The Blog Wrangler | Amy Oliver

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Amy Oliver, host of the Amy Oliver Show on 1310 KFKA, is a wife, working mother, and raging capitalist. On Amy’s blog you’ll find local, state and national news items, interesting stories on everything from taxes to pop culture, and general observations. Blog postings may or may not be topics on my radio show and vice versa. Feel free to contact Amy with your comments and suggestions at amy@1310kfka.com.

JBC just got more interesting

August 17, 2009

"The Joint Budget Committee, which is responsible for drafting the infamous “long bill” or appropriations bill, has a new member. The Denver Post reports that staunch TABOR supporter and principled fiscal conservative Kent Lambert, representative from Colorado Springs, replaces TABOR critic Don Marostica."

Markey's Congress on Your Corner

August 13, 2009

"Congresswoman Betsy Markey released her Congress on Your Corner schedule. According to a press release on her Web site, Markey will hold the following events to discuss health reform."

Latest on health care in NoCo

August 9, 2009

"Polis and Perlmutter are Democrats respectively representing the 2nd and 7th congressional districts.

Residents of the 4th congressional district may wonder where their representative is during this August recess. According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan, Congresswoman Betsy Markey is in Israel on a “fact-finding trip.” After her return, residents anxious to speak with her will get their chance."

Waxman gives Markey $2,000 on eve of close vote

July 20, 2009

"The horrific piece of legislation known as “Cap and Trade” is also referred to as the Waxman-Markey bill, named for its sponsors Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-California) and Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts). Despite a strong majority in the House, the bill narrowly passed with only a seven vote margin on Friday, June 26. Forty-four House Democrats opposed the legislation including Colorado’s 3rd CD Representative John Salazar."

Markey votes yes on cap and tax

June 26, 2009

"The mystery is over. Congresswoman Betsy Markey paid back her environmental leftist supporters such as the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund voting yes on the country’s largest tax increase in history. The massive cap and tax global warming bill rammed through by Speaker Pelosi will cost the average 4th CD family of four nearly $4000."

HD 51: DelGrosso will defend TABOR

August 14, 2009

"The person selected to replace Don Marostica in HD 51 says he will defend the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. Marostica has been openly hostile to TABOR, the popular constitutional limit on the growth of government.

With Marostica serving as Governor Ritter’s new economic development director, the vacancy committee selected political newcomer and Domino’s Pizza chain owner Brian DelGrosso to replace him."

New Frontier Bank: Getting uglier?

August 11, 2009

"During testimony in front of the Long Term Fiscal Stability Commission on which I sit, one gentleman predicted that July 2009 may mark the end of the “Great Recession“. A headline in the Denver Post Sunday Business section (print edition) screams: “Optimism taking hold”…"

Hands off my health care No Co style

July 30, 2009

"For the second time in as many weeks, opponents of ObamaCare rallied in Fort Collins. The Loveland 9-12 Project and Tea Party of Northern Colorado organized the protest that saw some more 400 attendees according to the Coloradoan. That’s an incredible number of people for a protest on a Wednesday afternoon that was organized in just a few days."

Markey: If you like fiction, try Atlas Shrugged

July 6, 2009

"Congresswoman Betsy Markey told KUSA’s Adam Schrager that she read the cap and trade bill. In fact her approach to any legislation is to “read the bill. I talk to my staff. I talk to people on the committee. And then I go out and talk to my constiuents and hear what they have to say.” The final version ended up being 1428 pages long with some 276,000 words. At an average rate of 250 words per minute, it would have taken her 18 hours to read the cap and trade bill assuming she did nothing else — not sleep, not eat, and took it with her to the bathroom."

Mozambique more attractive than CO

June 25, 2009

"Governor Bill Ritter and the environmental left have done it. Colorado’s oil and gas industry is a thing of the past.

Oil and gas executives ranked Colorado dead last among states where they are likely to invest their companies’ money, according to the Fraser Institute in Calgary, Alberta, Canada."

Face the State