees and kept handing out social benefits like candy. Now they’re facing down the barrel of a massive deficit and cutting benefits for the disabled. This not competent leadership.

@redflameliberty Nope, not asking for money. Check out Independentmajority.co.

@logiclives I like that angle. Are you a pac?

Party politics aren’t going to save us in Colorado. More and more voters in my home state recognize that the system is broken. The left is bonkers and the right is ineffective. It’s exactly why I’ve stepped outside of party politics. There are so many of us that just want to see an end to the madness. I’m dedicated to giving them a voice and a way to step in that won’t rely on the dysfunctional political parties of Colorado.

CALL THIS WHAT IT IS: Coordinated Media Blitz To Get Colorado To Vote Away TABOR In November. Tell Everyone You Know, Colorado Schools Are Funded Through Property Taxes, And They Have Already Gone Up Over 50% In 5-Years. ALSO, Colorado Public Schools Are Losing 10s Of Thousands Of Students A Year, Yet Their Budgets Keeps Growing. Until Colorado Public Schools Stop Indoctrinating Our Kids And Putting Them In Harms Way (I'm Looking At You JeffCo) We Should REDUCE Funding, Not INCREASE It!

"If America produces more oil than anyone, why is gas four dollars?" Great question. Allow me to ruin the comforting idea that "the oil industry" is one big thing that could simply decide to give you cheaper gas if it wanted to. What most people don't know is that "the oil industry" is in fact three completely different businesses between the ground and your gas tank: 1) The drilling company pulls crude oil out of the earth. 2) The refinery, which is a DIFFERENT company, buys that crude from the driller and cooks it into gasoline. 3) The gas station buys that gasoline from the refinery and sells it to you. Three separate businesses, three markups. Each one passing the cost to the next guy in line. When global oil prices spike, the driller charges more because crude always trades at *global* prices. The refinery then has to pay more for that crude. The gas station pays more for that gasoline. You pay more at the pump. That is the chain, and you are at the end of it. Now, there's a silver lining to this. That chain is also pouring money into the American economy at a scale that is hard to overstate. Eleven million jobs. Not just roughnecks. Truck drivers, welders, engineers, port workers, accountants, you name it. We're talking about Two trillion dollars in GDP, which is roughly 8% of the entire American economy. Five hundred and seventy billion in taxes in a single year. That goes to schools, hospitals, roads, fire departments and more. And every barrel sold to Japan or Germany or South Korea is a barrel that USED to be sold by Saudi Arabia or Russia or Iran. That money used to leave America. Now it comes in. Four dollars a gallon hurts. But the money is not vanishing into the atmosphere. It is cycling through American towns, American jobs, and American tax revenue. And the countries buying American crude now depend on Washington, not Moscow and much less Tehran. American oil is no longer just a product. It has become a bond between countries. The pain is real, but will be temporary.

@SibylRights2024 @BreakTheChainsM I’m going to focus on holding them accountable and work on uniting folks to fight for transparency, affordability, and small government. And also trying to inform the masses of how damaging the far left policies are

@logiclives @BreakTheChainsM How about you?

@Veanessa Umm… when did I say I was quitting? Co-founding a movement is not quitting…. It’s attacking the issues from an angle outside the two party dynamic

@logiclives Ok …so you quit!!!

@ClayD2025 Let’s cut out the loophole for the fees then.

@logiclives A functioning legislature. TABOR doesn't limit spending, it limits accountability for spending. Colorado still spends the money, it just does it through fees, enterprise funds, and workarounds that bypass voter oversight entirely. It's the illusion of fiscal discipline.

TABOR will be the fight this year, folks. The Dems want a blank check and let me tell you, it’d be disastrous. Just look at what they’ve done with Medicaid in this state. We’re now cutting benefits for disabled Coloradans but ensuring we continue to fund Medicaid for the undocumented…. A program that is now costing us around 600% of the original estimates. Abhorrent. (Video on this to come tomorrow) So Coloradans…. Will you stand up to defend it?

@cvr_mtnman @jmagrude @jacktroutman They’re not the only force in Colorado politics —but to say they’re not influential isn’t accurate. They’ve played a consistent role in shaping and promoting policies like TABOR and school choice for decades. That’s influence, even if they’re not the ones passing laws themselves.

@jmagrude @jacktroutman @logiclives Lmao! The Independence Institute has almost zero influence on anything important in Colorado! I have been following them for at least 20 years. Its nice that Rob Natelson is influential at SCOTUS, yet Colorado is worse than ever and getting worse by the minute.

@redflameliberty I agree the two party system as a hold on elections. I M Colorado will not be involved in endorsing candidates or elections. We’ll organize around the values outlined and mobilize people when legislation, ballot initiatives and even local issues need our attention.

@logiclives The only way unaffiliated voters can gain political power is by affiliating.

@BreakTheChainsM Totally agree my friend! Hoping good people can get inside the party and bring it back.

@logiclives Its so frustrating to see this ineptitude by the party that needs to get its act together. I don't want to keep losing to radical leftists.

@ClayD2025 What would you like to replace it with?

@logiclives Tabor is beyond stupid and needs to be repealed.

@jacktroutman I actually co founded it with him!

