Good evening and welcome to the post. I hope you have had a good Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior’s birthday and continue to do so through the evening. There have been several diaries posting his contributions to America, so I’m not going to reiterate them. I was alive less than five years when he was gunned down (and just a few months old at JFK’s assassination) so while I shared the planet with those two leaders I cannot lay claim to remembering them at the time they were alive. I grew up in the turbulent 60’s and 70’s and my family and blue city of Lawrence, Kansas shaped how I’d live the rest of my life as a Democrat and progressive. I thank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for all of his contributions and effort for people of the United States, of all races, colors and creeds.
Now, have you made your plans for next Saturday yet? Colorado’s Women’s Marches are going to be taking place in Denver, Grand Junction, Durango, Pueblo, Colorado Springs (Sunday) and perhaps other cities and towns. There’s a Facebook page (yeah, I don’t do Facebook, but it was linked from the CUA diaries) at www.facebook.com/… that lists all the march events they know of.
- Denver’sOfficial Women's March On Colorado: One Year Anniversarystarts at 9:30 AM at Civic Center Park (they list over 56,000 attending) (snow is predicted)
- Grand Junction’s Western Colorado 2nd Annual Women's March starts at 10AM in Lincoln Park (snow is also predicted).
- Durango’s Standing On the Side Of Love Million Women’s March starts at noon, Saturday at the train station, marching to Buckley Park
Pueblo’s Women's March For Southern Colorado 2018 will start at noon at the Old Pueblo County Courthouse.
- Me, Too: The Womxn’s March on Colorado Springs starts at 2PM Sunday in Acacia Park, marching to City Hall.
One other news point, this one from Colorado Pols.
The Mesa County Republican Party held a gubernatorial forum on Thursday night in Grand Junction that attracted every major Republican candidate to town.
At some point during Thursday’s event, the Mesa County Republicans held a “straw poll” vote to express their preference among the GOP candidates for Governor. State Treasurer Walker Stapleton apparently won the most straws, and his campaign was quick to pound its chest in an email announcement:
The results of the straw poll were overwhelming: We won the straw poll with a sweeping majority! [Pols emphasis] Here were the totals:
Walker Stapleton 35
Greg Lopez 16
Tom Tancredo 9
Vic Mitchell 8
Doug Robinson 5
Cynthia Coffman 3
Steve Barlock 2
I don’t know much about Walker Stapleton, other than he’s the state treasurer, but I was surprised by the totals for Tancredo (I hope he goes down in infamy and doesn’t make the ballot anywhere ever again) and for Cynthia Coffman. I thought she’d be stronger here.
This doesn’t mean much — a straw poll in one county in January, but I thought you might be interested.
Tell us what’s going on in your world. Hope you can attend a march someplace this weekend!