Longmont Report

Benker, McCoy having a nice meal of Humble Pie

Now this is funny. Today, in this story, the Denver Post covered the pending deal between Firestone and Longmont regarding the annexation issues.

The deal? A) The Benker/McCoy Axis of Evil gets to save (egg-covered) face, while Longmont gets its so-called "buffer zone"; and B) the Union property gets annexed into Firestone.

BUT HERE'S THE FUNNY PART: Benker and McCoy have to cut a deal that involves paying money to buy the Firelight property from people they hate (those DAMN churchgoing Republicans!) for open space, and LifeBridge/Union gets to build and to be annexed into Firestone.

LEFT, LONGMONT'S NEW COMMUNITY OUTREACH DIRECTOR

I think this works out best for all really. I mean, do the folks at LifeBridge and Union really want to be associated with Longmont's meth problem and guys like this gang-banging wife-beater? Methinks not.

Moreover, Union won't have the albatross of Longmont's tanking city image and drained coffers under Benkernomics, Chad Auer pulls a coup on his way into office, picks up millions in the tax revenues lost by Longmont for rejecting Union, and Auer picks up one heck of a voting demographic.

What the....??? LongmontReport.com gets statewide attention

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. LongmontReport.com, seeker of truth, reporter of iniquity and dysfunctional government, has HIT THE BIG TIME. After months of tirelessly reporting the offenses of Dung "Dooty" Wray, "Faye Kissinger", Karen "the Hammer" Benker, and Sean "the (Un)real" McCoy and their ilk, LR.com is apparently being podcasted STATEWIDE, BABY!!!

After receiving numerous emails about this (I am "podcast" illiterate, but will have to learn how that all works - my iPod is still new in the box), I have to check the story out.  All I can say is LongmontReport.com's traffic is through the roof!

While we have been busy on a trip to Texas boar hunting, never fear, we have been digging up some juicy info about the City of Longmont and the cult of lefties who are making secret backroom deals in the dark bowels of hell, er, I mean local government.

And with this new podcast bit (they'll probably make me use iTunes, which I don;t like much), I'll be able to travel and post at the same time about the War on Republicans (LifeBridge, Firestone, who's next?) that Benkeristas are waging. This should prove to be very cool!

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.

 

TIMES-CALL: Longmont Community Development Director Invites Union to be Annexed by Longmont!!!

QUOTE FROM TIMES-CALL: Phil DelVecchio, Longmont’s community development director, said both Fairview and LifeBridge can develop their land in Weld County — or, he added, “they still have the option to annex into the city of Longmont.”

“LifeBridge pulled out of Longmont’s process, and we never did get an opportunity to continue processing the Fairview annexation,” he said.

Here's the link - what else do we really need to say??

Benker & McCoy lead Longmont Taxpayers into War with Firestone

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE - TIMES-CALL: LONGMONT CITY OFFICIAL INVITES UNION TO ANNEX INTO LONGMONT!!!

While Longmont taxpayers were forking out over $10,000 for an expensive junket Washington DC, Benker and her Gang of Four concocted a scheme to hire a pricey Denver attorney to start a war with Firestone to block that city's approved, public master plan for growth. Firestone Mayor Mike Simone tells it like it in on his blog, linked here.

Karen Benker and her cronies got themselves elected last November by turning out the liberal Democrat vote with the help of Jen Gartner, Dung “Dooty” Wray, Duane Leise, known Republican-hater Kay Fissinger and Progress Action Now – a radical Leftist organization whose sole purpose is to prove that Dick Cheney has three sixes on his head. 

In an opening salvo, a certain "Ryan Clark" opened a P.O. Box in Frederick and mailed Firestone citizens a letter imploring them not to annex the land near Highway 119, using bald-faced lies and bigotry - and plugging Dung Wray's website. Click here for letter .

Firestone citizens rejected their hateful letter and their Council unanimously annexed the land east of County Line Road in Weld County. LongmontReport.com has reason to believe "Clark" is actually Leise and friends, because of the 5^th-grade prose and chimpanzee formatting. Also, there's no registered voter names "Ryan Clark" in the Tri-Towns area - but there sure is in Longmont!

The “Gang of Four” are now on their anti-church soapbox again and WE as taxpayers are being set up to pay for an expensive Denver attorney that Benker and her Bobbleheads have ALREADY hired so they can continue their war against the Union landowners at all costs.

It’s as if, after Longmont and other towns' annexations absorb all of the little patches along I-25 in the routine process of growing, Karen Benker wants only the Union property to be left as an island of unincorporated Weld County, because those damned church people own it.

Richard Juday's web site says "What's wrong with being more like Boulder?" Hmmm...let's see...

Imagine a city where at the local high school, this is the norm for discussion with your children: "members of the panel made statements that, among other things, masturbation is "appropriate" behavior for 12-year-olds and that students should enjoy themselves as they experimented with sex and drugs."

Who wants to live in a city like that? Apparently, a decreasing number of Coloradans all the time - because people and businesses have been fleeing Boulder.

From the Boulder Daily Camera: Average/Median Prices in various Boulder/Broomfield County towns and cities, December 2007: Boulder: $641K/580K  versus Longmont:  $268K/218K. WHO CAN AFFORD THAT? New-Start Homes for sale today: ZERO!

I personally would like to preserve the things I love about Longmont. Here, Longmont blogger Ms. Baum outlines a few reasons it's not a good idea to be "more like Boulder": http://takebacklongmont.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-i-choose-to-live-in-longmont.html

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

Prediction: Gang of Four out in Two

The guy and gal who blog at wrongmont.com and takebacklongmont.blogspot.com respectively, say it better then me, so for now, I'll let you find out about the shenanigans of the new City Council on their blogs. Really outrageous, what's going on down there.

Why this election is critical to the future of Longmont

Stephanie Baum cuts to the chase.

Longmont is at a crossroads