Strong Mayor's French Runoff Election Violates Federal Law (1986 UOCAVA & 2009 MOVE)
The 1st objection Bo Ortiz has w/ "Strong Mayor" is that the French Runoff system that came with Big Daddy Strange's 10-page bundle of 70+ Amendments doesn't comply with the 1954 Charter. The election date can't be changed, per the 1954 Charter, per Bo Ortiz.
The 2nd objection Bo Ortiz has w/ the Nick Gradisar's French Runoff system is that it's not fair to the military, specifically Pueblo's own overseas Heroes, b/c it breaks a federal law called UOCAVA. UOCAVA dictates that all Americans who live overseas, no matter where, or are overseas as part of the military, get to vote in federal elections from the last address we lived in America. Only Americans citizens who previously lived in the US can vote in US federal elections in Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, & the U.S. Virgin Islands; their citizens, however, cannot.
1 major part of UOCAVA is that US soldiers need to receive their ballots 45 days prior to the Election, to them give plenty of time to research, vote properly, & send it back in, &, then for that vote to count.
Ronald Reagan passed the Uniformed & Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) on August 28, 1986. 1986 is the same year Ronald Reagan was selling the Iranians weapons (nukes?) so that the Nicaraguan Contra terrorists could murder the Socialist Revolutionary Democratic Sandinistas, a political party, for their views regarding economics. Who knows what year the Reagan sold weapons to Osama bin Laden? [answer found at bottom] The UOCAVA act was amended by the Help America Vote Act (2002), & the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2002 & 2005, & then by MOVE in 2009.
The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE) amended UOCAVA in 2009 by providing greater protections for: 1) Service Members; 2) their eligible family members &; 3) other overseas citizens. The MOVE Act requires States to send absentee ballots to UOCAVA voters at least 45 days before federal elections. The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (or MOVE Act) is Subtitle H of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (H.R. 2647, Pub.L. 111–84, 123 Stat. 2190.) and was an act of Congress signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009.[<-- Wikipedia] Obama was busy bombing Afghanistan in the Infinite War in 2009, 2010, 2011, etc. The 1986 UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) federal law protects the Right of overseas American troops to get to Vote in all federal elections regardless of where they are stationed. UOCAVA also applies to non-military American citizens who live overseas. UOCAVA specifically refers to "members of the U.S. Uniformed Services & merchant marine, their family members, & U.S. citizens residing outside the United States".
Bo Ortiz said that UOCAVA is both federal "and state" law, but I couldn't find the state statutes. UOCAVA is definitely Federal Law, and perhaps the fine elitist assholes in Denver have passed something similar, or not, idk. It would be nice to have a relevant CRS statutes ready at the helm, or the Constitutional clause that convinces others what's "law" here in Colorado. With the longest Constitution in the US, & the millions of new laws Pueblo City, Denver, & DC is constantly passing, plus the natural divide of federal/state/city/county jurisdictions, & the arbitrary, yet, revolutionary & anti-tyrannical 3 branches of government, required for all functioning democratic republics, Colorado law is all over the place. Apparently, we're able to bypass Revolutionary Charter Conventions w/o any of the 65% Non-Voting Wallflowers being none the wiser (ahem, Big Daddy Strange).
The Department of Defense determines whether to grant waivers to states that are unable to comply with the MOVE Act requirement to mail ballots by the 45th day before a federal election. In 2010, 12 states applied for "undue hardship" waivers, including Colorado. Alaska, Colorado, DC, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, & Wisconsin were all denied "undue hardship" waivers. Maryland withdrew their requested waiver, and election waivers restricting & forgetting about military troops & other overseas American citizens from voting in federal elections were granted for the US States of Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, & Washington State in 2010.
Overseas American troops need 45 days to get their ballots, research the candidates, vote, & then send the ballot back in. At least 45 days, per "the law". So the day after November 6, 2018, is November 7, send the ballots out... it takes... what? 1 to 2 weeks to get to the American soldier? So two weeks is November 20. The American Soldier gets his new ballot (assuming the new ballot is sent the day after Election Day) on November 20. 45 days past November 20 is January 4. We can have the 2nd French Runoff election on January 4, but let's make it January 5 to be safe. 2 months past Election Day is January 6. January 6 is a Sunday, so it's possible to conduct the 2nd Election on January 8 & be in compliance w/ the 45-day requirement of MOVE & UOCAVA.
Pueblo City can't have an election 1 month after November 6 AND comply w/ MOVE & UOCAVA at the same time.
Pueblo City can, however, have an election 2 months after the November 6 General Election, on January 8, 2019, & comply w/ the 45-day provision of the federal MOVE & UOCAVA laws.
Bo Ortiz said that for the 45-day window to happen, it'll have to happen after January 8, & suggested that January 22, 2019 was being floated as a possibility for the 2nd election date in Gradisar's basic-bitch barely-progressive French Runoff Election.
"Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you can." ~John Wesley
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This Monday, after this weekend, May 11, 2018, in 3 days, at 5:30pm, Bo Ortiz & Krew are going to a City Council "work session", right before Pueblo City's big 7pm bi-monthly city meeting, to speak on the virtues of IRV. 6 of 7 of Pueblo's City Council don't give a fuck about fairness, or setting Pueblo's 1st Postmodern Mayor up on a nice firm 1,000 feet steel beam foundation, Dubai-style. 6 of 7 of Pueblo's City Council (ol' Larry Atencio, Nicoll, Schilling, Aliff, Flores, & Brown) is just fine peachy keen honkey dory w/ the basic-bitch French Runoff election that "Big Daddy Strange" called for. Big Daddy Strange, of course, is Question 2B from 2017 - the 10 page bundle of 70+ Amendments - the City Council-approved referendum nicknamed "Strong Mayor". As Big Daddy Strange gets unrolled out, Big Daddy Strange continues to get bigger, daddier, & stranger. You know Gilgamesh raped everybody in his city-nation? Gilgamesh would rape the bride, to take away her virginity, before the groom did.
The God of Creation, Aruru, formed Enkidu clay & water to kill Gilgamesh of the shameful aways he treated his flock. Enkidu is a wild man created by a God, raised by animals, & ignorant of human society until Shamhat has fuck relations with him.
Pueblo County Clerk Bo Ortiz isn't being challenged by any of the 165,000 Puebloans for his reelection campaign, not yet, which gives him a 4-year mandate 6 months prior to the Midterm Elections.
Don't forget! The Aviation Department is now being run by Fiat Crypto-currency now! Don't believe me? It's "Strong Mayor". It was in one of those 70 Amendments you didn't read b/c you voted for something you didn't actually read, you 18%er. Ignorance is the best way to keep the people subjugated & enslaved. Oh, & they're already using that Section 6-4 "immunity" provision for a couple of executions so far. One in a jail. One or two in the streets. Legal executions. I guess there's about 1 legal execution in Pueblo City per quarter, a legal way for the middle class elite - who receive police protection & aren't susceptible to any criminal citizen - nor criminal cop danger, to put a good ol scare into the rest of the masses, who are very much susceptible to both of those dangers.
The city police of Pueblo have to wear body cams, a progressive legacy of Luis Velez. Luis Velez, also, was the Chief of Police during the legalization of marijuana phase of Pueblo City. Luis Velez is historic. & now that he's a private citizen, like a Cincinnatus, it shows how Velez is not interested in keeping & maintaining power for power's sake. He's just a humble private citizen now.
Pueblo's League of Women Voters support IRV. Bo Ortiz & Steve Nawrocki & Jackie Massey all approve of IRV, & they're right. On IRV, Nick Gradisar, Chris Nicoll, & Dennis Flores are ridiculously & hilariously wrong. Bo Ortiz should just implement IRV into the revolutionary Mayor system, since it's a better, more fair system, & we'll found out the winner on November 6, 2018, on Election Day, not 1, or 2, or 3 months, or years, or decades into the future. Big Daddy Strange's advocates won by bullshitting the public. They weren't forthcoming with information. They even suggested that it wasn't a "strong" Mayor at all. But a bitch Mayor. A bitchass weakass POS authoritarian Mayor. The 70+ Amendment, 10-page gift called Strong Mayor breaks Pueblo City's Charter. Pueblo City's Charter was designed for a City Manager system. Now that the City Manager has been dissolved, gone forever, it is common sense a new government requires a new constitution. A new government beckons for a new Constitution.
From 1913 to 1950, 3 Commissioners ran Pueblo City, but the people voted to change that, and by 1951, 14 Aldermen & 1 City Manager (John Oliver Hall, Pueblo City's 1st City Manager) controlled Pueblo City, by changing the government substantially by ballot initiative, NOT by Charter Convention. Charter Conventions created the United States of Amerika, Kolorado, & Pueblo Kity (why isn't city spelled "sity"? English is so stupid). But the point is solid. The US, Colorado, & Pueblo City were all born by these super duper extra legal - meaning very legal - Charter Conventions. If Pueblo City had a Charter Convention, then Big Daddy Strange would start on the right foot. At least we city slick'n Puebloans would have ourselves a fair election, a democracy fixed, for our Mayoral elections.
4 years after living with "a Commissioner-style of government" Charter that said one thing, and a government made up of a City Manager & 14 Aldermen that said another, Pueblo City hunkered down, and wrote herself a brand spanking new Constitution via Charter Convention. Once the people voted for it, it took less than 6 months to complete.
Strong Mayor is going to need a brand new Charter anyways. A brand new government demands a brand new Constitution. Pueblo City's 1954 Charter was designed for a city manager, not a popularly-elected Mayor. 1950s Pueblo City realized they needed to rewrite their charter, & 2010s Pueblo better too, or the 2020s will have to fix 2010s mess.
New rules warrant a new Constitution. If we're playing American Chess (aka Bobby Fischer Chess), we need to scribble those new rules down on paper, so the rules are accessible by any & everybody in the entire multiverse. So we all can be on the same page. How can one play a game w/o knowing the rules that make it fair?
