Daily Topics - Monday January 23rd, 2012
By shawnt56
Hour One: Republican strategy...'coded racial language' and 'class warfare'?
Hour Two: Citizens United 2 years later - Steve Simpson, Institute for Justice
Hour Three: For sale to the highest bidder...state services? Adrian Moore, Reason Foundation
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#2
I was at a Democratic Party county reorganization meeting on Saturday, and the next day I got onto the Colorado state government's website to update a spreadsheet I keep of information about which counties have pieces of which districts. I discovered pretty quickly that the district numbers given on my voter information card sent by the county clerk did not match the maps provided by the state.
This means I went to the wrong district meetings on Saturday (I was only invited as an observer, so there's little consequence in my case). But I also don't know what I will do at the time of the caucus if this isn't sorted out by then.
I want to encourage everyone to check the information given to them by their county clerks against the redistricting maps given by their states.
#3
whats this all about ??
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