Longmont Report

Lurch to the Left: How the new Longmont City Council is already out of control

Richard Juday (left) and Coun-uhhh-umm Councilman Brian Hansen (further left) celebrate the November 2007 victory of Longmont City Council's new "Gang of Four" radical  anti-business, anti-growth Liberals. They won with a collective 47% of the vote - not exactly a mandate.

What have they done since? We'll tell you, and it's only going to get worse, especially if Richard Juday wins election on January 29th. READ ON AND LET'S LIBERATE LONGMONT!!!

The prolific Richard Yale has an excellent post, excerpted here and linked below. Yale's recent YourHub piece speaks volumes: "Boulder's Gang of Four on Longmont's City Council were elected on an anti-developer political cause. Soon after achieving a voting block majority Longmont Mayor pro tem Karen Benker gave the Key to the City of Longmont to a development consortium far more powerful than Longmont's sovereign Housing Authority making her a proxy vote for the City of Boulder on Longmont City Council..." (CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS)

The astute Yale also exposes the Boulder-centric corruption of election system by the Gang of Four in this letter to the Mayor (excerpted here):

"Councilman Hansen and Council candidate Juday clearly are in violation of the letter and spirit of the strict liability law requiring full disclosure 41 days before the elections they are engaged in and did not do it. Councilwoman Benker made it clear in open forum last night she is calling the shots on election law interpretation last night, not the Charter Authority responsible for all law enforcement..." (CLICK HERE TO READ FULL TEXT AND SEE ARTICLE IN YOURHUB.COM)

Finally Yale skewers the socialists again in this post linked here on this blog (click link then scroll down)

MoveOn.org's Jen Gartner, Juday, et al, from the source: Yes, it is all about those stubborn Christians

Financial documents, letter writers reveal Gartner & Juday not telling the whole story of so-called "concerned citizens."

Anti-Union Annexation Gartner Proclaims “We're Locals”, but we find that's not so. “We're all Longmont residents...”
Jen Gartner
9/26/07 Daily Times Call

Funny, they come from Longmont Democrat leadership, and the rest donate to leftist causes:
“I was amazed by the cross section of other petition gatherers who rose from the grass roots”
Deb Gardner
9/30/07 Daily Times Call

Illegal petition takers?
Juday equivocates on the 'locals' assertion: “Every one of the circulators either is a Longmont resident or lives close enough to be affected by the proposed development. We have had financial support from some Longmont residents who have not been able to pound the pavement themselves.”
Richard Juday
9/28/07 Daily Times Call

CODE WORDS FOR 'CHRISTIAN REPUBLICANS': “The proposed compound and its logical extension into surrounding landholdings are patently designed to draw an enlarged religiously oriented population, and the annexation would change the religious balance of the community. An arguably similar situation led to substantial sociological changes to Colorado Springs. That city has also become the focus of national attention that I am no sure it would have wished to see.”
Richard Juday
8/16/2007

Anti Religion and a violator of campaign statutes? Can you say bigot? “The LifeBridge church is using its status as a tax-exempt entity to hoodwink the taxpayers of Longmont, and we should NOT allow it. You can become part of the growing movement to undo this fiscal insanity and stop the “Unholy Union” by going to (a website).” - M. Douglas Wray
8/30/2007 Daily Times Call

Duane Leise has a problem with churches getting bigger and thinks he is qualified to make “sweeping social decisions”. Can you say Stalinist? “The stated goal is a 20,000 membership, five to six times larger than now. Maybe the City Council has not discussed sociological impact because it doesn't believe in making sweeping social decisions.” - Duane Leise

Primary Juday-backer a Christian-hater:
“As I see it, they wish to turn Longmont into a fundamentalist regime,
where we must bow to them and their government” 
Marilyn Wray
8/2/07 Daily Times Call