No Fight, No Backbone: How Denver Leadership Abandoned the Blue to Pay Off Left-Wing Agitators Denver's Democrat-led City Council just approved another $2.9 million in payouts to 2020 George Floyd protestors, bringing the total taxpayer bill to over $25 million. Make no mistake: these settlements are not an admission of wrongdoing. This is a purely financial cost-benefit analysis because folding early is cheaper for the city than dragging out endless litigation. The reality of what's happening here: The Cowardly Way Out: Instead of backing the blue and defending our law enforcement officers, city leadership gave up without a fight. Rewarding Bad Behavior: These left-wing agitators violated our communities twice—first by wreaking havoc on our streets, and now by walking away with massive financial rewards. The Real Victims: Hardworking, regular citizens are the ones paying the price. This money is being drained directly from the city’s general fund contingency—resources that should be protecting and serving everyday residents. Taxpayers shouldn't be funding payouts for the very people who brought chaos to our city. It’s time for leadership that actually stands up for regular people and backs our police. Democrats always protect criminals and illegal aliens. 9news.com/article/news/local…

Denver Communists, a violent Antifa group that has incited violence against me and others, sent its Trantifa comrades to target Drip Café for being run by Christians connected to an outreach ministry. Denver has many far-left extremists empowered to intimidate and attack others due to Democrats being in full power.

@CityofDenver is aware that outdoor warning sirens were activated inadvertently today. There is currently no tornado threat to public safety. However, residents are encouraged to rely on official sources, including the @NWSBoulder for emergency weather information and alerts. We understand that unexpected siren activations can be concerning and appreciate the public's patience and understanding. The cause of the activation is being reviewed, and appropriate steps will be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Denver makes international news for all the wrong reasons. archive.is/VDfdu

We're at DEMFEST!!! Downtown, Denver, at the Center of Performing Arts. With @ashley_troxell

TABOR w/ Sen. Jeff Bridges. It started with asking the audience to "boo" TABOR . He called Doug Bruce an Evil Genius and a felon. Prop NN will be a fight against TABOR. The graduating income tax is also a fight against TABOR. The problem to everything is Trump & TABOR. #DemFest

‼️Call or email your Denver City Council representative TODAY. Tell them to reject Bill 26-0328, the “update” to municipal criminal offenses and to put forward a new, clean bill that strictly complies only with the Camp decision. On Monday, a bill that vastly exceeds the Camp decision will be introduced. In particular, it significantly lowers max penalties for Municipal criminal offenses, removing an essential legal means to persuade offenders to clean up their act or spend time in jail. The bill authors think max sentences for these crimes should be reduced so the offenders don’t lose their public benefits or risk immigration trouble. They do not care about Denver’s citizens and crime victims. Not only does the Bill lower max sentences beyond Camp, it creates a Working Group to review the criminal code (Chapter 38) that is fraught with problems that should concern every citizen: ‼️Per the ordinance, the Working Group must consider “disparate impact” in its deliberations. This collectivist framing rejects individual responsibility for behavior and instead advances the notion that something shouldn’t be a crime if the % of people arrested for it exceeds a group identity’s population proportion. For example, if 75% of people arrested or convicted for the crime of petty theft have an income less that $15,000, but are only 15% of Denver’s population, then the Working Group must “Identify and attempt to prevent disparate impacts of Denver’s criminal prosecutions and penalties based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, income, and other protected status;” How can the Working Group “prevent” this disparate impact? Since the methodology requires group analysis rather than addressing prosecution for individual behavior, either petty theft can no longer be a crime, or exceptions for a crime must be made for members of certain groups but not others until the proportions represent the population. This is nuts. It washes away individual responsibility for our choices and behavior. It builds into our criminal code notions of “systemic” oppression that are not real. We will no longer be equal under the law. ‼️The Working Group must include specific types of nonprofit activist organizations (full list pictured). Missing from the list? Any organizations representing the regular citizen who wants safe and clean streets. Who wants legal mechanisms in place to hold people accountable for behavior that disrupts and erodes our neighborhoods and public spaces. Who want crimes to be prosecuted regardless of the identity of the criminal! ‼️The bill does not specify how Council and the Mayor will select the community organizations who will serve on the Working Group. There are no provisions for nominations or applications. The absence of such provisions is a strong indicator that the bill proponents already know who they want serving on the working group. There are also no provisions requiring the Working Group to seek input from the people of Denver nor our business community. Links to Council Contact info and the Bill 👇

COLORADO OBLITERATING IMMIGRATION LAW? Colorado holds just 2% of the U.S. population but accounts for 10% of all national human trafficking. Why? Rep. Gabe Evans joins @ScottJenningsKY to expose how Denver and Boulder officials are actively blocking ICE from removing violent cartel and gang members from our streets. @JenningsShow

Denver City Council Budget Priorities, Part 4 Support Workers and Businesses Before I get into the details about specific policy goals, I want to point out Council’s narrative frame in their deliberate, repeated use of “Workers,” a stylistic choice signaling the City’s solidarity ✊ with both 1930s-esque labor movements and socialist/marxist class struggle/oppressor frames. Rather than a more neutral term like workforce, labor force, or employees, Council chose to adopt activist language…and their policy goals make clear, once again, their collectivist orientation. On to policies. If you were hoping Council would address the policies that make Denver a very difficult place to run an independent business, you’d be wrong. ▫️The BIO fund is a Council priority; it’s what’s been used to try to keep businesses afloat during things like Colfax BRT. Fine. But I hope the impacts on business from these mode-shift projects causes at least some members of Council to question the cost-benefit of these policies. ▫️Public sector unions are a moral hazard; recipients of union campaign donations and beneficiaries of union get-out-the-vote operations are negotiating with said union. Who represents the taxpayers and good fiscal stewardship? I much prefer a neutral, merit based civil service pay system, but I was outvoted. ▫️Rather than address the City policies that are crippling Denver’s restaurant sector (see summary below), Council seeks to give tax dollars to restaurants to navigate broken systems, make ADA improvements, and subsidize operations. ▫️I’m a fan of programs that get people coming off the streets and living in the mayor’s hotels working. Missing from Council’s priorities? ▫️Economic development ▫️Funding to reform broken processes for permitting, inspections, etc. ▫️Repealing our minimum wage policy ▫️Anything that signals to the private sector that Denver wants them to succeed on their own without public subsidies. For all of Council’s 2027 Budget Priorities see my pinned post.