Posted by
J-GOP on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Dear Jan and Rep. Marostica,
First, thank you for your reply. I am aware there is no obligation to respond to an individual who is not a constituent to an elected official and thus, appreciate your taking the time to do so.
As a former aide to Representative Tancredo and the current leader of a highly opinionated organization, the Colorado Jewish Republicans, hearing and responding to both sides of an issue is something familiar to me.
On behalf of the J-GOP members, we would very much like to see if our May 21st meeting would be an opportunity to address our group as well as some of our friends in the Colorado Prager Group (if they choose to join us for dinner).
Dennis Prager, in a May 13, 2008 opinion editorial titled "If On the Wrong Track, Why Go Left? " stated, "If there are any values that can meaningfully be called "American," self-reliance and limited government are among them." It would be very interesting to hear why the state, after passing Ref C, repealing the Taxpayer Bill of Rights' ratchet for 5 years, could not figure out how to reduce the budget by 2.5% out of $16,000,000,000.
Reading the editorial articles copied to me (one being by Boulder Democrat Rollie Heath) revealed Montana Resident Steve Arveschoug "still supports the 6 percent limit" and that Arizona Resident Mike Bird "said it was unfortunate that the 6 percent limit has "ratcheted down" general fund spending by more than $1 billion over the last decade." Perhaps spending an additional billion dollars of taxpayer funds has some redeeming value?
One can only conclude the quote you cited in your reply, from former Rep. Arveschough, may have been taken out of context or is from some other source. Please feel free to clarify your reply.
On behalf of the J-GOP, I look forward to hearing if you would like to address our members at our May 21st meeting.
Links:
Sincerely,
Dan Kopelman
President, Colorado Jewish GOP
Aurora, CO
From: Don Marostica [mailto:Don@donmarostica.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:01 PM
To: Dan Kopelman
Subject: RE: Rep. Don Marostica must be stopped
Dear Dan,
On behalf of Rep. Don Marostica, thanks for copying the Rep. on your message. It's good to hear all sides of the issue, any issue.
If you would like me to set up a meeting with you and the Rep. to share your thoughts in person, and allow him to share in-kind how he arrived at his position, I'm happy to coordinate this meeting.
I’m not certain whether you are familiar with Dennis Prager, the conservative talk show radio host, as a member of the Dennis Prager Colorado Group, I (we)seek to arrive at clarity, which is a Prager value.
I've attached two recent articles, where one of the original sponsors of the bill, former Rep. Steve Arveschoug, says the bill was passed "at a time when we weren't worried about an actual decline in the economy." See links to articles with recent quotes from Rep. Arveschoug.
Links:
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_11744305
http://www.politicswest.com/36446/repeal_arveschoug_bird_hurray_bird_says
Sincerely,
Jan Cook
Aide
Rep. Don Marostica
303.866.2947
From: Dan Kopelman [dan@dankopelman.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:56 PM
To: mike.may.house@state.co.us
Cc: 'Nancy Spence'; david balmer; Dick Wadhams; Don Marostica
Subject: Rep. Don Marostica must be stopped
Dear Minority Leader May,
Because Rep. Don Marostica is in a position to negatively impact all Colorado residents by undermining, yet again, our rights as taxpayers to a limited government by removing the 6% Arveschoug-Bird limit, please consider removing him from his position with the JBC and replace him with a more responsible representative.
He should not and does not represent the majority of Republicans and will only do further damage to our party.
Sincerely,
Dan Kopelman
President, Colorado Jewish GOP
Aurora, CO