Ethics

The April 5 Hands Off! demonstration is ON in Grand Junction!

Anne Landman274 mins

  On Saturday, April 5, 2025, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., Mesa County Democrats, Indivisible Grand Junction, Western Colorado Alliance, Mesa County Action Coalition, and others will host a Hands Off! protest on the lawn of the Historic Lowell School Building at 7th and Grand! The event coincides with nationwide action that day “to stand…

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ALERT: Hurd pulls last minute switcheroo on when & how to participate in his promised Tuesday, 3/11/25 telephonic town hall meeting on

Anne Landman61 mins

CD-3 House Representative Jeff Hurd (R) has made VERY last minute changes to the time and way to participate in his promised telephonic town hall meeting scheduled for TODAY. Previously constituents were told they had to call a number and give the person who answered their telephone number, and that THEY would get a call…

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29 Road interchange project still alive despite being resoundingly defeated at the ballot box in Nov., ’24 election

Anne Landman72 mins

Even though voters turned down the proposal to build a new interchange on I-70 at 29 Road in the November 5, 2024 election by a margin of 56.44% to 43.36%, a discussion of how to push forward with the project was on City Council’s agenda at their March 5, 2025 regular meeting. The proposal on…

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DOGE cancels leases on four federal agencies in Grand Junction

Anne Landman271 mins

Local TV news stations KJCT and KKCO are reporting that Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is terminating the leases of four federal Agencies in Grand Junction:

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Fact-checking convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser and President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on 3/4/25

Anne Landman51 mins

Donald Trump flat-out lied to Congress and Americans last night in his talk to Congress and the country. Here are some of the lies, fact-checked immediately after the speech by political commentator Rachel Maddow. Here is more vetting of Trump’s lies by the New York Times. Here is more fact-checking of Trump’s lies by CBS…

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U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to review Tina Peters’ conviction

Anne Landman51 mins

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), now a tool that convicted felon, sexual abuser and President Trump wields to help his friends and punish his enemies, has agreed to review former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ 2024 criminal conviction which led to her incarceration. The DOJ will be looking for “political bias” in her case.

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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy publicly bullied and berated over his war time clothing at White House visit

Anne Landman172 mins

 At a shameful White House meeting last week between convicted felon/adjudicated sexual abuser President Trump and his #2, JD Vance, Trump and Vance bullied and yelled at Ukrainian President Zelensky in a televised display of anger and resentment toward the leader of a democratic country that’s been invaded by Russia. Beyond this, as bad…

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Rep. Jeff Hurd uses anti-semitic trope to dismiss constituents at the town hall meetings he refuses to attend

Anne Landman142 mins

When CD-3 Rep. Jeff Hurd (R) was running for office, he was open to talking to all sorts of western Colorado residents when he wanted their votes. Now that he’s in office, though, Hurd can’t be bothered with meeting hundreds of voters clamoring to talk to him about the lawless destruction of the federal government…

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CD-3 House Rep. Jeff Hurd votes in favor of massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP (food) benefits

Anne Landman51 mins

Colorado CD-3 House Rep. Jeff Hurd voted for a budget resolution that, if approved in the Senate, will leave Congress no other choice than to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from programs the neediest Americans depend on, including Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/food assistance benefits), housing assistance and energy programs.

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Under multi-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, Washington Post pulls full page ads critical of Musk

Anne Landman92 mins

At the last minute, the Washington Post (WaPo) pulled two full page ads funded by the nonprofits Common Cause and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that called for Elon Musk’s ouster from government. The ads were “wrap around ads” set to cover the entire front and back pages of the paper. The groups also…

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Trump, governing as an authoritarian, publicly portrays himself as king, dictator

Anne Landman202 mins

Instead of signing legislation passed by Congress — the normal way policies are made in U.S. — Trump has been continuously circumventing Congress’s power by writing a slew of executive orders, signing at least 70 of them as of February 20. Trump has essentially been governing not as the president of a representative democracy, but…

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Multiple Republican senators break from Trump’s views on Putin, Ukraine War

Anne Landman102 mins

In a seismic shift against Trump’s favorable views of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump’s overt lie that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “a dictator,” GOP Senators Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) publicly spoke out against Trump’s views. Senator Wicker, the Ranking Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told a reporter that…

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Trump lies on the world stage, saying Ukraine started the war with Russia

Anne Landman121 mins

In an incredible statement the equivalent of blaming a rape victim for being raped, Trump blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Ukraine itself during talks with Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. Ukrainian authorities were upset over not being included in Tuesday’s talks in Riyadh, but Trump dismissed the country’s concerns,…

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Trump administration working to change or eliminate boundaries of national monuments to allow increased mining & drilling

Anne Landman62 mins

The Trump administration has started reviewing the boundaries of protected public lands with the intent of increasing mining for minerals and drilling for fossil fuels, actions that could drastically change existing national monuments, a category that includes the Colorado National Monument. Trump’s newly-appointed Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, issued a 7-page directive (pdf) on…

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A convicted felon now in charge of the country, Trump is moving quickly to end law enforcement as we know it

Anne Landman43 mins

The following analysis of Trump’s ongoing mass purge of federal law enforcement officials was taken from Rachel Maddow’s show 1/31/25 show, starting at 17:12 into the show (video). I transcribed her presentation and then lightly edited the text to make it clearer as a written, rather than a spoken piece. I also included links to…

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A reminder of the dangers of putting wealthy business leaders in charge of government

Anne Landman91 mins

For those of you who think big business leaders are automatically qualified to run government or head it’s important agencies, here is a picture of the Enron Code of Ethics, signed by the Company’s former Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay. The foreword in the Code states that Enron “enjoys a reputation for fairness and honesty……

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People’s March unites locals who oppose oligarchy, loss of rights & right wing extremism

Anne Landman131 mins

The People’s March on Saturday, January 18, provided a chance for a large group of Mesa County’s growing number of liberal residents to get together, enjoy  camaraderie, speeches, free hot coffee, chai and cookies provided by Octopus Coffee. People were bundled up as the temperature was just below freezing. The crowd numbered around 300 people….

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Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies

Anne Landman92 mins

Republished from The Contrarian with permission from the author, Barbara McQuade, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and author of the New York Times bestseller Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.   As a legal analyst, her work has appeared in The Washington…

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