Remember, Colorado: from TABOR to transparency, it doesn’t matter what you vote for… if Big Labor and its corrupt collaborators in business and our single-party-rule Democrat state government don’t want it, they’ll just find ways to get around it or nullify it in the legislature and the courts.
Join DMYR on June 23rd for our June General Meeting. This month we are pleased to welcome members of the local Media, including Lynn Bartels (formerly of the Rocky Mountain News) and David Harsanyi, reporters from the Denver Post. They will discuss the media’s role in politics help us break down the current state of the Republican Party in Colorado.
HAVE YOUR QUESTIONS READY for these Colorado media standouts!
Our Agenda will also include election of 7 County Directors from each of our member counties (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson). See By-laws for qualifications of officers.
These individuals will be responsible for coordinating DMYR activities in their county, providing communication between their County Chairmen/officers and the DMYR board, and tracking DMYR activism in their county in conjunction with the DMYR Activism Director. If you are ready to step up and play a critical role in your County and THE top Young Republican Organization in Colorado, we encourage you to run for these positions!
As always, if you have questions about politics, the party, or the political process in general, we are always ready to listen and answer your questions. We are ready to help YOU make a difference in your Community and the Republican Party through Education and Activism!
Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Meeting Time: social hour begins at 5:30pm, meeting starts at 6:30pm Meeting Location: Club M @ Hamburger Mary’s, 700 East 17th Avenue, Denver, CO 80203 [map] — Our own private bar! Entrance on the NorthEast corner of the building.
***Please be sure to join the DMYR Group and RSVP for this event on Facebook! And come hungry, as Mary’s has the best burgers in town!!***
June 23rd- DMYR General Meeting featuring Lynn Bartels and David Harsanyi, reporters from the Denver Post. Our Agenda will also include election of 7 County Directors from each of our member counties (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson). If you are ready to step up and play a critical role in your County and THE top Young Republican Organization in Colorado, we encourage you to run for one of these positions!
July 10th- Trunks and Tusks Happy Hour @ Coors Field! We take our Happy Hour to a new level with the resurgent Colorado Rockies! Look for the Facebook invite soon, or rsvp to aecinco@gmail.com
July 28th- DMYR General Meeting! Be on the lookout for one of our most stalwart allies in the fight against nannyism…to be announced soon!
August 7th- Trunks and Tusks Happy Hour @ Sante Fe Art Walk! Details coming soon!
Where:Colorado Capitol Building, West Steps. When: Saturday, May 30, from 10am to noon.
If you are interested in attending a counterprotest in favor of free-market healthcare reform alternatives, there are several allied pro-liberty groups organizing them - People’s Press Collective will provide more information as it becomes available. Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from organizing your own counterprotest, on your own initiative, or simply showing up across the street with your own placards to counter the Progressive/liberal fascist message…that initiative is what being part of the grassroots is really about (not David Plouffe and various Progressive front organizations doing all the work and thinking for you, and giving you your marching orders and pre-digested focus-grouped messaging).
And if you do attend, remember to do your citizen journalist duty by taking pictures and video of the protest and the counterprotest alike. Interview attendees and discover if they understand the implications of collectivizing healthcare in America. Document the lies and distortions presented by the speakers. Record the ridiculous and inane screechings of the Raging Grannies. And when you’re done, share links to your blog, photo gallery, or videos with PPC - we’ll be happy to provide additional exposure to the best protest coverage.
Don’t let this astroturf propaganda push go unchallenged - the Progressive left is counting on your silence and inaction to buttress their claims of a “groundswell” of support from the masses for their single-payer healthcare scheme. If theirs are the only voices heard, how will our representatives in Colorado and Washington D.C. know otherwise?
Demand free-market reforms that promote affordability and accessibility for all - not single-payer collectivization that robs you of control over your own healthcare decisions, reduces quality of care while increasing costs and red tape, and guarantees rationing of services while disincentivizing medical innovation.
Thank for all who attended and had the opportunity to listen to our local Republican Party County Chairs and their plans for the future!
DMYR Trunks and Tusks Happy Hour will be 5:30 pm Friday May 8th, at the Uptown Tavern, 17th and Pearl, Denver. Come join us for libations and witty political discourse!
Next General Meeting will be Tuesday, May 26th, at Club M@ Hamburger Mary’s, 18th and Pearl, featuring Aurora City Councilman and US Senate Candidate Ryan Frazier. Don’t miss it!
Thank you for for those that attended DMYR’s General Meetinng April 28th where we heard a panel discussion by Republican Party County Chairs from the DMYR 7-County area, including:
(l-r: Bolser, Call, Feigel, Starin, Michel, Ytterberg; not pictured–Ransom)
These party leaders gave a great panel discussion with the DMYR Membership, laying out where we have been as a party, where we need to go, and their individual plans to Retake Colorado in 2010! This hard work starts in 2009, and now County leaders know that Denver Metro Young Republicans are ready to get involved!
We appreciate their service to the party, as Party County Chairs are unpaid volunteers and run the counties that are the backbone of the party. I encourage you to contact YOUR county chair through the web link in their name above and ask how you can get to work for Country, Community, and the Republican Party.
Our Agenda also included the election of two new Board members, Secretary/Treasurer Melissa Montoya, and Activism Director Trevor Elsen. Welcome aboard!
**Update–Photos from the DMYR Third Annual GOP Legislative Reception are up:
Thank you to all the DMYR Members, New members, Elected Officials, and other supporters who made our Legislative Reception a great Success! Attorney General John Suthers gave a rousing speech, many of our legislative leaders were able to reach out to some YR’s, and Great times were had by all!
A special thanks goes out to the fine folks at the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, especially Tammy and George. You are great supporters and we appreciate everything you do!
In case you missed the meeting itself, highlights from Sen. Josh Penry’s appearance at the DMYR March General Meeting are now available on the DMYR YouTube channel:
Senator Penry was elected to the Colorado House in 2004 and the Senate in 2006, and is both the youngest member of the Colorado Senate and the GOP Minority Leader. While he has worked with Gov. Ritter to divest PERA funds from investments with ties to Iran, Senator Penry has been a frequent (and welcome) critic of the state administration’s tax, budget, jobs, and union policies
Economist Penn Pfiffner joined DMYR for our March 24th General meeting to discuss the current state of the economy and the misguided “solutions” being applied to “fix” it. Penn is Director of the Fiscal Policy Center at the Independence Institute and a former Colorado House of Representatives member. Video to follow…
Denver Metro Young Republicans