The 1st Postmodern Mayor referendum is NOT the 1st Mayor of Pueblo. Pueblo has had 21 Mayors, at least! 21 Mayors... if I came in 22nd place, but claimed to be 1st place, then something is wrong with me. Calling this new Mayor the 1st Postmodern Mayor is accurate, but the Pueblo Chieftain are not careful in making that distinction. The Pueblo Chieftain continues to print "the 1st Mayor" b/c they're corporate lying bullshit whores. Fkn right-wing corporate US Bank Republican stack of news copy pieces of shit. Remember when the Pueblo Chieftian said Mark Aliff was running for a different race than he was in 2017? Now they keep on repeating the lie that this is "Pueblo's 1st Mayor", which it isn't. I have 1 more article left to read for free this month from that corporate Republican rag b/c of that goddamned corporate paywall... that paywall is why Pueblo should invest in their own public media, & stop relying on KKTV, or whatever other corporate yellow journalism is still around.
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Bo Ortiz was busy working on the primary ballots on May 9, 2018. By Friday, May 11, Bo needs to print out test decks for the primary ballots... June 8 is when the primary ballots go out. June 26, 2018 is when the primary will be over & done with. As an Unaffiliated voter, I will receive all 10 or so political parties nomination forms, & then I get to pick which political party I want to vote in. That is new for Colorado. "Open Primaries" was approved November 2016.
Bo Ortiz said we're stuck with a "Top 10" system b/c only the Dominion software (horrible, scary Orwellian sounding name) has been approved by the State legislature. Since 17 candidates are running to be Pueblo's 1st Postmodern Mayor ever, 7 will need to be eliminated by the 2nd round. Then the last place loser will be eliminated per runoff thereafter.
I do not like that we're only limited to a "Top 10" system. We should make a fair election for the "Top 20", we can handle that, & make it to where we can handle 100 possible candidates, if so many chose to chase the lucrative holy grail that is Pueblo City's 1st Postmodern Mayor. Bo says that some politicians in Denver are working on other algorithms. The State Government would have to approve any new software or algorithms that deviates from Dominion's software system.
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Those Old Spice commercials get me every time.
Victor Mitchell's ad keeps running on my Youtube videos.
The worst crimes in history - war, genocide, slavery - happened b/c of blind obedience to authority. Hyper-Individualism protects us from war, genocide, & slavery
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Deborah Eyler started as a Magistrate. Then she was promoted to District "Trial" Court Judge. Then she got 75% approval & therefore retained by the Puebloan people of 2012.
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"Today the District 60 Superintendent made a 3rd offer to teachers and paraprofessionals but the district won’t tell me what the details of the offer are. Furthermore I was setup to do an on camera interview with Charlotte Macaluso in which she gave me a few sound bites with a prepared statement. I was very disappointed though as soon as I started asking questions she walked out on me ! I’m inviting her back to do a professional interview to get some important questions answered!" ~Adam Uhernik KKTV, May 11, 2018
Here's some many comments from Adam's fb post:
"She's been a non listening racist for years! I had this lady as a principal at Spann and Risley and I promise you she was the worst, especially at Risley. Couldn't talk to her, she was rude, and wouldn't let you use the phone to call for a ride.... #ReplaceMac" ~Jared Chavez-Washington
"She is just a total bitch." ~Chris Medina
"Pay raises should be based on performance only!!!! Just like the rest of the world. If they don’t want to work find those that do!" ~Josh Ivers
"If you get the opportunity to sit down with her again i would love to know why she hasn’t gotten her superintendents license yet." ~Alexa Medrano
"What do you expect when you have someone in a professional position that they are not qualified to be in?! She doesn’t care about the community of Pueblo or it’s future!" ~Jade Bible
"She was the principal at Risley for my daughter's 6th grade year and my daughter told me she was a horrible person and this pretty much sounds like the way that she was, if she didn't like the situation she would totally storm out like a 5 year old or ignore it and say this isn't worth my time." ~Celeste Marmolejo
"She is a nasty person and shouldn’t have ever worked w kids! Her son was a racist bully in school too just showing more of her true colors because kids learn that kind of hate at home!" ~Bridgette Bell
"My son was at Risley too. She was HORRIBLE - offered no help with situations that needed her attention. How she made superintendent is beyond me!" ~Michelle Horn
"No superintendent should be getting paid more than the teachers that have to put up with the kids that are inside their classrooms." ~Celeste Marmolejo
"I agree...except change the words “put up with” to educate, encourage, protect, care for." ~Kristi Ann
"Fire her... give her salary to the teachers in district 60." ~Allen Groves
"Please ask her why she is business in the front and party in the back #mullet" ~Nancy Montoya
"It just goes to show that she isn't qualified for the job she took and all she wanted was $$$$$$$$!!!!" ~Lorrie-Lorena Gonzalez Torres
"The money that the district spends on the strike in terms of lawyers and other expenses could probably pay for all the paraprofessionals' COLA. Maybe you could investigate how much money they have spent on fighting the people who actually work with children instead of putting the money toward the COLA. I'm sure it would be eye opening. Thank you for asking those hard questions!" ~Sabine Moosbrugger
Preston Wenz: "Well, you do need to remember, this is the same person who "ran" a school in the district for 6 years, never made progress, got handed the superintendent job.... all the while the school she just left was being looked at by the state to take over. And yet a corrupt school board made her the top person.
So... there's that. Good luck getting the professional interview!"
Marie Martinez: "Constance Jones would never act like Macaluso!!!!!!!!"
