eLettersDenver Post - Denver and Colorado letters to the editorThanks but no thanks- September 17, 2008 It is painfully obvious that Gov. Bill Ritter, Sen. Ken Salazar, Rep. Diana DeGette, Mayor John Hickenlooper, DNC host committee chair Elba Wedgeworth, and attorney Steve Farber ran an expensive full-page, full-color ad (Sept. 7 Denver Post) in order to provide political cover for the Obama campaign. Barack Obama has been widely criticized for dissing ...http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2008/09/17/thanks-but-no-thanks/ Referendum O takes power from the people- September 17, 2008 They cant take that away from us, but theyre trying. Here, the they means public figures whose ox has been gored via the initiative process (as in TABOR); the that identifies our right to petition our state government for whatever reason we see fit, as guaranteed by the First Amendment, securing the result in our Colorado ...http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2008/09/17/referendum-o-takes-power-from-the-people/ Enough already the state ballot is a mess- September 17, 2008 Re: This is no time to pity Colo. voters, Sept. 10 Al Knight column. Al Knights column assumes that Colorado should celebrate the idiotic initiative process that undermines the great American tradition of representative politics, costs over $1.5 million to run, and turns the state constitution into something looking like a Third World country, mixing up ...http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2008/09/17/enough-already-%E2%80%94-the-state-ballot-... Attacking Obamas education makes no sense- September 17, 2008 Once in American history, the fact that our leaders had attended the best colleges and universities in the country was a mark of distinction. How odd and sad now, in the dumbing down of lowest-common-denominator politics, where the strategy from the Karl Rove playbook is to attack the opponents strengths, that attending first-rate schools categorically ...http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2008/09/17/attacking-obamas%E2%80%99-education-makes-... New DPS contract a slap in the face of teachers- September 17, 2008 Re: Teachers pact in national limelight, Sept. 11 news story. I read with amazement the article related to DPS teachers overwhelmingly voting to support a new contract. What an incredible job the superintendent has done to get The Denver Post and apparently other media throughout the country to buy into the spin that he has put ...http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2008/09/17/new-dps-contract-a-slap-in-the-face-of-tea... |