SandBoxBlogs: Eagle County Times "Ask Colo. State House Speaker, Other Reps. to Pass E-Verify Bill – Jobs are priority in Colorado"

CAIR is absolutely not to be confused with CIRC.

Marty Lich:
"With Colorado holding steady with a 7.8 percent unemployment rate, it is imperative we eliminate any obstacles within our means to obtain jobs for our local law-abiding residents. E-Verify (HB 12-1309) has the ability to do that by removing those without legally employable work eligibility status from Colorado’s limited job pool. They compete directly in the jobs market with you and your children.

 

Colorado’s continued forecast for jobs remains bleak, with the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute reporting on March 15, 2012 “The most recent economic forecasts from Colorado Legislative Council Staff project
high unemployment during the next several years,” adding; “Jobs remain key to solidify the recovery.”

Please take the time to read through NumbersUSA Special Alert, provided below, for their information is invaluable. We need your voice, through phone calls, faxes and emails.

 

Your dedication and steadfast involvement is making a positive difference for our families here, so we need to keep pressing on by once again contacting our elected representatives.

 

Thank you all for your continued efforts to aid in Colorado’s economic recovery.

 

Martha Lich
Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reformwww.CAIRCO.org

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Ask Colo. State House Speaker, Other Reps. to Pass E-Verify Bill

 

Dear Colorado activist,

 

Unfortunately, the House Economic and Business Development Committee referred E-Verify legislation (HB 12-1309) to the House Agriculture Committee, where it may be defeated due to opposition from the Agriculture industry. However, your faxes and phone calls could make a difference. We need to try to save the bill, which would require all private employers in Colorado to use E-Verify, even if it is an uphill battle.

 

Please contact House Speaker Frank McNulty and the members of the Agriculture Committee to urge them to pass HB 12-1309. If your Rep. serves on the committee, you will find a fax to send him/her on your Action Board.

 

Contacting the House Speaker

Please call House Speaker Frank McNulty – 303-866-2346 – with the message below and check your Action Board for a fax to send him.

 

“I am a Colorado voter who is very disappointed that E-Verify legislation (HB 12-1309) was sent to the Agriculture Committee in an attempt to defeat it. Please ask Chairman Sonnenberg to send it to the floor for a vote.

 

Unemployed citizens and legal residents should not have to compete with illegal immigrants for jobs. This is an election year so please listen to voters, not Ag lobbyists!”

 

Contacting Agriculture Committee Members

Please call and email committee members, starting first with the Republicans highlighted in red, with the message below. If your Rep. serves on the committee, be sure to mention you are a constituent and look for a fax to send on your Action Board.

 

“I am a Colorado voter who is very disappointed that your Agriculture Committee may try to defeat E-Verify legislation (HB 12-1309). Voters want this legislation sent to the floor.

Unemployed citizens and legal residents should not have to compete with illegal immigrants for jobs. This is an election year so please listen to voters, not Ag lobbyists.”

 

Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg (Chairman) – 303-866-3706 ; jerry.sonnenberg.house@state.co.us

Rep. Randy Baumgardner (Vice Chair) – 303-866-2949 ; randy.baumgardner.house@state.co.us

Rep. J. Paul Brown – 303-866-2914 ; jpaul.brown.house@state.co.us

Rep. Marsha Looper – 303-866-2946 ; marsha.looper.house@state.co.us

Rep. Glenn Vaad – 303-866-2943 ; glenn.vaad.house@state.co.us

Rep. Don Coram – 303-866-2955 ; don.coram.house@state.co.us

Rep. Ray Scott – 303-866-3068 ; ray.scott.house@state.co.us

Rep. Wes McKinley – 303-866-2398 ; wes.mckinley.house@state.co.us

Rep. Edward Vigil – 303-866-2916 ; edward.vigil.house@state.co.us

Rep. Randy Fischer – 303-866-2917 ; randy.fischer.house@state.co.us

Rep. Su Ryden – 303-866-2942 ; su.ryden.house@state.co.us

Rep. Roger Wilson – 303-866-2945 ; roger.wilson.house@state.co.us

Rep. Matt Jones – 303-866-2920 ; repmattjones@gmail.com

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "Latinos seem to support Officer Agon"

A very special thank you goes out to the courageous voice of Martha Lich over in Gypsum, Colorado for her letter to the PI today.

A strong voice, giving just the facts amidst a sea of hyperbole and hate content vitriol that has never been welcome in the Roaring Fork Valley.  Yet is pumped out on a regular basis by a few in the seedy realms of internet micro-blogging.  All the while their politically correct but more of a false face is written in to the local newspapers and shown to local officials and select social groups.

If it was not for the strong and courageous voices of folks like Marty; very good people would be unable to live in any kind of balance in their day-to-day lives.

Wherever he is, we always hope that former Carbondale Police Officer Alvaro Agon notices voices like Lich. 

He was appreciated not only for his high skills and devotion to our students as an SRO; he was a respected police officer in our valley communities. 

We're pretty sure he's doing well and giving same for some other lucky community and wish him the best.    

Marty Lich:
"I am unaware of any ICE agents volunteering in any public schools as SROs. So I am somewhat perplexed after reading Anita Sherman's March 24 letter to the editor, ‘‘Extreme discretion' doesn't remove ICE from Re-1 schools.” It states: “The new Roaring Fork School Board has shown it has no concern for nearly 52 percent of its current student body with regards to permanently removing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from the school resource officer (SRO) program.”......

.....I know that the writer was not referring to Carbondale Police Officer and SRO Agon, for this ran in the Post Independent newspaper regarding him: “Latino residents offer support for Agon,” on Oct. 26, 2011....."  (Read more?  Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBox Comments: Eagle County Times "School Board – Update – January, 23rd 2012"

Hey!  ECT guys!

Love the new look.

Really like the expanding out into the somewhat dark side of news aggregation and guest writers. Welcome.

Can hardly wait to see you move "at the Speed of Thought" through that realm.  Sort of feels to 'Nanny' like the old Tonto and Kemo Sabe debate:

"Tonto: Kemo Sabe! What you do?
TLR: I think Silver can make it, Tonto. Can't you, old boy?"

We KNOW the ECT guys can make it.

Another terrific (and a lot more hard work to put out) op-ed piece from that very special lady, Marty Lich.

Over on the Eagle County Times.

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SandBox Comments: Glenwood Springs Post Independent/Your Letters "Colorado ranks 34th, not 49th, in school spending"

Was it something we said that finally got Marty Lich's Letter to the Editor posted in the PI?

"Having read the statement made by Mary Elizabeth and Chris Geiger in their Sept. 12 letter, “Colorado is currently 49th in state spending on public schools,” yet once again, I am compelled to say not so.

An Issue brief of December 2010 written by the Colorado Legislative Council states that Colorado ranks 34th in per pupil operating expenditures.

People can read it for themselves here: http://tinyurl.com /4xfoeku.

I am not sure who is perpetuating this misleading and untrue information, but it is wholly untrue and deceives voters.." (Marty Lich/Gypsum, Colorado)


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