Rebekah Hernandez: "SHE NEEDS TO RESIGN! She’s an awful representation of District 60 and its staff."
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"I am running for President and my view on war is this. First, if there is a good reason for war then all the rich peoples kids go first because they have so much to lose. Second, every American Citizen shares the War Profit not just Defense Contractors. Vote for me." ~Thomas Songer
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Derek Hawkins just published this article: "How Colorado became the safest state to cast a vote" on May 10, 2018. Local officials all over the US scramble to "hack-proof" their voting systems ahead of the midterm elections, & many states look to Colorado, since Kolorado has been a leader in election security.
"Colorado has done virtually everything election experts recommend states do to stave off a repeat of 2016, when Russian hackers targeted 21 states as part of the Russian government’s massive election interference campaign. The state records every vote on a paper ballot. It conducts rigorous post-election audits favored by voting researchers. Nearly every county is equipped with up-to-date voting machines. Election officials take part in security trainings and IT workers test..." ~Derek Hawkins
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Bo Ortiz put the language of Strong Mayor on the ballots. Bo Ortiz printed those ballots up, distributed, counted them up, & then Bo Ortiz certified the ballot as being genuinue & authentic. While I believe Strong Mayor to be a crime, not one anybody would go to jail for, depending on one's perspective, being the man responsible for ultimately changing the entire government is a political point I'd brag about until nobody listened anymore.
Bo Ortiz insists that since he's a signatory on intergovt agreements, that he's not liable, that he's just an administrator, nothing more, nothing less. While I kinda agree, I kinda don't. The State votes for the Executioner to kill the criminal on death row, but without an Executioner, that criminal wouldn't die. Whose responsible for war crimes? The troops, or the political leadership?
The Nawrocki City Council ordered Bo Ortiz to drown the City Manager position in a bathtub. Legally speaking, I personally believe that most of the responsibility should fall on the leadership, but:
"City Council voted for you to run the Strong Mayor referendum, but it's you who did the deed. They're voting for you to pull the trigger," I wished I would have told Bo Ortiz in our phone call a few days ago.
2 be honest, Bo Ortiz holds all of the chips. Bo is the one holding the pan handle. I mean, what will City Council do if Bo doesn't agree to their terms? Run their own fkn election!?! lol gtfo cheer. They were barely able to coordinate that tree limb pickup last year.
& it'll be Bo who will pull this upcoming trigger as well. Will it comply with UOCAVA & MOVE & the conscience of anybody who believes that our troops have a right to vote in our elections too? Will the 1st Postmodern Mayor have a Revolutionary IRV system that's fair for everybody, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, & our troops, or a crappy boring old & stale regressive French Runoff election system that's not? While a French Runoff election is barely progressive, compared to IRV, since IRV is lightyears more progressive, the French Runoff election is regressive by comparison.
MLK is right. Now is not a time for Gradualism, but great sweeping Revolutionary & Progressive change. Reach for the Stars Pueblo City! Dream Big! You can't go any farther than what you dream. Let's get the Ideal Ideal Ideal Electoral System here in Pueblo City. Let's lead the nation once again Pueblo City. It's 2018. If the resistance/opposition/revolutionaries can't do shit in 2018, just hang up your hats, & give up, b/c it can't be done. The Masters of Amerika - the 1% - have won, declared Warren Buffet, decades ago.
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Remember when David Galli was fired from being Pueblo City's Chief Executive just b/c he closed a street down when candidate Obama came into town in 2008? Wow. & Obama's policies were Reaganesque. Obama is a moderate Republican. So the City Manager of Pueblo City was FIRED for welcoming Barack Obama as a candidate in 2008, & yet Sam Azad wasn't fired when Donald Trump came to Pueblo City in 2016. Why not? Well, that's easy. In spite of it's reputation as a Hispanic working class union town, Pueblo County is a right-wing regressive conservative corporate city. Pueblo City voted for Donald Trump in 2016 for the same reason. Also, remember Joyce Bales? She was a hardcore Republican the entire establishment of Pueblo City coalesced around in the early 2000s.
Nick Gradisar actually asked me if I was "the one" who opposed "Strong Mayor". The 1!?! Yes Nick, I am that 1.
"Galli and some council members have been at odds on a handful of issues, including when to hire 12 new police officers, whether to create a deputy city manager position and Galli’s decision to close a street for a rally for a Barack Obama campaign rally without consulting with the council. Pueblo has about 106,000 residents and is Colorado’s ninth-largest city. Galli is paid about $150,000 annually plus a $500 monthly car allowance." ~a December 3, 2008 Denver Post article
Both Telluride & Basalt have IRV. Both Telluride & Basalt are Home Rule towns. Basalt is twice as big as Telluride. Basalt passed IRV along with their brand spanking new Charter, says Pam Schilling. Telluride is going to use IRV in 2019, and maybe no more after that. They are term-limited. :( The IRV hasn't ever been kicked in since Basalt has never had to use it b/c less than 3 candidates have always ran.
Colorado is a Spanish word meaning "Red". But Colorado is Blue. Democrat Blue. & I want Colorado to stay Blue, but I want Colorado to become so Blue, they become Green.