@logiclives Join Jon caldara’s initiative

Though most of us celebrate “No Kings Day” on July 4, the Trump-deranged got a head start last weekend with rallies around the state. #copolitics Attendees bravely fought oppression by blocking traffic for people with jobs. Rally-goers demanded freedom from tyranny, many right after voting to ban all but beige house paint at their HOA meetings. After pausing briefly to DoorDash something gluten-free, they returned to the barricades to secure democracy in Colorado for one more day. They risked everything, except mild discomfort, to call the guy who won both the popular vote and the electoral vote a tyrant. Yes, I’m having fun at their expense. And yes, they have a point. When you build a country on principles instead of a person, it’s fair to get twitchy when the “person” starts talking like a “regime.” But all the screaming about President Donald Trump being a “threat to democracy” leaves me with a question: While we’re obsessing over Trump stealing our democracy, are we distracted from noticing Colorado’s power elite doing the same? Colorado’s own kings What’s the old magician’s skill? Distract them with one hand, lift the wallet with the other. Does Colorado’s elite fight Trump’s desire to be king with one hand, while working to become king with the other? Take speech. Many at these rallies are convinced Trump is shredding free speech. Yet just after the protests, the Supreme Court slapped down Colorado’s law banning certain conversations between therapists and their clients. It was an 8–1 decision. Even the Court’s liberals weren’t buying it. Our own state also passed a law against “misgendering.” Strip away the buzzwords and you get the same thing: government deciding what you’re allowed to say. That’s not edgy. That’s old-school authoritarian. Then there’s transparency. Colorado’s lawmakers exempted themselves from our open meetings law to rule from smokey back rooms — I mean, likely pot smoke, since Denver recently banned Swisher Sweet Cigars. Tyranny doesn’t kick down the front door. It quietly pulls the blinds. Still not enough? Let’s talk about dismantling elections. Colorado lawmakers just introduced Senate Bill 150, which guts the elected board of the Regional Transportation District, Denver-metro’s transit government. RTD controls $2 billion of your money and serves more than 3 million people. Right now, it’s governed by 15 elected members. SB-150 cuts that to five, a cut of two-thirds. Then it adds four appointed seats. Not elected. Appointed. Let’s review: shrink representation, destroy elected government, install loyalists to tax billions from millions of citizens and spend it as only loyalists can. This is a ploy only Donald Trump could love. Colorado legislators can practice his voice: “You’re too stupid to vote for the RTD Board. Really, you’re a very stupid person. Fortunately, I am very, very smart. Some say the smartest official ever. I’ve heard many people say that. So, of course I know who should be on the whatever board.” Somewhere in a history book there’s a line about taxation without representation. It didn’t end well for the people doing the taxing. Rise of the independents If Donald Trump proposed SB-150, every one of those “No Kings” protesters would be chaining themselves to the Capitol doors. This isn’t left versus right. It’s about whether voters get to choose who governs them. Because once you accept you’re too stupid to elect a transit board, it’s a short trip to being too stupid to elect anything else. Like most unaffiliated voters, I believe the state is spinning out of control. You can hate Donald Trump and still think Colorado is over-taxed and over-regulated. You can support a woman’s right to choose and still believe Colorado government is going too far. That’s why my friend Erin Brantley and I are launching Independent Majority Colorado, our attempt to create a home for those of us who are politically homeless. Most Coloradans aren’t Tina-Peters Republicans or government-knows-best socialists. We’re just regular folk who want to be left alone. We want government out of our businesses and out of our bedrooms. And we’d like it to stop quietly rigging the system while everyone’s busy yelling about Washington. Our first fight is stopping this very un–“No Kings” Senate Bill 150. Go to IndependentMajority.CO if you want to join your voice with ours. Because if you’re going to chant about kings, you might want to notice the ones being crowned right here at home.

I did a little more digging into Colorado's active voter registration data age breakdown. I put this together, focusing on Democrat, Republican and Unaffiliated Active Voter Registration numbers. Interesting Stuff: - Republicans have 2,901 more "pre-registered voters" under 18 years old than Democrats do. - Democrats strongest age demographics are 25 to 44 years old. - 55 years old is the cut-off for there being more Unaffiliated voters than Rs & Ds put together. That number grows the younger voters get. - 88% of pre-registered voters are unaffiliated, and 74% of voters 18 to 24, 60% of voters 25 to 34 are unaffiliated. Takeaways: - The future is Unaffiliated. Republicans should not close their Primary. They need Unaffiliated voters in order to win anything. 77% of active voters under 25 are unaffiliated. Excluding them only pushes them to Democrats. - Youth Voters (at least those who register with a party) are trending Republican, so Republicans need to embrace them and give them a home in the Party. Although these Young Republicans are a small percentage of the electorate.

@Erin4Parents So true…. Otherwise I’d be crying in a corner every. single. day.

The Colorado House of Representatives really is just a comedy show… We have to laugh so we don’t cry😂

If you don’t show up, someone else will decide for you. So Colorado…. How many of you want to have a say in the future of our state?

HB26-1322 takes malpractice to another level. No statute of limitations. No limit on damages. It’s content based (carves out one type of therapy, includes another). This is absolutely abnormal for malpractice and a clear reaction to the strong ruling AGAINST Colorado in Chiles v Salazar.