Cory, thanks for your continuous efforts in creation of visibility into the government's behavior!
I believe we need to have a citizen's initiative that bans the direction of donations, gifts and grants. And, that any accepted donations, gifts and grants to be made only to the General Fund. Cash only.
You've illustrated just one penetrated office by the NGOs. I have no doubt that this is quite common throughout our State government, especially in wildlife, conservation and carbon management...
Something has to be done about nonprofits and their power and influence on government. I've never understood the difference between them and influence peddling lobbyists. It seems the real purpose of the nonprofit organization is to show zero taxable profit after paying their director and part time employees (if any) a handsome salary courtesy of government largesse or philanthropic giving. The addition of politics into the nonprofit world is why laws are written and never read by the legislature or congress.
I've been concerned about grant-making either by the feds, state or private foundations and its role in social engineering for a long time. So your piece bringing it to light is very important. Would love to see you delve deeper into some of the grants funds from the State that are going to leftist nonprofits in Colorado and how they are used to shape local initiatives and support, essentially, Marxist-style movements, an example is ALICE, Harm-Reduction, and housing for "competency-involved" individuals or in other words "criminals not being held accountable to the victims they've harmed". I worked for a large nonprofit as a grant writer for a few years and finally left because I could no longer participate in the charade that is nonprofits doing the bidding of Colorado's communists by way of grant dollars. After Trump's inauguration, I had to sit in on a zoom meeting (not recorded) put on by the Colorado Nonprofit Association with guest, Phil Weiser so he could tell nonprofits what they could do to defy the feds. It was laughable since they've been blatantly breaking the law for so long by providing state and fed grant funds to initiatives that support illegal immigrants and they were maybe going to finally be held to account. But, not as long as tough-guy Phil Weiser is our Attorney General. I recorded with my phone part of his spiel. I sat there and thought, "the CO Nonprofit Assoc. clearly only supports left-leaning non-profits and I wonder if they make that well known?" There were about 1,000 nonprofit representatives on the call all waling and gnashing teeth because they knew their gig would soon be up. But alas, our trusted Democrat Socialist legislators came to the rescue. Their special session gained them the upper hand once again by despoiling small and medium-sized businesses to save their six-figure making nonprofit exec friends, (cough, cough... Lorena Garcia) benevolent rears.
I've written quite a bit on that topic, check back in the stacks and/or check out my author profile at Complete Colorado for more there. I'll continue too!
Thanks for watching this stuff. When you start to look at what nonprofits are doing in Colorado, octopi and spider webs are not big enough as metaphors!
Polis pushed hard for wind and solar. He wants to end fossil fuel energy. (Good luck with that) He claims he's a friend of labor while killing thousands of union jobs at power plants. I spent 25 years in the power line industry in Colorado. The greenies want wind and solar. Okay, but you need transmission lines to deliver that power to large metropolitan areas. The power plants that were close to cities are being shuttered, while the front range continues to grow. Pathways is a necessary “evil”
Don't know that I disagree entirely. I mean the growth would necessitate more infrastructure regardless of whether it was coal, wind, whatever. I think the issue is in how this is being done. And who gets to live with the problem.
Cory, thanks for your continuous efforts in creation of visibility into the government's behavior!
I believe we need to have a citizen's initiative that bans the direction of donations, gifts and grants. And, that any accepted donations, gifts and grants to be made only to the General Fund. Cash only.
You've illustrated just one penetrated office by the NGOs. I have no doubt that this is quite common throughout our State government, especially in wildlife, conservation and carbon management...
Yes, penetrated is a good description!
Something has to be done about nonprofits and their power and influence on government. I've never understood the difference between them and influence peddling lobbyists. It seems the real purpose of the nonprofit organization is to show zero taxable profit after paying their director and part time employees (if any) a handsome salary courtesy of government largesse or philanthropic giving. The addition of politics into the nonprofit world is why laws are written and never read by the legislature or congress.
I've been concerned about grant-making either by the feds, state or private foundations and its role in social engineering for a long time. So your piece bringing it to light is very important. Would love to see you delve deeper into some of the grants funds from the State that are going to leftist nonprofits in Colorado and how they are used to shape local initiatives and support, essentially, Marxist-style movements, an example is ALICE, Harm-Reduction, and housing for "competency-involved" individuals or in other words "criminals not being held accountable to the victims they've harmed". I worked for a large nonprofit as a grant writer for a few years and finally left because I could no longer participate in the charade that is nonprofits doing the bidding of Colorado's communists by way of grant dollars. After Trump's inauguration, I had to sit in on a zoom meeting (not recorded) put on by the Colorado Nonprofit Association with guest, Phil Weiser so he could tell nonprofits what they could do to defy the feds. It was laughable since they've been blatantly breaking the law for so long by providing state and fed grant funds to initiatives that support illegal immigrants and they were maybe going to finally be held to account. But, not as long as tough-guy Phil Weiser is our Attorney General. I recorded with my phone part of his spiel. I sat there and thought, "the CO Nonprofit Assoc. clearly only supports left-leaning non-profits and I wonder if they make that well known?" There were about 1,000 nonprofit representatives on the call all waling and gnashing teeth because they knew their gig would soon be up. But alas, our trusted Democrat Socialist legislators came to the rescue. Their special session gained them the upper hand once again by despoiling small and medium-sized businesses to save their six-figure making nonprofit exec friends, (cough, cough... Lorena Garcia) benevolent rears.
I've written quite a bit on that topic, check back in the stacks and/or check out my author profile at Complete Colorado for more there. I'll continue too!
Thanks for watching this stuff. When you start to look at what nonprofits are doing in Colorado, octopi and spider webs are not big enough as metaphors!
Thank you for your response. Agreed and will check out your other articles.
I couldn't find the XCEL link
It's in there, first at the bottom, but just in case:
https://coloradoaccountabilityproject.substack.com/p/the-progressive-tax-scheme-and-colorado?r=15ij6n
Thank you. It's an interesting read.
Polis pushed hard for wind and solar. He wants to end fossil fuel energy. (Good luck with that) He claims he's a friend of labor while killing thousands of union jobs at power plants. I spent 25 years in the power line industry in Colorado. The greenies want wind and solar. Okay, but you need transmission lines to deliver that power to large metropolitan areas. The power plants that were close to cities are being shuttered, while the front range continues to grow. Pathways is a necessary “evil”
Don't know that I disagree entirely. I mean the growth would necessitate more infrastructure regardless of whether it was coal, wind, whatever. I think the issue is in how this is being done. And who gets to live with the problem.