Ronald Reagan sold weapons, & handed millions, no billions, to Osama Bin Laden throughout the 1980s, from 1979 to 1989. Ronald Reagan gave Bin Laden $630 million in 1987.
The 2nd objection Bo Ortiz has w/ the Nick Gradisar's French Runoff system is that it's not fair to the military, specifically Pueblo's own overseas Heroes, b/c it breaks a federal law called UOCAVA. UOCAVA dictates that all Americans who live overseas, no matter where, or are overseas as part of the military, get to vote in federal elections from the last address we lived in America. Only Americans citizens who previously lived in the US can vote in US federal elections in Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, & the U.S. Virgin Islands; their citizens, however, cannot.
1 major part of UOCAVA is that US soldiers need to receive their ballots 45 days prior to the Election, to them give plenty of time to research, vote properly, & send it back in, &, then for that vote to count.
Ronald Reagan passed the Uniformed & Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) on August 28, 1986. 1986 is the same year Ronald Reagan was selling the Iranians weapons (nukes?) so that the Nicaraguan Contra terrorists could murder the Socialist Revolutionary Democratic Sandinistas, a political party, for their views regarding economics. Who knows what year the Reagan sold weapons to Osama bin Laden? [answer found at bottom] The UOCAVA act was amended by the Help America Vote Act (2002), & the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2002 & 2005, & then by MOVE in 2009.
The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE) amended UOCAVA in 2009 by providing greater protections for: 1) Service Members; 2) their eligible family members &; 3) other overseas citizens. The MOVE Act requires States to send absentee ballots to UOCAVA voters at least 45 days before federal elections. The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (or MOVE Act) is Subtitle H of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (H.R. 2647, Pub.L. 111–84, 123 Stat. 2190.) and was an act of Congress signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009.[<-- Wikipedia] Obama was busy bombing Afghanistan in the Infinite War in 2009, 2010, 2011, etc. The 1986 UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) federal law protects the Right of overseas American troops to get to Vote in all federal elections regardless of where they are stationed. UOCAVA also applies to non-military American citizens who live overseas. UOCAVA specifically refers to "members of the U.S. Uniformed Services & merchant marine, their family members, & U.S. citizens residing outside the United States".
Bo Ortiz said that UOCAVA is both federal "and state" law, but I couldn't find the state statutes. UOCAVA is definitely Federal Law, and perhaps the fine elitist assholes in Denver have passed something similar, or not, idk. It would be nice to have a relevant CRS statutes ready at the helm, or the Constitutional clause that convinces others what's "law" here in Colorado. With the longest Constitution in the US, & the millions of new laws Pueblo City, Denver, & DC is constantly passing, plus the natural divide of federal/state/city/county jurisdictions, & the arbitrary, yet, revolutionary & anti-tyrannical 3 branches of government, required for all functioning democratic republics, Colorado law is all over the place. Apparently, we're able to bypass Revolutionary Charter Conventions w/o any of the 65% Non-Voting Wallflowers being none the wiser (ahem, Big Daddy Strange).
The Department of Defense determines whether to grant waivers to states that are unable to comply with the MOVE Act requirement to mail ballots by the 45th day before a federal election. In 2010, 12 states applied for "undue hardship" waivers, including Colorado. Alaska, Colorado, DC, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, & Wisconsin were all denied "undue hardship" waivers. Maryland withdrew their requested waiver, and election waivers restricting & forgetting about military troops & other overseas American citizens from voting in federal elections were granted for the US States of Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, & Washington State in 2010.
Overseas American troops need 45 days to get their ballots, research the candidates, vote, & then send the ballot back in. At least 45 days, per "the law". So the day after November 6, 2018, is November 7, send the ballots out... it takes... what? 1 to 2 weeks to get to the American soldier? So two weeks is November 20. The American Soldier gets his new ballot (assuming the new ballot is sent the day after Election Day) on November 20. 45 days past November 20 is January 4. We can have the 2nd French Runoff election on January 4, but let's make it January 5 to be safe. 2 months past Election Day is January 6. January 6 is a Sunday, so it's possible to conduct the 2nd Election on January 8 & be in compliance w/ the 45-day requirement of MOVE & UOCAVA.
Pueblo City can't have an election 1 month after November 6 AND comply w/ MOVE & UOCAVA at the same time.
Pueblo City can, however, have an election 2 months after the November 6 General Election, on January 8, 2019, & comply w/ the 45-day provision of the federal MOVE & UOCAVA laws.
Bo Ortiz said that for the 45-day window to happen, it'll have to happen after January 8, & suggested that January 22, 2019 was being floated as a possibility for the 2nd election date in Gradisar's basic-bitch barely-progressive French Runoff Election.
"Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you can." ~John Wesley
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This Monday, after this weekend, May 11, 2018, in 3 days, at 5:30pm, Bo Ortiz & Krew are going to a City Council "work session", right before Pueblo City's big 7pm bi-monthly city meeting, to speak on the virtues of IRV. 6 of 7 of Pueblo's City Council don't give a fuck about fairness, or setting Pueblo's 1st Postmodern Mayor up on a nice firm 1,000 feet steel beam foundation, Dubai-style. 6 of 7 of Pueblo's City Council (ol' Larry Atencio, Nicoll, Schilling, Aliff, Flores, & Brown) is just fine peachy keen honkey dory w/ the basic-bitch French Runoff election that "Big Daddy Strange" called for. Big Daddy Strange, of course, is Question 2B from 2017 - the 10 page bundle of 70+ Amendments - the City Council-approved referendum nicknamed "Strong Mayor". As Big Daddy Strange gets unrolled out, Big Daddy Strange continues to get bigger, daddier, & stranger. You know Gilgamesh raped everybody in his city-nation? Gilgamesh would rape the bride, to take away her virginity, before the groom did.
The God of Creation, Aruru, formed Enkidu clay & water to kill Gilgamesh of the shameful aways he treated his flock. Enkidu is a wild man created by a God, raised by animals, & ignorant of human society until Shamhat has fuck relations with him.
Pueblo County Clerk Bo Ortiz isn't being challenged by any of the 165,000 Puebloans for his reelection campaign, not yet, which gives him a 4-year mandate 6 months prior to the Midterm Elections.
Don't forget! The Aviation Department is now being run by Fiat Crypto-currency now! Don't believe me? It's "Strong Mayor". It was in one of those 70 Amendments you didn't read b/c you voted for something you didn't actually read, you 18%er. Ignorance is the best way to keep the people subjugated & enslaved. Oh, & they're already using that Section 6-4 "immunity" provision for a couple of executions so far. One in a jail. One or two in the streets. Legal executions. I guess there's about 1 legal execution in Pueblo City per quarter, a legal way for the middle class elite - who receive police protection & aren't susceptible to any criminal citizen - nor criminal cop danger, to put a good ol scare into the rest of the masses, who are very much susceptible to both of those dangers.
The city police of Pueblo have to wear body cams, a progressive legacy of Luis Velez. Luis Velez, also, was the Chief of Police during the legalization of marijuana phase of Pueblo City. Luis Velez is historic. & now that he's a private citizen, like a Cincinnatus, it shows how Velez is not interested in keeping & maintaining power for power's sake. He's just a humble private citizen now.
Pueblo's League of Women Voters support IRV. Bo Ortiz & Steve Nawrocki & Jackie Massey all approve of IRV, & they're right. On IRV, Nick Gradisar, Chris Nicoll, & Dennis Flores are ridiculously & hilariously wrong. Bo Ortiz should just implement IRV into the revolutionary Mayor system, since it's a better, more fair system, & we'll found out the winner on November 6, 2018, on Election Day, not 1, or 2, or 3 months, or years, or decades into the future. Big Daddy Strange's advocates won by bullshitting the public. They weren't forthcoming with information. They even suggested that it wasn't a "strong" Mayor at all. But a bitch Mayor. A bitchass weakass POS authoritarian Mayor. The 70+ Amendment, 10-page gift called Strong Mayor breaks Pueblo City's Charter. Pueblo City's Charter was designed for a City Manager system. Now that the City Manager has been dissolved, gone forever, it is common sense a new government requires a new constitution. A new government beckons for a new Constitution.
From 1913 to 1950, 3 Commissioners ran Pueblo City, but the people voted to change that, and by 1951, 14 Aldermen & 1 City Manager (John Oliver Hall, Pueblo City's 1st City Manager) controlled Pueblo City, by changing the government substantially by ballot initiative, NOT by Charter Convention. Charter Conventions created the United States of Amerika, Kolorado, & Pueblo Kity (why isn't city spelled "sity"? English is so stupid). But the point is solid. The US, Colorado, & Pueblo City were all born by these super duper extra legal - meaning very legal - Charter Conventions. If Pueblo City had a Charter Convention, then Big Daddy Strange would start on the right foot. At least we city slick'n Puebloans would have ourselves a fair election, a democracy fixed, for our Mayoral elections.
4 years after living with "a Commissioner-style of government" Charter that said one thing, and a government made up of a City Manager & 14 Aldermen that said another, Pueblo City hunkered down, and wrote herself a brand spanking new Constitution via Charter Convention. Once the people voted for it, it took less than 6 months to complete.
Strong Mayor is going to need a brand new Charter anyways. A brand new government demands a brand new Constitution. Pueblo City's 1954 Charter was designed for a city manager, not a popularly-elected Mayor. 1950s Pueblo City realized they needed to rewrite their charter, & 2010s Pueblo better too, or the 2020s will have to fix 2010s mess.
New rules warrant a new Constitution. If we're playing American Chess (aka Bobby Fischer Chess), we need to scribble those new rules down on paper, so the rules are accessible by any & everybody in the entire multiverse. So we all can be on the same page. How can one play a game w/o knowing the rules that make it fair?
The 1st Postmodern Mayor referendum is NOT the 1st Mayor of Pueblo. Pueblo has had 21 Mayors, at least! 21 Mayors... if I came in 22nd place, but claimed to be 1st place, then something is wrong with me. Calling this new Mayor the 1st Postmodern Mayor is accurate, but the Pueblo Chieftain are not careful in making that distinction. The Pueblo Chieftain continues to print "the 1st Mayor" b/c they're corporate lying bullshit whores. Fkn right-wing corporate US Bank Republican stack of news copy pieces of shit. Remember when the Pueblo Chieftian said Mark Aliff was running for a different race than he was in 2017? Now they keep on repeating the lie that this is "Pueblo's 1st Mayor", which it isn't. I have 1 more article left to read for free this month from that corporate Republican rag b/c of that goddamned corporate paywall... that paywall is why Pueblo should invest in their own public media, & stop relying on KKTV, or whatever other corporate yellow journalism is still around.
