James Constas

My piece on Colorado's property tax crisis is available now on the Rocky Mountain Voice @TheRMVoice. As the legislature heads into a new special session, hold your representatives accountable to real change. rockymountainvoice.com/2024/08/colora… #copolitics #coleg #cogov #9News

@SenatorHick Prove it.

Across Colorado, the message we’re hearing from Coloradans is clear: they want stability. They want relief.  The president couldn’t care less. He’s got no plan to get us out of Iran, while prices at home continue to rise.

@PaceyCervantes @PursueTruth92 Wow - the ALL CAPS shouting thing. That is a logical fallacy, just because one country does something doesn't mean it's "better". My request was simple - prove that government run healthcare is superior to market-based systems and you couldn't do it. Don't feel bad, no one can.

@JamesConstas @PursueTruth92 Again use your brain. Literally every other first world country does it. If it wasn't superior THEY ALL WOULDNT HAVE IT.

I’ve been a registered Republican for seven months. I travel across Colorado for my work, and despite it being a Democrat-dominated state, I see that a majority of Coloradans (including a significant number of gays), align on the actual issues with a conservative platform. Where the GOP has failed, and the Democrats continue to succeed, is on identity politics and “guilt by association” branding. I meet people every day who are fundamentally conservative but will not consider voting Republican because they’ve been convinced by an onslaught of Democrat propaganda that doing so would associate themselves with “pedophiles” or “racists” or “anti-progressives.” So out of social shame and conformist pressure to be viewed as “nice,” they vote for the Democrats and their destructive policies. The @GOP needs to develop a smart, targeted marketing campaign on social media that interviews diverse Republicans and independents about why they are conservative. Why is the Republican Party asleep at the wheel on marketing (and so many other issues like the SAVE act)?

As the father of a school shooting survivor, I can say that if gun control worked it would have already #copolitics #coleg

@PaceyCervantes @PursueTruth92 Prove that government run healthcare is superior to a free market.

@JamesConstas @PursueTruth92 Literally every first world country has these but us because they DO work are u kidding me 🤣🤣🤣

@PursueTruth92 The party apparatus is just one leg of a 3-legged stool consisting of the GOP, donors, and candidates. Right now, the factions in the party are more satisfied blaming each other instead of uniting to win. Donors want to back winners, but the factions disagree on what wins.

@PaceyCervantes @PursueTruth92 But progressives want socialized medicine, higher taxes, and civilian disarmament. If government run healthcare and gun control worked, they would have by now.

@PursueTruth92 Bro the vast majority of Americans agree with access to affordable healthcare, affordable childcare, common sense gun laws and more which are all Democratic policies. Wtf stupid ass questions are u asking them? Do men belong in women's sports? Stfu

Having @GovofCO Jared Polis on your podcast to talk affordable energy is a little like asking the neighborhood arsonist to host a fire-safety seminar. But that's what happened last week on @politico's energy podcast, where hilarity and hypocrisy were on full display.   Polis was there to offer Democrats advice on how to message energy affordability issues in upcoming elections, which is more than ironic given his own abysmal record on energy affordability. But Jared is the master of painting lipstick on proverbial pigs, which is what Dems will have to do if they want to win on energy issues, so perhaps the appearance was apt.  Average electricity rates have jumped nearly 40% in Colorado since Polis was inaugurated, despite his repeated claims that the green energy panaceas he pushes are saving ratepayers money. Those promises never panned out. They were/are demonstrably false, if not fraudulent. Yet Polis keeps repeating the same empty mantra, even as contradictory evidence piles as high as Pikes Peak. And electricity isn’t the only thing on fire. Xcel Energy’s natural gas delivery charges have tripled since 2019, and overall residential gas rates have doubled in key stretches. All of this happened on Polis’s watch, while he fast-tracked renewable mandates, rushed coal-plant retirements, and pushed the electrification of everything, from automobiles to leaf blowers to home heating systems. How is the destabilized green grid going to handle all that extra load? Jared has never explained that. And he hopes to slip quietly out of office before all the costs and contradictions really start catching up to him. Polis also bemoaned $4 per gallon gas prices in Colorado, which he laid at Trump's feet. But gas prices during the Biden years often reached or exceeded that sum, without a peep of protest from Jay-rod. Trump's temporary price spikes are the result of a war. Biden spiked prices on purpose. So yeah — the guy who helped drive Colorado families’ energy costs sharply higher now wants to tell the rest of the Democratic Party how to sell “affordability.” Classic do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do energy policy. And hey @politico — does your climate reporter really think Jared Polis is the poster kid for holding down soaring energy bills? That doesn’t speak well of his reporting acumen, or his ability to do research. Colorado voters aren’t as stupid as Politico podcast watchers. We can see Polis's real record on affordable energy every month, when it arrives printed in ink on our utility bills. #copolitics #coleg

Bingo! #copolitics

Fox has posted my column on Colorado continuing its pattern of passing unconstitutional measures, particularly in the area of the First Amendment. Ironically, its growing list of losses has proven a bonanza for free speech. foxnews.com/opinion/jonath…

RT @TaraBull: This is scary The Chinese AI agent Manus AI is running 50 social media accounts 24/7 automatically.

When businesses leave Colorado, jobs go with them along with the potential for people to build careers, raise families, and prosper. This is a flashing warning signal that something is wrong with state policy. #copolitics #Colorado

Kudos to @SengCenter for the mention in this important article. I suspect many Coloradans don't really pay much attention to what happens in state government, but they owe it to themselves to learn before voting. #Colorado #copolitics

Looks like someone (@natemarcum)? has hacked @lauracarno's X account. She's assured me her account has been hacked and this is not legit.

Correct.

Happy Easter to all.

I didn't leave the Democrat Party, it left me. #copolitics #cosen #coleg #cogov #Colorado

Single-party rule of Colorado state government for 8 years has had a profoundly negative impact on affordability, and without change it will only get worse. Vote for change, not another lawsuit. #copolitics

California's population grew 0.4% in the last decade. The number of state employees grew 24.5%. Total state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted. You have to ask - where did all the money go?

Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy. That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks. She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against

Colorado is treading the same path as failing states like NY and CA. Now is the time to do what is logical, not ideological. #copolitics #coleg #Colorado