285 Corridor Tea Party Group Meeting 3/17/11 (Coup)

Sorry guys, I had pilates this morning and then my son got hurt at recess playing soccer (after hurting the same arm Tuesday playing football, boys will be boys) and I had to take him to the doctor to make sure it wasn't anything serious - he couldn't bend his arm for a couple of hours. All better now and here I am (briefly - dinner time soon)!

Quick highlights:
If you are interested in receiving emails about other Tea Party Group activities/events/speakers/etc, PM Grady and he'll put you on the list. All of the Colorado state Tea Party groups are organizing a rally/protest on April 15th (tax day) at the Capitol (I think, correct me if I'm wrong about that location please). More info to follow about that event.

Duke Dozier attended and quickly reminded everyone to mail their ballots back ASAP for the IREA Board election.

There were 2 speakers who were against the proposed rec district: Ron McInness and Bob Baxter, none for (except the gentleman in the audience).

Mr. McInness detailed information about Beaver Ranch Open Space Park, i.e. that it has snowshoeing, hiking, and horseback trails, cross country skiing space, the #3 nationally ranked disc golf course, and facilities for lease/rent. No taxes pay for operations, the land is community owned, and the budget for operating/maintaining it will be shrinking over the next ten years. He's assuming that the proponents of the rec district are expecting to tap into the budget allotted for parks and open spaces, and then implement taxes in order to operate it after that.

Mr. Baxter is running for an open seat on the Rec District Board of Directors in order to be a vote against taxes and urged everyone to vote for him.

Senator Ted Harvey, as Nmysys mentioned, is running for Dick Wadhams seat as CO State Republican Party Chairman. He spoke of being a conservatives conservative, discussed the problems that occurred in the last election with getting Republicans elected, and outlined his goals for getting better results in the next election (getting dedicated, hard-core Republicans elected and all 9 electoral votes going to the Republican candidate for president). He said that conservatives need to have positive messages, and better explain that they have a better plan/ideas to pull the country back from the brink of destruction because the country couldn't afford another 4 years of Obama (I thought he being was a little too melodramatic here, because this country can withstand one president's agenda, as it has for over 200 years now, especially with a Republican House to balance, but hey that's just me).

That's it for my notes, please feel free to add or correct me where I made mistakes.