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Bo Ortiz was busy working on the primary ballots on May 9, 2018. By Friday, May 11, Bo needs to print out test decks for the primary ballots... June 8 is when the primary ballots go out. June 26, 2018 is when the primary will be over & done with. As an Unaffiliated voter, I will receive all 10 or so political parties nomination forms, & then I get to pick which political party I want to vote in. That is new for Colorado. "Open Primaries" was approved November 2016.
Bo Ortiz said we're stuck with a "Top 10" system b/c only the Dominion software (horrible, scary Orwellian sounding name) has been approved by the State legislature. Since 17 candidates are running to be Pueblo's 1st Postmodern Mayor ever, 7 will need to be eliminated by the 2nd round. Then the last place loser will be eliminated per runoff thereafter.
I do not like that we're only limited to a "Top 10" system. We should make a fair election for the "Top 20", we can handle that, & make it to where we can handle 100 possible candidates, if so many chose to chase the lucrative holy grail that is Pueblo City's 1st Postmodern Mayor. Bo says that some politicians in Denver are working on other algorithms. The State Government would have to approve any new software or algorithms that deviates from Dominion's software system.
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Those Old Spice commercials get me every time.
Victor Mitchell's ad keeps running on my Youtube videos.
The worst crimes in history - war, genocide, slavery - happened b/c of blind obedience to authority. Hyper-Individualism protects us from war, genocide, & slavery
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Deborah Eyler started as a Magistrate. Then she was promoted to District "Trial" Court Judge. Then she got 75% approval & therefore retained by the Puebloan people of 2012.
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"Today the District 60 Superintendent made a 3rd offer to teachers and paraprofessionals but the district won’t tell me what the details of the offer are. Furthermore I was setup to do an on camera interview with Charlotte Macaluso in which she gave me a few sound bites with a prepared statement. I was very disappointed though as soon as I started asking questions she walked out on me ! I’m inviting her back to do a professional interview to get some important questions answered!" ~Adam Uhernik KKTV, May 11, 2018
Here's some many comments from Adam's fb post:
"She's been a non listening racist for years! I had this lady as a principal at Spann and Risley and I promise you she was the worst, especially at Risley. Couldn't talk to her, she was rude, and wouldn't let you use the phone to call for a ride.... #ReplaceMac" ~Jared Chavez-Washington
"She is just a total bitch." ~Chris Medina
"Pay raises should be based on performance only!!!! Just like the rest of the world. If they don’t want to work find those that do!" ~Josh Ivers
"If you get the opportunity to sit down with her again i would love to know why she hasn’t gotten her superintendents license yet." ~Alexa Medrano
"What do you expect when you have someone in a professional position that they are not qualified to be in?! She doesn’t care about the community of Pueblo or it’s future!" ~Jade Bible
"She was the principal at Risley for my daughter's 6th grade year and my daughter told me she was a horrible person and this pretty much sounds like the way that she was, if she didn't like the situation she would totally storm out like a 5 year old or ignore it and say this isn't worth my time." ~Celeste Marmolejo
"She is a nasty person and shouldn’t have ever worked w kids! Her son was a racist bully in school too just showing more of her true colors because kids learn that kind of hate at home!" ~Bridgette Bell
"My son was at Risley too. She was HORRIBLE - offered no help with situations that needed her attention. How she made superintendent is beyond me!" ~Michelle Horn
"No superintendent should be getting paid more than the teachers that have to put up with the kids that are inside their classrooms." ~Celeste Marmolejo
"I agree...except change the words “put up with” to educate, encourage, protect, care for." ~Kristi Ann
"Fire her... give her salary to the teachers in district 60." ~Allen Groves
"Please ask her why she is business in the front and party in the back #mullet" ~Nancy Montoya
"It just goes to show that she isn't qualified for the job she took and all she wanted was $$$$$$$$!!!!" ~Lorrie-Lorena Gonzalez Torres
"The money that the district spends on the strike in terms of lawyers and other expenses could probably pay for all the paraprofessionals' COLA. Maybe you could investigate how much money they have spent on fighting the people who actually work with children instead of putting the money toward the COLA. I'm sure it would be eye opening. Thank you for asking those hard questions!" ~Sabine Moosbrugger
Preston Wenz: "Well, you do need to remember, this is the same person who "ran" a school in the district for 6 years, never made progress, got handed the superintendent job.... all the while the school she just left was being looked at by the state to take over. And yet a corrupt school board made her the top person.
So... there's that. Good luck getting the professional interview!"
Marie Martinez: "Constance Jones would never act like Macaluso!!!!!!!!"
Rebekah Hernandez: "SHE NEEDS TO RESIGN! She’s an awful representation of District 60 and its staff."
