Longmont Report

BLOCKBUSTER $50M Discrimination suit against Boulder County may have implications for Longmont City Council

Holy House of Worship, Batman!

Yesterday, in this blockbuster court ruling, Boulder County lost a key action in Denver's Federal Disctrict Court - with $50 million in damages at stake. Seems the McCoy and Benker are not the only ones persecuting people of Christian faith in Boulder County.

Since the City Council is pretty intent on spending our tax revenues on lawyers, they may want to get "lawyered up" with an expensive Denver defense firm and then send them this ruling (Download)!!! Of course, siamese twins Benker/McCoy read this blog daily, so this is the easiest way to get it to them...

New York Times
Colorado Church Wins Ruling on Expansion

By DIANA B. HENRIQUES

Published: April 2, 2008

A federal judge in Denver gave a preliminary victory to a rapidly growing Christian church that wants to expand on land designated for decades as open space.

The judge, Robert E. Blackburn of Federal District Court, refused to dismiss a lawsuit by the group challenging a Colorado county’s refusal to allow the expansion.

The lawsuit, filed against Boulder County by the Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot, Colo., is an important test of a federal statute aimed at protecting churches and other houses of worship from discriminatory zoning.

The church says it has outgrown its current home, on a 54-acre site in one of the buffer zones the county established decades ago to preserve open space around its towns and villages. In February 2006, the county refused to permit the church to double the size of its buildings. The church sued under the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, saying the decision limiting its growth also limited its religious liberty.

Judge Blackburn concluded Tuesday that the case presented too many factual disputes to be dismissed at this stage and scheduled it for trial in November.

 

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)