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"I am running for President and my view on war is this. First, if there is a good reason for war then all the rich peoples kids go first because they have so much to lose. Second, every American Citizen shares the War Profit not just Defense Contractors. Vote for me." ~Thomas Songer
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Derek Hawkins just published this article: "How Colorado became the safest state to cast a vote" on May 10, 2018. Local officials all over the US scramble to "hack-proof" their voting systems ahead of the midterm elections, & many states look to Colorado, since Kolorado has been a leader in election security.
"Colorado has done virtually everything election experts recommend states do to stave off a repeat of 2016, when Russian hackers targeted 21 states as part of the Russian government’s massive election interference campaign. The state records every vote on a paper ballot. It conducts rigorous post-election audits favored by voting researchers. Nearly every county is equipped with up-to-date voting machines. Election officials take part in security trainings and IT workers test..." ~Derek Hawkins
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Bo Ortiz put the language of Strong Mayor on the ballots. Bo Ortiz printed those ballots up, distributed, counted them up, & then Bo Ortiz certified the ballot as being genuinue & authentic. While I believe Strong Mayor to be a crime, not one anybody would go to jail for, depending on one's perspective, being the man responsible for ultimately changing the entire government is a political point I'd brag about until nobody listened anymore.
Bo Ortiz insists that since he's a signatory on intergovt agreements, that he's not liable, that he's just an administrator, nothing more, nothing less. While I kinda agree, I kinda don't. The State votes for the Executioner to kill the criminal on death row, but without an Executioner, that criminal wouldn't die. Whose responsible for war crimes? The troops, or the political leadership?
The Nawrocki City Council ordered Bo Ortiz to drown the City Manager position in a bathtub. Legally speaking, I personally believe that most of the responsibility should fall on the leadership, but:
"City Council voted for you to run the Strong Mayor referendum, but it's you who did the deed. They're voting for you to pull the trigger," I wished I would have told Bo Ortiz in our phone call a few days ago.
2 be honest, Bo Ortiz holds all of the chips. Bo is the one holding the pan handle. I mean, what will City Council do if Bo doesn't agree to their terms? Run their own fkn election!?! lol gtfo cheer. They were barely able to coordinate that tree limb pickup last year.
& it'll be Bo who will pull this upcoming trigger as well. Will it comply with UOCAVA & MOVE & the conscience of anybody who believes that our troops have a right to vote in our elections too? Will the 1st Postmodern Mayor have a Revolutionary IRV system that's fair for everybody, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, & our troops, or a crappy boring old & stale regressive French Runoff election system that's not? While a French Runoff election is barely progressive, compared to IRV, since IRV is lightyears more progressive, the French Runoff election is regressive by comparison.
MLK is right. Now is not a time for Gradualism, but great sweeping Revolutionary & Progressive change. Reach for the Stars Pueblo City! Dream Big! You can't go any farther than what you dream. Let's get the Ideal Ideal Ideal Electoral System here in Pueblo City. Let's lead the nation once again Pueblo City. It's 2018. If the resistance/opposition/revolutionaries can't do shit in 2018, just hang up your hats, & give up, b/c it can't be done. The Masters of Amerika - the 1% - have won, declared Warren Buffet, decades ago.
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Remember when David Galli was fired from being Pueblo City's Chief Executive just b/c he closed a street down when candidate Obama came into town in 2008? Wow. & Obama's policies were Reaganesque. Obama is a moderate Republican. So the City Manager of Pueblo City was FIRED for welcoming Barack Obama as a candidate in 2008, & yet Sam Azad wasn't fired when Donald Trump came to Pueblo City in 2016. Why not? Well, that's easy. In spite of it's reputation as a Hispanic working class union town, Pueblo County is a right-wing regressive conservative corporate city. Pueblo City voted for Donald Trump in 2016 for the same reason. Also, remember Joyce Bales? She was a hardcore Republican the entire establishment of Pueblo City coalesced around in the early 2000s.
Nick Gradisar actually asked me if I was "the one" who opposed "Strong Mayor". The 1!?! Yes Nick, I am that 1.
"Galli and some council members have been at odds on a handful of issues, including when to hire 12 new police officers, whether to create a deputy city manager position and Galli’s decision to close a street for a rally for a Barack Obama campaign rally without consulting with the council. Pueblo has about 106,000 residents and is Colorado’s ninth-largest city. Galli is paid about $150,000 annually plus a $500 monthly car allowance." ~a December 3, 2008 Denver Post article
Both Telluride & Basalt have IRV. Both Telluride & Basalt are Home Rule towns. Basalt is twice as big as Telluride. Basalt passed IRV along with their brand spanking new Charter, says Pam Schilling. Telluride is going to use IRV in 2019, and maybe no more after that. They are term-limited. :( The IRV hasn't ever been kicked in since Basalt has never had to use it b/c less than 3 candidates have always ran.
Colorado is a Spanish word meaning "Red". But Colorado is Blue. Democrat Blue. & I want Colorado to stay Blue, but I want Colorado to become so Blue, they become Green.
Ronald Reagan sold weapons, & handed millions, no billions, to Osama Bin Laden throughout the 1980s, from 1979 to 1989. Ronald Reagan gave Bin Laden $630 million in 1987.
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